Afternoon News Roundup: Sequoia Capital reportedly chases US$7 billion in new funds amidst market slump
Sequoia Capital reportedly chases US$7B in new funds amidst market slump Sequoia...
Prosus Ventures leads $40M investment in Indian logistics startup ElasticRun
Millions of neighborhood stores that dot large and small cities, towns and...
Social commerce startup Mall91 targets 400M small-town internet users in India; raises US$7.5M from gojek arm, others
Mall91, an India-based social commerce platform, has secured US$7.5 million in...
India’s Jumbotail raises $12.7 million to digitize convenience stores with its wholesale marketplace
With most small grocery stores in India yet to get online, startups racing to...
Student housing startup Oxfordcaps secures US$8.15M led by Times Internet
Oxfordcaps works directly with universities and colleges as well to build a...
Instamojo raises $7M to help SMEs and ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ in India sell online
In India, startups are quietly building the tools and platforms to enable a...
BeeNext contributes to Indian grocery delivery startup Milkbasket’s US$7M fundraise
Last August, e27 exclusively reported Milkbasket’s pre-Series A fundraise...
Japan’s Recruit Group invests in online financial matchmaking platform Rubique
Built on an Artificial Intelligence-based recommendation engine, Rubique’s...
10 prominent VC-turned entrepreneurs in Asia
The entrepreneur bug bites and lures venture capital investors to get right into...
Group buying platform Power2SME raises US$36M from Inventus, Accel, others
Power2SME aggregates demand from SMEs for most commonly-acquired raw materials...