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          Jun 25, 2025
          Qashio wins the Best B2B Fintech Solution award!

            Qashio

            Congratulations to Qashio (@qashio.mena) for winning the Best B2B Fintech Solution award!

            Read more on Entrepreneur

          Jun 25, 2025
          Chip design start-up Mindgrove Technologies gets commercial boost with Bosch partnership

            Mindgrove Technologies

            Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited (BGSW) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mindgrove Technologies, a Chennai-based fabless semiconductor company. Through the partnership, the companies will explore joint go-to-market opportunities by integrating their respective products, services, and solutions for potential customers

            Read more on The Hindu Businessline

          May 28, 2025
          Rwanda Reconnected: Chipper Cash is Back and Better Than Ever!

            Chipper Cash

            We have exciting news to share—Chipper Cash is officially back in Rwanda; this time, we’re stronger than ever! We’re thrilled to reconnect with our Rwandan community and offer seamless financial solutions with new and improved features.

            Read more on Chipper Cash

          May 27, 2025
          Dubai-Based Fintech Platform Qashio Secures $19.8M In Latest Funding Round

            Qashio

            Dubai-based business-to-business (B2B) spend management platform Qashio has raised $19.8 million in its latest funding round, combining equity and non-equity financing.

            The round was led by existing investor Rocketship, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, with participation from ABN Ventures, MITAA, Oneway VC. Further, new strategic investors, including Luxembourg’s MoreThan Capital, major MENA banks, and regional family offices, also participated in the latest funding round.

            Read more on Fintech News

          May 27, 2025
          5 Things You Need to Succeed in the Modern World of Finance and Fintech

            Martini.ai

            Be clear about exactly what you’re selling.

            Are you selling tools, workflows, data or alpha? Each has different adoption barriers. Workflow solutions tend to be easier sells because they address obvious inefficiencies. However, if you’re selling alpha (claiming you can outperform your customers at their core function), that’s inherently a tougher proposition. Similarly, selling insights assumes your customers have systems ready to consume them.

            Read more on Authority Magazine

          Apr 18, 2025
          Gen Z’s Underground Social Network Just Went National And It’s Blowing Up

            Fizz

            Fizz is a pseudonymous, hyperlocal app born on college campuses. Until recently, it was known as a kind of private campus message board; part Reddit, part group chat, but with the intimacy of a dorm hallway. No followers, no influencers, no pressure to perform. Just students talking to each other, anonymously or under pseudonyms, about the stuff that actually makes up daily life: dining hall food, econ finals, party rumors, roommate drama.

            Read more on Forbes

          Apr 15, 2025
          Sary, ShopUp join forces to create "SILQ" fuelled by $110 million investment

            Sary

            ShopUp, Bangladesh’s largest B2B commerce platform, and Sary, the leading B2B marketplace and services platform in the Gulf, have merged to form SILQ Group. This merger brings together Gulf & Emerging Asia, creating the largest B2B commerce platform to serve the fastest-growing consumer markets in the region and across the globe. The merger is backed by a $110 million funding led by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. This funding includes an equity investment and financing facility for SILQ Financial, the group’s financial services arm.

            Read more on Wamda

          Apr 14, 2025
          Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at scale

            Tessell

            Tessell, a startup developing a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, has raised $60 million in a new funding round led by WestBridge Capital ahead of its plans to expand its market presence and launch an AI-powered conversational database management service. Tessell’s all-equity Series B round, which also had participation from B37 Ventures and Rocketship.vc as well as existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, will help Tessell develop its AI-powered conversational technology designed to further simplify data management.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Mar 27, 2025
          Why Hakimo Thinks AI Is The Future Of Security

            Hakimo

            “We offer all the benefits of an onsite security guard at a fraction of the cost,” says Sam Joseph, co-founder and CEO of Hakimo, which is today announcing it has raised $10.5 million of new funding. “Our intelligent AI agent understands and responds to threats like never before.”

            Read more on Forbes

          Feb 13, 2025
          Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Over

            Genomic Prediction

            The Cassidys’ doctor told them about a company, Genomic Prediction, that could assess their potential children’s odds of developing conditions that aren’t tied to a single gene, such as heart disease, diabetes, and schizophrenia. The test wouldn’t be any more invasive than screening for a single gene—all the company needed was an embryo biopsy.

            Read more on The Atlantic

          Jan 15, 2025
          Yulu Bikes eyes growth in non-metro towns with franchise model

            Yulu

            Our franchise model has already been implemented in six cities, and in total, we anticipate having our presence in around 30 to 40 cities covering a wide range of use cases, from moving people to the quick commerce mode and beyond,” the Yulu Bikes CEO, Amit Gupta told ET

            Read more on The Economic Times

          Dec 15, 2024
          Mindgrove Technologies raises $8M in Series A funding co-led by Rocketship.vc

            Mindgrove Technologies

            Mindgrove Technologies, a fabless semiconductor design startup, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The investment round was co-led by rocketship.vc and Speciale Invest, with participation from Mela Ventures, existing investors Peak XV, Nishchay Goel, and Whiteboard Capital, as well as new investor Anshul Goel.

