Online grocery ordering is here to stay, so says food delivery app Swiggy. The India-based startup company’s hyperlocal grocery service Instamart will receive a sizable boost in funding after Swiggy’s most successful round to date drew in $1.25 billion, according to The Economic Times. Get...
Global instant grocery and retail delivery startup Jokr raised $170 million in a Series A funding round led by GGV Capital, Balderton Capital and Tiger Global Management, with additional participation from Greycroft, Kaszek, Monashees, Activant Capital, HV Capital and FJ Labs. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Lenskart, which specializes as an online retailer for eyewear, has raised $220 million from investors, a LiveMint report says. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...
Space tech companies, seeing a boost in capital from billionaires’ space adventures as of late, have raised a record-shattering $3.6 billion in the first six months of 2021, Bloomberg reported Monday (July 19). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
India’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) investment platform GlobalBees raised $150 million in a Series A funding round led by FirstCry, with additional participation by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Economic Times reported on Monday (July 19). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
A deal for Universal Music, yes, but not through the much ballyhooed SPAC route. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...
Rent reporting FinTech Esusu landed an investment of $10 million in its Series A round, according to a Friday (July 16) blog post from Co-founders & Co-CEOs Abbey Wemimo and Samir Goel. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
]Startups in the digital healthcare space are benefiting from increased venture capital funding to the tune of $14.7 billion in the first half of this year following 2020’s $14.6 billion in investments, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (July 15), citing data from Rock...
SoftBank‘s Vision Fund II will now be able to invest in Swiggy, the food delivery app, after being approved by the Indian anti-monopoly watchdog, a report from Economic Times says. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
