- Early Stage VC Fireside Ventures Closes 1st Fund With A Corpus Of $52.12 Mn Early stage investment firm Fireside Ventures has successfully closed its first fund with a corpus of $52.12 Mn (INR 340 Cr). The VC firm now aims to invest in 20-25 consumer brand businesses from this fund over the next two to three years. The fund has been anchored by a clutch of investors including Premji […]
- Healthcare Analytics Startup THB Bags $2.1 Mn Led By Blume Ventures And HealthQuad Gurugram-based healthcare analytics startup THB (Technology | Healthcare | Big Data Analytics) has raised $2.1 Mn (INR 14 Cr) funding from Blume Ventures and HealthQuad. Existing investors like Fireside Ventures; Apoorva Patni, Director of Currae Healthtech Fund and Arpan Sheth, Partner at Bain & Company, also participated in the round. In addition, some strategic healthcare veterans and […]
- Vahdam Teas Raises $1.4 Mn Funding From Fireside Ventures, Others Online tea brand Vahdam Teas has secured $1.4 Mn (INR 9 Cr) in a round of funding led by VC firm Fireside Ventures. The startup’s existing investors – Singapore Angel Network, Mumbai Angels and some HNI investors – also participated in the round. With this, some of the angel investors from the Seed round have […]
- Tapping Into $750 Mn Male Grooming Market In India: Fireside Ventures, Others Pump $2.3 Mn In Bombay Shaving Company Delhi-based male grooming startup Bombay Shaving Company has raised about $2.3 Mn Pre-Series A funding in a round led by Fireside Ventures. Existing investors S Ramadorai, former CEO at TCS; Pankaj Gupta, supply director at USL Diageo, and senior executives at McKinsey & Co. also participated in the round. The startup will utilise the recently-raised […]
- Design Cafe Raises Funding From Fireside Ventures, Others Bengaluru-based online interior design startup Design Cafe has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Fireside Ventures. Other participants in the round include existing investor Apurva Salarpuria, angel investor Sidharth Pansari, and Sprout Capital. Founded in October 2011 by Gita Ramanan and Shezaan Bhojani, Design Cafe is a design and building […]
- Fireside Ventures Receives Backing From Azim Premji, Others For Maiden Fund VC firm Fireside Ventures has secured backing for its maiden fund from some of India’s top family offices including Wipro promoter Azim Premji’s PremjiInvest, consumer goods maker Marico’s Mariwala, and the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. Founded by former Helion Venture Partners senior Managing Director Kanwaljit Singh in 2014, the firm has already raised $27.9 Mn (INR […]
- Helion MD Rahul Chandra Floats $100 Mn Fund Unitary Helion Rahul Chandra, MD, Helion Venture Partners has floated a new venture capital fund called Unitary Helion. It will focus on deals in the financial technology space. Unitary Helion will be a $100 Mn fund and plans to make the first close of the fund by October 2017 at about $40 Mn and will start investing. […]
- Online First Tea Brand Vahdam Teas Raises $650K Funding From Mumbai Angels Network, Others Online tea brand Vahdam Teas has secured $650K from angel investors Mumbai Angels Network, Fireside Ventures, and Singapore Angel Network. The company will deploy the raised funds towards marketing, product development, and opening a warehouse in the US. It currently claims to have shipped its garden fresh tea to more than 76 countries. Launched in […]
- Nanolocal Commerce App, Bounty App Secures Seed Funding from Mumbai Angels, Fireside Ventures & MAPE Advisory group Bangalore-based nanolocal commerce app, bounty, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed round of funding from Fireside Ventures, Mumbai Angels and MAPE Advisory Group. The round also saw participation from Basab Pradhan, former Global Head of Sales and marketing at Infosys and real estate group scion Apurva Salarpuria of Salarpuria Group. The startup will use […]