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Loantap secures $6.2 million in fresh funding from July Ventures and existing investors 📌 Pune-based digital lending platform LoanTap Financial Technologies has raised $6.2 million in fresh equity funding led by July Ventures. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, Avaana Capital, Kae Capital and the Swapurna Family Office also participated in the round. 📌 With this, the total capital raised by the company stands at around $26 million. The company has also raised another $2.3 million in venture debt as a part of this round. Story By: Pratik Bhakta Read more at: https://lnkd.in/gZu76KYr

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Kluisz.ai, led by former OYO senior executive Abhinav Sinha, has raised $9.6 million (INR 82.9 crore) in seed funding. The round was led by RTP Global and saw participation from Unicorn India Ventures, Blume Ventures Founders Fund, Climber Capital, and prominent angels. Founded in early 2025, Kluisz.ai is building an open-source, AI-native cloud platform to help enterprises deploy and manage AI and edge computing workloads. Check out the full funding details : https://lnkd.in/gjs3UKNB Team Kluisz Abhinav Sinha | Venkata Surya Tej | Vamshidhar Reddy | Abhijeet Singh | #oyoCOO #OYOemployee #AiStartups #SeedFunding #CloudStartups #FundingUpdates #startupro #startupUPdates

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Most of the good early stage VCs in India now have visibility of at least 1-2 IPOs/year in their portfolio for the next 3 years. Understandably, this is becoming a barometer for investor-partner selection by the best founders at the early stages.

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🚨 Easebuzz raises $30M in series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners With over $30B GTV processed in FY25 and revenue more than doubling to ₹650 Cr, this digital payments and vertical SaaS powerhouse is scaling fast—and profitably from day one. From powering UPI Soundboxes to streamlining payments in sectors like education, real estate, and BFSI, Easebuzz is revolutionizing how India pays. With RBI’s final nod as a payment aggregator and global ambitions brewing, this startup is buzzing louder than ever! Read more at: https://lnkd.in/gUCGtQvW By Sayan Sen #StartupFunding #Easebuzz #FintechIndia #SaaS #DigitalPayments #RBI #SeriesA #IndianStartups #YourStory

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Jai Kisan, a Mumbai-based fintech startup focused on rural India, has reportedly raised Rs 26.5 crore in an extended Series B funding round backed by existing investors Unitary Fund, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, and Blume Ventures. Founded in 2017 by Arjun Ahluwalia and Adriel Maniego, Jai Kisan operates at the intersection of financial services and rural commerce, offering digital credit and financing options to individuals and small businesses in India’s underserved agricultural and rural sectors. Read the full story here:👇 https://lnkd.in/dK3qTfXy #fintech #ruralindia #funding #investors #investment #business #mumbai #startup #indianstartupnews

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Pune-based fintech Easebuzz has secured $30 Mn (around INR 257 Cr) in Series A funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, along with participation from existing investors 8i Ventures and Varanium Capital. 🔸Easebuzz plans to deploy the fresh proceeds to boost its existing SaaS-based tech stack and merchant network, accelerate product development and also enhance its online payment aggregation capabilities, it said in a statement. 🔸The startup also aims to enter the offline point-of-sale payment solutions offering and QR-based UPI payments, including a soundbox. 🔗Read the full article here - https://4-2.co/4lm6jfg #news #Inc42 #fintech #funding #investment #expansion #growth #startupnews #startup #SaaS

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TechMonk, an agentic marketing platform, has raised USD 200K in seed funding round led by ah! Ventures Fund and others TechMonk is an agentic marketing platform with full-stack customer engagement tools for e-commerce businesses that powers personalized customer journeys across multiple channels. The company has secured USD 200K in seed funding, led by ah! Ventures Fund, with participation from a group of angel investors. This investment accelerates TechMonk's mission to empower thousands of online brands with its GenAI-powered engagement platform and help them drive their business to higher revenue and growth. TechMonk was founded by Arun Menon and Kamal Saboo, both graduates of IIT B and have built multiple high-growth start-ups in the past. ah! Ventures has done 256 investments in 142 startups till date taking its total investment portfolio to INR 475 CR (~59 MN USD) with 21 exits and 58 follow on rounds. 15 investments have happened through all three platforms and the fund in 2025. Arun Menon, Co-founder and CEO of TechMonk said, “With AGI around the corner, we believe fundamentally the DNA of business software has changed. We are excited to participate and ride this change, and our focus is to build a platform of AI Agents that have access to a full stack of MarTech tools and enterprise data enabling our AI Agents to autonomously power multiple use cases of a consumer-centric businesses and help our customers transform how they connect with their consumers and drive their business.” Amit D Kumar, Partner at ah! Ventures Fund said,“With a strong founding team and a focused execution strategy, TechMonk is well-positioned for success. Their use of AI Agents to elevate customer experience and maximize sales makes them a very exciting company. We are happy to be part of their journey and look forward to supporting their growth in the future.” More at: http://ahv.fyi/techmonkpr Many many congratulations to Arun Menon, Kamal Saboo and TechMonk team for this fund raise. We wish them all the best and look forward to the team achieving many more milestones in the future. ah! Ventures ah! Ventures Fund ah! Ventures Amit D Kumar Ankitraj Singh Harshad Lahoti CA Anvita Dasari Vaidehi Rathi Nishad Halkarni Divyanshi Gupta Manish Shukla Malik Gilani 🇮🇳

