[Funding alert] Minimalist raises Rs 110 Cr Series A round led by Sequoia Capital

Minimalist, the new-age homegrown skincare brand, has raised Series A funding of Rs 110 crore, (approx $15 million) led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from Unilever Ventures. The round…

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Together Fund – India’s first operator-led VC

Good morning,Meet the Together Fund, India’s first ‘operator-led’ VC, whose slogan is, ‘For Founders, By Founders, and With Founders’. The fund will mostly invest in homegrown startups in the software-as-a-service (SaaS)…

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INKR draws in $3.1M to make more comics accessible to worldwide audiences – TechCrunch

Digital comics platform INKR’s team INKR is a digital comics platform that crosses cultural and language divides, enabling creators to reach global audiences with its proprietary localization technology. Previously bootstrapped,…

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[Startup Bharat] How Indore-based Byloapp is connecting online customers with local businesses

Increased digitisation has given a push to the ecommerce segment causing businesses to move online. While they have been making the online transition during the pandemic, digitising local businesses might…

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How Gameberry Labs’ Ludo Star and Parchisi Star wooed users in 15 countries

Sometime around 2017, when online Ludo started gaining popularity in India, IIT-KGP grads Afsar Ahmad and Govind Agarwal started Gameberry Labs. Their goal was to build mobile games that would not…

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Should we sponsor international hires for H-1B transfers and green cards?  – TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur…

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Squire, a barbershop tech platform, triples its valuation (again) with Tiger Global – TechCrunch

When co-founders Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant first began barbershop tech platform Squire in 2016, they leaned in: The duo bought a barbershop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood to…

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Egyptian ride-sharing company Swvl plans to go public in a $1.5B SPAC merger – TechCrunch

Cairo and Dubai-based ride-sharing company Swvl plans to go public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, Swvl said Tuesday. The deal will see Swvl…

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