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Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)

QIA is the sovereign wealth fund investing on behalf of the State of Qatar, established to protect and grow Qatar’s financial assets and to diversify its economy.

Anthropic

AI/IoT

San Francisco

Databricks

Bangalore

Flipkart

E-Commerce

Marketplace

Internet

Shopping

Flipkart operates an online shopping website with a registered customer base of over 100 million.

BYJU’S

Education

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

Swiggy

Delivery

Food delivery platform that brings food from neighborhood restaurants directly to customers' doors.

Istanbul

Trendyol Group

Fashion

Lifestyle

Online Shopping

Apps

Mobile Apps

Trendyol Group were founded in 2010 with a dynamic and agile start-up spirit. Since then, we have grown into a decacorn, backed by Alibaba, General Atlantic, Softbank, Princeville Capital, and several sovereign wealth funds.

London

Checkout.com

Fintech

Payments

Checkout.com is a global provider of payment solutions that help businesses and communities thrive in the digital economy.

Debt Financing

VerSe Innovation

Content

Social Media

VerSe Innovation facilitates content curation and tracks user preferences through recommendation tools.

Mumbai

Rebel Foods

Foodtech

Cloud Kitchen

Food Delivery

Rebel Foods, formerly known as Faasos, is pioneering the world's largest chain of online restaurants with over 25 own brands and a network of 4000+ restaurants across 10 countries.

Insider One

Analytics

Productivity Tools

Digital Marketing

Insider One (formerly Insider) is the #1 AI-powered customer engagement and experience platform that enables marketing teams to unify customer data across channels (web, apps, SMS, email, WhatsApp) into a single platform for personalised, cross-channel journey orchestration.

NEXX

Logistics

Logistics & Storage

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Warehousing

Automation

Dual headquartered in Hong Kong and Qatar, NEXX is the first smart logistics technology platform that provides iWaaS (intelligent Warehouse-as-a-Service) with a logistics LLM as the core.

Trendyol, an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5 billion. General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round.

Turkey’s first decacorn: Trendyol raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation

LONDON, UK—12 January 2022—On the heels of a highly successful year processing hundreds of billions of dollars in payments for some of the world’s largest merchants, Checkout.com today raised $1 billion in its Series D funding round at a valuation of $40 billion.

Primary investors include Altimeter, Dragoneer, Franklin Templeton, GIC, Insight Partners, the Qatar Investment Authority, Tiger Global, the Oxford Endowment Fund, and another large west coast mutual fund management firm. Several of the company’s other existing investors also participated in this round.

Checkout.com raises $1 billion in Series D amid major US market push

Rasmal Ventures has announced an investment in NEXX, a dual-headquartered Hong Kong and Qatar-based AI-driven logistics technology company, during the 10th Belt & Road Summit. The partnership marks Rasmal Ventures' first commitment to a Hong Kong tech startup.

Rasmal Ventures Announces Investment in NEXX at 10th Belt & Road Summit 2025

Flipkart said on Monday it has raised $3.6 billion at a post-money valuation of $37.6 billion in what is widely believed to be the pre-IPO round for the Indian e-commerce conglomerate as it works to list in the public markets as soon as early next year.

The new round of funding — by far the largest for any Indian startup — was led by GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Walmart, along with investments from sovereign funds DisruptAD, Qatar Investment Authority, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Tencent, Willoughby Capital, Antara Capital, Franklin Templeton and Tiger Global.

The Monday investment marks the return of SoftBank as a shareholder of Flipkart. SoftBank, which had taken the exit from the startup when the Bangalore-based firm sold majority stakes to Walmart in 2018 at a valuation of $22 billion, has reinvested about $500 million in the new round.

“At Flipkart, we are committed to transforming the consumer internet ecosystem in India and providing consumers access and value. This investment by leading global investors reflects the promise of digital commerce in India and their belief in Flipkart’s capabilities to maximise this potential for all stakeholders,” said Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Chief Executive Officer at Flipkart Group, in a statement.

“As we serve our consumers, we will focus on accelerating growth for millions of small and medium Indian businesses, including kiranas. We will continue to invest in new categories and leverage made-in-India technology to transform consumer experiences and develop a world-class supply chain.”

As part of the new fundraise, Flipkart is also giving its employees the option to sell their stock options worth $80.5 million, Krishnamurthy told them on Monday.

Flipkart had originally hit the market to raise money early this year and was initially looking to raise just about $1 billion, TechCrunch first reported.

Flipkart valued at $37.6 billion in new $3.6 billion fundraise

Flipkart raised $1 billion at the end of July, and less than six months later the Indian e-commerce giant is rounding off the year with a new $700 million round.

