Khatabook, a startup helping merchants in India digitize their bookkeeping and accept online payments, announced Tuesday that it has raised $ 100 million in a new round of funding to prepare for financial services rollout . The startup’s new round of funding – a Series C – was led by Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic … Read more
Manav Garg is CEO and founder of Eka Software Solutions and founding partner of SaaSboomi and Together Fund. Software as a service is one of the most important technology sectors today. While its transformative potential was fairly clear prior to the pandemic, the sudden shift towards dispersed workforces skyrocketed interest in SaaS products as medium … Read more
Amazon launched India’s first celebrity voice feature on Alexa with the country’s biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, as the company seeks to attract more users to the world’s second most populous country. The company, which introduced Samuel Jackson’s voice on Alexa in the US in 2019, said users in India could add the voice of … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Extra Crunch for July 21st, 2021. It was a good day for crypto fans as major coins bounced back a bit from their recent lows. However, Bitcoin and … Read more
Relevance is often bound to rarity. As a result, the first – whether a birthday, an academic achievement, or a vice president – has its own weight. Whether this pressure is warranted is a discussion in itself, but today we are focusing on the ramifications of India’s first unicorn IPO: Zomato. Food delivery startup Zomato, … Read more
Licious, a Bangalore-based startup selling fresh meat and seafood online, has raised $ 192 million in a new round of funding to expand its presence beyond the South Asian market. The new round – a Series F – was led by Singapore’s investment firm Temasek and Multiples Private Equity. The round that increases the six-year-old … Read more
Several Indian states are lacking an antifungal drug to treat black fungus, or mucormycosis, a disease that Indian health officials are increasingly discovering in patients who have recovered from Covid-19. At least 52 people have died of black fungus in Maharashtra state, where the disease is increasing in patients who have recovered from Covid-19. This … Read more
NEW DELHI – His Covid-19 task force did not meet for months. His health minister reassured the public in March that India had reached the “final” of the pandemic. A few weeks earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bragged to world leaders that his nation had triumphed over the coronavirus. India “saved mankind from a major … Read more
Paytm announced on Tuesday that NFC-enabled Android smartphones are becoming POS devices as it aims to attract more merchants in one of the world’s largest markets for mobile payments. A Paytm merchant partner can now activate the card acceptance function via their Paytm business app. Once activated, they can process a transaction by tapping a … Read more
Twitter recently had talks about acquiring Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company looked for ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet marketplace and build a global rival to TikTok, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The American company, which is already investing in Bangalore-based ShareChat, offered to … Read more