            Read more on yourstory.com

          Sep 30, 2024
          Pravin Jadhav-led Dhan storms into top 10 stock broking apps

            Raise

            Launched in January 2021, Dhan has also knocked out Paytm Money from the top 10 list. With 1.09 crore active users in August, Groww is the market leader followed by Zerodha and AngelOne. Upstox and ICICI Direct are number 4th and 5th player with 26.62 lakh and 18.89 lakh active users, respectively.

            Read more on entrackr.com

          Jul 02, 2024
          Deep Tech Special: Inside India's space race

            Agnikul

            In this deeptech special, Forbes India’s Technology & Innovation Editor Harichandan Arakali identifies seven startups in this nascent sector that have the promise to achieve size and scale in a decade or so. Agnikul is one of them…

            Read more on Forbes India

          May 06, 2024
          Lithic Named to 2024 Fintech Innovation 50

            We’re excited to share that Lithic was named to the 2024 Fintech Innovation 50! This is an annual list launched by GGV Capital U.S. in partnership with Crunchbase, to recognize the most promising fintech companies in the eyes of startup investors.

            Read more on Lithic.com

          Apr 04, 2024
          Yulu launches franchise partner-led model for shared mobility in Indore

            Yulu

            Yulu’s Indore launch showcases an industry-first franchise partner-led model for democratising shared mobility in India.

            Read more on ETAuto.com

          Mar 13, 2024
          The Rise Of The Solopreneur

            We’re officially in the era of the solopreneur, marking the next evolution of early-stage businesses. These solopreneurs are a one-person show, operating and managing a business independently, handling all aspects from product development to marketing to sales. And, solopreneurship is skyrocketing globally, thanks to tech advancements that make running a business smoother and more cost-effective. This new type of entrepreneurship is a game-changer in today’s innovation-driven yet financially tight market, opening doors for early ventures to flourish.

            Read more on Crunchbase News

          Dec 12, 2023
          Startup That Monitors Space Threats Raises $100 Million to Expand Satellites

            True Anomaly Inc., a US startup designing military and intelligence space reconnaissance systems, raised $100 million from investors to ramp up output of a satellite that can track national threats in orbit.

            Read more on Bloomberg

          Aug 02, 2023
          Chemify raises £36 Mn to digitize chemistry

            Chemify

            Chemistry pioneer Chemify has secured £36m in funding to develop its technology to make complex molecules on demand.

            Glasgow-based Chemify today announced the Series A round led by Triatomic Capital, joined by new investors including Hong-Kong based Horizon Ventures, US-based Rocketship Ventures, Possible Ventures, Alix Ventures, Scotland-based Eos, and the UK Government Innovation Accelerator program. Existing investor BlueYard Capital also participated in the round.

            Read more on Insider

          Jul 31, 2023
          Bloom teaches Gen Z how to build wealth

            Bloom

            Bloom, a zero-commission stock investing tool for teenage investors, reached 1 million downloads after launching in February 2022.

            The startup founded by Allan Maman and Sam Yang provides a brokerage account and teaches those aged 13 and older how to build wealth through interactive lessons on investing, stocks and finance. So far, users have taken over 10 million lessons, Maman told TechCrunch.

            Read more on TechCrunch

          Apr 21, 2023
          Hakimo Raises $6M As Demand For Smarter Physical Security Increases Funding Led By Rocketship.vc

            Hakimo, a technology company dedicated to modernising physical security through its artificial intelligence (AI) software, announced $6 million in new funding led by Rocketship.vc, with participation from existing investors Neotribe Ventures, defy.vc and Firebolt Ventures as well as new investors Carrier Global Corporation, through its venture capital group, Carrier Ventures, and well-known physical security industry entrepreneur John L. Moss. Hakimo will use the capital to further accelerate product development and expand into new markets.

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          Mar 28, 2023
          Startup Fridays S4 Ep8: Nishchay Ag's plan to stay scrappy, be shameless and build a Zoho at Jar

            In this episode, Nishchay Ag, co-founder and CEO of Jar, talks about how there is a massive addressable gap in India’s middle class with financial products that go beyond the top 30 million that everyone is targeting. Nishchay talks about how he and his friend Misbah Ashraf went from a few WhatsApp group pilots to 10 million users at Jar, in just two years, helping people save money by investing in gold, every day. With close to $65 million in funding, Jar is changing how millions of small-town Indians save, one user at a time

            Read more on Forbes The Startup Fridays Podcast

          Mar 23, 2023
          Qashio partners with Alinma Bank to roll out solutions to KSA customers

            Qashio

            The exclusive partnership is a milestone achievement as it marks the first time a KSA corporate bank has partnered with a fintech

            Read more on MeaFinance

          Mar 23, 2023
          A.I.: It’s What’s for Dinner

            CloudChef

            Silicon Valley startup CloudChef says its artificially intelligent software could be the future for restaurants

            Read more on SF Eater

          Feb 27, 2023
          Yulu and Bajaj Auto launched electric two-wheeler Miracle GR & Dex GR

            Yulu
            Read more on EV Reporter

          Feb 14, 2023
          This Palo Alto startup delivers Michelin-starred restaurant dishes from India to your home

            CloudChef

            You don’t need a passport, private jet or even an in with the chef to eat dishes from the best restaurants around the world. You just need software and sensors.

