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Delhi

Anuj Bhargava

Amit Mehra

Bejul Somaia

Dev Khare

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Lightspeed India Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm

Bangalore

PE Round

BYJU’S

Education

BYJU'S is an educational technology company that develops personalized learning programs for K-12 students.

Gurugram

Series G

Travel

Global travel tech company that connects its patrons and guests.

Debt Financing

Udaan

Retail & Wholesale

E-Commerce

Udaan is India's largest business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, designed to digitize trade and connect small mom-and-pop shops (kiranas), retailers, and pharmacies.

ShareChat

Social Network

Content

ShareChat is a social networking and regional content platform.

San Francisco

Series E

Innovaccer

Healthcare

Healthtech

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud

Innovaccer is the AI infrastructure for autonomous healthcare operations, delivering better clinical and financial outcomes across health systems, payers, governments, and life sciences.

Zolve

Fintech

Financial Services

Digital Banking

Zolve's mission is simple: we want to make financial products accessible to everyone. Zolve offers the ambitious a plethora of products to simplify banking in the US, such as: 
 
A Bank Account you can create from anywhere in the world in under five minutes
A high-limit Credit Card that helps build a healthy credit score 
Easy, lightning-fast, cross-border money transfers with the best rates in the market

GlobalBees

Retail

GlobalBees is a company dedicated to finding and scaling great products

Hyderabad

Darwinbox

SaaS

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Enterprise Software

Darwinbox is a new-age, agile HCM Suite that enables enterprises and growing businesses to automate their day-to-day HR processes, deliver actionable insights and build better workplaces. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Darwinbox provides a lightweight and easy to use mobile-first experience to the last mile employee.

Chennai

Yubi

Finance

PaaS

Analytics

The Yubi Group is the world’s only technology company powering the end-to-end debt lifecycle, facilitating every stage of the flow of money from lenders to borrowers and back to lenders.

Pocket FM

Apps

Digital Entertainment

Information Technology

Audio

Podcast

Pocket FM is an audio series platform that provides audio entertainment.

Apna

Talent Management

Employment

Recruiting

Professional Services

Apna is India's leading Professional Networking Platform. Apna Group is redefining the future of work for India and beyond by empowering millions of professionals and enterprises through AI-led innovation.

Snabbit

Home Services

Snabbit is India’s first Quick-Service App offering on-demand home services. With a hyperlocal network operating in dense residential clusters, Snabbit guarantees quality and speed, providing trusted and trained experts that arrive within minutes.

Acceldata

Technology

Teachmint

Uni Cards

OkCredit

Pixxel

Aerospace

LimeRoad

Shuttl

Transportation

Magicpin

Rattle

Dukaan®

OneAssist

San Mateo, California

Yellow.ai

Blockchain

Crypto

Bitcoin

Exponent Energy

Automotive

Oolka

Credit

Consulting

Oolka is India’s first AI-powered credit management partner - built to help every Indian track, improve, and protect their credit health with confidence.

Pepper Content

Setu

FrontRow

E-Learning

Pre-Series A

Officebanao

Proptech

Real Estate

Interior Design

Architecture

Officebanao is a platform that is transforming the experience of creating, maintaining and managing offices with technology, organizing the industry, creating standards and processes and driving transparency.

Bachatt

Loan

Bachatt is a daily-savings-led financial services platform, aiming to empower the 30 crore+ self-employed segment through daily savings and accelerated access to financial services.

Indian Energy Exchange

EkAnek Networks

Freight Tiger

GlobalFair

Scrut Automation

IT & Communication

Slikk

Fashion

Discover India's trendiest fashion marketplace designed for Gen Z and young millennials, delivering the latest styles in just 60 minutes to your doorstep.

FastFox

Rental

EbixCash Limited

SuperShare

Internet

Wheelocity

New York

Mitti Labs

Deeptech

Agritech

Water

Sustainability

Climate Tech

Mitti Labs is a climate-tech and deep-tech startup dedicated to reducing methane emissions and water usage in global rice farming.

Mason

Nextbillionai

Nexprt

Stable Money

Duta

BlueLearn

RedCarpetUpcom

Zyod

QTalk

Software Dev/Test

Gushwork

Elemential

Property Share Online Platform

Exly (previously Myscoot)

Rephraseai

Verak

FreshMenu

Neuu Store

Priority Vendor

Snabbit, a quick service platform raises USD 19 million in its Series B round, led by Lightspeed, with continued participation from Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners. This comes just four months after its Series A and reflects deep conviction in Snabbit’s breakout potential and the massive white space it is unlocking in the Indian consumer internet ecosystem.

Quick-service Platform Snabbit Raises $19 Mn In Series B Led By Lightspeed

Bengaluru-based social platform ShareChat, has closed a $4 Mn Series A round of funding, led by Lightspeed India Partners. Existing investors, SAIF Partners and India Quotient along with Venture Highway (through VH Capital).

