Twid appoints Monica Jasuja as chief growth and partnership officerTwid, a rewards-based payment network, has appointed Monica Jasuja as its new chief growth and partnership officer. With 23 years of experi...
03 Apr, 2024, 06.17 PM IST
ETtech Deals Digest: Early-stage investments boost startup funding to $62 million this weekThe funding plummeted by 73% in the week from Nov 20 to 25, compared to the same period last year, when startups secured $224 million acros...
24 Nov, 2023, 07.15 PM IST
Electric mobility startup Baaz Bikes raises $8 million led by Big CapitalThe funds will be deployed to strengthen and optimize product offerings, with a core emphasis on enhancing safety and promoting scalability...
21 Nov, 2023, 07.54 AM IST
Health care, generative AI among major bets, in talks with Indian telcos for OpenRAN: Rakuten India CEOFrom around 100 employees in 2016, to housing 2000 people in its largest office outside Tokyo, the Indian arm of Rakuten, the Japanese tech...
23 Aug, 2023, 10.46 AM IST
Japanese ecommerce firm Rakuten set to raise $2.18 billion through share issueJapanese e-commerce and fintech conglomerate Rakuten Group Inc will raise up to 294.2 billion yen ($2.18 billion) by issuing new shares, it...
24 May, 2023, 02.10 PM IST
Japan's Rakuten plans to raise around $2.2 billion via new share issue: reportThe public offering is expected to raise roughly 300 billion yen ($2.2 billion) but the amount could change depending on Rakuten's share pr...
15 May, 2023, 11.40 AM IST
Placement season: IIT Kanpur students receive 519 offersThe highest package so far this year for domestic is Rs 1.9 crore, and in all 33 offers above Rs 1 crore have been received, according to t...
02 Dec, 2022, 06.49 PM IST
IIT-BHU final placements see highest package of Rs 1.2 crore46 companies participated in the first two slots making a total of 169 offers. Companies which made offers in these slots at packages betwe...
02 Dec, 2022, 11.10 AM IST
ETtech Deals Digest: Another lacklustre week as VCs weigh optionsThis was the third week in a row where startups could not attract big-ticket investments as VCs continue to weigh their options amid tighte...
05 Aug, 2022, 06.22 PM IST
Rewards and loyalty startup Twid raises $12 million in funding led by Rakuten Capital.Google, JAFCO Asia, January Capital, ICMG Partners, Reddy Futures Fund and existing investors Beenext and Surge, the accelerator programme ...
03 Aug, 2022, 12.00 AM IST
Jio's own 5G tech may help cut network rollout costs by 10-15%: AnalystsWhile hardware such as RAN (radio access network) still constitutes half of an operator’s capital expenditure, the share of software is exp...
24 Aug, 2020, 03.46 PM IST
RedDoorz gets $70m in fresh round of fundingThe investment is part of a larger Series-C round and while company executives declined to specify the exact size of the ongoing capital ra...
19 Aug, 2019, 09.28 AM IST
Growth woes douse rally in Asian shares, dollar slipsMSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.3 per cent
11 Apr, 2019, 09.12 AM IST
Here are the big winners hitching a ride on Lyft's IPO planLyft’s filing revealed some startling numbers for the startup. The company lost $991 million last year even as its revenues surged.
02 Mar, 2019, 11.20 AM IST
Bengaluru goes from technology capital to talent hub as e-tailers hunt for IT skillsAmazon has had executives working on global product development for more than 12 years in India, long before the 2013 launch of its marketp...
18 Jan, 2019, 08.31 AM IST
Big winners of Uber, Lyft IPOs won’t be the usual suspectsThe filings submitted by Uber and Lyft aren’t yet public, but people familiar with each business outlined the largest shareholders.
13 Dec, 2018, 11.09 AM IST
Sequoia pumps in $6 million into Singapore shopping app CarousellThe investment had been made from the recent Sequoia Capital India IV fund, a $530 million (Rs 3275 crore) fund raised in April.
27 Nov, 2014, 06.11 AM IST