The round includes money from existing investors DST Global, GIC, ICONIQ Capital and Tiger Global, and new backers Baillie Gifford, Greenoaks Capital, Steadview Capital, T. Rowe PriceAssociates and Qatar Investment Authority.

Added to the $210 million that it closed in May, this round takes seven-year-old Flipkart past $2 billion in investor money in 2014, and to around $2.7 billion in total.

Interestingly, the company has disclosed that it has applied to become a public company in Singapore, where it is registered. It stressed that this filing is in line with the law since it now has over 50 shareholders and that it “is in no way indicative of any upcoming IPO,” but it does raise the question of what (and when) its exit will be.

Flipkart has over 14,000 staff and sees more than 8 million daily visits from 26 million-plus registered users. It said the new funding will be spent on “long-term strategic investments in India” and on developing its technology and customer service. This year it acquired fashion-focused rival Myntra, and it looks like it open to snapping up other complementary services to guild its competitive edge against fierce rivals Amazon India and Snapdeal.

India’s E-Commerce Giant Flipkart Replenishes Its War Chest With New $700M Round

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news aggregator Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Thursday it has raised over $450 million in a new financing round, just five months after securing $200 million, as the Indian startup looks to expand its offerings to international markets.

Siguler Guff, Baillie Gifford, affiliates of Carlyle Asia Partners Growth II and others financed VerSe Innovation’s Series I round, while existing investors Sofina Group, Qatar Investment Authority and BCap participated.

India’s VerSe Innovation raises over $450 million to expand Dailyhunt and Josh apps globally

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news and entertainment app Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, said on Monday it has raised over $100 million as part of a Series H financing round from Qatar Investment Authority and Glade Brook Capital Partners.

Google-backed Dailyhunt and Josh’s parent firm raises over $100 million

Rebel Foods, which operates a large network of dark kitchens in nearly a dozen markets, is the latest Indian startup to attain unicorn status.

The 10-year-old Indian startup said on Thursday it has raised $175 million in its Series F financing round that valued it at $1.4 billion, up from about $800 million last year. Qatar Investment Authority, sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, led the financing round with participation from existing investors Coatue and Evolvence. Rebel Foods also counts Sequoia Capital India and Goldman Sachs among its investors.

Indian cloud kitchen startup Rebel Foods valued at $1.4 billion in $175 million fundraise

Cloud kitchen company Rebel Foods, which is set for a public-market listing in 2025-26, has reportedly raised $25 million (about Rs 212.71 crore) from Qatar Investment Authority.

Rebel Foods raises $25 Mn from QIA: Report

Insider — the #1 marketing platform for delivering individualised, cross-channel customer experiences — today announced an investment of up to $105 million from existing investors, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) — and Esas Private Equity. With this latest investment, Insider’s total funding amount reaches $274 Million.

The funds will be used exclusively to accelerate Insider’s M&A strategy to build upon the company’s existing technology and capabilities. Insider was recently recognised as the #6 Best Software Company in the world by G2. In light of economic headwinds, Insider plans to utilize the current market conditions to achieve unparalleled growth through an M&A-focused strategy. Together with the company’s $121 million Series D raise from March 2022, these investments will supplement Insider’s significant growth reserves.

QIA Leads $105M Investment in Marketing Platform Insider

Turkey-founded and Singapore-based marketing platform Insider, has closed a $121 million Series D led by Qatar Investment Authority, with participation from Sequoia, Riverwood Capital, 212, Wamda, Esas Private Equity, and Endeavor Catalyst. The round was raised at a $1.22 billion valuation, making Insider the first woman-founded startup to achieve unicorn status in Turkey and the wider Middle East region. 
Insider is now the world’s ninth largest B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) unicorn. 
Founded in 2012 by Hande Cilingir, with co-founders Serhat Soyuerel (Chief Revenue Officer), Arda Koterin (Chief Customer Officer), Sinan Toktay (CTO), Okan Yedibela (VP of Engineering), and Muharrem Derinkök (Chief Product Officer), Insider is a platform for individualised, cross-channel experiences, enabling enterprise marketers to connect customer data across channels and systems, predict their future behaviour with an AI engine and orchestrate individualised experiences to customers.
Since its launch, Insider has expanded its global presence to 28 countries including in the US and Latin America markets and has partnered with some of the world’s biggest brands including McDonald’s, Unilever, L’Oreal and Adidas.
The additional capital will be used to fuel expansion, enhance the company’s core technology and scale local sales and marketing investments.

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