Latest Indian Startup Funding News 2025
Hello friends! Today I want to share some really cool news about Indian startups that got money this year. The startup world in India is super exciting right now, with…
List Of Indian Startups With Successful Exits
RedBus, started in 2006 by Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju, and Sudhakar Pasupunuri, changed how Indians reserve bus tickets. Before RedBus, reserving bus tickets involved going to bus stops or travel…
Indian Unicorn Startup Funding Updates
India had only a few unicorns when I initially started reporting the startup scene in 2015. Fast forward to 2025, and the expansion has been just amazing! Last month, I…
Indian Startup Funding Rounds And Investors
Walking around Bengaluru's busy tech parks or attending startup events in Mumbai makes one thing very clear: the Indian startup industry is on fire! Having spent years observing this ecosystem…
Indian Startup Ipos And Exit Strategy Examples
Today I want to share what I've learned about Indian startup IPOs and exit strategy examples. As someone who's been watching the Indian startup scene for years, I've seen many…
Healthtech Startup Funding Trends In India
Have you ever wondered how health apps and new medical tools get the money to grow? I've spent years watching this space, and let me tell you - it's booming…
Business Funding With Essential Tips Wikiteak: A Complete Guide
This post will go into the domain of Business Funding With Essential Tips Wikiteak, look at the urgent guidance for getting the best monetary support, and show you how WikiTeak…
Exit Strategies For Private Equity: All You Need To Know in 2025
Playing the long game is the goal of the private equity investment lifecycle, which ends with a private equity exit. The moment will come to sell the asset and, ideally,…
Entry And Exit Load In Mutual Funds
Over the most recent couple of years, common asset inflows into Indian business sectors have seen record tops. As the quantity of financial backers develops essentially, we can look at…
Private Equity Exits: Why Investors Should Look Beyond The Headlines?
After PE leave action arrived at record highs in 2021 , the current year's aggregates will be somewhat less heavenly as asset directors sit tight for better times. So what…
Charted: How Long Does it Take Unicorns to Exit?
a What amount of time Does it Require For Unicorns to Exit? For most unicorns — new companies with a $1 billion valuation or more — it can require a very long…
Funding And Exits: Top Private Equity Exit Strategies
In the event that your organization has accomplished no less than $10M in repeating income with unsurprising future development, low stir and closeness to income positive, then, at that point,…
Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize
Investing in someone is primarily a merchantry relationship. It doesn’t midpoint you don’t develop a personal unification – it’s weightier when you do! – but creating an rememberable bond transcends…
Startup Investments & Exits: How Investing in Startups Works
An investment refers to capital provided to a company by a party whose goal is to benefit from the future success of the company. Investments can take the form of…
Investors buy The DiPP as accelerators go virtual
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a choice of all sorts of news, but as…
End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M
End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re just building games. And to be…
Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire
How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s…
How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty
As the global economy grinds to a halt, every business sector has been impacted, including the linked worlds of startups and venture capital. But how much has really changed? If you…
Zetta Venture Partners’ Jocelyn Goldfein chats about AI investing
Earlier this month, href=\"https://www.zettavp.com/\">Zetta Venture Partners, a B2B, AI-focused venture outfit, announced a new $180 million fund. As new VC funds are anecdotally a bit thinner on the ground these…
Utah-based seed fund Kickstart closes fifth fund worth $110M
Continuing our week’s coverage of new venture funds, this morning let’s dig into Kickstart’s latest capital pool. Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Utah’s Salt Lake City, has raised a $110 million…
Dribbble, a bootstrapped ‘LinkedIn’ for designers, acquires Creative Market, grows to 12M users
Traditionally dominated by big players like Adobe and Autodesk, the world of design has been flush with a newer wave of startups that are creating collaboration spaces and new…
Mark Cuban: ‘Raising money isn’t an accomplishment, it’s an obligation’
Mark Cuban isn’t impressed that you’ve raised money. “If you think the accomplishment is raising money first, we’re probably not gonna get along,” said Cuban in an Extra Crunch Live interview.…
IPOs, crypto funds and other things I missed this week
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. What a week it’s been. I’m exhausted. Not only are we…
Monzo recruits former Amex exec Sujata Bhatia as its new COO
More personnel changes are afoot at Monzo, as the U.K. challenger bank continues to bolster its leadership team. Specifically, TechCrunch has learned that Sujata Bhatia, a former American Express executive in…
Dahmakan, a Malaysian “full-stack” food delivery startup, raises $18 million Series B
Dahmakan, a full-stack food delivery startup based in Malaysia, announced today that it has closed a $18 million Series B. Investors include Rakuten Capital, White Star Capital, JAFCO Asia and…
Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, or around 25% of its global workforce
This afternoon Airbnb, a well-known private company that connects travelers with places to stay, announced that it was laying off around a quarter of its workforce. The company cited revenue…
