Category: Startup

Parablu has raised a Pre-Series A round of more than $ 1mn led by Inflection Point Ventures, one of India’s largest angel investment platforms. The funds raised will be utilized primarily for sales & marketing, targeted towards expanding distribution channels and penetrating new markets in North America and to accelerate the engineering roadmap. Parablu builds secure, enterprise-class data management solutions. The start-up has created a solution stack where Data Privacy is built-in, and have also forged an innovative and unique integration with Microsoft 365 and Google G-Suite that makes it easier and less expensive for enterprises to adopt their solutions. ... Read more

Mobile internet technology company AppyHigh, which builds global products around the ‘digital hierarchy of needs’ of smartphone users, has gone from 5 million to 50 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) across its ecosystem of apps during the pandemic. AppyHigh’s universe of apps has garnered over 400mn downloads till date. The company has touched an annualised recurring revenue (ARR) of $11mn (INR 80 crore).    The bootstrapped and profitable Indian startup saw its MAUs spiral, with users increasingly meeting their everyday needs through mobile-first platforms for productivity and utility, entertainment, content discovery and creation since December 2019. The bulk of the demand ... Read more

Plufo.com is a year-young start-up, backed by K12 Techno Services, that is swiftly expanding and blazing new trails in the burgeoning Ed-Tech space. It recently announced the debut of a revolutionary and ground-breaking website offering student-friendly services and products. Plufo.com began its journey in August 2020, in Bengaluru, with a small number of classes as an Ed-Tech initiative. It opted to transform and personalize its services to fit the demands and practicalities of learners, instructors, and parents. Plufo.com offers interactive LIVE Online Coaching Classes and is a one-of-a-kind Online Learning Platform for students and children aged between 3 and 14 years, from ... Read more

Early Steps Academy, the global case-based live learning pioneer for 21st-century knowledge and skills, on Wednesday announced raising $1.2 million seed capital from BEENEXT, Whiteboard Capital and Taurus Ventures. The round also saw the participation of leading angel investors & entrepreneurs such as Suhail Sumeer (CEO, BharatPe), Akash Saxena (Executive VP & CTO, Disney + Hotstar), Varun Alagh (Co-founder, Mamaearth), among others. Early Steps Academy, which is revolutionising what and how students learn in the 21st century, will use the funds to deepen investment in research and development of case studies, advancing technology, as well as expanding the team to continue delivering the best learning experience to children ... Read more