            A Palo Alto-based food tech startup has built the technology to impeccably recreate dishes from any chef and have it delivered to you. CloudChef, which launched Jan. 31, has started this feat of “food and aroma on the Internet” with a small yet impressive group of chefs in the Bay Area and India, including Thomas Zacharias, formerly of New York’s three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin and Mumbai’s Bombay Canteen, named one of the 50 Best Restaurants in Asia. And the chefs haven’t been able to differentiate their dishes from the CloudChef version in a blind taste test.

            Read more on The Mercury News

          Feb 08, 2023
          Yulu-Magna collaboration spawns new Battery-as-a-Service company

            Yulu

            Yuma Energy to set up battery swapping infrastructure for electric two-wheelers; plans to scale up the network to 500 stations across multiple Indian cities by end-2023.

            Read more on Autocar Professional

          Feb 08, 2023
          The Indian Startup Pulling Water From the Air Uravu’s new 1,000-liter-per-day unit will come on line this month

            Uravu Labs

            BENGALURU, India—Technology that can pull water out of thin air could help solve the world’s growing water scarcity problem, but most solutions are expensive and difficult to scale. Indian startup Uravu Labs says its low-cost modular approach could provide a blueprint for more affordable and sustainable atmospheric water harvesting. What comes out of the pipe, the company’s website says, is “100 percent renewable water”—renewably powered, harnessed from a vast and nearly inexhaustible source, and with no wastewater produced in the process

            Read more on IEEE Spectrum

          Jan 19, 2023
          Mad Street Den raises $30M in Series C as it establishes itself as a leader ushering in AI transformation for Large Enterprises

            Mad Street Den

            Mad Street Den, a leader in Enterprise AI, today announced a fresh round of Series C funding led by Avatar Growth Capital, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Alpha Wave Global (formerly known as Falcon Edge Capital). The investment will enable Mad Street Den to expand its artificial intelligence offerings across industries.

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          Jan 03, 2023
          Goodbye 2022 | India’s Agritech sector in full bloom as valuations shoot up amid continued investor interest

            Read more on Money Control

          Dec 15, 2022
          You.com Named TIME’s Best Invention of 2022

            YOU
            Read more on Time Magazine

          Dec 13, 2022
          Rocketship.vc Mulls India Fund In Two Years To Ramp Up Investment

            Read more on VC Circle

          Dec 07, 2022
          UAE-based fintech Qashio raises $10m in a seed round

            The company’s virtual and physical cards combined with its software allow businesses to manage their spending in a more automated and transparent way

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          Dec 02, 2022
          College Social Media App Fizz Raises $12 million Series A

            Fizz
            Read more on Tech Report

          Nov 30, 2022
          Startup Fridays S3 Ep12: 'Established entrepreneurs from the best startups in India must step up as mentors' — Madhu Shalini Iyer

            Read more on Forbes India

          Nov 30, 2022
          Funding winter may last another 12-18 months, says Madhu Shalini Iyer of Rocketship.vc

            Says start-ups cannot afford to hunker down, not invest in growth or not take calculated big bets

            Read more on The Hindu Business

          Nov 07, 2022
          Exclusive: Agnikul Raises $20 Mn Funding From Rocketship.vc, Valuation Zooms 5X To $180 Mn

            Read more on Inc42

          Sep 27, 2022
          Wasabi Technologies Closes $250 Million in New Funding to Usher In the Future of Cloud Storage

            Wasabi

            Wasabi becomes technology’s newest unicorn with backing from L2 Point, Cedar Pine, Cerberus, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and others

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          Sep 13, 2022
          Nigeria’s Kippa announces $8.4M in funding for its financial management platform for merchants

            Kippa
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          Sep 13, 2022
          Yulu secures $82 million in Series B funding led by Magna International

            Yulu
            Read more on Express Mobility

          Aug 15, 2022
          Climate tech startup, Uravu Labs, raises Seed capital for their unique 100% renewable water technology

            Uravu Labs
            Read more on Data Quest

          Aug 03, 2022
          Rocketship.vc might invest 15-20% of its 3rd fund in climate & space tech startups

            Read more on The Hindu Business Line

          Aug 01, 2022
          Partner at Rocketship.vc, with fund size of $125 million shares her journey and how they crunch data to invest in startups

            Read more on The Finance Story

          Aug 01, 2022
          Every VC portfolio is fighting a force of gravity that could cut valuations by 50%, says Venky Harinarayan

            Read more on Economic Times

          Jul 13, 2022
          India is the epicentre for global consumer growth, says Venky Harinarayan of Rocketship VC

            Read more on CNBC TV-18

          Jul 13, 2022
          Rocketship.vc raises $125 mn in first close of its third fund

            Read more on Live Mint

          Jul 13, 2022
          Moglix backer Rocketship.vc hits first close of third VC fund at $125 mn

            Read more on VC Circle

          Jul 13, 2022
          Growth, not profit, is the lifeblood of a startup: Rocketship VC’s Venky Harinarayan

            Read more on Money Control

          Jun 07, 2022
          ‘If you’re on a purpose, the world will come to support you’ – 20 quotes of the week on leaders and entrepreneurs'

            Read more on Your Story

          May 31, 2022
          Tiger Global, Gojek VC arm back Indonesian jobs platform

            Kitalulus

            KitaLulus, an Indonesia-based career platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of series A funding in a round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Goodwater Capital, Rocketship.vc, and Gojek investment arm Go-Ventures.

