Year in Review: At $5 billion, Indian startup’s exit street gets buzzier in 2024Indian startups saw over $5 billion in exits through secondary transactions, IPOs, and block deals in 2024. This trend is expected to accel...
24 Dec, 2024, 12.30 PM IST
Year in Review: VC firms sit on a pile of cash but wary of backing startupsIndia's VC landscape is experiencing a shift. Despite raising $2.5 billion in 2024, investments remain cautious, totalling $10.9 billion. E...
24 Dec, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $2.13 billion in November, up 313% on-yearThe funds were raised through 87 rounds, compared to 86 in October. During the week of November 23 to 29, startups raised around $1.2 billi...
29 Nov, 2024, 08.42 PM IST
New venture capital firm Kenro scouts for secondary dealsPiyush Gupta, former MD of Peak XV Partners, has announced the launch of his investment firm Kenro Capital. The fund will scout for minorit...
28 Nov, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Healthkart’s secondary deal; Honasa shares plummetHealthkart has closed a secondary funding round that values the startup at $500 million. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
18 Nov, 2024, 07.58 PM IST
ChrysCap set to take a bite of nutraceuticals co HealthKartChrysCapital is finalizing a deal to acquire a 20% stake in HealthKart, valuing it at $450 million. Peak XV will sell their stake in the ro...
08 Oct, 2024, 11.51 PM IST
Temasek, Fidelity pick up $200 million stake in Lenskart secondary deal at $5 billion valuationSingapore's Temasek and US financial service major Fidelity invest $200 million in Lenskart through a secondary share sale, valuing the com...
03 Jun, 2024, 07.49 PM IST
Unicorn sightings become rare as VCs shun that leap of faithInvestors are going back to the same list of startups they have already backed to write bigger cheques leading to new unicorn sightings bec...
07 May, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Temasek, Fidelity may invest $200 million in Lenskart at $5 billion valuationThis round would take homegrown eyewear company Lenskart's valuation to over three times that of Warby Parker, a New York-based online reta...
25 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
ETtech In-depth: How a diversified capital pool is changing dealmaking for Indian startupsStartups witness a shift in investment trends. Domestic investors, family offices, and public market investors like ValueQuest and Singular...
08 Apr, 2024, 09.36 PM IST
Exclusive: Lenskart, Purplle, Healthkart may raise fresh funds as big-ticket startup deals gain momentumBig-ticket investments on horizon for companies that have emerged stronger after Covid. Indian startup sector witnesses a resurgence in big...
06 Apr, 2024, 01.08 PM IST
D2C skincare brand Foxtale raises $14 million funding led by Panthera Growth PartnersFoxtale Consumer last raised $4 million in 2022 from Matrix Partners and Kae Capital.
07 Mar, 2024, 02.06 PM IST
How layoffs reordered Indian startups this year, and other top tech stories this weekStartups laid off over 28,000 people just in the first three quarters of 2023. This alone was over 50% higher than 2022, when companies let...
23 Dec, 2023, 07.28 AM IST
FirstCry to file IPO papers soon; BharatPe’s Rs 500 crore debt planOmnichannel retailer FirstCry aims to raise $500-600 million from its public listing and is likely to file its draft IPO papers in the next...
19 Dec, 2023, 10.11 PM IST
Kae Capital closes Winners Fund II at Rs 410 croreThe firm, which has backed startups including Zetwerk, Porter, Nazara Technologies and HealthKart, plans to invest in 20 companies through ...
15 Sep, 2023, 09.22 PM IST
New IT law may target algorithms; HealthKart raises $135M led by TemasekSocial media intermediaries such as Meta, Google and Twitter, which deal in large amounts of personal data on a day-to-day basis may also b...
06 Dec, 2022, 07.45 AM IST
Banks missed the UPI bus: RBI deputy governor; HealthKart raises $135 million amid funding winterOn Friday we reported that the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs UPI, has decided to give dominant apps like PhoneP...
05 Dec, 2022, 07.00 PM IST