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Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 9m ago
Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn
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B2B SaaS startup Atomicwork has raised an additional $3 million in its seed round from Abhinav Dhar, ex-CIO of TransUnion, Prasad Ramakrishnan, CIO and technology leader, Avanish Sahai, former ecosystem leader at Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Google Cloud and Rich Waldron, CEO of Tray. The firm’s existing investors like Storm Ventures, Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners), Blume Ventures, and Neon Fund also participated in the round. This is the second tranche of its seed round. In September last year, Atomicwork had raised $11 million led by Blume Ventures and Matrix Partners India. With this, the total funding for the startup stands at $14 million. The proceeds will be used for enterprise AI agent technology, fuel the firm’s GTM team expansion in the United States over the next three years, the company said in a press release. Founded in September 2022 by Vijay Rayapati, Kiran Darisi, and Parsuram Vijayasankar, Atomicwork provides software that automates workflows under the information and technology (IT), human resources (HR), finance, and other business functions. It helps companies instantly help their employees by collecting tribal knowledge from across the organization – stored in docs, wikis, information systems, email threads, and chat conversations. Previously, Rayapati had founded Minjar which raised $2 million before getting acquired by US-based publicly-listed cloud infrastructure company Nutanix for about $50 million. Blume also invested in Minjar’s initial funding round. Darisi and Vijayasankar were part of the founding team of SaaS unicorn Freshworks.

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Exclusive: Fintech startup CheQ closes new round at $6.7 Mn

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: Fintech startup CheQ closes new round at $6.7 Mn
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Credit card bill payment management platform CheQ has secured Rs 18.5 crore (around $2.2 million) additional proceeds in its extended seed round. This is the second tranche of the round for the Bengaluru-based company. The new tranche came after a month of its $4.5 million extended series round. Entrackr was the first to report the development last month. The board at CheQ has passed a resolution to allot 6,855 Seed 1 CCPS at an issue price of Rs 26,988.91 each to raise Rs 18.50 crore, its regulatory filings accessed from the RoC shows. Lloyd Dizon and Zenaida Dizon Balajadia invested Rs 4.16 crore each while Sherpalo LLC (a venture by Ram Shriram), Hitesh Gupta, and Amit Lakhotia participated with Rs 8.32 crore, 10 lakhs, and 25 lakhs respectively. As per filings, the company will use these funds for growth, expansion, marketing, and general corporate purposes as decided by the board. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, the company has been valued at around Rs 460 crore or $55.4 million (post-money) after the fresh tranche of the extended seed round. Founded in 2022 by Aditya Soni, CheQ helps customers simplify the discovery and management of all credit products and allows you to pay your credit card bill, and EMI on a single platform. The startup has raised over $17 million to date including its $10 million seed round led by Venture Highway and 3one4 Capital in June 2022. CheQ remained a pre-revenue stage firm with a revenue of only Rs 2 crore during the fiscal year ended March 2023. However, the losses for the three-year-old firm stood at Rs 19.4 crore in the same period. CheQ competes with fintech unicorn CRED which has secured around $1 billion to date and was valued at $6.4 billion in its last fundraise. According to the startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, it posted Rs 1,400 crore in revenue with a loss of Rs 1,347 crore during FY23.

Piston closes $7.5 Mn seed round led by Spark Capital

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Piston closes $7.5 Mn seed round led by Spark Capital
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Piston closes $7.5 Mn seed round led by Spark Capital Fintech startup Piston has closed its seed round at $7.5 million. The latest $6.1 million round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Pear VC and BOND. It follows a $1.4 million pre-seed raised via the PearX accelerator. The proceeds will be used to expand go-to-market efforts and continue building its network across the US. Shivam Shah leads the India presence, with all engineering and parts of operations and customer success based there. Founded by former fleet operators Vikram Sekhon and Shivam Shah, Piston replaces card-based systems with a direct payment infrastructure that connects fleet drivers and fuel stations. The platform uses a QR-code-based system to link payments to vehicle, time, location, and fuel data, while stations connect directly to Piston’s network without hardware upgrades or intermediaries. Piston currently works with over 120 fleets and 800 gas stations, processing more than $20 million in annualized volume with a 50% monthly growth rate. Its headquarters is in Cupertino, with additional operations in Lehi and a 25-member engineering and operations hub in Kolkata, which is expected to double in size over the next year.

Udaan closes Series G round at $114 Mn

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Udaan closes Series G round at $114 Mn
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Udaan closes Series G round at $114 Mn: B2B e-commerce platform Udaan has announced the closure of its Series G round at $114 million, led by M&G Investments and Lightspeed, with participation from other existing and new investors. In February, the Bengaluru-based company raised $75 million as the first tranche of the Series G round at a flat valuation. According to Entrackr’s estimate, Udaan was valued at around $1.8 billion in the previous round, when it raised $340 million led by M&G Plc, with participation from Lightspeed and others. The fresh capital will be deployed to strengthen Udaan’s category and customer footprint, with focus on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) category and hotel, restaurant, and catering (HoReCa) customer segment, the company said in a press release. Udaan will also accelerate its private label brands initiatives in the staples category. This capital raise will also fortify Udaan’s balance sheet, providing enhanced financial flexibility as the company advances toward its public market debut. “Over the last 3 years, we have transformed the business by building cost as a capability and a competitive advantage. We have reduced our EBITDA burn by 40% every year for the last 3 years and are on track to achieve full group EBITDA profitability in the next 18 months,” said Vaibhav Gupta, co-founder and CEO, Udaan. Udaan claims to have clocked more than 60% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) growth in CY 2024, alongside a contribution margin improvement of over 300 basis points. Along with this margin growth and operating leverage at scale, Udaan also reduced its fixed costs by 20%, resulting in a 40% reduction in EBITDA burn in CY 2024 and an additional 20% reduction year-to-date in CY 2025. While Udaan has yet to disclose its FY25 numbers, its gross revenue (GMV) grew only 1.7% to Rs 5,706.6 crore in FY24, compared to Rs 5,609.3 crore in FY23. However, it managed to control its losses by 19.4% to Rs 1,674.1 crore in the same period.

RePut.ai closes $1 Mn in pre-seed round led by GrowthCap Ventures

EntrackrEntrackr · 6m ago
RePut.ai closes $1 Mn in pre-seed round led by GrowthCap Ventures
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RePut.ai, a supply chain solutions provider, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by GrowthCap Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from angel investors, including Anshul Sharan (Founder of Elevate), Abhijeet Kumar (Founder of Table Sprint), Harshit Panday, Satish Shetty, Vidya Sridharan, Munendra Singh, Srihari Sahu, Preeti Sagtani, Dr. Biju Jacob, Anand Tiwari, KK and Vishal Jain of Deloitte, among others. Founded by Anuj Bishnoi, Rohit Mahatma, and Amit, RePut.ai empowers brands to validate, market, and scale their sustainability efforts. Its platform ensures businesses achieve global sustainability goals by providing actionable insights for tracking and reducing carbon emissions, driving recycling initiatives, and transitioning towards a circular economy. The Bengaluru-based startup claims to have already deployed successful pilots, generating early revenues and enabling manufacturers to trace their footprints, promote sustainability, and achieve measurable growth.

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