Indian Startup Hubs: 14 Pune Startups That Have Made The City Proud

As part of our series, Startup Ecosystem Hubs, we have been focusing on our first city of Pune. Under the series we have already covered some of the early and growth stage startups that are making all the right noise in Pune. This time we bring to you a comprehensive list of Pune-based startups that have successfully raised Series A and further rounds of funding. We are also bringing into light the startups that have got successful exits.

Fundings

Startup	Launched In	Founders	Round	Month/Year	Amount	Investors	Total Funding
Pubmatic	2006	Rajeev Goel and Amar Goel	Series E	February 2014	$13 Mn	Nokia Growth Partners	$63 Mn
			Series D	June 2012	$32 Mn	DFJ and August Capital
			Series C	April 2010	$7.5Mn	Helion Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Nexus Venture Partners
			Series B	March 2009	$3.5 Mn	Helion Ventures, Nexus India Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson
			Series A	January 2008	$7 Mn	DFj and Nexus Venture Partners
Firstcry	2010	Supam Maheshwari and Amitava Saha	Series D	February 2015	$26 Mn	Valiant CapitalPartners	$59 Mn
			Series C	January 2014	$15 Mn	IDG Ventures, Temasek and SAIF Partners
			Series B	February 2012	$14 Mn	IDG Ventures and SAIF Partners
			Series A	May 2011	$4 Mn	SAIF Partners
Druva	2008	Jaspreet Singh and Milind Borate	Series D	August 2014	$ 25 Mn	Sequoia Capital, Nexus Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital	$67 Mn
			Series C	October 2013	$ 25 Mn	Endpoint Data Protection & Governance Platform
			Series B	August 2011	$ 12 Mn	Sequoia and Nexus
			Series A	March 2010	$ 5 Mn	Sequoia Capital India and IAN
Faasos	2004	Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee	Series B	February 2015	$20 Mn	Lightbox Venture	$25 Mn
			Series A	2011	$5 Mn	Sequoia Capital India
Sapience Analytics	2009	Shirish Deodhar, Madhukar Bhatia, Swati Deodhar and Hemant Joshi	Series B	October 2014	INR 45 Cr	Orios Venture Partners	$51.6 Mn
			Series A	2011	INR 4.5 Cr	Seed Ventures
			Seed		INR 2.1 Cr	Indian Angel Network
Sokrati	2009	Ashish Mehta, Santosh Gannavarapu, and Anubhav Sonthalia	Series B	January 2015	Undisclosed	IvyCap Ventures and Inventus	Undisclosed
			Series A	2011	Undisclosed	Inventus
Helpshift	2011	Abinash Tripathy, Baishampayan Ghose	Series A	June 2014	$10 Mn	Intel Capital, Visionnaire Ventures, True Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners	$13.2 Mn
			Seed	October 2012	$3.2 Mn	True Ventures and Nexus
Mobikon	2009	Samir Khadepaun and Salil Khamkar	Series A		$ 1.7 Mn	Singapore-based Jungle Ventures	INR 10.52 Cr
ShopSocially	2009	Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar	Series A	October 2010	$1.1 Mn	Valhalla Partners, Raman Khanna, Ashish Gupta and Dharmesh Thakker	–
			Angel	2011	$550k	TiE Angels
Swipe Technologies	2012	Shripal Gandhi	Series A	April 2014	$4.9 Mn	Kalaari Capital	$4.9 Mn
Krayon Pictures	2007	Kishor Patil, Nishith Takia and Namrata Sharma	Series A	December 2010	Undisclosed	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	Undisclosed

Acquisitions

Startup	Founded In	Founders	Total Funding	Acquired by	Year	Amount
TastyKhana	2007	Shachin Bharadwaj, Sheldon D’Souza	$5 Mn	FoodPanda	2014	$15-25 Mn
Buzzfactory	2009	Neil Sequeira	Angel	Qliktag	2014	NA
Truesparrow	2007	Nishith and Deepa Shah	$150 Mn	Fab	2012	NA
Dhingana	2007	Snehal Shinde, Swapnil Shinde	$7 Mn	Rdio	2014	NA

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