Geo - India Tech
Geo - India Tech
Geo - India Tech
INDIA TECH
APRIL 2021
Contents
India Tech Snapshot 3
Investment Snapshot 4
List of Funding Rounds 5
New Investors 16
Top Funded Business Models - last 1 year 18
New Analyst Picks 19
Acquisitions 36
Recent News 38
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India Tech: Snapshot – April 2021
42 170 12 IPOs
Acquisitions
228
1,038
Series A+ rounds Active Investors IPOs Acquisitions Company Stage
Pharmarack#@ Unicorns 43
Quovantis#@ Soonicorns 182
Minicorns 738
Monthly Leader Board Editor Picks 4,595
Top Markets Top Investors Series A+ 1,488
Top Funding Rounds Top Cities
Series C+ 349
$800M - Series J Logistics Tech Tiger Global Management Bangalore Acqui-Hires 109
Swiggy (2014, Bangalore, $2.4B) Swiggy (7 Investments) (33 Rounds, $2.1B)
Deadpooled 15,824
$502M - Series E Food Tech Prosus Mumbai
Top Cities
ShareChat (2015, Bangalore, $990M) Lo! Foods (5 Investments) (19 Rounds, $340M)
Bangalore (4,444 Rounds, $38.0B)
$300M - Series E Social Platforms LetsVenture Gurgaon
Meesho (2015, Bangalore, $490M) ShareChat (4 Investments) (14 Rounds, $346M) Mumbai (2,463 Rounds, $10.4B)
$190M - Series F Top Investors
Vernacular Platforms Matrix Partners India Delhi
Urban Company (2014, Gurgaon, $405M) LearnVern (3 Investments) (12 Rounds, $113M) Sequoia Capital (182 Investments)
Blume Ventures (149 Investments)
Note : "Investors" refers to "Institutional Investors" only
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India Tech: Investment Snapshot
Investment Snapshot
Investment Snapshot of India Tech as of April 2021
Investment Trend Top Investments (April 2021)*
Swiggy $800M - Series J Falcon Edge Capital
(2014, Bangalore, $2.4B)
ShareChat $502M - Series E Tiger Global Management
(2015, Bangalore, $990M)
Meesho $300M - Series E SoftBank Vision Fund
(2015, Bangalore, $490M)
Urban Company $190M - Series F Prosus
(2014, Gurgaon, $405M)
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Falcon Edge Capital, Matrix Partners India, Creation Prosus, Wellington Management, DF International Falcon Edge Capital, Amansa Capital, Think
Investments, Norwest Venture Partners Private Partner, Vy Capital, Steadview Capital Investments, Goldman Sachs, Carmignac, and 8 more
$125.0M - Series G
Chargebee (2011, Walnut, $230.0M) $300.0M - Series E Series H
Subscription management and recurring billing Meesho (2015, Bangalore, $490.4M) BYJU'S (2011, Bangalore, $3.1B)
solutions for businesses App-based reselling platform offering multi-category Provider of mobile-based courses for competitive test
products preparation and supplementary courses for students
Insight Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management,
Sapphire Ventures, Steadview Capital SoftBank Vision Fund, Prosus, Facebook, Shunwei UBS
Capital, Venture Highway
$160.0M - Series E Series C
Razorpay (2014, Bangalore, $366.6M) $502.0M - Series E Leixir (2011, Gurgaon, $24.3M)
Payment processing solutions for businesses ShareChat (2015, Bangalore, $989.7M) Developer of a wide range of dental products
Provider of a vernacular-based social platform
Sequoia Capital, GIC, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners Comvest Partners
India, Tiger Global Management Tiger Global Management, Lightspeed Venture
Partners, India Quotient, Twitter, Snap
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Naspers, TPG, Caisse de depot et placement du Sumit Pachisia, Debasis Panigrah, Aishwarya Panigrahi, $2.1M - Series A
Quebec, Eight Roads Ventures, Prosus, and 5 more Himanshu Chaturvedi, Sarat Chandra Upadhyaya, and 1 TrulyMadly (2013, Delhi, $9.1M)
more Online personality-based dating and matchmaking
platform
Series C $250.0K - Series A Venture Catalysts, IPV, AngelList, The Chennai Angels,
Bizongo (2015, Mumbai, $65.0M) Pharmazz (2010, Noida, $8.9M) 9Unicorns, and 7 more
Online B2B marketplace for packaging supplies Clinical stage company developing critical care
medicines
$3.3M - Series A
AddVentures, International Finance Corporation,
Chiratae Ventures, Schroder Adveq, Accel, and 2 more Oye Rickshaw (2017, Gurgaon, $17.1M)
$373.1K - Series A App-based platform for on-demand e-auto rickshaw
SmartVizX (2014, Noida, $2.9M) taxi services
VR based solutions for business
Alteria Capital