More debt, improving margins: How startups are retooling in the COVID-19 era
A new data set from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) details how startups are reacting to the post-unicorn era as COVID-19-related disruptions upset the global economy and remake the risk tolerance…
As private investment cools, enterprise startups may try tapping corporate dollars
Founders hunting down capital in the middle of this pandemic may feel like they’re on a fool’s errand, but some investors are still offering financing, even if the terms might…
SaaS companies flirt with correction territory as another wild week comes to a close
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Stocks are set to fall further today, likely forcing shares in…
SaaS stocks defy gravity amid pandemic, record job losses
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. This week shares of SaaS and cloud companies reached new record…
Target to acquire same-day delivery tech from Deliv
Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in talks to buy assets from Deliv, NBC News first reported. “Deliv is in the process of completing a deal…
Daily Crunch: Zoom acquires security startup Keybase
Zoom acquires some encryption expertise, Uber makes a big investment in scooters and we review the new 13-inch Macbook Pro. Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 7, 2020. 1. Zoom acquires…
Fintech startups amass war chests for the economic downturn
Consumer fintech startups were massively successful in 2019, attracting millions of new users and disrupting traditional retail banks and financial services with mobile-first, consumer-oriented products. Despite the economic downturn in…
Slice, an online ordering and marketing platform for pizzerias, raises $43M
Global investment firm KKR is betting on the pizza business — it just led a $43 million Series C investment in Slice. Formerly known as MyPizza, Slice has created a…
Anyfin raises $30M Series B to let consumers refinance their existing loans
Anyfin, the Stockholm-based startup that enables consumers to refinance their existing loans, has raised $30 million in funding. Leading the Series B round is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors…
DigitalOcean raises $50M more from Access Industries and a16z
Earlier today, DigitalOcean announced that it raised $50 million more from prior investors Access Industries and Andreessen Horowitz. The capital comes after the SMB and developer-focused cloud infrastructure company raised…
Big VCs stacked billions in Q1 while smaller firms saw their haul shrink
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. After spending perhaps more time than we should have recently trying…
What’s up with tiny checks at giant valuations?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Are you a regular Equity listener? Take our survey here! We talk about it…
Cathay Innovation raises $550M for its second global VC fund
With the global economy still sorting itself out in the face of the pandemic, we’re hearing about fewer new venture capital funds these days. However, today is an exception, as…
Verizon wraps up BlueJeans acquisition lickety split
When Verizon (which owns this publication) announced it was buying video conferencing company BlueJeans for around $500 million last month, you probably thought it was going take awhile to bake,…
Medallia acquires voice-to-text specialist Voci Technologies for $59M
M&A has largely slowed down in the current market, but there remain pockets of activity when the timing and price are right. Today, Medallia — a customer experience platform that…
Bevy.com raises $15M to power virtual events and community
This might seem like the worst time to be building an event software business, but it seems to be working for Bevy.com, which just announced that it has raised $15 million in…
Human Interest tacks on $10M more to its Series C
The COVID-19 pandemic is making life worse for many startups, but not all. Those benefiting are often taking advantage of the market updraft to add more capital to their accounts.…
Skyflow raises $7.5M to build its privacy API business
Skyflow, a Mountain View-based privacy API company, announced this morning that it has closed a $7.5 million round of capital it describes as a seed investment. Foundation Capital’s Ashu Garg…
API startups are so hot right now
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. A cluster of related companies recently caught our eye by raising…
Clubhouse proves that time is a flat circle
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. First, a big thanks to everyone who took part in the Equity survey, we…
M17 sells its online dating assets to focus on live streaming
M17 Entertainment announced today that it has sold its online dating assets to focus on its core live streaming business in Asia and other markets. Paktor Pte, which operates Paktor…
Daily Crunch: Airbnb raises another $1B
Airbnb turns to private equity for new funding, WhatsApp takes new steps to fight disinformation and another potential COVID-19 vaccine enters human trials. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April…
Raising in a recession
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week’s episode was a testament to making do, as we’ve had to cancel…
Stocks dive on Dow’s worst day since 1987, tech crashes and Bitcoin is no haven
Well, that was terrible. During the day’s wild trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped by just under 10% in what was the largest single-day percentage decline since the…
VergeSense grabs $9M for its people-counting sensor tech as offices eye COVID changes
Facilities management looks to be having a bit of a moment, amid the coronavirus pandemic. VergeSense, a US startup which sells a ‘sensor as a system’ platform targeted at offices —…
Indonesian startup Delman raises $1.6 million to help companies clean up data
