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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Three months into 2021 and it is amply clear that this decade will be unlike anything Indian startups have seen so far.
Editor's note: The Tiger Global Management fundraise last week has evoked a lot of chatter in India, among both entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. ...Though Tiger Global sent a letter to its investors back in January saying it was raising $3.75 billion for its thirteenth venture fund (titled XIV, apparently for superstitious reasons), a new SEC filing shows that the new fund just closed with almost twice that amount: $6.65 billion. That’s a lot of billions, even in this market, and especially for Tiger Global, which closed its twelfth fund with $3.75 billion in capital commitments only last year. From Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion• Tech Crunch The excitement around this news comes from the fact that Tiger Global is one of the best—if not the best—Series A investors in India. In the decade which ended in 2020, Tiger Global invested upwards of $3.5 billion in the country across a host of companies: Flipkart, Ola, PolicyBazaar, Byju’s and Zomato, to name a few. These investments have paid off handsomely. Tiger Global netted $3 …
The online storytelling company is betting that content will be the most sought-after commodity as scores of platforms jump on the microdrama bandwagon. But success will hinge on whether it has a good enough story to draw the audience.
SEBI has lowered the bar for loss-making startups to list. In that context, a company like Zepto redefines the meaning of risk in public market investing.
The 15-year-old company has bought one brand after another in the hope of growing fast. That plan has fallen flat on its face, but there’s no stopping Wingreens.