YourNest, Indian Angel Network Fund, Rockstud Capital
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Better Capital, Multiply ventures, Titan Capital, Sumit $1.0M - Seed Ankur Capital
Maniyar, Ashish Goyal The WorldGrad (2020, Mumbai, $1.0M)
Online platform providing admission assistance $1.4M - Seed
$1.0M - Seed solutions for abroad studies Krishify (2019, Gurgaon, $1.4M)
LearnVern (2020, Ahmedabad, $1.0M) Provider of an online community platform for farmers
LINC Education Services and retailers
Platform offering technical courses in vernacular
languages
Ankur Capital
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of Funding Rounds
Seed Seed
Goseeko (2020, Delhi) TruckHall (2015, Kolkata, $70.3K)
Mobile-based platform providing learning solutions for Online loadboard
college students
Seed
Hari Balasubramanian, Uday Chatterjee, Umakant
Panwar AntWak (2020, Bangalore, $1.3M)
Provider of educational videos by professionals
Note: Seed Stage (Seed, Angel), Early Stage (Series A, Series B), Late Stage (Series C+), PE
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India Tech: List of New Investors
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India Tech: List of New Investors
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Top Funded Business Models - last 1 year
Rank Business Model $ Funding # Rounds Top Funding Round
2 ▲1 Online Self Paced Test Preparation Courses $1.9B 13 BYJU'S | $801M | Series H
6 ▲13 Social Commerce > Reselling Platforms > Diversified $307M 3 Meesho | $300M | Series E
* Rank is based on $Invested in last 1 year in the Business Model. ▲- Indicates change in Rank from previous 1 year.
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
GrowX Venture Management, Snow Leopard Ventures, IvyCap Ventures, Apex Capital Holdings, Stakeboat Stellaris Venture Partners, Flourish, Nitin Gupta and 1
Altara Ventures and 27 other Investors Capital and 4 other Investors other Investors
BuyWOW (2016, Bangalore, $50.0M, Series C) Chingari (2018, Bangalore, $1.3M, Seed) Revolt Motors (2014, Gurgaon, $20.1M, Series B)
Internet-first brand offering organic beauty products Social platform for sharing entertainment videos Developer of electric motorbikes
ChrysCapitaland Fabrice Grinda, Brian Norgard, Astarc Ventures and 24 RattanIndia Apna Solarand
other Investors
Fuel Buddy (2016, Delhi, $2.3M, Seed)
SafexPay (2014, Thane, $35.2K, Seed) App-based platform offering fuel delivery solutions
White label payment gateway and wallet
,Rishi Kajariaand
Ardor Advisors, TIDES Business Incubator, RISE Conf and
2 other Investors
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Shreyas Rao, Vishal Varshne, Ashok Kumar Belani and iBee Tech Labs,Amarnath Krishnamoorthyand
136 other Investors
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Arun Gupta, Pooja Anoop, Arun Gupta and 54 other StartUp Craft, IPV, ah! Ventures and 16 other Investors SRI, Outliers Venture Capital, National Grid and 1 other
Investors Investors
Vicara (2017, Bangalore, Undisclosed, Angel)
GlobalLinker (2006, Mumbai, $386K, Angel) Provider of a wearable device that detects hand Solethreads (2012, Delhi, $1.8M, Series A)
Social platform for SME owners gestures Online private label brand of footwear
Meghana Shroff, Ajit Raikar, Nindi Grover and 25 other JioGenNext, Startups Club, ITI Growth Opportunities Saama Capital,DSG Consumer Partnersand
Investors and 3 other Investors
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Ultrahuman (2019, Bangalore, $7.8M, Series A) ZOKO (2016, Bangalore, $1.4M, Seed)
Provider of meditation practice app for mind and body SaaS-based social selling platform for businesses
transformation
Y Combinator, iSeed, 021 Capital and 2 other Investors
Gaurav Munjal, Nexus, Blume Ventures and 2 other
Investors
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
EduFund (2019, , $49.9K, Angel) Medicus (2016, Mumbai, $12.7K, Seed) Y Combinator,iSeedand
Goal-based savings planning focused on child's Online platform for doctors, pharma companies, and
education pharma distributors
Zymrat (2018, Bangalore, $147K, Seed)
Indu Omprakash Bhandari, Rohan Dhimant Dalal, Jagrutiben Niravbhai Patel, Nikhil Rameshchandra Internet first brand of athleisure wear for men
