| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.12.2023 | Startup That Monitors Space Threats Raises $100 Million to Expand Satellites | True Anomaly Inc., a US startup designing military and intelligence space reconnaissance systems, raised $100 million from investors to ramp up output of a satellite that can track national threats in orbit. |
| 02.08.2023 | Chemify raises £36 Mn to digitize chemistry | Chemistry pioneer Chemify has secured £36m in funding to develop its technology to make complex molecules on demand.
Glasgow-based Chemify today announced the Series A round led by Triatomic Capital, joined by new investors including Hong-... |
| 31.07.2023 | Bloom teaches Gen Z how to build wealth | Bloom, a zero-commission stock investing tool for teenage investors, reached 1 million downloads after launching in February 2022.
The startup founded by Allan Maman and Sam Yang provides a brokerage account and teaches those aged 13 and o... |
| 21.04.2023 | Hakimo Raises $6M As Demand For Smarter Physical Security Increases Funding Led By Rocketship.vc | Hakimo, a technology company dedicated to modernising physical security through its artificial intelligence (AI) software, announced $6 million in new funding led by Rocketship.vc, with participation from existing investors Neotribe Venture... |
| 28.03.2023 | Startup Fridays S4 Ep8: Nishchay Ag's plan to stay scrappy, be shameless and build a Zoho at Jar | In this episode, Nishchay Ag, co-founder and CEO of Jar, talks about how there is a massive addressable gap in India’s middle class with financial products that go beyond the top 30 million that everyone is targeting. Nishchay talks about h... |
| 23.03.2023 | A.I.: It’s What’s for Dinner | Silicon Valley startup CloudChef says its artificially intelligent software could be the future for restaurants |
| 23.03.2023 | Qashio partners with Alinma Bank to roll out solutions to KSA customers | The exclusive partnership is a milestone achievement as it marks the first time a KSA corporate bank has partnered with a fintech |
| 27.02.2023 | Yulu and Bajaj Auto launched electric two-wheeler Miracle GR & Dex GR | - |
| 14.02.2023 | This Palo Alto startup delivers Michelin-starred restaurant dishes from India to your home | You don’t need a passport, private jet or even an in with the chef to eat dishes from the best restaurants around the world. You just need software and sensors.
A Palo Alto-based food tech startup has built the technology to impeccably rec... |
| 08.02.2023 | Yulu-Magna collaboration spawns new Battery-as-a-Service company | Yuma Energy to set up battery swapping infrastructure for electric two-wheelers; plans to scale up the network to 500 stations across multiple Indian cities by end-2023. |
| 08.02.2023 | The Indian Startup Pulling Water From the Air Uravu’s new 1,000-liter-per-day unit will come on line this month | BENGALURU, India—Technology that can pull water out of thin air could help solve the world’s growing water scarcity problem, but most solutions are expensive and difficult to scale. Indian startup Uravu Labs says its low-cost modular approa... |
| 19.01.2023 | Mad Street Den raises $30M in Series C as it establishes itself as a leader ushering in AI transformation for Large Enterprises | Mad Street Den, a leader in Enterprise AI, today announced a fresh round of Series C funding led by Avatar Growth Capital, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Alpha Wave Global (formerly known as Falcon Edge Capit... |
| 03.01.2023 | Goodbye 2022 | India’s Agritech sector in full bloom as valuations shoot up amid continued investor interest | - |
| 15.12.2022 | You.com Named TIME’s Best Invention of 2022 | - |
| 13.12.2022 | Rocketship.vc Mulls India Fund In Two Years To Ramp Up Investment | - |
| 07.12.2022 | UAE-based fintech Qashio raises $10m in a seed round | - |
| 02.12.2022 | College Social Media App Fizz Raises $12 million Series A | - |
| 30.11.2022 | Funding winter may last another 12-18 months, says Madhu Shalini Iyer of Rocketship.vc | Says start-ups cannot afford to hunker down, not invest in growth or not take calculated big bets |
| 30.11.2022 | Startup Fridays S3 Ep12: 'Established entrepreneurs from the best startups in India must step up as mentors' — Madhu Shalini Iyer | - |
| 07.11.2022 | Exclusive: Agnikul Raises $20 Mn Funding From Rocketship.vc, Valuation Zooms 5X To $180 Mn | - |
| 27.09.2022 | Wasabi Technologies Closes $250 Million in New Funding to Usher In the Future of Cloud Storage | Wasabi becomes technology’s newest unicorn with backing from L2 Point, Cedar Pine, Cerberus, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and others |
