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UrbanClap raises $25 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Saif & Accel
Company plans to use the money to expand its business and for acquisitions
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The more the merrier, say VCs to entrepreneurs
Investors prefer co-founders as they bring complementary strength
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Kalaari Capital invests $4 mn in ScoopWhoop
Proceeds to be used for expansion of video production unit, ScoopWhoop Talkies
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Karadi Path raises $2.3 mn from Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, Aavishkaar India II
Company will use the money in product development and on expanding its reach
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Flats worth Rs 250 cr booked in Housing.com's Diwali sale
Over 60,000 customers have registered on its platform to buy homes
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150 start-ups and e-commerce firms to discuss success mantras at seminar
The seminar, "E-Commerce - Sustaining Business", is being put together by Snapdeal, Ah! Ventures and legal advisory firm Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
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Accelerator Tlabs chooses start-ups for its 8th boot camp
Started in 2010, Tlabs has invested approximately Rs 3 million per early-stage start-up picked for the accelerator, reports Tech in Asia
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Delivery service aggregator Hipship raises fund from Inara Capital
Partners with leading logistics companies to enable deliveries, giving users the ption to choose their vendor of choice
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Three Indians make it to MIT's prestigious under-35 innovators list
Rahul Panicker and Saurabh Srivastava were named under the humanitarian category while Rohan Paul made it to the inventor category, reports Tech in Asia
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Goodbox raises $2.5 mn from Nexus Venture Partners
Firm had earlier raised seed-funding from Manipal Group, Aprameya Radhakrishna of TaxiForSure and Charan Padmaraju of redBus
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Craftsvilla raises $34 million in series C funding
The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital India and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Nexus Venture Partners, GFC and Apoletto contributing, reports Tech in Asia
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Lulio, an app that prevents teenage suicides
Lulio aims to use research on video games to design therapeutic interventions and assessments of teenagers' mental health, reports Tech in Asia
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Coolpad to pump $300 mn into India plants
The Chinese firm has tied up with Videocon to churn out half-a-million devices from the latter's unit at Aurangabad
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IVRCL to get Rs 400 crore from sale of 3 road projects
The company said the sale consideration for divestment in the three road projects will result in an aggregate loss of Rs 327.6 cr
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Edu startup ConveGenius raises Rs 2 cr in fresh round of funding
The fresh capital raised from investors based out of India and Southeast Asia will be used for product enhancements and expansion of their technology and content aggregation team
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New accelerator will look for digital health start-ups in Singapore
Pan-Asian insurance group AIA and Japanese tech builder Konica Minolta are collaborating for a new start-up accelerator based in Singapore, reports Tech in Asia
How China's smartphone start-ups could expand to the US
The US market is massive, and China's smartphone start-ups are ignoring it. Tech in Asia reports on what they need to do to get in
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Startup News: Online discovery platform Smytten raises $200K
Smytten is an online discovery platform for premium products and services
Forgot your laptop charger at office? Shipsy it!
Shipsy currently provides its hyperlocal delivery service, 'Shipsy Now', in Gurgaon and Delhi
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