Ramanan Venkateswaran and 3 other Investors Desai, Lalita Vinod Shah and 19 other Investors
LetsVenture, Sundaram Guru Shankar, Gurmeet Singh
Evo Foods (2020, Mumbai, Undisclosed, Seed) QwikTrade (2017, Bangalore, Unfunded) Anand and 10 other Investors
Provider of plant-based egg substitute food products Gift card management solutions for corporates
Nexzu Mobility (2015, Mumbai, $239K, Seed)
Ryan Bethencourt, Vaibhav Domkundwar, Kale United Manufacturer of multi-category electric two-wheelers
TAS (2016, Bangalore, Unfunded)
and 10 other Investors Provider of drone and aerospace solutions for
enterprises Qualitrix (2016, Bangalore, Unfunded)
Provider of software testing services
DriveKool (2014, Bangalore, Undisclosed, Seed)
Online driving school booking platform
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Ekeeda (2016, Mumbai, $4.7K, Angel) Navigene (2012, Mumbai, $197K, Seed) The WorldGrad (2020, Mumbai, $1.0M, Seed)
Mobile-based education-tech platform for Engineering Genetic diagnostics and research Online platform providing admission assistance
students
solutions for abroad studies
Ravi Didwania, IncuCapital, Arun Mishra and 3 other
Poonam Desai,Samir Nandkumar Karkhansand Investors LINC Education Servicesand
Eloelo (2020, Bangalore, $450K, Seed) moEVing (2021, Bangalore, $1.0M, Angel)
Provider of a social real money gaming platform Provider of electronic mobility solutions for last-mile
delivery
Apaksh Gupta, WaterBridge Ventures, Vasant Rao and 6
other Investors Mandira Gupta, Christoph Wolf, Avinash Hariom Gupta
and 20 other Investors
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
BookMyCDE (2018, Pune, Unfunded) NTPL Mall (2019, Delhi, Unfunded) Aarogram (2019, Ahmedabad, Unfunded)
Online e-learning platform for dentists Online app-based platform offering deals Online care coordination and management tool for
healthcare providers
BayFay (2019, Chennai, Unfunded) Barfee (2020, Howrah, Unfunded)
Online platform offering cashback for multi-category Online platform for food ordering and delivery
Blue Barrows (2017, Noida, Unfunded)
products
Online marketplace platform offering multi-category
PawPurrfect (2019, Madurai, Unfunded) handcrafted products
Platform offering multiple services for pets
Bric Spaces (2019, Bangalore, Unfunded)
Online residential and commercial brokerage platform
Jame Infotech (2019, Unfunded)
for real estate professionals
Provider of a social media status downloader app
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
HiVoco (2020, Gurgaon, Unfunded) Isourse Technologies (2010, Delhi, Unfunded) ERPNext (2016, Mumbai, Unfunded)
Mobile-based platform providing voice-based learning Provider of AI-enabled warehouse management Cloud-based open source ERP software provider
solutions for school students solutions
nMonit (2019, Bangalore, Unfunded)
Provider of an end-to-end platform for IoT applications
CCBP (2020, Hyderabad, Unfunded)
Online platform providing a community for tech
i-XL Technologies (2008, Mumbai, Unfunded)
students
Loan life cycle management software for lenders &
financial institutions Soccersouls (2012, Coimbatore, Unfunded)
Platform offering news related to soccer
My APMC (2017, Pune, Unfunded)
Online platform offering farm management software
Craftsmac Labs (2014, Kochi, Unfunded)
Provider of robotics solutions for the construction
industry
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Zog (2015, Kochi, Unfunded) Fluvid (2018, Noida, Unfunded) MyTradeC (2017, Coimbatore, Unfunded)
Digital signage and display solutions provider Offers online screen capture & video recording Online trade calculator for capital market investments
platform
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
Pagaria Computers (1996, Bangalore, Unfunded) Sportvot (2018, Mumbai, Unfunded) Olvy (2020, Bangalore, Unfunded)
Provider of fuel station management software solutions Multi channel network for sports content Provider of cloud-based product feedback analytics
software
Boingg (2018, Gurgaon, Unfunded)
Internet first brand offering furniture for kids
TrueWheel (2020, Delhi, Unfunded)
Provider of the parking management solution for
Checkin (2018, Unfunded)
parking operators
Cloud-based attendance tracking application for
enterprises
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India Tech: Analyst Picks
