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Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr Omnichannel health products and services provider HealthKart has been making a steady growth in its segment. Its latest RoC filings with MCA reveal how the company has performed financially in FY18. The Sameer Maheshwari led company clocked […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Ninjacart, an online B2B marketplace that connects farmers and brands to retailers has raised Rs 250 crore in Series B round led by Accel Partners and Switzerland-based Syngenta Ventures. New investors Neoplux, Jo Hirao (Founder of ZIGExN), […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr Video Sharing platforms are seeing phenomenal growth worldwide, both in numbers and fundings. Giants like TikTok and Kwai have risen worldwide to an extent that users are turning into celebrities. Looking at this opportunity, a fashion […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Flipkart India, the wholesale arm of the Walmart-controlled e-commerce marketplace has received Rs 2,190 crore from parent entity Flipkart Pvt Ltd. This is the first capital infusion into the wholesale arm after Walmart acquired a majority stake […]

Team Entrackr | Entrackr After reaching out to several governmental departments complaining about predatory pricing and deep discounting exercised by e-commerce marketplaces, small online retailers have written to PMO. The e-commerce majors like Amazon and Walmart are exploiting small sellers, […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Edtech major Byju’s has raised $400 million fresh funds at a whopping $3.6 billion valuation. This also catapults the ten-year-old startup in a league of top 5 most-valued startups in the country. Byju’s entered the Unicorn club […]

Jitendra Singh | Entrackr India’s think tank NITI Aayog is developing a device akin to Amazon’s virtual assistant device Alexa for countrymen. The idea is to have NLP-driven conversational bots in the future, reaching all corners of the country in multiple […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Paytm data theft and extortion case has got another twist as Sonia Dhawan’s lawyer has withdrawn her bail application following the chargesheet filed by the Noida police. Dhawan’s hearing for bail was scheduled for today (December 11) […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Mattress manufacturing startup Wakefit has raised Rs 65 crore in its first institutional round from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital at a post money valuation of Rs 210 crore. Following the investment, Sequoia will pick up 31.9 […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Wow Venue, a premium venue booking platform for weddings, corporate, social and MICE (Meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) events, has raised $1.5 million fresh funding from strategic investor Pranav Pathak. The two years old Mumbai-based startup will deploy the capital towards growth, […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr Day by day threats faced by Oyo is increasing as the hotel owners and overseeing bodies start to speak up against malpractices by the Softbank-backed budget hotel chain. As per a warning letter by Federation of […]

Jitendra Singh | Entrackr With a rise in the number of products from China coming in as gifts and violating domestic laws, the Indian government is planning to impose a restriction on the online purchase of goods from Chinese e-com […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Foodtech has turned out to be hyper-competitive segment as deep-pocketed players are fighting out to dominate a larger market share. Besides dishing out discounts, Zomato and Swiggy have been offering a slew of features including subscription […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr In recent days, there have been several reports of exits and rejig in the top rung of managers of several formidable startups, and the ride-hailing major – Ola – is also swimming in the wave. The […]

Team Entrackr | Entrackr After Binny Bansal’s movement from the active role as Group CEO and Kalyan Krishnamurthy taking up a larger role, all hasn’t been well with Flipkart and its affiliate Myntra. From past few weeks – the rumour […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Within three months of raising $25 million Series C round, fresh meat and seafood brand Licious has scooped up another $25 million in the latest round led by Japan’s Nichirei Corp. Early backers 3one4 Capital, Bertelsmann India […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Google has acquired Where Is My Train, a multilingual app that provides live updates on trains. The search giant has not disclosed the acquisition details. In late August, Google was reportedly in talks to acquire the […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Startup lobby group Indiatech.org is in discussion with the government and regulators to allow local startups to list their services on Government e-marketplace or GeM. The government-owned portal that is aiming to reach $25 billion GMV […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr UrbanClap, an on-demand home service provider, recently raised a $50 million funding round from Steadview Capital and Vy Capital at $500 million valuation. As a part of this round, the company has facilitated a secondary of ESOPs […]

Team Entrackr | Entrackr The Venture Capital (VC) investors in India have recorded a four-fold rise in exits in nine months this year. They recorded exits worth $19.6 billion exits in compared to $4.2 billion in last year, according to […]

Team Entrackr | Entrackr This week 14 Indian startups received funding, of which 11 received a total sum of about $136 million. Among them, Oyo raised the highest investment of about $103 million followed by MoEngage, which raised $8 million. […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr After 45 days of arrest, Noida Police have finally filed a chargesheet against Sonia Dhawan her husband Rupak Jain and two others–Devendra Kumar and Rohit Chomwal–who were involved in alleged Paytm data theft and extortion case. […]

Jitendra Singh | Entrackr To engage next-generation consumers on its platform, US e-tailer Amazon has launched a new shopping-focused social network Spark in India. Spark, which is the part of Amazon.in site, is expected to lead to discovery-based shopping. It […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr Heavily divested in its far-reaching investment plans, Softbank has been actively recruiting, from country heads to partners. The Japanese investment giant has appointed former Facebook Inc. executive Kirthiga Reddy as a partner in its $100 billion […]

Jitendra Singh | Entrackr A month old appointed panel by the government has recommended to ban all the cryptocurrencies and make a new law to regulate the space. All virtual currencies should be treated as illegal and a new law […]

Harsh Upadhyay | Entrackr Zerodha has pumped Rs 2 crore in edtech startup LearnApp. The investment was done through Rainmatter, an incubator and investment fund run by the online stock brokerage firm. The Noida-based markets, investment, and trading-focused online video course […]

Yanogya Sharma | Entrackr Within a week of speculation about Oyo raising $103.4 (Rs 732.73 crore) strategic round from Grab, the company has raised the sum, reveals RoC filings by the company with MCA. The firm will use proceeds towards […]

Jitendra Singh | Entrackr To prevent abuse on Facebook ahead of India’s general elections next year, the social networking giant has asked Indian advertisers wanting to run a political ad on its platform to confirm their identity and location. The […]

Jai Vardhan | Entrackr Game of scale has intensified in food delivery space as Zomato and Foodpanda have started penetrating tier II and III cities aggressively. Both companies have been ramping up operations in about 100 cities and eyeing stable […]

Jai Vardhan | Entrackr Online classifieds and service platform Quikr has raised Rs 55 crore in a venture debt from Innoven Capital. Probably, this external capital infusion has come to the Bengaluru-based firm after 42 months hiatus. Prior to this […]