Deal focus: India’s Hubilo rises from ashes
An early mover in last year’s virtual events boom, Hubilo is attracting global investors with an explosive growth story and a sense of empathy for a disrupted industry
India-based Hubilo was founded in 2015 as a software provider for the traditional, offline events industry. That business got decimated with the onset of COVID-19 in February 2020. “We had two choices,”...
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