| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.05.2026 | [Weekly funding roundup March 23-29] VC inflow drops to lowest level for the year | Venture capital (VC) funding into Indian startups has dropped to its lowest level on a weekly basis so far this year so far, exposing challenges faced by the ecosystem in terms of weakened capital inflow as well as absence of credible AI st... |
| 28.05.2026 | Fairdeal.Market Secures $15M for B2B Quick Commerce Expansion | Fairdeal.Market, a B2B quick commerce leader, recently closed a $15 million Series A funding round. Bertelsmann India Investments spearheaded the capital infusion. WaterBridge Ventures and Incubate Asia Fund also participated. This investme... |
| 26.05.2026 | Fairdeal.Market raises $15M in Series A round led by Bertelsmann India | Fairdeal.Market, a B2B quick commerce platform, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) with participation from WaterBridge Ventures and Incubate Asia Fund.
Fairdeal.Market plans to use ... |
| 26.05.2026 | Bertelsmann India bets on Fairdeal.Market; Quantum Tiger, Flexprice, Yogo snag funding | Fairdeal co-founders Yash Bansal (left) and Prateek Bansal
Quick commerce platform Fairdeal.Market, billing infrastructure startup Flexprice, AI startup Quantum Tiger, footwear brand Yoho and electric mobility firm SunCharge Motors have rai... |
| 26.05.2026 | B2B quick commerce startup Fairdeal raises $15 million from Bertelsmann India, others | Synopsis
B2B quick commerce platform Fairdeal.Market has secured $15 million in a funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments. The company aims to deliver over 1,000 SKUs to kirana retailers within 60 minutes using a dark store model... |
| 11.11.2025 | India's Deeptech Ecosystem Takes Centre Stage at IVCA Circles – Bangalore Edition | Bangalore, Karnataka, India
India’s apex industry body for alternative assets, the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA), is set to host the IVCA Circles – Bangalore Edition on 12th November 2025. With the theme “Unlocking... |
| 05.09.2025 | Indian E-commerce Challenger CityMall Secures $47 Million for Growth | CityMall, an Indian value e-commerce platform, secured $47M in Series D funding led by Accel. Total funding now $165M. It targets underserved Tier II/III/IV towns, offering affordable products via a unique community-led model. The funding f... |
| 05.09.2025 | [Weekly funding roundup Aug 29-Sept 5] VC inflow shows a modest increase | The month of September began on a modest note for the Indian startup ecosystem, with venture capital funding recording a marginal increase as the total amount raised during the week hovered around the $100 million range.
The total VC fundin... |
| 02.09.2025 | Ecommerce startup CityMall grabs $47M funding led by Accel | CityMall, the Gurugram-based value ecommerce startup, has raised $47 million in its Series D round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from existing backers, including Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, General Catalyst, Elevation Ca... |
| 02.09.2025 | Accel leads $47 mn Series D in CityMall | (From left) CityMall founders Angad Kikla, Rahul Gill, and Naisheel Verdhan
Online commerce startup CityMall has raised $47 million (around Rs 414 crore) in a Series D round led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Waterbrid... |
| 16.08.2025 | B2B quick commerce platform Fairdeal raises $3 M from Incubate Fund Asia and Waterbridge | With the help of angel investors, the B2B quick commerce platform Fairdeal.Market has raised $3 million, or roughly Rs 25 crore, in a pre-Series A round led by Incubate Fund Asia and Waterbridge Ventures.
More direct-to-consumer and regiona... |
| 15.08.2025 | Investment Climate Podcast: Ankit Bagaria of Loopworm, How to Get Funded in 2025 | In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2025 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.
Podcast Host Alex Shandrovksy is a strate... |
| 12.08.2025 | Fairdeal Raises USD 3 Million to Expand B2B Quick Commerce Operations Fairdeal aims to build a network of 100,000 retailers over the next three years, offering access to over 1,000 stock-keeping units... | Fairdeal.Market, a B2B quick commerce platform, has raised USD 3 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Incubate Fund Asia and Waterbridge Ventures, along with participation from angel investors.
The company plans to use the funds t... |
| 15.05.2025 | Kriscore Capital: Igniting India's Startup Revolution | Kriscore Capital has entered the arena of venture capital with a bang. The firm recently announced the first close of its debut fund, aiming to raise Rs 100 crore (approximately $11.6 million). This initial close has already secured commitm... |
| 15.05.2025 | Kriscore Capital Announces First Close of INR 100 Cr Debut Fund The fund plans to back 16–18 tech-driven startups at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on exceptional founders innovating across India'... | Kriscore Capital, a newly launched venture firm focused on early-stage Indian tech startups, has announced the first close of its debut fund—INR 100 crore with an additional INR 100 crore greenshoe option.
The fund, titled Kriscore Capital ... |
| 15.04.2025 | Eloelo raised $13.5 M Series B funding from Play Ventures | A Series B funding round led by Play Ventures has raised $13.5 million (Rs 114.3 crore) for the live social entertainment platform Eloelo.
Waterbridge Ventures, Courtside Ventures, Gameskraft Technologies, Griffin Gaming Partners, MIXI Inve... |
| 10.04.2025 | Eloelo's $13.5 Million Leap: A New Era for Social Entertainment | Eloelo, a Bengaluru-based startup, has just made waves in the tech world. The company announced it secured $13.5 million in Series B funding. This round was led by Play Ventures, with support from several other notable investors. The infusi... |
| 10.04.2025 | Eloelo secures $13.5M in Series B funding, plans global expansion in Indian diaspora markets | Live social entertainment platform, Eloelo on Wednesday announced that it raised $13.5 million in its Series B funding round led by Play Ventures.