Delman, a Jakarta-based data management startup, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Intudo Ventures, with participation from Prasetia Dwidharma Ventures and Qlue Performa Indonesia,…
Otrium raises $26 million to sell end-of-season fashion items
Otrium has raised a $26 million Series B funding round (€24 million), with Eight Roads Ventures leading the round. Existing investors Index Ventures and Hans Veldhuizen also participated. Otrium …
Join GGV’s Hans Tung and Jeff Richards for a live Q&A: June 4 at 3:30 pm EDT/12:30 pm PDT
What does a global mindset look like in a world where most of us no longer travel? And what does it mean to be local when everyone is connected? Those are…
Jeremy Conrad left his own VC firm to start a company, and investors like what he’s building
When this editor first met Jeremy Conrad, it was in 2014, at the 8,000-square-foot former fish factory that was home to Lemnos, a hardware-focused venture firm that Conrad had cofounded…
Mark Cuban backs ChatableApps, developer of a hearing assist app that removes background noise
ChatableApps, a U.K. startup commercialising the work of auditory neural signal processing researcher Dr Andy Simpson, has quietly picked up seed backing from Mark Cuban. The company has built a…
Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes
When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into…
Truthset raises $4.75M to help marketers score their data
Data, the cliche goes, is the new oil of the digital economy. But Truth{set} co-founder and CEO Scott McKinley wants to know: “Why does no one care about the quality…
Danggeun Market, the South Korean secondhand marketplace app, raises $33 million Series C
Danggeun Market, the startup behind Karrot, South Korea’s largest neighborhood marketplace and networking app, announced today that that it has raised a $33 million Series C. The round was led…
Pitch deck teardown: The making of Atlassian’s 2015 roadshow presentation
In 2015, Atlassian was preparing to go public, but it was not your typical company in so many ways. For starters, it was founded in Australia, it had two co-founder…
NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain cloud infrastructure management tools
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence…
Unpacking ZoomInfo’s IPO as the firm starts to trade
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. The ZoomInfo IPO slipped through our fingers in the last news…
The accelerating digital transformation, redux
Earlier this week, TechCrunch covered a grip of earnings reports showing that some companies helping other businesses move to modern software solutions are seeing accelerated growth. Inside the Software as…
The IPO window is open (again)
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead…
Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app
Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The startup takes its name from its…
Silverfin wants to modernize accounting software with its cloud service
Meet Silverfin, a startup focused on accounting software. This isn’t about helping small startups handle accounting tasks themselves. Silverfin wants to build the cloud service for small and big…
Co-living European startup Colonies raises $34 million
French startup Colonies has raised a $34 million funding round (€30 million). In addition to that, LBO France is committing to spend $168 million (€150 million) in real estate projects…
Stop with the Vroom and gloom on Wall Street
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This time around we’re recording what we call an Equity Shot, a single-topic show…
Insurance data analytics platform Planck raises $16 million Series B
Planck, an AI-based data platform for insurance underwriting, announced today that it has raised a $16 million Series B led by Team8 Capital. All of the startup’s existing investors —…
The complicated calculus of taking Facebook’s venture money
Facebook is reportedly getting into the venture capital game, but for young entrepreneurs working in social media, ignoring or deleting that particular friend request could be the right call. According to…
Why are unicorns pushing back IPOs when the Nasdaq is near record highs?
The unicorns are still at it, Vision Fund 2 or no Vision Fund 2. This week, Instacart announced that it has raised fresh capital at a valuation north of $13 billion.…
Join us for a live Q&A with Plaid CEO Zach Perret June 18 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT
Extra Crunch Live, TechCrunch’s chat series for Extra Crunch members, is tacking toward founders after bringing on a host of investors: on Thursday, June 18, Plaid CEO Zach Perret will…
To make locks touchless, Proxy bluetooth ID raises $42M
We need to go hands-off in the age of coronavirus. That means touching fewer doors, elevators, and sign-in iPads. But once a building is using phone-based identity for security, there’s…
Free money for startups? It’s possible with MainStreet’s platform for economic development incentives
Startups need money. State and local governments need startups and the employment growth they offer. It should be obvious that the two groups can work together and make each other…
Salt Security closes $20M Series A to help protect APIs
Today Salt Security, a startup that helps companies protect APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A. The Palo Alto-based company secured the new funds from Tenaya…
Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech
Several months ago, we surveyed more than 20 leading real estate VCs to learn about what was exciting them most in the real estate tech sector and hear their opinions…
Onna, the ‘knowledge integration platform’ for workplace apps, raises $27M Series B
Onna, the “knowledge integration platform” (KIP) that counts Dropbox and Slack as backers, has raised $27 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Atomico, with participation from Glynn Capital.…
Who’s writing first checks into startups?