            Read more on Tech Asia

          May 31, 2022
          Rocketship.vc on how to quantify required funding & building clarity of vision

            Read more on BW - Masterclass with VC World

          May 31, 2022
          Entrepreneurship 101: How to build the perfect investor pitch deck?

            Read more on Your Story

          May 16, 2022
          'Leadership Bootcamp': Women leaders share their lessons from motherhood

            See things differently and spot opportunities others may miss Prominent women venture capitalist Madhu Shalini Iyer, Partner at Rocketship.vc - a global early-stage venture capital firm pioneering the use of data in making investment decisions, says being a mother has been one of the most rewarding and defining aspects of her life.

            Read more on People Matters

          Apr 19, 2022
          Rocketship.vc sees no 'let up' in fintech deals; plans bets on space tech, Web3

            Read more on VC Circle

          Mar 24, 2022
          Why Silicon Valley-based Rocketship.vc is bullish about the Indian market

            Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm Rocketship.vc has been bullish on the Indian market. It has already invested in startups including Khatabook, Apna, Moglix, etc, and plans to focus more on the emerging Indian landscape.

            Speaking about the startup activity in India, Madhu Shalini Iyer, Partner, Rocketship.vc says Rocketship.vc is data-driven and has been very bullish on the Indian market. “We are a venture capital firm with a twist. We have the largest startup database activity in the world,” she shares in an episode of YourStory’s Daily Dispatch.

            Read more on Yourstory

          Feb 03, 2022
          Jar raises $32 million in Tiger Global-led funding to help Indians start their savings and investment journeys

            Jar

            A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global.

            The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has raised $32 million in its Series A financing round, just months after securing its seed funding.

            The New York-headquartered investor led the new round, with participation from scores of investors, including Rocketship.vc, Stonks, Force Ventures, Arkam Ventures, Klarna founder Victor Jacobsson, Suleman Ali of Ali Capital, Shamir Karkal of Sila Money, Byron Ling of Cannan Partners and Joel John of Ledger Prime.

            Read more on TechCrunch

          Feb 02, 2022
          India's Moglix valued at $2.6 billion in $250 million funding

            Moglix
            Read more on TechCrunch

          Feb 02, 2022
          Lightspeed-backed Teachmint marks fourth acquisition in 2 months with MyClassCampus

            Teachmint

            Lightspeed Venture Partners-backed edtech platform Teachmint, operated by Teachmint Technologies Pvt Ltd, has bought MyClassCampus, an educational enterprise resource planning software, which enables campuses with end-to-end digitisation of their operations, management and communication, the company said in a statement on Friday.

            Read more on VC Circle

          Feb 02, 2022
          Raise Financial gets $22 million funding from Beenext, Mirae Asset

            Read more on The Economic Times

          Jan 20, 2022
          Khatabook posts over Rs 1.8 trn monthly transactions across its platforms

            Khatabook

            Fintech firm Khatabook said it has achieved a milestone of over Rs 1.8 trillion monthly recorded transactions across its platform – Khatabook, Cashbook, and BizAnalyst. Founded in January 2019, Khatabook claims it has 10 million monthly active merchant users, managing more than 344 million customers on its platforms. Khatabook is India’s fastest growing SaaS (software-as-a-service) company that enables micro, small and medium businesses to increase efficiency and profitability through safe and secure digital solutions.

            Read more on Business Standard

          Oct 25, 2021
          Indian edtech Teachmint valued at $500 million in $78 million funding

            Teachmint
            Read more on Techcrunch

          Oct 06, 2021
          Fintech startup Khatabook's valuation tops $600 mn after raising $100 mn

            Khatabook

            Khatabook, a leading fintech start-up, has closed a $100 million Series C funding round, with a valuation now close to $600 million. The round was led by US-based VC firms Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures (MSV). Other investors in this oversubscribed series C round were Alkeon Capital, with continued investment participation from internal investors B Capital Group, Sequoia Capital, Tencent, RTP Global, Unilever Ventures, and Better Capital. In addition, top Silicon Valley investors Balaji Srinivasan, Sriram Krishnan participated as independent investors among others in Khatabook’s series C funding round.

            Read more on Business Standard

          Oct 06, 2021
          Animall raises $14 mn Series B from new and existing investors

            Animall

            Animall Technologies, a Bengaluru based startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling dairy and cattle, has raised Rs 102.62 crore in a Series B funding round from new and existing investors.

            Read more on Techcircle

          Oct 06, 2021
          Locus raises $50 million for its logistics management business

            Locus

            Locus, a startup that uses AI to help businesses map out their logistics, said on Wednesday it has raised $50 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its presence.