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Circle, a full-stack platform for buying and selling pre-owned products, has secured ₹3.4 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage VC firm Titan Capital, with participation from Raveen Sastry (Co-founder of myntra). The funds will help Circle improve its AI tools for pricing, product grading, and catalog matching. The startup will expand its electronics and home categories, grow its Bengaluru operations, and enter new cities by 2026. 🔗 Read full article link in comment Ankit Misra | Chirag Kataruka #circle #D2C #buyandsell #funding #startupnews #growth

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Garaaz, a Jaipur-based automotive spare parts aggregator founded by Shaleen Agarwal, Sahil Rally, and Varun Agarwal secured Rs 4.55 crore ($530K) in seed funding from GVFL. The SaaS platform connects workshops with suppliers, offering 8M+ parts across 25 brands. Funds will fuel expansion, R&D, and logistics. Garaaz addresses aftermarket challenges via inventory lookups, order management, and analytics. Revenue streams include SaaS subscriptions and transaction margins. The company reports 3X growth in two years, competing with boodmo, SpareIt, Koovers, and Automovill. FY24-25 sales doubled. #AutoTech #SaaS #Funding #DeccanFounders #GVFL #Garaaz

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Bachatt has bagged $4 million (INR 34 Cr+) in a seed funding round jointly led by Lightspeed India and InfoEdge Ventures. Of the total investment, Lightspeed contributed $2.8 million, while Info Edge Ventures, spearheaded by Sanjeev Bikhchandani, injected $1 million into the startup. The funding round also attracted participation from notable industry figures, including Urban Company cofounder Abhiraj Bhal, Sunil Prabhune of L&T Finance, and OYO’s senior leadership — COO Abhinav Sinha and CSO Maninder Gulati — all of whom have joined Bachatt’s cap table. The capital will be directed towards the official launch of Bachatt’s daily savings app, which is currently in its beta phase. Follow Equity 360 for more such updates. Reach us on contact@equity360.in for any query on investment banking. #startupfunding #investmentbanking #privateequity

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Just valuations don’t build businesses. Suhail Sameer, founder of OTP Ventures and Ex-CEO of BharatPe, shares why a solid foundation outperforms inflated valuations. Catch the full conversation with Rohan Raj Barua. Full episode: https://lnkd.in/gdT5Rn4C #embglobal #podcast

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Agilitas x Virat Kohli partnership is one of the masterstroke deals I have seen in recent times. Virat invests 40 CR in Agilitas for a 1.94% stake, putting Agilitas’s valuation around 2000 CR. 📈 In turn, Agilitas acquires one8world, making Virat a co-founder and shareholder. They now get two very important growth levers: ⬇️ 1. A powerful manufacturing (via Mochiko Shoes - a 600 CR+ footwear brand that Agilitas acquired in 2008 ), 2. India’s biggest athlete — exclusively aligned. Easily becomes a 4000 CR revenue brand in the next 5 years. Footwear + retail scale requires capital — but this partnership compresses customer acquisition, product cycles, and brand-building like few others. Even Virat said in his podcast with Abhishek Ganguly, the co-founder of Agilitas that, “I didn’t want a brand deal… I wanted to build something that outlives me.” And Abhishek said something even beautiful - “An ambition to build from India but be globally relevant.” This isn’t marketing. This is legacy building with shared skin in the game. And that is how startups work - shared ambition with one goal (to make the company big) and food (read stake) in the table for everyone! A company that can be built in the long term with culture, capital, and conviction aligned. This might be the first time in India, where an athlete joins hands with a sport company to re-imagine and build the sport ecosystem of India - truly revolutionalising the game with a clear vision. 🙌

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Drizz, a mobile app testing platform, has raised $2.7 million (about INR 23.4 crore) in a seed funding round led by Stellaris Venture Partners. Shastra VC also took part in the round, along with angel investors like Anuj Rathi (former Chief Business Officer at Cleartrip) and Vaibhav Domkundwar (Founder and CEO of Better Capital). The new funding will be used to improve the product, advance its Vision AI engine, and grow the team. Asad Abrar | Partha Sarathi Mohanty | Yash Varyani (Hiring software engineers) | Raj Mishra | Zaid Abdul Bari | Zaid Ahmed Ansari 🔗 Read full article link in comment #Drizz #mobileapptesting #ai #funding #startupnews #businessupdate

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"OTT platform Chaupal is redefining content consumption — especially in regional India and the global Punjabi diaspora. From humble beginnings to now being profitable as of April 2025, Chaupal's journey mirrors that of a tech startup backed by a fanatical user base and sharp strategic execution" Huge shoutout to Sami Khan for this piece and to Latika Sharma and Apple for facilitating this. https://lnkd.in/gx9QUNnK

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Insurance Samadhan, a platform that helps policyholders resolve insurance grievances, has raised Rs 8.5 crore in a strategic funding round backed by a consortium of family offices. Innovito Ventures acted as the financial advisor for the transaction. The Noida-based startup, launched by Deepak Bhuvneshwari Uniyal, Shailesh Kumar, Sanjay H Aggarwal, Shilpa Arora, and Ravi Mathur through its digital-first approach, caters to policyholders, advisors, hospitals, and insurers, enabling faster resolution of disputes and a more informed insurance experience. The startup plans to use the raised funds to strengthen its technology infrastructure, expand its suite of services, and scale Polifyx. #venturecapital #investment #funding

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