| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.03.2025 | Trends Shaping Early-Stage Investing: Key Takeaways from Leading Investors Top VCs decode the evolving early-stage investment landscape, sharing insights on fundraising, founder traits, sector trends,... | The world of early-stage investing is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by emerging trends and technologies that are reshaping how capital is deployed. At the Tech and Innovation Summit 2025 in Bengaluru, leading Indian venture capi... |
| 19.11.2024 | Swish and Theranautilus Raise Early-Stage Funding The Indian startups listed below have disclosed investment rounds. |
10-Minute Food Delivery Startup Swish Raises USD 2 Mn Funding
Bengaluru-based quick commerce startup Swish has raised USD 2 million in its maiden funding round, led by Accel. The round also saw participation from angel investors Abhiraj Bh... |
| 13.09.2024 | [Weekly funding roundup Sept 7-13] Debt shows highest traction this week | The month of September continued to remain modest in terms of venture capital (VC) inflow, and this week saw the debt component getting highest traction.
The total VC funding for the second week of the month came in at $242 million cutting ... |
| 11.09.2024 | Clean Electric Powers Up with Fresh Funding: A Game Changer in Energy Storage | In the bustling world of electric mobility, Clean Electric Private Limited has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The Pune-based startup recently secured ₹48.5 crore (approximately $6 million) in a Series A funding round. This investment wa... |
| 10.09.2024 | Clean Electric raises Rs 48.5 Cr led by Info Edge, Pi Ventures, and Kalaari Capital | Energy storage solutions company Clean Electric Private Limited has raised Rs 48.5 crore in a Series A funding round led by Info Edge, Pi Ventures, and Kalaari Capital, Clean Electric Co-founder and CEO Akash Gupta told YourStory in an in... |
| 19.06.2024 | India's AI Advancements in 7 Science Fields: Golden Age Yet to Come Investors and startups in India are focusing on the seven wonders of science: the brain, the mind, evolution, the quantum world, our... | India has a very long history of scientific innovations. It is continuously making groundbreaking advancements with Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various fields of science including Neuroscience, Psychology, Genetics, Bioinformatics a... |
| 05.03.2024 | Ai Palette raises $5.7m to expand AI-powered insights platform, adds ‘FoodGPT’ chatbot | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.]
Singapore-based startup Ai Palette has raised $5.7 million in a series A1 funding round to expand its AI-powered platform to help food companies accelerate ... |
| 05.10.2023 | 10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype | When I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.”
What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say... |
| 06.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hardee Fresh grabs $56m, Upward Farms shuts down, Wine that tastes like climate change | Vertical farming saw good and bad news this week, as Hardee Fresh raised new funds, Upward Farms ceased operations and Kalera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Elsewhere, digital-first burger delivery service VICIO secured new cap... |
| 22.03.2023 | 4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021 | India has long harbored a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and it’s not uncommon to see people leaving jobs to set up their own businesses. A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, ... |
| 15.02.2023 | From delivery ‘bots to burger chefs, meet the startups driving the future of foodservice robotics | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder, a food and agriculture technology venture capital firm.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and ... |
| 02.09.2022 | Decentralised Security Solutions Provider Silence Laboratories Raises USD 1.7 Million in Seed Funding | Bengaluru, India | Singapore
Silence Laboratories, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in Singapore, has closed a $1.7 million round in seed funding, led by pi Ventures. The round also included participation from imToken ventures and prom... |
| 01.09.2022 | Decentralised Security Provider Silence Laboratories raises $1.7 Million in Seed Funding | SINGAPORE, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Silence Laboratories, a web3 focused cybersecurity startup, headquartered in Singapore and working on libraries for MPC and Proofs-based Decentralised Security-as-Service (DSaaS), has closed a $1.7 m... |
| 05.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Vertical farmer Spread raises $30m, McWin launches $500m restaurant fund | Kyoto-based Spread set a record for foodtech funding in Japan this week with a Series A raise for its vertical farming operation. Investment firm McWin has launched a fund for restaurants, while Source Global bagged a late-stage round for i... |
| 14.07.2022 | Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot | What You Should Know:
– Wysa, a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by HealthQuad, who along with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance ... |
| 09.11.2021 | 15 sectors pi Ventures expects deep tech to disrupt in the next 5 years | With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping, we don’t often step back from the numbers to have a hard think about innovation. But today, that’s precisely what ... |
| 25.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| 24.08.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Ai Palette raises $4.4m to help brands predict the food trends of the future | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Ai Palette.
Food trend-spotting platform Ai Palette has raised $4.4 million in Series A funding, AFN can exclusively reveal.
Indian VC firms Exfinity Venture Partners and pi Vent... |
| 28.07.2021 | Digital therapy: focus on results, not technology: investments, trends, new development challenges. Part 2 | Digital therapy: focus on results, not technology: investments, trends, new development challenges. Part 2 |
| 28.07.2021 | Цифровая терапия — фокус на результат, а не на технологию: инвестиции, тренды, новые вызовы развития. Часть 2 | Цифровая терапия — фокус на результат, а не на технологию: инвестиции, тренды, новые вызовы развития. Часть 2 |
| 22.07.2019 | AI Mental Health Platform Wysa Raises $2.2M | Indian wellness startup Wysa Wysa
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Bangalore
Total Funding: $3.86M
See full company profile "> has announced a ~$2.2m Seed round last month. This funding round was led by pi Ventures, with participation fr... |
| 08.02.2017 | India: Zenatix raises funding from pi Ventures | Premium
Gurgaon-based energy-data start-up, Zenatix Solutions Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs8 crore in pre-series A round of funding led by pi Ventures, the company said on Wednesday.
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| - | pi Ventures Completes First Close Of Its Fund II At INR 300 Cr To Invest In Deeptech Startups | Early-stage venture capital firm pi Ventures has completed the first close of its Fund II at INR 300 Cr ($40 Mn).
Founded in 2016 by Manish Singhal, pi Ventures closed its first fund (Fund I) with INR 225 Cr ($30 Mn) in 2018, with participa... |
| - | IFC Invests $3 Mn In AI Focused Fund Pi Ventures | Early-stage venture fund pi Ventures has raised $3 Mn from International Finance Corporation (IFC), a part of the World Bank Group.
In March 2017, pi Ventures secured an undisclosed amount of investment from venture capital fund Accel Partn... |
| - | Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [12 December – 17 December] | Online food ordering marketplace Foodpanda is being acquired by Berlin-based online food takeaway service Delivery Hero, one of Europe’s biggest startups. Delivery Hero and Foodpanda are both backed by German ecommerce firm Rocket Internet,... |
| - | Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [15 August – 20 August] | In a bid to firm up market share against rival Amazon, Alibaba reportedly held discussions to acquire online marketplace ShopClues, with further plans to merge Paytm with ShopClues. The week also marked rumours of a possible merger of Snapd... |
| - | [Funding Galore] From INDMoney To M2P— Over $519 Mn Raised By Indian Startups This Week | Infocus Funding Galore
Every week, more than a dozen startup secure funding and many get acquired. In this weekly series, we bring the latest deals from the Indian startup ecosystem consolidated at a single page.
The Indian startup ecosyste... |