            The new round, a Series C, was led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. Qualcomm Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global Management and Falcon Edge also participated in the round, which brings the startup’s to-date raise to $79 million. The new round valued the startup, which was founded in India, at about $300 million, said a person familiar with the matter.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Oct 06, 2021
          NoBroker’s revenue surges 3X in FY20: An inside look

            NoBroker

            Online real estate rental startup NoBroker saw a windfall of funding from marquee investors Tiger Global and General Atlantic, amounting to nearly $129 million during the fiscal year ending in March 2020.

            Flush with funds, the Bengaluru-based company, which saw 2.1X growth in scale during FY19, has scaled at a quick pace in FY20. However, the growth in the last fiscal has come at a significant cost.

            Read more on EnTrackr

          Sep 21, 2021
          Crosschq Secures $30M in Tiger Global Led Series A Financing To Expand and Scale AI-Powered Talent Intelligence Cloud™

            Crosschq
            Read more on Bloomberg

          Sep 16, 2021
          Tiger Global-led $100M investment makes Apna India's fastest unicorn

            Apna
            Read more on Techcrunch

          Jul 27, 2021
          Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards

            Privacy
            Read more on Techcrunch

          Jul 27, 2021
          Moglix joins unicorn club after $120 million funding round

            Moglix
            Read more on Mint

          Jul 27, 2021
          Klarna pays €110 million for Germany's Stocard

            Stocard

            Klarna, a Stockholm, Sweden-based financial service company, announced that it acquired a German company called Stocard.

            According to German media sources, the deal was made for €110 million ($130M).

            Read more on Nordic 9

          Jul 09, 2021
          Rocketship.vc to double down on its India bets

            Read more on The Times of India

          Jul 06, 2021
          Silicon Valley's Rocketship.vc unfazed by 'crazy' fintech valuations in South-east Asia

            Read more on The Business Times

          Jun 29, 2021
          BukuWarung Raises $60 Mn In Series A Round Led By Valar Ventures And Goodwater Capital

            BukuWarung

            Indonesia-based fintech company BukuWarung, helping micro-SMEs (MSMEs) digitize their business, announced on Thursday to have raised $60 million in Series A funding

            Read more on Entrepreneur

          Jun 29, 2021
          Tiger Global leads 31.5M investment in interactive edtech Quizizz

            Quizizz

            Quizizz, an Indian startup that is making learning more interactive so that students find it compelling to spend more hours studying, said on Wednesday it has raised $31.5 million in a new financing round.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Jun 25, 2021
          Rocketship.vc bets on data-driven investing approach, eyes SE Asian startups

            Read more on Deal Street Asia

          Jun 21, 2021
          [Funding alert] Community platform Kutumb raises $26M in Series A round led by Tiger Global

            Kutumb

            Private equity major Tiger Global has invested $18.5 million in this round. Other investors include Quiet Capital, Rocketship VC, Nirman Investments, AL Trust, Better Capital among others.

            Read more on Yourstory

          Jun 15, 2021
          FamPay, a fintech aimed at teens in India, raises $38 million

            FamPay

            How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out.

            Bangalore-based FamPay said on Wednesday it has raised $38 million in its Series A round led by Elevation Capital. General Catalyst, Rocketship VC, Greenoaks Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital India, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital and Venture Highway also participated in the new round, which brings FamPay’s to-date raise to $42.7 million.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Jun 09, 2021
          Moglix: How Rahul Garg built an unexpected unicorn

            Moglix

            A B2B ecommerce platform for industrial products, nearly 65 percent of Moglix’s business comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns in the country

            Read more on Forbes

          May 27, 2021
          Ant Taylor Discusses Lyte And The Future Of Ticketing

            There is a seemingly never-ending stream of ticketing companies, each with its own twist on how to bridge the divide between ticket buyers and the acts, teams or events which go on sale. The challenges are many, including imbalance of supply and demand, intervention by speculators, and mispricing both on the high and low side at the original point of sale.

            Read more on Forbes

          May 07, 2021
          Saudi’s Sary raises $30.5 million Series B for its B2B ecommerce marketplace, hits $500 million in annualized GMV

            Sary

            Saudi B2B ecommerce marketplace Sary has raised $30.5 million in a Series B round led by VentureSouq, it announced today. The round was also joined by Silicon Valley’s Rocketship.vc, STV, and returning investors Raed Ventures, MSA Capital, and Derayah VC. It takes Sary’s total investment raised so far to over $37 million, making it one of the best funded startups in Saudi and the best B2B ecommerce marketplace in the region.

            Read more on menabytes

          May 04, 2021
          World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: AI and Data Finalists and Honorable Mentions

            Rocketship.vc receives Honorable Mention in the AI and Data category as part of our 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards for Fund 2!

            Read more on Fast Company

          Apr 30, 2021
          Yulu Bags The BW TechTor Award Twice In A Row

            Yulu

            With the beginning of its journey in 2017, Yulu Bikes has been the driving force behind India’s shift in the mobility sector toward more sustainable electric vehicles. With its mission to make mobility a ffordable, accessible, and available to an ever-increasing consumer base, Yulu has been a key player in this development trajectory.

