CoachHub, an end-to-end digital coaching platform, has raised $200 million in a Series C fundraising round led by Sofina and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with existing funders Molten Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank/SVB Capital, HV Capital, Signals Venture Capital, and Speedinvest also participating. CoachHub has already raised $330 million in total capital, just eight months after…
After 25 years of service, Microsoft is retiring its oldest browser, Internet Explorer. The search browser was released in 1995 as a Windows 95 add-on. The subsequent editions were either free or available as in-service packs. The Internet Explorer, sometimes known as the “OG” search browser, experienced a big boost in popularity in 2003 before…
Purplle, a beauty retailer, has announced that it has raised $33 million in its current Series E fundraising round, valuing the company at over $1 billion. According to numerous media sources, this latest milestone puts the start-up as India’s 98th Unicorn. Purplle, which competes with Falguni Nayar’s Nykaa beauty brand, had previously obtained four rounds…
Talent solutions provider Velocity Global has brought $400 million up in its Series B financing round, expanding the organization’s valuation seven-overlay since a similar time a year ago. The organization likewise plans to twofold the representative count from its current strength of 700 before the current year’s over. This second round of financing is driven…
The Adani Group recently reported it has made agreements to obtain Swiss concrete major Holcim’s whole stake in two of India’s driving concrete organizations – Ambuja Cements and ACC, for $10.5 billion. The arrangement, charged as the biggest ever M&A exchange in the foundation and materials space, denotes the section of the Ahmedabad-settled Adani Group…
Ecommerce platform Pine Labs today reported the appointment of Vijayalakshmi Swaminathan as the organization’s Chief People Officer (CPO). She takes over from Anu Mathew who will currently progress into the job of the head of learning and improvement at Pine Labs. Swaminathan joined Pine Labs from Amazon India where she was doing the HR work.…
Pankaj Kumar has joined as Global Vice President in the Partnerships and Business Development team at Dataminr this week. Dataminr, based out of New York, US, is a $4 bn valuation global company, recognized as one of the leading AI companies in the world, backed by leading global investors including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments…
E-commerce enablement company GoKwik has brought $35 million up in a series B financing round led by San Francisco-based Think Investments and RTP Global. The round additionally saw support from existing financial backers Sequoia Capital India and Matrix Partners India. The new financing follows GoKwik’s $15 million series A round in November 2021, getting complete subsidizing…
HONO, a main HR tech solutions company, on Wednesday reported it has brought $5 million up in a series A financing round driven by Aakash Chaudhry, overseeing head of Aakash+byju’s, a test preparation organization. While Chaudhry put $4 million in the AI-driven employee experience stage, the rest of million came from other individual financial backers…
Egyptian fintech Paymob has reported that it has brought $50 million up in Series B financing. Tround was driven by PayPal Ventures, the worldwide corporate endeavor arm of PayPal, alongside New-York-based investment Kora Capital, and London-based Clay Point. New financial backers included Helios Digital Ventures, British International Investment (previously the CDC Group) and Nclude, the…