| 13.09.2022 | Yulu secures $82 million in Series B funding led by Magna International | - |
| 13.09.2022 | Nigeria’s Kippa announces $8.4M in funding for its financial management platform for merchants | - |
| 15.08.2022 | Climate tech startup, Uravu Labs, raises Seed capital for their unique 100% renewable water technology | - |
| 03.08.2022 | Rocketship.vc might invest 15-20% of its 3rd fund in climate & space tech startups | - |
| 01.08.2022 | Partner at Rocketship.vc, with fund size of $125 million shares her journey and how they crunch data to invest in startups | - |
| 01.08.2022 | Every VC portfolio is fighting a force of gravity that could cut valuations by 50%, says Venky Harinarayan | - |
| 25.07.2022 | Partner at Rocketship.vc, with fund size of $125 million explains how they crunch data to invest in the best startups | - |
| 13.07.2022 | Growth, not profit, is the lifeblood of a startup: Rocketship VC’s Venky Harinarayan | - |
| 13.07.2022 | India is the epicentre for global consumer growth, says Venky Harinarayan of Rocketship VC | - |
| 13.07.2022 | Rocketship.vc raises $125 mn in first close of its third fund | - |
| 13.07.2022 | Moglix backer Rocketship.vc hits first close of third VC fund at $125 mn | - |
| 07.06.2022 | ‘If you’re on a purpose, the world will come to support you’ – 20 quotes of the week on leaders and entrepreneurs' | - |
| 31.05.2022 | Entrepreneurship 101: How to build the perfect investor pitch deck? | - |
| 31.05.2022 | Tiger Global, Gojek VC arm back Indonesian jobs platform | KitaLulus, an Indonesia-based career platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of series A funding in a round led by Tiger Global, with participation from Goodwater Capital, Rocketship.vc, and Gojek investment arm Go-Ventures. |
| 31.05.2022 | Rocketship.vc on how to quantify required funding & building clarity of vision | - |
| 16.05.2022 | 'Leadership Bootcamp': Women leaders share their lessons from motherhood | See things differently and spot opportunities others may miss Prominent women venture capitalist Madhu Shalini Iyer, Partner at Rocketship.vc - a global early-stage venture capital firm pioneering the use of data in making investment decisi... |
| 19.04.2022 | Rocketship.vc sees no 'let up' in fintech deals; plans bets on space tech, Web3 | - |
| 24.03.2022 | Why Silicon Valley-based Rocketship.vc is bullish about the Indian market | Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm Rocketship.vc has been bullish on the Indian market. It has already invested in startups including Khatabook, Apna, Moglix, etc, and plans to focus more on the emerging Indian landscape.... |
| 03.02.2022 | Jar raises $32 million in Tiger Global-led funding to help Indians start their savings and investment journeys | A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys for the first time in their lives has attracted the attention of Tiger Global.
The Bengaluru-based Jar said on Thursday it has ... |
| 02.02.2022 | India's Moglix valued at $2.6 billion in $250 million funding | - |
| 02.02.2022 | Lightspeed-backed Teachmint marks fourth acquisition in 2 months with MyClassCampus | Lightspeed Venture Partners-backed edtech platform Teachmint, operated by Teachmint Technologies Pvt Ltd, has bought MyClassCampus, an educational enterprise resource planning software, which enables campuses with end-to-end digitisation of... |
| 02.02.2022 | Raise Financial gets $22 million funding from Beenext, Mirae Asset | - |
| 20.01.2022 | Khatabook posts over Rs 1.8 trn monthly transactions across its platforms | Fintech firm Khatabook said it has achieved a milestone of over Rs 1.8 trillion monthly recorded transactions across its platform – Khatabook, Cashbook, and BizAnalyst. Founded in January 2019, Khatabook claims it has 10 million monthly act... |
| 25.10.2021 | Indian edtech Teachmint valued at $500 million in $78 million funding | - |
| 06.10.2021 | Fintech startup Khatabook's valuation tops $600 mn after raising $100 mn | Khatabook, a leading fintech start-up, has closed a $100 million Series C funding round, with a valuation now close to $600 million. The round was led by US-based VC firms Tribe Capital and Moore Strategic Ventures (MSV). Other investors in... |
| 06.10.2021 | NoBroker’s revenue surges 3X in FY20: An inside look | Online real estate rental startup NoBroker saw a windfall of funding from marquee investors Tiger Global and General Atlantic, amounting to nearly $129 million during the fiscal year ending in March 2020.