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          Apr 30, 2021
          Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers

            Wasabi

            Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. Today the Boston-based startup announced a $112 million Series C investment on a $700 million valuation.

            Read more on TechCrunch

          Apr 07, 2021
          Khatabook investor Rocketship backs startup targeting teens in second India fintech bet

            Early-stage venture capital firm Rocketship.vc, which invested in SME-focused Khatabook last year, has made its second bet in the country’s fintech space by investing in a startup targeting teens.

            Read more on VC Circle

          Mar 09, 2021
          Quizizz lands $12.5 million in funding led by Eight Roads Ventures

            Quizizz

            Education technology startup Quizizz has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures along with participation from GSV Ventures, Rocketship VC and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Prime Venture Partners.

            Read more on The Economic Times

          Mar 09, 2021
          Quizizz raises $12.5 mn in Series A round

            Quizizz

            The round also saw participation from GSV Ventures, Rocketship VC and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Prime Venture Partners

            Read more on Mint

          Mar 09, 2021
          What Rocketship.vc Partner Madhu Shalini Iyer looks for in startups and founders

            In conversation with YourStory, Madhu Shalini Iyer, ex-Chief Data Officer at Gojek and now Partner at Rocketship.vc, talks about what she looks for in startups and founders while investing in them.

            Read more on YourStory

          Mar 02, 2021
          Looped raises $7.7M to expand its interactive live event platform

            The funding is led by Will Ventures, with participation from Rocketship VC

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Feb 26, 2021
          Dozens of Artists Are Taking Reservations for Their First Post-Covid Shows

            Mint Talent Group, which represents 180 artists, has partnered with ticketing platform Lyte to offer a reservation system for concerts that haven’t been announced yet

            Read more on Rolling Stone

          Feb 10, 2021
          Lyte Raises Additional $5M in Series B

            Lyte, a San Francisco, CA-based ticketing reservation technology platform for live events, raised an additional $5m as part of a Series B round initially announced in December.

            Read more on FinSMEs

          Feb 02, 2021
          BukuWarung, a startup digitizing Indonesia's SMEs, raises new funding from Rocketship.vc

            BukuWarung

            BukuWarung, an Indonesian startup focused on digitizing the country’s 60 million small businesses, announced today it has raised new funding from Rocketship.vc and an Indonesian retail conglomerate.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Dec 18, 2020
          Spending time with family unlocked timelessness

            Madhu Shalini Iyer, partner at Rocketship.vc says being surrounded by loved ones during the lockdown allowed them to engage in fun activities together.

            Read more on The Economic Times

          Dec 10, 2020
          Harnessing the Data Revolution: Madhu Shalini Iyer on Investing with Data Science

            Growing up in Singapore as a teenager, Madhu Shalini Iyer shares her journey from being the Chief Data Officer at Gojek to becoming an investment partner in the Bay Area at Rocketship.vc. We chat with Madhu to learn how she is leveraging data science and tech to uncover rising companies across diverse sectors and identifying the exciting growth markets to venture into.

            Read more on Singapore Global Network

          Dec 09, 2020
          Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space

            “I’m not saying we’ll find aliens in five years or anything like that. But space will touch every part of our lives.”

            Read more on Futurism

          Nov 27, 2020
          Rocketship.vc 2021 Predictions: COVID-19's impact on data, security and beyond

            This past year, our world was turned upside down as offices and schools closed their doors and people were forced to navigate remote work and living. Despite the many challenges the global pandemic has brought about, we have learned to adjust to our “new normal” throughout the past several months. As government officials and medical professionals fight to halt the spread of COVID-19, the way we work, travel, and socialize is forever changed. Below are some key trends we can expect to see in 2021 as industries, companies and people fully embrace the reality of virtual living and adjust to this shift.

            Read more on VMblog

          Oct 26, 2020
          Rocketship Remakes Early Stage Venture Investing

            Most investors claim to follow the data, which is good investing practice and even better marketing. Besides, no really successful investor is ever going to claim blind luck or gut instinct as their secret sauce.

            But letting the data drive one’s actual investment decision-making is a lot more difficult in practice than it is in theory. After all, there’s a lot of data out there, Sailesh Ramakrishnan, a partner at early-stage global venture capital firm Rocketship Ventures told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

            Read more on Pymnts

          Oct 14, 2020
          How Rocketship VC uses data to make investment decisions --from the other side of the world

            Even before the pandemic, Silicon Valley-based Rocketship VC is already accustomed to securing deals over Zoom calls.

            As a venture capital (VC) firm, Rocketship VC was founded by a team with a strong history of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

            Read more on e27

          Oct 13, 2020
          HONEY, I SHRUNK THE TRANSPORT!

            Yulu

            A story of two characters ‘Miracle’ and ‘Move’, ‘Yuluing away to glory in the urban streets of India. The therapeutic duo has set out to liberate citizens from a mindset of convenience and callousness. And from human actions that is causing climate change.