Social Platform ShareChat Raises $4 Mn In Series A From Lightspeed India Partners, Others

Audio OTT app Pocket FM has raised capital worth $22.4 million in Series B funding round. Led by Lightspeed, the round saw participation from a clutch of investors including Times Group and first-time investor in the company, Tanglin Venture Partners. The fresh capital will be utilised to scale up the operations, build the largest community of content creators, intensify its presence across geographies, invest in technology for better recommendations, and strengthen the overall audio OTT category globally.

The company is building a robust ecosystem for audio OTT with Pocket FM and its largest community of content creators, Rohan Nayak, co-founder and CEO, Pocket FM, said. “We are at a juncture where both Pocket FM and the overall audio OTT space are witnessing exponential growth. Audio storytelling has now become a mainstream content format for entertainment and our mission is to build Pocket FM as a global entertainment service provider. We are grateful to our investors for their continued faith and support in our vision and are very optimistic about the future,” he added.

Pocket FM raises $22.4 million in Series B funding round

Vernacular audiobooks and podcast marketplace Pocket FM has raised Rs 41 crore in Series A round from Tencent, Times Group and Lightspeed India. 

Tencent Cloud BV led the round by investing Rs 23.41 crore, whereas Lightspeed India and Times Group infused Rs 11.22 crore and Rs 6.7 crore respectively, regulatory filings show. The deal was executed in April when foreign direct investment from Chinese investors was allowed under the automatic route.

Pocket FM had raised Rs 4.61 crore its seed capital from Lightspeed and Times Group in December  2018. Importantly, this is the second bet by Tencent in vernacular content space. Early this year, it led a Rs 76 crore worth Series C round in Bengaluru-based Pratilipi.

As per Fintrackr’s estimate, Pocket FM was valued at around Rs 116 crore (post-money), which is a jump of 6.3x in its valuation as compared to Rs 18.5 crore when it raised Rs 4.6 crore in its seed round.

Promoters' collective shareholding has been diluted from 64.75% to 41.65% after the fresh infusion. Rohan Nayak controls 15.1% while Nishanth Srinivas commands 14.47% and Prateek Dixit owns 12.08%.


 Lightspeed now is the biggest stakeholder in the company. It holds 22.61% stake in Pocket Fm followed by Tencent BV which has acquired 20.1% in this round of funding. Times Group now controls a 9.04% stake, whereas the ESOP pool consists of 6.43%. With the Series A round, the company has raised a total of Rs 45.7 crore external equity capital.

Pocket FM deals in four genres: audiobooks, podcast, entertainment self-help book (personality development and motivational). According to its website, it offers over 10,000 hours of audiobooks and podcasts across three languages: Hindi, Tamil and Bengali. 

Over the past two-three years, the consumption of audio content has shot up among vernacular users. The segment has been dominated by Pratilipi that has raised about $30 million across three institutional rounds.

Exclusive: Pocket FM bags Rs 41 Cr in Series A; valuation scales

Hyderabad-based HRtech startup ﻿Darwinbox﻿ raised $72 million in a funding round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), along with participation from existing investors Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia India, Lightspeed India, Endiya Partners, 3One4Capital, JGDEV, and SCB 10X. 

The company’s valuation post the Series D round has crossed the $1 billion mark, with the total investment raised thus far crossing $110 million. The company has grown 200 percent since the last fundraise from Salesforces Ventures, around a year ago.

[Funding alert] Darwinbox turns unicorn; raises $72M in Series D round led by Technology Crossover Ventures

Thrasio, Perch and Branded have gained prominence in the US in the past two years as they closed mega financing rounds on the promise of scaling up many direct to consumer brands on popular marketplaces like Amazon. Their model appears to have caught on in India with over half a dozen such clones closing funding at rich valuations in their maiden rounds.

After Mensa and 10Club’s mega funding rounds, GlobalBees has burst into the club with a record $150 million raise in its Series A  round led by FirstCry. Lightspeed also participated in the round.

GlobalBees raises record $150 Mn in Series A led by FirstCry

GlobalBees, which raised one of the largest Series A financing rounds in India earlier this year, has entered the unicorn club as the New Delhi-headquartered firm scales its Thrasio-like house of brands.

Premji Invest, the investment firm controlled by Indian tycoon Azim Premji, led the nine-month-old startup’s Series B financing round, the young firm disclosed in a regulatory filing. The round, about $110 million, values GlobalBees at over $1.1 billion, the filing showed.

Steadview Capital, and existing investors Lightspeed, SoftBank and FirstCry, also participated in the $110 million equity round. Trifecta Capital additionally invested $30 million as debt in the new round.

Founded by Nitin Agarwal, formerly of Edelweiss Financial, and Supam Maheshwari, a founder of FirstCry, GlobalBees acquires and partners with digitally native brands across categories such as beauty, personal care, home and kitchen, food and nutrition, and sports and lifestyle, with a revenue rate of $1 million to $20 million.

India’s GlobalBees joins unicorn club for its Thrasio-like house of brands

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