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India Tech: Acquisitions
Acquisitions (1/2)
List of Acquisitions in India Tech in April 2021
Acq. Date Company Acquirer Deal Size
Pharmarack(2015, Pune, $5.8M)
07 Apr 2021
Provider of a SaaS based pharmacy management solution
Quovantis(2010, Delhi)
08 Apr 2021 Emids
Product design and development company
Escorts securities(1996, Delhi)
08 Apr 2021 Choice
Investment management firm
Sports Flashes(2016, Mumbai, $1.6M)
09 Apr 2021 ITV Network
Online sports content platform
Kamatan(2017, Delhi, $9.5M)
12 Apr 2021 Samunnati
Produces and supplies agricultural products
Pipa • Bella(2012, Mumbai, $1.6M)
12 Apr 2021 Nykaa Fashion
Internet-first brand of jewelry
Cleartrip(2005, Mumbai, $69.5M)
15 Apr 2021 Flipkart
Online multiple travel service booking platform
GamingMonk(2014, Delhi, $0.7M)
20 Apr 2021 MPL
e-sports gaming organization
GoldSeat(2016, Delhi, $0.2M)
21 Apr 2021 IntrCity SmartBus
In-transit entertainment application
Showman(2019, Bangalore)
22 Apr 2021 Instamojo
Platform offering virtual theatre
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India Tech: Acquisitions
Acquisitions (2/2)
List of Acquisitions in India Tech in April 2021
Acq. Date Company Acquirer Deal Size
Nadhi Information Technologies(2008, Chennai) Bentley’s Acceleration
27 Apr 2021
Construction project planning and management solution Initiatives
Phonon(2006, Vadodara)
29 Apr 2021 Contact centre automation and customer communication Route Mobile $3.9M
management solutions
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India Tech:News
Recent News (1/2)
Recent News in India Tech in April 2021
Exit News ● Nucleus Software appoints Parag Bhise as new CEO Asian News International
. .
● Flipkart set to acquire Cleartrip for USD 40 million in distress sale India Web Portal ● Caratlane appoints Avnish Anand as its chief operating officer Fashion Network
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● Payments Solution Provider Fave Acquired for $45M by Asian Commerce ● ICT Has Potential To Reduce Carbon Emissions In Africa NCNOnline
.
Platform Pine Labs Crowdfund Insider
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● UK Neo-Bank Revolut Hiring 300 Positions In India, Appoints Paroma
● What Zomato's DRHP says about the Indian unicorn's IPO plans — Quartz India Chatterjee As CEO MediaNama
.
Quartz
. ● Homegrown social networking platform Hike hires Manav Arya as head of Rush
● Info Edge to sell Rs 750 crore Zomato shares in upcoming IPO The Economic Times New Indian Express
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● Mobile Premier League acquires GamingMonk to widen e-sports portfolio ● InMobi appoints Krista Thomas as Senior VP and Global Head of Marketing for
YourStory Media InMobi Marketing Cloud BestMediaInfo
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● Servify Acquires Europe Based WebToGo, a Provider for Multichannel Self-care Company News
and Customer Experience Solutions PR Newswire .
. ● Zomato forays into dietary supplements, makes its own 'made in India' brand
● Nykaa Fashion strengthens brand portfolio with Pipa Bella acquisition Fashion YourStory Media
Network .
. ● Alembic Pharmaceuticals Gains After Its Jv Gets Final Approval For Nystatin,
● Zomato files papers for Rs 8,250 crore IPO India Web Portal Triamcinolone Acetonide Cream Udaipur Kiran
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Fund News Regulatory News
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● Amazon launches $250 million venture fund for tech innovation in agri and ● Bharat Biotech after Brazil denies certificate to Covaxin facility Business Today
health Dataquest
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People News
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● Zomato elevates Mohit Gupta as its co-founder Entrackr
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Recent News (2/2)
Recent News in India Tech in April 2021
● Amazon Said to Call on India Not to Alter E-Commerce Investment Rules NDTV
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● Amazon urges Centre to not alter e-commerce investment rules Business Today
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