            Read more on PEDAL AND TRING TRING

          Sep 01, 2020
          Strategy Session: Rocketship.vc Doubles Down On Zoom Meetings, Picking Winning Startups

            Rocketship.vc, an early-stage venture capital firm using data science to democratize venture capital, recently announced it has raised $100 million for its Fund II.

            The new fund comes five years after Los Altos, California-based Rocketship raised its first fund of $40 million. The firm has invested in 44 portfolio companies across seed, Series A and Series B rounds, with 46 percent of investments made outside of the U.S. It has also seen five exits, including Audacy, Chewse, Fitmob, Fynd and PaySense.

            Read more on Crunchbase

          Aug 31, 2020
          Meet Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Partner at rocketship.vc

            Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow’s products and services. Oh, how times have changed!

            While there are more startups than ever, there’s also more money chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A.

            Read more on Vator

          Aug 31, 2020
          Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million

            Apna

            Javed, a middle-aged man, worked as a driver before losing that job earlier this year as coronavirus spread across India, prompting New Delhi to enforce a nationwide lockdown and temporarily curb several business activities.

            There are millions of people like Javed in India today who have lost their livelihood in recent months. They are low-skilled workers and are currently struggling to secure another job.

            An Apple alum thinks he can help. Through his app startup Apna, Nirmit Parikh is helping India’s workers learn new skills, connect with one another and find jobs.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Aug 25, 2020
          Wasabi Tripling As It Siphons Customers From AWS, Azure In $233 Billion Cloud Market

            Wasabi

            Outsourcing corporate technology to the cloud was popular before Covid-19 — now it’s even more popular.

            While cloud services — valued at $233.4 billion in 2019 growing at 26%, according to IDC — is a critical source of growth for industry leaders Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, there are startups offering competitive cloud storage services — one of many offerings by the big three — that are growing much faster than these industry leaders.

            A case in point is Boston-based Wasabi Technologies, a provider of object storage services that compete with AWS’s S3 at 20% of the price. Whereas the industry grew at an average 31% rate in the most recent quarter, Wasabi’s revenues soared 5.5-fold between January 2019 and January 2020 and are expected to triple in 2020.

            Read more on Forbes

          Aug 12, 2020
          Rocketship.vc Closes Second Global VC Fund at $100 Mn

            Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) firm Rocketship.vc has announced close of its second fund (Fund II) at USD 100 million (INR 747 crore). The fresh investment vehicle comes five years after the early-stage global VC firm had closed its first fund at USD 40 million.

            Read more on Entrepreneur

          Aug 05, 2020
          Rocketship.vc raises $100M fund for Data focus

            Rocketship.vc raised its first $40 million fund in 2017 to invest from the U.S. in startups globally, using data rather than personal connections to find startups and make deals.

            That strategy has positioned the firm to make deals remotely during the pandemic, since it had already used data to make investments remotely pre-Covid-19.

            Now, Los Altos, Calif.-based Rocketship has doubled down on this thesis with a new $100 million fund. It has also hired a new partner, Madhu Shalini Iyer, formerly the chief data officer at Indonesian tech startup Gojek.

            Read more on Wall Street Journal

          Aug 05, 2020
          Springboard raises $31 million to expand its mentor-guided education platform to more geographies

            Springboard

            Springboard, an online education platform that provides upskilling and reskilling training courses to people looking to learn in-demand roles, has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more geographies

            Read more on TechCrunch

          Jul 21, 2020
          Crosschq Announces New Round of Investment from Tiger Global and Rocketship.vc

            Crosschq

            Crosschq, pioneers of a new software category for the recruiting industry called Human Intelligence Hiring™, announced today a new round of financing that includes investment from Tiger Global Management and Rocketship.vc. This latest round comes immediately following a strategic financing from Slack and SAP.iO in June which also included re-investment from GGV Capital and Bessemer Ventures.

            Read more on crosschq

          Jun 24, 2020
          Urgently Predicts Higher Than Normal Automobile Usage as Economy Reopens

            Urgent.ly

            Urgently expects increased miles driven to propel year-over-year growth of mobility and roadside assistance volumes to as much as 130% this summer, as pandemic restrictions lift and consumers take to the road for leisure travel.

            Read more on PRWeb

          Jun 22, 2020
          US-based Rocketship leads Rs 30 Cr funding in micro-mobility platform Yulu

            Yulu

            Bengaluru-based last-mile micro-mobility platform Yulu on Monday announced that it has raised a fresh funding of Rs 30 crore led by US-based VC firm Rocketship and existing investors.

            Read more on Yahoo! Finance

          Jun 16, 2020
          3 Indian startups on CB Insights list of 50 future unicorns

            Moglix

            Three Indian startups have made their way to coveted 2020 list of 50 future Unicorns. These are fintech platform-CRED, edtech firm- Vedantu and B2B ecommerce company-Moglix. Unicorns are startups with a valuation over $1 billion.

            Read more on CNBC

          Jun 11, 2020
          Triller Integrates Snap’s Camera Kit to Fuel Community Creativity

            Camera Kit enables Triller users to interact with special Snapchat Lenses inspired by artists and songs

            Read more on Business Wire

          Jun 10, 2020
          German-based Stocard launches mobile wallet in the UK and a mobile payment feature, reaching 50 million users

            Stocard

            Today German fintech startup Stocard, one of the world’s leading mobile wallets and one of the largest B2C startups in Europe in terms of number of users, officially launches in the UK and unveils a mobile payment feature as it reaches 50 million users globally.

