Groww investors reap bumper returns; Lightspeed’s India rethinkHappy Wednesday! Groww delivered strong gains to early investors after the IPO lock-in expired. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dis...
13 May, 2026, 09.17 AM IST
ShareChat to lay off another 5% employees to cut costsThe Google-backed vernacular social media firm plans to reduce its total employee count to 500 by March 2025. It had 650-700 employees as o...
16 Jan, 2025, 09.06 AM IST
ShareChat raises $16 million in debt financing; lays offs 5% of workforceThe new funding was provided by EDBI, a Singapore-based fund, which is also an investor in the home design and renovation platform Livspace...
04 Aug, 2024, 09.21 AM IST
ShareChat valuation drops 60% to under $2 billion post new fundingTwitter and Google-backed homegrown social media firm Sharechat has closed $49 million in debt financing through convertible debentures fro...
16 Apr, 2024, 07.11 AM IST
ShareChat cuts 200 jobs in third round of layoffs this yearHeadcount reduction linked to company plan to secure funding based on financial goals
20 Dec, 2023, 09.08 PM IST
ShareChat CCO Ajit Varghese resigns, to leave company in JanuaryVarghese joined the company in 2020 as its CCO. He was pivotal in expanding the platform’s revenue efforts and building a monetisation appr...
28 Dec, 2022, 11.27 AM IST
ShareChat lays off 5% of employees, shuts fantasy gaming vertical Jeet11In June, ShareChat had announced a fundraise of $520 million from Google, Times Group and Temasek via multiple tranches. The round helped t...
02 Dec, 2022, 08.02 PM IST
Byju’s may go public with SPAC; Indian startups raised $6.8B in NovThe company is in advanced negotiations to go public by merging with a so-called blank cheque company that raised more than $1.3 billion in...
16 Dec, 2021, 07.40 PM IST
ShareChat parent raises $266 million at $3.7 billion valuationThe investment was led by Alkeon Capital with participation from new and existing investors including Temasek, Moore Strategic Ventures (MS...
16 Dec, 2021, 12.42 PM IST
Of ShareChat's valuation & Grofers' express rushFrom ShareChat's new fundraising to Grofers joining the express delivery rush and Flipkart moving to SC challenging Karnataka HC order, her...
28 Jul, 2021, 05.27 PM IST
Google in talks with ShareChat as latter scouts for $150-200 millionShareChat owns a regional language social media platform that competed with ByteDance's recently banned Helo and a new short-video app Moj,...
17 Aug, 2020, 07.56 AM IST
Twitter may invest more than $50 million in ShareChatShareChat is among a new crop of regional-language content players tapping the next 100 million internet users in India.
07 Jun, 2019, 08.07 AM IST
ShareChat drags Bytedance to court over copyright rowBesides mentioning of ad-words ‘ambushing’, ShareChat in its submissions on Friday also alleged that Helo was a “complete copy” of its prod...
31 Oct, 2018, 07.28 AM IST
ShareChat raises Rs 720 crore, valuation may touch Rs 3.3k crRound led by Shunwei Capital, along with Morningside & DST Global affiliate Jesmond.
20 Sep, 2018, 08.44 AM IST
ShareChat Valuation Jumps 7x to $460 millionRound led by existing backer Shunwei Capital with new investors Morningside and a DST Global affiliate
19 Sep, 2018, 09.27 PM IST
ShareChat raises $18.2 million from Xiaomi, ShunWei, othersThe funds raised are being used for machine learning and artificial intelligence technology, with a major focus on expanding both the techn...
19 Jan, 2018, 08.25 AM IST
Regional networking app Sharechat pings Shunwei Capital, Xiaomi for $15-million investmentRegional language social app likely to be valued at $70 million post the fundraise and will use the newly-raised capital for product improv...
28 Sep, 2017, 10.35 AM IST