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Growing a Business

10 Reasons Your Capital Raising Strategy Is Failing

Have your capital-raising efforts been unsuccessful? Here are a few key areas you need to focus on.

News and Trends

Agritech Startup Kisankonnect Raises INR 31cr Pre-Seris A funding led by Green Frontier Capital

According to the official statement, the startup aims to utilize the funds towards increasing its activities in climate-smart agriculture interventions with its 5,000 farmers, expand its offerings outside Mumbai and Pune, and strengthen its fresh-produce supply chain technology

News and Trends

The Baker's Dozen Bags INR 33 Crore for Geographical Expansion

The founders aim to utilise the raised capital towards expanding TBD's presence beyond metros, targeting growing markets in non-metro and Tier-1 cities, and robust marketing and brand-building.

News and Trends

D2C Investment Platform Grip Invest Raises $10M in Series B Funding

The company's official release states that the raised capital will be used towards scaling business operations, focusing on driving customer awareness, building a high-trust brand, expanding product distribution, and building additional investor-friendly features on its platform

News and Trends

toothsi Parent Co makeO Bags $16 M in a New Funding Round

To date, toothsi has designed over 2.5 lakh smile plans through their 600+ dental professionals, consisting of 100+ orthodontists and in-house dentists through 25 flagship centers and 400 partner dental clinics. It is present in 17+ Indian cities and 2 cities in the UAE

Entrepreneurs

"We Got Funded!" KSA-Based Healthtech Startup Clinicy Raises An Undisclosed Seven-Figure Series A Round

By creating a more coherent ecosystem, the Clinicy team believes that their startup could create a more digitally agile medical industry within the Kingdom.

News and Trends

Warehouse Robotics Startup Accio Robotics Raises $1.8M in a Pre-Series A Funding

According to the official release, Accio plans to utilise the funds towards reinforcing the technology and product team, establish channels for international growth and to enable more robot deployments

Fundraising

Venture Capital 101: A Comprehensive Guide for Startups Seeking Investment

Fundraising is a challenging and stressful process for every startup, not only because the future of your business depends on potential funding but also because you have to exert significant effort to make your company appear investable.

News and Trends

EV Ride-hailing and Infrastructure Startup BluSmart Secures INR 200 crores

The startup aims to expand its fleet to 8,000 EVs by next year

Entrepreneurs

UAE-Based Tabby Secures US$700 Million In Receivables Securitization From J.P. Morgan, While Also Extending Its Series D Round To $250 Million

In November 2023, Tabby's company value had crossed $1.5 billion, making it the MENA region's first fintech unicorn.

Business Ideas

Secure Your Funding — How Small Business Owners Can Level Up Their Negotiation Tactics With Venture Capitalists

Even if your business is very small or you're new to the business world, you don't need to be intimidated when working with venture capitalists.

News and Trends

Connected Lifestyle Brand Noise Raises Funding From Audio Giant Bose

Founded in 2014, Noise is committed to revolutionizing the industry through purposeful and consumer-centric innovation. It has 35 SKUs under its offerings which include smartwatches, wireless earphones, and wireless speakers

Fundraising

How This Food App Founder Scored a Very Healthy $200K Investment

On the new episode of the "Post-Pitch Podcast," the co-founder of Bitewell discusses how her appearance on "Elevator Pitch" resulted in a tasty investment.

News and Trends

Healthy Snacking Brand Farmley Raises $6.7 Mn in a Pre-Series B Round to Expand Offline Presence

The round also saw participation from existing investors such as DSG Consumer Partners, Omnivore and Alkemi Partners

News and Trends

Aye Finance Raises INR 310 crores in Series F Funding Led by British International Investment

Founded in 2014 by Sanjay Sharma and Vikram Jetley, Aye Finance offers affordable business loans to microenterprises. To date, it has disbursed INR 8,000 crores to small businesses and has brought over 700,000 unorganised businesses into the formal lending ecosystem