            Read more on EU-Startups

          May 28, 2020
          Wasabi announces $30M Series B as cloud storage business continues to grow

            Wasabi

            We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don’t change, no matter the external factors. Storage is one of them. In fact, we are generating more digital stuff than ever, and Wasabi, a Boston-based startup that has figured out a way to drive down the cost of cloud storage, is benefiting from that.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          May 27, 2020
          Here’s how a virtual credit card number can protect your real card when you shop online

            Privacy

            Privacy.com offers a free way to generate one time use card numbers – but you can also do so much more.

            Read more on KTLA

          May 26, 2020
          NoBroker Is Solving the Real Estate Puzzle Through Tech-Led Solutions

            NoBroker

            Founded by IIT and IIM graduates Amit Kumar Agarwal, Akhil Gupta and Saurabh Garg, the Bengaluru-headquartered start-up now offers a range of services apart from real estate such as packers-and-movers services, a visitor and community management app called NoBrokerHood, and home-services such as home-cleaning, home-painting and air-conditioning repairs, among others.

            Read more on Entrepreneur

          May 21, 2020
          India’s Khatabook raises $60 million to help merchants digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online

            Khatabook

            Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app, has raised $60 million in a new financing round as it looks to gain more ground in the world’s second most populous nation.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          May 15, 2020
          Paperspace Joins NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software Program

            Paperspace

            Paperspace, a leading provider of AI cloud computing, today announced Paperspace Gradient is certified under the new NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software program. The program offers proven solutions that complement NVIDIA DGX™ systems, including the new NVIDIA DGX A100, with certified software that supports the full lifecycle of AI model development.

            Read more on AIthority

          Apr 30, 2020
          Springboard Announces Covid-19 Relief Scholarship

            Springboard

            Springboard, the online learning platform that bridges the skills gap, announced today a COVID-19 relief scholarship fund that will award up to $500,000 to prospective students whose lives have been directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. This relief scholarship is in addition to the $1.2 million already awarded and is now available to current students and prospective students applying to the next cohort starting on May 26.

            Read more on PRWeb

          Apr 28, 2020
          [Product Roadmap] How Ratan Tata-backed Moglix is tapping tech to become Alibaba 2.0 A product roadmap clarifies the why, what, and how behind what a tech startup is building.

            Moglix

            A product roadmap clarifies the why, what, and how behind what a tech startup is building. This week, we take a closer look at B2B ecommerce platform Moglix and how it is using technology to digitally transform the supply chain of India’s manufacturing sector.

            Read more on Your Story

          Apr 28, 2020
          Kickstart Automated Supply Chain With Locus QuickStart for SMEs and Startups

            Locus

            Startups and SMEs are in a precarious situation now more than ever. Companies are struggling to manage volatile demand, fleet and resource efficiency, and rising costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Locus, a global B2B SaaS company that automates human decisions in supply chain, has launched a free tool ‘QuickStart,’ a self-serve lite version of the product suite for startups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to address these very problems.

            Read more on Yahoo! Finance

          Apr 25, 2020
          How to Livestream Your Wedding

            Joy

            Thanks to video-streaming apps and services, couples who choose to get married while self-isolating can share their special moments with family and friends.

            Read more on The New York Times

          Apr 15, 2020
          India’s NoBroker raises an additional $30M from General Atlantic

            NoBroker

            NoBroker, a Bangalore-based startup that helps those looking to rent or buy an apartment connect directly with property owners, has extended its previous financing round to add $30 million to it.

            Read more on Techcrunch

          Jan 24, 2020
          Karma app aims to help restaurants in the EU and UK reduce food waste by redistributing surplus

            Karma

            Karma, a Swedish food-waste startup, has done a good job of convincing thousands of deal-hungry consumers to use its hot pink app to buy edible items that would otherwise become garbage.

            Read more on Business Insider

          Jan 17, 2020
          'Data helps us invest beyond geographies': Anand Rajaraman of Rocketship

            Rajaraman speaks to Forbes India on what pulled a quarter of their bets to India and his take on sky-high valuations

            Read more on Forbes India

          May 30, 2019
          M.R. Asks 3 Questions: Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner, Rocketship.vc

            In addition to being an entrepreneur and VC, Anand Rajaraman is a computer science professor at Stanford with a trained eye for how new organizations can apply deep learning and other AI/ML techniques across various industries.

            Having the opportunity to sit down with Anand, founding partner at over six organizations, and hear his perspectives on the current state of data and algorithms in the VC landscape, was time well spent.

            Read more on Sand Hill

          Apr 28, 2017
          Rocketship.vc Takes Data Science Approach to Venture Capital

            Venture capitalists are increasingly using advances in data science and machine learning to make investments. A new Silicon Valley firm, Rocketship.vc, with a $40 million first fund, is using data and analytics to make its early-stage bets….

            Read more on The Wall Street Journal
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