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New investors may bring $150 million to Zomato's table

Mirae backed Zomato’s closest competitor, Swiggy, earlier this year through another vehicle — Mirae Asset Capital Markets.

ET Startup Awards 2020: Vedantu founders win Comeback Kid award

Ingenuity in pulling off a pivot that is now the hallmark of Vedantu bagged them the award.

Jury to pick brightest of Startup Inc today

TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinath-chaired panel to declare winners across 9 categories.

Unfortunate that investing has turned political, globally: Naspers' Bob van Dijk

India banned 59 Chinese origin apps last month, including TikTok, and there have been reports suggesting that the United States could follo...

View: Start up and smell the Covid crisis

This time it’s clear, startups will have to understand that businesses have always been started to make money, even if the journey to that ...

Ola Financial gets Rs 205 crore from Falcon Edge, Matrix Partners

Apoletto Managers, and Arun Sarin's family office also participated in the round. This deal closed at a valuation of $250 million, accordin...

Drip funding: Swiggy, Zomato settle for smaller cheques of $5-10 million

Food delivery companies take offers of $5-10 million in tough conditions.

Samsung Venture Arm may deliver $10 million to Swiggy

Last week, Swiggy announced that Naspers had led a $113-million funding round, which is part of a larger $150-million fundraise being under...

Udemy secures $50 mn investment from Benesse Holdings

The company completed 10 years in January this year and has given out over $350 million in lifetime payments to instructors on its platform.

Swiggy raises $113 million led by Naspers, valuation stays flat at $3.3 billion

The investment comes just a few weeks after rival Zomato acquired UberEats India. UberEats India has since then ceased to exist as a separa...

Cheaper than Ola, Uber: How Quick Ride is making office commutes convenient

Carpooling has been one of most recommended activities to help reduce pollution and traffic congestion. Bengaluru-based Quick Ride has give...

Meesho investor buys Esops worth $1 million

“Liquidity events like these shows to our employees as well as future prospectus that our stock options have real value,” said Sanjeev Barn...

SoftBank, Tiger & Naspers may join Startup Council

The decision to form the Council came after multiple closed-door meetings between the government, regulators and stakeholders in the startu...

Naspers-PayU, Tencent eye stake in Pine Labs

While Pine Labs does not have a high cash burn, the additional capital raised will help it expand in the lending space.

India remains the No 1 focus for Naspers: Group CEO Bob van Dijk

South African firm has ploughed $4 billion into India over past five years, making it the second largest internet investor after SoftBank.

SoftBank, Naspers eye Dream11 stake

The deal could see the participation of more than one new investor. Additionally, Dream11’s existing backer Tencent is also keen to increas...

Naspers to bet on machine learning

Naspers has taken stakes in myriad businesses around the world to try and replicate its success with Tencent, which it backed as a startup ...