Elevation Capital
Peak XV, Elevation, Andreessen back India visa platform
Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, and Elevation Capital have led a USD 12m Series A round for Indian visa platform Atlys with support from Andreessen Horowitz.
Khazanah commits $40m to India's Xpressbees
Malaysia sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional has invested USD 40m in India-based logistics start-up Xpressbees through the acquisition of shares from one of the company’s early backers.
Premji Invest leads $110m round for India's Mintifi
Premji Invest has led a USD 110m Series D round for Indian financial services platform Mintifi with support from Norwest Venture Partners, Elevation Capital and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
India fintech app Dezerv raises $21m Series A
Accel has led a USD 21m Series A round for Indian retail investment services app Deserv with support from existing investors Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners India.
Deal focus: Prosus looks to aggregate India’s fruit farmers
B2B marketplaces are the prevalent theme in Prosus Ventures’ agricultural technology investments in Asia. However, as fruit specialist Vegrow demonstrates, supply chain dynamics are not uniform
India SaaS player Detect Technologies closes $28m Series B
Detect Technologies, an India-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) start-up with a suite of artificial intelligence-enabled products that help enterprise customers assess risk exposure, has raised USD 28m in Series B funding.
Prosus leads $25m Series B for India's Vegrow
Prosus Ventures, a technology investment business controlled by Naspers, has led a USD 25m Series B round for Vegrow, an India-based marketplace that helps farmers sell their fruit crops into organised distribution channels.
L Catterton leads Series D for India beauty player Sugar Cosmetics
L Catterton has entered India’s highly competitive beauty and personal care space, throwing its support behind Sugar Cosmetics, which claims to be one of the country’s leading omnichannel players.
Deal focus: Venturi brings families into D2C
Consumer-focused private equity firm Venturi Partners drew on significant family office co-investment to co-lead a USD 108m Series D for India direct-to-consumer food specialist Country Delight
India D2C food brand Country Delight gets $108m Series D
India’s Country Delight, a direct-to-consumer (D2C) food brand best known for farm-fresh milk, has raised USD 108m in Series D funding led by Singapore’s Venturi Partners and Temasek Holdings.
India’s Fashinza gets $100m Series B
Prosus Ventures and WestBridge Capital have led a USD 100m Series B round for India’s Fashinza, a B2B marketplace and supply chain platform for the fashion industry.
Elevation raises $670m for latest India VC fund
India-focused Elevation Capital has closed its latest early-stage fund on USD 670m on the back of a 100% increase in the firm’s pace of deployment in the past 12 months.