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Location: South Africa, Gauteng, Gosforth
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $66M
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 03.08.2022 | Toyota AI ... | toyota-ai.... |
| 29.07.2024 | Marubeni V... | marubeni-v... |
| 13.08.2022 | Toyota Ven... | toyota.ven... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 08.02.2024 | Series B | $40M | - |
| 06.06.2023 | - | $15M | Trucks Ven... |
| 03.08.2022 | Series A | $11M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.07.2024 | River Raises Series B Funding from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and Marubeni Ventures | River, a Bengaluru, India-based electric vehicle manufacturer, received a Series B funding from Mitsui & co., Ltd. and Marubeni Ventures. The amount o the deal was not disclosed. The company intends to use the funds to consolidate its p... |
| 08.02.2024 | EV Startup, River, raises $40 Million in an oversubscribed Series B round; deal led by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. | BENGALURU, India, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- River, a Bengaluru-based startup building multi-utility electric scooters, has announced a $40 million (335 INR Crores) Series B led by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. The round also saw participation f... |
| 08.02.2024 | River Raises $40M in Series B Funding | River, a Bengaluru, India-based startup building multi-utility electric scooters, raised $40M in Series B funding. The round was ed by Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. The round also saw participation from existing investors Al-Futtaim Group, Lowerca... |
| 07.02.2024 | Deals in brief: Toyota to invest in TSMC’s Japan arm, Incomlend acquires LC Lite, 15 China and India deals, and more | Toyota invests in TSMC’s Japan arm to construct second Kumamoto chip plant Toyota Motor has announced that it will invest an undisclosed amount in Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), the Japanese subsidiary of Taiwan Semicond... |
| 06.02.2024 | Yamaha Motor backs Indian electric scooter firm’s $40m raise | InvestmentsNewsTransportation Jofie Yordan · 6 Feb 2024 · 2 min readYamaha Motor backs Indian electric scooter firm’s $40m raise River co-founders Aravind Mani (left) and Vipin George / Photo credit: River Two-wheeler electric vehicles are ... |
| 05.02.2024 | Yamaha Motor fuels River’s ambitious electric SUV two-wheeler rollout in India | River, an Indian startup manufacturing electric two-wheelers, has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Japan’s Yamaha Motor as the nearly three-year-old startup looks to increase R&D spending and expand the market presence of it... |
| 06.06.2023 | Indian EV two-wheeler startup River raises $15M led by Dubai’s Al Futtaim Group | River, an Indian EV startup that introduced its first two-wheeler in February, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Dubai’s Al Futtaim Group. With today’s funding round, the startup looks to take on the likes of SoftBank- and Ed... |
| 08.03.2022 | Early Twitter backer’s VC firm backs Indian EV maker’s $11m round | GreenTechInvestmentsNewsStartups Aditya Hadi Pratama · 3 Aug 2022 · 1 min readEarly Twitter backer’s VC firm backs Indian EV maker’s $11m round River, an India-based electric vehicle maker, has raised US$11 million in a series A funding rou... |
| - | River | “Our River Indie is the SUV of scooters, It's electric. Ride with us and feel the difference.” |