Avataar leads $45m round for India's Chalo
Avataar Venture Partners, an India-based investor in growth-stage B2B technology and software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, has led a USD 45m funding round for bus tracking app Chalo.
There were re-ups from existing backers Lightrock India, WaterBridge Ventures, and Amit Singhal, a former head of search at Google who now runs seed investor Smart Start Fund, according to a statement....
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