The round also saw participation from Kalaari Capital, MIXI Investments, Gameskraft Technolog... |
| 10.04.2025 | Eloelo Raises USD 13.5 Mn Series B Led by Play Ventures to Scale Live Social Entertainment Platform With this round, Eloelo has now raised over USD 50 million in funding to date. | Eloelo, a leading multilingual live social entertainment platform, has raised INR 114.3 crore (USD 13.5 million) in its Series B funding round. The round was led by Singapore-based Play Ventures and saw participation from existing investors... |
| 10.04.2025 | Kalaari Capital-backed Eloelo snags Series B funding | Eloelo co-founder and CEO Saurabh Pandey
Eloelo, a Bengaluru-based startup that offers a platform for live social entertainment events, said Thursday it has raised Rs 114.3 crore ($13.5 million) in its Series B funding round led by venture ... |
| 06.03.2025 | Market Caps Have Grown 3X, Sectors Yet to Fully Benefit from Technology: Experts Market cap for new age tech stocks is approximately 150 billion over the last 6 months, and the median unicorn revenue ... | Market cap for new age tech stocks is approximately USD150 billion over the last 6 months and median unicorn revenue three years ago was USD 50 million and it has now grown three times, to USD 150 million, said Manish Kheterpal, co-founder ... |
| 11.12.2024 | Legitquest raises $660,000 in ongoing round from existing investors InfoEdge, WaterBridge Ventures | ETtech
Legal tech startup Legitquest has raised $660,000 (Rs 5.5 crore) in an ongoing funding round from its existing investors InfoEdge and WaterBridge Ventures.
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| 11.11.2024 | Unlocking India's IPO Potential: IVCA Announces Inaugural Indian Venture IPO & Exit Strategies Forum | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
India’s apex industry body for alternative assets, the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA), has announced its inaugural flagship forum, Indian Venture IPO & Exit Strategies Forum 2024. Sche... |
| 04.11.2024 | Former execs of WaterBridge, Deutsche Bank, Lazard float micro VC firm | Premium
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Former executives of financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard India, homegrown venture capital WaterBridge Ventures, and banking services firm Deutsche Bank India have joined hands to set up a micro VC-c... |
| 06.09.2024 | IVCA's Bharat Vapsi: Reverse Flipping Startups Take Centre Stage in India's Innovation Ecosystem | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
The Indian Venture & Alternate Capital Association (IVCA), the apex industry body for the alternate capital ecosystem in India, successfully hosted the Bharat Vapsi: Navigating Regulatory and Investment Lands... |
| 23.08.2023 | Data snapshot: Indoor farming & insect meal top India’s Novel Farming systems investment category | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 01.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Planted’s $72m for whole-cut ‘chicken,’ genomics startup Pattern snags $35m | Swiss alt-protein startup Planted raised Series B funding to expand its line of whole-cut plant-based chicken items. Agtech and genomics startup Pattern also announced Series B funding, while carbon-neutral milk company closed a Series A ro... |
| 25.08.2022 | India’s first insect farming startup Loopworm secures $3.4m seed round led by Omnivore, WaterBridge | Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 million in seed funding co-led by Indian agrifood VC Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.
Loopworm is the first Indian technology startup to farm insects for animal feed.
Titan Capital an... |
| 18.08.2022 | Indian insect biotech firm locks in $3.4m seed funding | GreenTechInvestmentsNewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 1d ago · 1 min readIndian insect biotech firm locks in $3.4m seed funding
Loopworm, a Bangalore-based biotech company that creates insect-based bio products, secured a US$3.4 million seed round... |
| 27.02.2021 | Gurugram-based Edtech startup Doubtnut bags US $31 million in Series B round | Doubtnut, a digital learning platform, announced the raising of USD 31 million in its Series B funding round late in Feb 2021. The round which witnessed participation from existing investors was led by Lupa Systems and SIG Investments. |
| 27.08.2020 | Digital distribution platform OneCode raises an undisclosed amount in seed funding from WaterBridge Ventures | Bengaluru based digital distribution Platform as a Service (PaaS), OneCode annouced on 25th August 2020, that it has received an undisclosed amount in a seed funding round. The round was led by WaterBridge Ventures, which is an early-stage ... |
| 25.08.2020 | Top 10 EdTech Startups in India | BYJU’S- The Learning App is the brand name of popular Indian EdTech startup Think and Learn Private Ltd. It was founded by Byju Raveendran in 2011. The startup is headquartered in Bengaluru. |
| 22.07.2020 | B2B marketplace Bijnis secures USD 10M in series A from Sequoia and Matrix Partners | A technology based business-to-business marketplace for unorganized retail segment, Bijnis, announced on 21st July, 2020 that it has secured USD 10M in Series A round. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners India and exist... |
| 07.05.2020 | This venture firm in India is offering fast funding to early-stage startups in a time of uncertainty | As investors get cautious about dealmaking in India amid the coronavirus outbreak and their appetite to fund early stage startups begins to evaporate, one venture capital fund is stepping up to make that void smaller.
WaterBridge Ventures, ... |
| 20.02.2020 | PocketPills closes $7.35 million CAD Series A as it looks to complete national expansion | PocketPills, a healthtech startup offering a full-service digital pharmacy that delivers medication directly to patients, has closed a $7.35 million CAD Series A round of financing.
The round was raised by an undisclosed Canadian family off... |