Over the past two decades, the venture capital industry has exploded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations. What began as a sleepy industry in Boston and Menlo Park has now expanded to dozens…
Clockwise CEO Matt Martin: How we closed an $18M Series B during a pandemic
Matt Martin Contributor Matt Martin is CEO and co-founder of Clockwise, a San Francisco-based software company. More posts by this contributor Recession-proof your software engineering career It all started with an email from a…
A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech company in the world
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has brought much of the fundraising community to a standstill. However, amidst it all India’s hyper0growth telco Reliance Jio Platforms has put its fundraising…
Deepgram raises $12M for enterprise speech recognition
Deepgram, a startup focused on high-quality, real-time speech recognition, announced a $12 million Series A this morning. The startup, founded a half decade ago, according to Crunchbase data, with just a…
It’s not just about e-mail, stupid
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Your humble Equity team is pretty tired but in good spirits, as there was…
3 questions for Lemonade’s IPO
While we await a fresh IPO filing from heavily backed insurtech startup Lemonade, let’s talk a little more about its public offering. Since our first dig into its S-1 filing, TechCrunch…
Hong Kong fintech Qupital partners with eBay to provide financing for sellers
Qupital, a trade financing platform, announced today that it will partner with eBay as one of its officially recommended Hong Kong financing service providers. In today’s announcement, Qupital said…
Raising VC is tough. Submit your investors today to our first-check database, The TechCrunch List
When we announced the formation of The TechCrunch List last week, we had no idea what response we would get to our proposal for founders to recommend their “first check”…
Karat launches a credit card for online creators
Karat is a new startup promising to build better banking products for the creators who make a living on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch and other online platforms. Today it’s unveiling its…
Agora starts life as a public company by more than doubling to $50 a share
Shares of Agora, a China and U.S.-based “real-time engagement” API company, soared today after it went public. Yesterday Agora priced 17.5 million shares at $20 apiece, up from its target range…
Indian edtech giant Byju’s in talks to acquire Doubtnut for more than $125M
Byju’s is in advanced stages of talks to acquire Doubtnut, a two-year-old education learning app, as the Indian edtech giant looks to expand its reach in smaller cities and towns…
YC-backed Tango Builder wants to use aerospace engineering to build a house
Housing has been constructed for millennia, and while clearly our modern abodes are ever so slightly better than the elk tents we used to live in, the construction techniques behind…
Where top VCs are investing in D2C
If you’re looking for toothbrushes, skin-care face masks, mattresses, glasses or even socks, there’s a digitally-native, direct-to-consumer (D2C) company or two that can help you out. And thanks to smart digital…
After losing Grubhub, Uber reportedly hails Postmates
Uber has reportedly made an offer to buy food delivery service Postmates, according to The New York Times. According to the Times, the talks are still ongoing and the deal…
Apple device management company Jamf files S-1 as it prepares to go public
Jamf, the Apple device management company, filed to go public today. Jamf might not be a household name, but the Minnesota company has been around since 2002 helping companies manage…
Student-led accelerator Envision is shaking up which startups get funded
Meet Envision, a new startup accelerator. The group, built and run by a collection of students and recent graduates, just closed the application process for its first cohort of startups. Its…
Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications
A new startup called Notivize aims to give product teams direct access to one of their most important tools for increasing user engagement — notifications. The company has been testing the…
Project M acquires punk rock satire site The Hard Times
Matt Saincome knows that compared to many of the startup acquisitions that we write about on TechCrunch, selling a website for a little over $1 million (mostly cash, with…
When life gives you lemons, print money with Lemonade
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Before we dive in, don’t forget that the show is on Twitter now, so…
TechCrunch’s favorite companies from 500 Startups’ latest demo day
Today 500 Startups hosted a virtual demo day for its 26th batch of startups, a group of companies that TechCrunch covered back in February. 500 is not the only accelerator that…
Lemonade and Accolade open sharply higher as public markets rally
Despite today’s bucket of plus-and-minus economic data, stocks are heading higher in regular trading. And among the shares rising the most are today’s two venture-backed IPOs: Lemonade and Accolade. TechCrunch wrote…
Paytm, Vijay Shekhar Sharma to acquire insurance firm Raheja QBE for $76M
Paytm, India’s most valuable startup, and its co-founder and chief executive, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, announced on Monday they have reached an agreement to acquire general insurer Raheja QBE for…
Facebook-backed Unacademy acquires PrepLadder for $50 million
Indian online learning platform Unacademy said on Tuesday it has acquired Chandigarh-based startup PrepLadder for $50 million as the Facebook-backed edtech giant scouts for deals to expand its presence…
