Verlinvest’s V3 Ventures opens India operations with €100 million corpusV3 Ventures’ backer Verlinvest has already invested in Indian companies such as Byju’s, Purplle.com, Sula Vineyards.
Purplle acquires cosmetics brand Faces CanadaThe acquisition comes after Purplle raised $60 million last month from Premji Invest, the family office of Wipro founder-chairman Azim Prem...
Nykaa’s biggie rivals: Everyone from Tatas to Mukesh Ambani wants to sell makeup onlineTata and Ambani will not only have to take on the Nykaas and the Sephoras, but other nimble-footed young competitors, flush with money.
Purplle eyes controlling stake in Faces CosmeticsPremium cosmetics player Lotus Herbals was also in talks to buy out majority stake in Faces earlier but it didn’t materialise, one of the e...
Adani buys minority stake in Cleartrip; the Meta transformation of FacebookAs the travel and hospitality industry is witnessing a post-pandemic revival, the Adani Group today announced that it is acquiring a signif...
Actor Sara Ali Khan is the face of beauty marketplace PurplleThe seven-year-old startup which sells about 500 brands on its website and app, counts Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures, Blume Ventu...
Increasing social interactions see cosmetics on the rebound; companies plan new launchesFoundations, compacts and other face make-up used to be the top products in the make-up category before the pandemic. However, with the spr...
Wakefit.co lands Rs 185 crore funding led by Verlinvest, Sequoia; valuation hits Rs 1,900 croreThe startup will now look to double down on reaching Indians in Tier II and Tier III markets.
Amazon top recruiter with 14 offers in second cluster of IIM Ahmedabad summer placementsConsumer Goods & durables firms included regular recruiters like AB InBev, Asian Paints, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Dabur, HUL, ITC, Kimberly Clar...
Fashion doesn't care for data predictions, gut determines new trendsFashion designers still prefer working with their gut than depending on the data.
Online beauty platform Purplle nets $30m from Goldman, othersLaunched in 2012, the company has already raised USD 10 million over the past six years.
Purplle to close $6 million series-B round“We will continue to be a marketplace as it is very difficult to predict which SKUs do well in the beauty segment,” says Manish Taneja, cof...
Attention, guys! Tips to impress your date on Valentine's DayWitty lines and intelligent talks may be the way to charm a woman but it is as important to take a tad bit of effort on your looks as well.
Entry of regular stock market investors fuelling a new frenzy in startup funding in the countryFor Ashok and Anirudh Damani, the meeting with the 18-year-old — one of those self-styled ‘futurepreneurs’ one keeps hearing of these days ...
What it takes to be an entrepreneur: The first startup stepsThe success of existing startups and increasing presence of investors are prompting more students from top institutes to turn down fat pay ...
IvyCap Ventures in process of raising up to Rs 1,200 crore from IIT and IIM alumni, othersThe venture fund, which also mentors the entrepreneurs apart from funding them, has managed to get a soft commitment of Rs 300 crore.
- Jet Airways ties up with 6 brands for frequent flyer programme
Jet Airways today said it has tied up with six new partners in retail, travel and publishing segments for its frequent flyer programme JetP...