Flush with funds, the Bengaluru-ba... |
| 06.10.2021 | Animall raises $14 mn Series B from new and existing investors | Animall Technologies, a Bengaluru based startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling dairy and cattle, has raised Rs 102.62 crore in a Series B funding round from new and existing investors. |
| 06.10.2021 | Locus raises $50 million for its logistics management business | Locus, a startup that uses AI to help businesses map out their logistics, said on Wednesday it has raised $50 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its presence.
The new round, a Series C, was led by Singapore’s sovereign ... |
| 21.09.2021 | Crosschq Secures $30M in Tiger Global Led Series A Financing To Expand and Scale AI-Powered Talent Intelligence Cloud™ | - |
| 16.09.2021 | Tiger Global-led $100M investment makes Apna India's fastest unicorn | - |
| 27.07.2021 | Moglix joins unicorn club after $120 million funding round | - |
| 27.07.2021 | Privacy.com rebrands to Lithic, raises $43M for virtual payment cards | - |
| 27.07.2021 | Klarna pays €110 million for Germany's Stocard | Klarna, a Stockholm, Sweden-based financial service company, announced that it acquired a German company called Stocard.
According to German media sources, the deal was made for €110 million ($130M). |
| 09.07.2021 | Rocketship.vc to double down on its India bets | - |
| 06.07.2021 | Silicon Valley's Rocketship.vc unfazed by 'crazy' fintech valuations in South-east Asia | - |
| 29.06.2021 | Tiger Global leads 31.5M investment in interactive edtech Quizizz | Quizizz, an Indian startup that is making learning more interactive so that students find it compelling to spend more hours studying, said on Wednesday it has raised $31.5 million in a new financing round. |
| 29.06.2021 | BukuWarung Raises $60 Mn In Series A Round Led By Valar Ventures And Goodwater Capital | Indonesia-based fintech company BukuWarung, helping micro-SMEs (MSMEs) digitize their business, announced on Thursday to have raised $60 million in Series A funding |
| 25.06.2021 | Rocketship.vc bets on data-driven investing approach, eyes SE Asian startups | - |
| 21.06.2021 | [Funding alert] Community platform Kutumb raises $26M in Series A round led by Tiger Global | Private equity major Tiger Global has invested $18.5 million in this round. Other investors include Quiet Capital, Rocketship VC, Nirman Investments, AL Trust, Better Capital among others. |
| 15.06.2021 | FamPay, a fintech aimed at teens in India, raises $38 million | How big is the market in India for a neobank aimed at teenagers? Scores of high-profile investors are backing a startup to find out.
Bangalore-based FamPay said on Wednesday it has raised $38 million in its Series A round led by Elevation ... |
| 09.06.2021 | Moglix: How Rahul Garg built an unexpected unicorn | A B2B ecommerce platform for industrial products, nearly 65 percent of Moglix’s business comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns in the country |
| 27.05.2021 | Ant Taylor Discusses Lyte And The Future Of Ticketing | There is a seemingly never-ending stream of ticketing companies, each with its own twist on how to bridge the divide between ticket buyers and the acts, teams or events which go on sale. The challenges are many, including imbalance of suppl... |
| 10.05.2021 | Saudi-based B2B platforms Sary and Retailo raise combined $37.2m | Sary raised $30.5 million in a Series B round led by VentureSouq and joined by new investors US-based Rocketship.vc and STV, Sary said in a press release. |
| 07.05.2021 | Saudi’s Sary raises $30.5 million Series B for its B2B ecommerce marketplace, hits $500 million in annualized GMV | Saudi B2B ecommerce marketplace Sary has raised $30.5 million in a Series B round led by VentureSouq, it announced today. The round was also joined by Silicon Valley’s Rocketship.vc, STV, and returning investors Raed Ventures, MSA Capital, ... |
| 04.05.2021 | World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: AI and Data Finalists and Honorable Mentions | Rocketship.vc receives Honorable Mention in the AI and Data category as part of our 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards for Fund 2! |
| 30.04.2021 | Yulu Bags The BW TechTor Award Twice In A Row | With the beginning of its journey in 2017, Yulu Bikes has been the driving force behind India’s shift in the mobility sector toward more sustainable electric vehicles. With its mission to make mobility affordable, accessible, and available ... |
