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Anisha Aditya leads editorial initiatives at BW VC world, which is the venture capital focused digital platform of BW Businessworld. She is a Management Consultant with specialisation in International Business Strategies, assessment of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements between countries, national and international trade facilitation strategy of industries and global value chains for private companies and governments.
Dyte is an Indian video calling platform headquartered in Delhi-NCR which allows you to integrate apps right into your video call. The startup was founded in September 2020 and has been selected for Y Combinator - Winter 2021 batch. Zoom, Airmeet, Google Meet, GoToMeeting, VideoMeet, Jitsi Meet, and MeetFox are few of the established competitors in the market.
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Pine Labs Pvt. Ltd is a fintech startup based in Noida-based and was founded in 1998 by Rajul Garg. The startup raised funding from US-based investor, Lone Pine Capital, in a new round that took its valuation to a stellar $2 billion. The fresh funding will be predominantly deployed in onboarding storefronts across the country onto its ‘Pay Later’ platform and to shore up its Point of Sale (PoS) deployments, while expanding its business in South Asia.
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"Venture Debt does not replace equity capital and vice versa. Rather, venture debt is a tool that complements equity capital. It is imperative for entrepreneurs to maintain the optimum allocation of capital and allocate capital efficiently", says Mr. Gandhi from Stride Ventures
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LOGIQ, founded in 2019 by Ranjan Parthasarathy and Tito George, is a California and Bengaluru-based observability platform for IT administrators and development and operations (DevOps) teams. It announced that it has raised $1.8 million in its first institutional seed funding round, led by Leo Capital. The start-up is planning to direct the funding towards expansion of its AI/ML capabilities and to onboard more customers.
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Online lingerie retailer Clovia, founded in 2013 by a husband-wife duo Neha Kant and Pankaj Vermani, has secured $4 Million in a pre-Series C round from various investors including Golden Birch investments and SheCapital Venture Fund. The fresh funds will be directed towards boosting their products via marketing and in development costs and also to expand their sales channels to gain more revenue.
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Gurugram-based AgroWave is an agritech start-up launched by IIT Delhi graduate, Anu Meena in 2017. AgroWave buys the produce directly from farmers and sells it to small mandis and businesses such as hotels, retailers, restaurants, caterers, canteens, PGs, and even individual customers. The start-up reported $3.7 Mn in FY20 revenue, 76% growth from FY19 and claims to be working with 3,500 farmers from Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
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Codeyoung is a private start-up that provides live online coding classes to K12 students. It was founded by IIT- Delhi alumni Shailendra Dhakad and Rupika Taneja in December 2019 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka. The ed-tech start-up offers coding courses to K12 students between 5-16 years of age. In September 2020, Codeyoung had raised $400,000 in a seed round from US-based Guild Capital. It claims to have enrolled over 15,000 students from five countries and intends to enrol 100,000 students by the end of 2021. Codeyoung’s major competitor is a China based start-up, Zuoyebang.
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Nextbillion takes home prize money of $250,000 in grants and emerged as the winner among 7500 participants from 159 countries
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BharatPe is an Indian QR code-based payment app for offline retailers and businesses, launched in April 2018 by Ashneer Grover and Shashvat Nakrani, headquartered in New Delhi. It is a merchant focused payments platform as it offers merchants a single interface for all existing UPI apps and allows merchants to accept UPI payments for ‘FREE’ through the BharatPe QR. The company has raised $ 142.5 Mn till date and aims to grow its business 5x in the next two years to cross $30 Bn total payments volume.
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Ratan Tata and Nandan Nilekani’s Avanti Finance wants to help 150 million households get rid of poverty by providing an open-access “digital financial spine", which helps its partners to create, curate, and deploy financial products in a touchless, presence-less, and cashless interface. Though the start-up has raised more than Rs 102 crore from the NRJN Family Trust, and Rs 15 crore in debt from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, it is yet to find profitability.
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