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Ex-Mirae Asset India head Ashish Dave launches Rs 700-1,000-crore fundAshish Dave, formerly of Mirae Asset Venture Investments, is launching Sanskrit Capital. The new fund aims for Rs 700-1,000 crore. It will ...
India Quotient partner Gagan Goyal to quit as churn at top VC funds in India continuesGagan Goyal, a general partner at India Quotient, is leaving the early-stage venture capital firm, according to people aware of the matter....
Z47 managing director Tarun Davda to exit firm amid string of top-level departures at VC fundsTarun Davda, a key figure at Z47 for ten years, plans to exit the venture capital firm by year-end. Sources told us that Davda is exploring...
Ex-Peak XV trio raises Mettle; Fintechs go licence huntingHappy Thursday! Three former Peak XV MDs, who abruptly left the VC firm, are launching Mettle Capital to back Indian startups. This and mor...
Scoop: Ex-Peak XV trio launches Mettle Capital, targets $350–400 million fund to back Indian startupsThree former Peak XV Partners, Ashish Agrawal, Ishaan Mittal, and Tejeshwi Sharma, have launched Mettle Capital. The new venture capital fu...
Peak XV onboards former Fractal executive as operating partner in USPeak XV Partners, India's largest VC firm, has appointed Shelly Singh as an operating partner in its San Francisco office. This move streng...
Early-stage tech draws VC interest across aviation, biotech, precision manufacturingInvestors are prioritising smaller, early-stage deals in deeptech sectors like AI, healthcare, and precision manufacturing, shying away fro...
Steadview Capital appoints Maneesh Menon as India director, plans domestic fund: SourcesMenon will join Steadview Capital from Fidelity-backed Eight Roads Ventures, which he left earlier this year. He was a principal at Eight R...
Scoop: Sequoia alumni’s Ambition Capital set to raise $250 million for early-stage investingShailesh Lakhani, Harshjit Sethi and Mayank Porwal, who were previously with Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India), have teamed up to ea...
Peak XV alum’s fund; Snabbit, Scapia funding; Upgrad-Unacademy dealHappy Monday! Former Peak XV Partners executives have launched a new early-stage venture fund. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Disp...
ImagiNxt 2026 to be organised in Mumbai on May 22-23Mumbai will host ImagiNxt 2026, a new technology festival on May 22-23 at the Jio World Centre. The event aims to unite startups, policymak...
ET Startup Awards 2025 | Midas Touch: Ashish Agrawal’s golden touch seems to Groww and thriveThe jury picked Ashish Agrawal, managing director at Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital), for the honour. Agrawal’s standout bet ha...
ET Startup Awards 2025: Nominees for Midas TouchThe award will recognise the most lucrative exit in the year. The decision will be made based on the volume of deals as well as the size of...
Digital lenders’ RBI plea; Peak XV’s top-level churnDigital lenders are asking India’s central bank to loosen the reins around unsecured lending. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispa...
Peak XV’s Shailesh Lakhani, Abheek Anand quit VC firm adding to top-level churnThe two will no longer have full-time investing roles but will continue to hold their board seats in some of their portfolio companies. Acc...
Metro Bikes rebrands itself as Bounce post Rs 84-crore fundingThe Series-A investment was led by Sequoia India and Accel Partners, along with a consortium that includes Raghunandan G, founder of TaxiFo...
Co-founders to life-partners, Tracxn’s Abhishek Goyal & Neha Singh get hitchedThe wedding reception of Tracxn’s Abhishek Goyal & Neha Singh in B'luru was attended by the Bansals & Manu Kumar Jain.
Shailesh Lakhani & Alok Goel engage with students at IIT Bombay entrepreneurship summitThe two were spotted at what the IITians refer to as the "coffee shack,” chatting away over cups, kicking back Sunday style.
With 22-million users, India is Truecaller identification app’s biggest marketHis company has been talking to Sequoia India since 2012. “And they would tell us, ‘You’re not a Swedish startup. You're an Indian startup,...
CarDekho gets Rs 90 crore from Sequoia CapitalGirnar Software, which runs classifieds site CarDekho and price comparison platform PriceDekho, has raised a first round of funding from Se...