| 30.04.2021 | Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers | Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. Today the Boston-based startup announced a $112 million Serie... |
| 07.04.2021 | Khatabook investor Rocketship backs startup targeting teens in second India fintech bet | Early-stage venture capital firm Rocketship.vc, which invested in SME-focused Khatabook last year, has made its second bet in the country’s fintech space by investing in a startup targeting teens. |
| 09.03.2021 | Quizizz raises $12.5 mn in Series A round | The round also saw participation from GSV Ventures, Rocketship VC and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Prime Venture Partners |
| 09.03.2021 | What Rocketship.vc Partner Madhu Shalini Iyer looks for in startups and founders | In conversation with YourStory, Madhu Shalini Iyer, ex-Chief Data Officer at Gojek and now Partner at Rocketship.vc, talks about what she looks for in startups and founders while investing in them. |
| 09.03.2021 | Quizizz lands $12.5 million in funding led by Eight Roads Ventures | Education technology startup Quizizz has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding led by Eight Roads Ventures along with participation from GSV Ventures, Rocketship VC and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Prime Venture Partners... |
| 02.03.2021 | Looped raises $7.7M to expand its interactive live event platform | The funding is led by Will Ventures, with participation from Rocketship VC |
| 26.02.2021 | Dozens of Artists Are Taking Reservations for Their First Post-Covid Shows | Mint Talent Group, which represents 180 artists, has partnered with ticketing platform Lyte to offer a reservation system for concerts that haven’t been announced yet |
| 10.02.2021 | Lyte Raises Additional $5M in Series B | Lyte, a San Francisco, CA-based ticketing reservation technology platform for live events, raised an additional $5m as part of a Series B round initially announced in December. |
| 02.02.2021 | BukuWarung, a startup digitizing Indonesia's SMEs, raises new funding from Rocketship.vc | BukuWarung, an Indonesian startup focused on digitizing the country’s 60 million small businesses, announced today it has raised new funding from Rocketship.vc and an Indonesian retail conglomerate. |
| 18.12.2020 | Spending time with family unlocked timelessness | Madhu Shalini Iyer, partner at Rocketship.vc says being surrounded by loved ones during the lockdown allowed them to engage in fun activities together. |
| 10.12.2020 | Harnessing the Data Revolution: Madhu Shalini Iyer on Investing with Data Science | Growing up in Singapore as a teenager, Madhu Shalini Iyer shares her journey from being the Chief Data Officer at Gojek to becoming an investment partner in the Bay Area at Rocketship.vc. We chat with Madhu to learn how she is leveraging da... |
| 09.12.2020 | Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space | “I’m not saying we’ll find aliens in five years or anything like that. But space will touch every part of our lives.” |
| 27.11.2020 | Rocketship.vc 2021 Predictions: COVID-19's impact on data, security and beyond | This past year, our world was turned upside down as offices and schools closed their doors and people were forced to navigate remote work and living. Despite the many challenges the global pandemic has brought about, we have learned to adju... |
| 26.10.2020 | Rocketship Remakes Early Stage Venture Investing | Most investors claim to follow the data, which is good investing practice and even better marketing. Besides, no really successful investor is ever going to claim blind luck or gut instinct as their secret sauce.
But letting the data drive... |
| 14.10.2020 | How Rocketship VC uses data to make investment decisions --from the other side of the world | Even before the pandemic, Silicon Valley-based Rocketship VC is already accustomed to securing deals over Zoom calls.
As a venture capital (VC) firm, Rocketship VC was founded by a team with a strong history of entrepreneurship in Silicon ... |
| 13.10.2020 | HONEY, I SHRUNK THE TRANSPORT! | A story of two characters ‘Miracle’ and ‘Move’, ‘Yuluing away to glory in the urban streets of India. The therapeutic duo has set out to liberate citizens from a mindset of convenience and callousness. And from human actions that is causing... |
| 01.09.2020 | Strategy Session: Rocketship.vc Doubles Down On Zoom Meetings, Picking Winning Startups | Rocketship.vc, an early-stage venture capital firm using data science to democratize venture capital, recently announced it has raised $100 million for its Fund II.
