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Signed, sealed, Delhivered: ET Startup Awards 2019 zeroes in on the best of Indian startups
Delhivery bags top award for its impact on India’s fractured logistics landscape.
PTC India Financial offloads 14% stake in IEX for Rs 71 crore
PTC India Financial Services, an arm of power trader PTC India, today said it has sold 14 per cent stake in Indian Energy Exchange Limited.

Lightspeed, others put $8 million in Freight Tiger
Freight Tiger plans to utilise the funding to strengthen its product portfolio by building...
How entrepreneurs are profiting from business of schools
Govt mandated a non-profit trust structure for running schools, but canny entrepreneurs are working their way around these regulations, and profiting from the business of schools.
AI firm Yellow Messenger raises $4 million in series A
The Bengaluru-based firm plans to use the funds to deepen its tech capabilities, expand its teams and presence in Asia, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
Housing.com parent firm acquires home rental platform FastFox for nearly Rs 100 crore
FastFox.com is an O2O brokerage firm that operates mainly in the Gurugram and in the last 12 months it has captured nearly 5 per cent share of the home rentals market in the city.
Oyo in talks to acquire FreshMenu for $60M
The move will help Oyo standardise its food experience across hotels, an initiative that has internally been in the works for more than a year, said one of the sources.
Oyo gets $100 million from China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing
This investment brings to a close Oyo’s $1 billion financing round, valuing it at $5 billion.
Selling part of Byju’s stake may land Sequoia Capital $190m
VC fund sold 7% of its share, one of the largest exits clocked by it in the recent past.
Here's why investors are queuing up to back Indian language content startups
The first wave of Indian language content startups with entertainment as the theme has already garnered a lot of attention from investors in India as well as China.
MagicPin parent raises $20 million in round led by Lightspeed US
The latest funding round values three-year-old discovery and rewards platform at $100 million.
ShareChat raises Rs 720 crore, valuation may touch Rs 3.3k cr
Round led by Shunwei Capital, along with Morningside & DST Global affiliate Jesmond.
China’s Didi Chuxing may back Oyo
Some investors like Didi and shared office startup WeWork have opted to only back the company’s Chinese subsidiary.
Udaan raises $225 million from DST Global, Lightspeed to become India's fastest Unicorn
The company, founded by former executives of Flipkart, is in advanced talks to raise $225 million from investors.
Oyo’s valuation set to cross $4 billion in new round
Oyo is in talks to raise up to $1 bn in a deal that could usher it into India’s crowding Unicorn club.
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