The new fund comes five years after Los Altos, California-based Rocketship... |
| 31.08.2020 | Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million | Javed, a middle-aged man, worked as a driver before losing that job earlier this year as coronavirus spread across India, prompting New Delhi to enforce a nationwide lockdown and temporarily curb several business activities.
There are mill... |
| 31.08.2020 | Meet Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Partner at rocketship.vc | Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow’s products and services. Oh, how times have changed!
While there are more startups than ever, there’s also more money chasing them. In this series, we look ... |
| 25.08.2020 | Wasabi Tripling As It Siphons Customers From AWS, Azure In $233 Billion Cloud Market | Outsourcing corporate technology to the cloud was popular before Covid-19 — now it’s even more popular.
While cloud services — valued at $233.4 billion in 2019 growing at 26%, according to IDC — is a critical source of growth for industry ... |
| 12.08.2020 | Rocketship.vc Closes Second Global VC Fund at $100 Mn | Silicon Valley-based venture capital (VC) firm Rocketship.vc has announced close of its second fund (Fund II) at USD 100 million (INR 747 crore). The fresh investment vehicle comes five years after the early-stage global VC firm had closed ... |
| 05.08.2020 | Springboard raises $31 million to expand its mentor-guided education platform to more geographies | Springboard, an online education platform that provides upskilling and reskilling training courses to people looking to learn in-demand roles, has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more geographies |
| 05.08.2020 | Rocketship.vc raises $100M fund for Data focus | Rocketship.vc raised its first $40 million fund in 2017 to invest from the U.S. in startups globally, using data rather than personal connections to find startups and make deals.
That strategy has positioned the firm to make deals remotely... |
| 21.07.2020 | Crosschq Announces New Round of Investment from Tiger Global and Rocketship.vc | Crosschq, pioneers of a new software category for the recruiting industry called Human Intelligence Hiring™, announced today a new round of financing that includes investment from Tiger Global Management and Rocketship.vc. This latest round... |
| 24.06.2020 | Urgently Predicts Higher Than Normal Automobile Usage as Economy Reopens | Urgently expects increased miles driven to propel year-over-year growth of mobility and roadside assistance volumes to as much as 130% this summer, as pandemic restrictions lift and consumers take to the road for leisure travel. |
| 22.06.2020 | US-based Rocketship leads Rs 30 Cr funding in micro-mobility platform Yulu | Bengaluru-based last-mile micro-mobility platform Yulu on Monday announced that it has raised a fresh funding of Rs 30 crore led by US-based VC firm Rocketship and existing investors. |
| 16.06.2020 | 3 Indian startups on CB Insights list of 50 future unicorns | Three Indian startups have made their way to coveted 2020 list of 50 future Unicorns. These are fintech platform-CRED, edtech firm- Vedantu and B2B ecommerce company-Moglix. Unicorns are startups with a valuation over $1 billion. |
| 11.06.2020 | Triller Integrates Snap’s Camera Kit to Fuel Community Creativity | Camera Kit enables Triller users to interact with special Snapchat Lenses inspired by artists and songs |
| 10.06.2020 | German-based Stocard launches mobile wallet in the UK and a mobile payment feature, reaching 50 million users | Today German fintech startup Stocard, one of the world’s leading mobile wallets and one of the largest B2C startups in Europe in terms of number of users, officially launches in the UK and unveils a mobile payment feature as it reaches 50 m... |
| 28.05.2020 | Wasabi announces $30M Series B as cloud storage business continues to grow | We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don’t change, no matter the external factors. Storage is one of them. In fact, we are generating more digital stuf... |
| 27.05.2020 | Here’s how a virtual credit card number can protect your real card when you shop online | Privacy.com offers a free way to generate one time use card numbers – but you can also do so much more. |
| 26.05.2020 | NoBroker Is Solving the Real Estate Puzzle Through Tech-Led Solutions | Founded by IIT and IIM graduates Amit Kumar Agarwal, Akhil Gupta and Saurabh Garg, the Bengaluru-headquartered start-up now offers a range of services apart from real estate such as packers-and-movers services, a visitor and community manag... |
| 21.05.2020 | India’s Khatabook raises $60 million to help merchants digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online | Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app, has raised $60 million in a new financing round as it looks to gain more ground in the world’s se... |
