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Exclusive: Data Sutram to raise $10-12 Mn led by Lightspeed and B Capital

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Exclusive: Data Sutram to raise $10-12 Mn led by Lightspeed and B Capital
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Exclusive: Data Sutram to raise $10-12 Mn led by Lightspeed and B Capital B2B SaaS company Data Sutram is in advanced stages of securing $10-12 million in a new funding round, according to sources familiar with the development. The new round is coming within 15 months for the Mumbai-based startup. “Lightspeed Venture Partners and B Capital are leading the new round in Data Sutram as the deal is expected to close soon,” said one of the sources. “Existing investors will also participate.” Founded in 2018 by Rajit Bhattacharya, Aisik Paul, and Ankit Das, Data Sutram’s proprietary AI and ML-driven data engine automatically converts raw unstructured data from satellites, mobile phones, POS machines, and several other sources. Its product suite—Find, Authenticate, and Grow—has gained significant traction among major banks, NBFCs, and fintechs worldwide. The company asserts that its data insights drive a 3X boost in sales, reduce fraud cases by 45%, and enhance customer lifetime value (CLTV) by 1.5X. In September 2023, Data Sutram secured $3 million in funding, led by Singularity Growth Fund and other investors. Earlier, in February 2022, the company raised $2.07 million in a funding round spearheaded by Varanium Capital and Yatra Angel Network. As per sources, Data Sutram is looking for a valuation of $60-70 million (post money). Queries sent to Data Sutram, Lightspeed and B Capital remained unanswered until publication of the story. For the fiscal year ended in March 2024 (FY24), Data Sutram reported Rs 5.6 crore in revenue with a loss of Rs 10.8 crore.

Exclusive: Elevation Capital to lead $5 Mn round in Rumik.ai

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Exclusive: Elevation Capital to lead $5 Mn round in Rumik.ai
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Exclusive: Elevation Capital to lead $5 Mn round in Rumik.ai Rumik has developed Ira, an AI system built to analyze emotion, understand user intent, and converse in languages such as Hinglish, Bangla, and Marathi. Conversational AI platform Rumik.ai is raising a new round led by Elevation Capital with participation from existing investors, according to two people aware of the matter. "Rumik recently raised $1.5 million from Info Edge, and Elevation is now leading a fresh $5 million in a new round," said a person who requested anonymity, as the details of the deal aren’t public. Sources also indicated that Huddle Ventures and Info Edge invested in April and both are likely to participate in the new round as well. Incorporated in April 2024, Rumik AI focuses on providing its conversational AI platform to enterprises. It has developed Ira, an AI system built to analyze emotion, understand user intent, and converse in languages such as Hinglish, Bangla, and Marathi. The company emphasizes that Ira does more than just process data. It forms memories and experiences to develop human-like intelligence, aiming to bridge the gap between robotic responses and genuine understanding. “The term sheet has been signed, and the money is likely to move soon,” said a second source who requested anonymity. “Given the recent investor interest in conversational AI and speech recognition, Rumik may be targeting a valuation in the range of $25–30 million.” Queries sent to Elevation, Rumik, Info Edge and Huddle did not elicit a response by the time of publication. Last month, Elevation Capital led a $6 million seed funding round in Agentic AI startup Adopt AI, which also features a conversational AI interface that executes tasks using natural language. In December 2024, the venture capital firm appointed former Meta executive Krishna Mehra as a partner to lead investments in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and AI.

Exclusive: Spinny in talks to mop up over $100 Mn in internal round

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Exclusive: Spinny in talks to mop up over $100 Mn in internal round
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Exclusive: Spinny in talks to mop up over $100 Mn in internal round Tiger Global-backed Spinny is in talks to raise over $100 million in a new round mostly financed by existing investors, said three sources aware of the contours of the deal. Used car platform Spinny is preparing for a new round almost after a gap of over three years. The Tiger Global-backed company is in talks to raise over $100 million in a new round mostly financed by existing investors, said three sources aware of the contours of the deal. “Spinny could raise up to $120 million from internal investors including Elevation Capital, Abu Dhabi Growth Fund, General Catalyst and Accel among others,” said one of the sources on condition of anonymity. Sources assert that the talks are in an early stage and it may take a quarter to materialize. If the deal gets through, Spinny would be the first used car platform to raise a new round since late 2021. As per sources, its valuation more or less remains unchanged in the potential round. Market analysts point out that Spinny has emerged as a clear leader with a large delta in the used car retail space as the company appears to have cracked demand first transaction model. It has achieved this on the back of one of the lowest consumer acquisition costs and better gross margin. The Gurugram-based company also scaling auction-based verticals for dealers and car-financing businesses. Most of the money from the new round is likely to be deployed to grow the lending biz, said sources. “Spinny sells close to 7,000 cars every month with an average transaction size of around 6 lakhs. It also sells around 5000 more cars every month on its B2B auction platform,” said the source mentioned above. Queries sent to Spinny, Accel, Elevation and General Catalyst did not elicit an immediate response. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Spinny has raised around $500 million to date. Tiger Global and Accel are its largest stakeholders with 14.25% and 13.25% holding respectively. For the fiscal year ended in March 2024, Spinny’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 3,725.02 crore from Rs 3,259.78 crore in FY23​. During the period, its losses reduced by 28% to Rs 590.37 crore.

Exclusive: Healthcare startup Practo reduces workforce

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Exclusive: Healthcare startup Practo reduces workforce
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The digital healthcare platform Practo is now among the several startups that have conducted significant layoffs to cut costs and focus on profitability, according to three sources familiar with the details. “Practo has laid off over 20% of its workforce earlier this week,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. Practo has also confirmed that it has let some staff go. However, the company did not disclose the total number of workforce impacted. Last year, Practo laid off 41 employees mostly from the engineering team part of the company’s continuous performance management and planning process, amid funding winter. Practo has raised a total of $179 million to date, including a $55 million Series D round led by China’s Tencent, and other existing investors, at around a $600-650 million valuation. According to the startup data intelligence platform, TheKredible, Sequoia Capital is the largest stakeholder in Practo with 33.8% shares, followed by Tencent and AIA Hong Kong, which command 9.9% and 6.6% stakes, respectively. Founded in 2008, Practo connects doctors with patients and offers several ancillary services such as telemedicine, pathology, and medicines. The platform claims to have 150,000 doctor partners, and around 1.7-1.8 million annual visitors to its platform. It is present across 720 cities, and 13,900 pin codes across 20 countries. Practo also claims to be profitable in the ongoing fiscal year. In FY23 the healthcare startup posted flat revenue at Rs 211 crore whereas its loss dwindled by 58% to Rs 99.4 crore during FY23.

Exclusive: Gen AI startup Simplismart to raise $7 Mn led by Accel

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Exclusive: Gen AI startup Simplismart to raise $7 Mn led by Accel
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Generative artificial intelligence startup Simplismart is all set to raise a new round led by Accel, two sources aware of the matter told Entrackr. The Bengaluru-based startup will join a growing list of generative AI startups which have raised decent funding in the ongoing calendar year. “Accel is leading $7 million round in Simplismart with backing from existing investors,” said a source requesting anonymity. “Simplismart has received the term sheets and the deal is set to be public soon.” Simplismart previously raised seed money from Anicut Capital, Sunn91, First Cheque and Shastra VC but it didn’t announce the deal in the media. Founded in 2022 by Amritanshu Jain and Devansh Ghatak, Simplismart enables businesses to build a scalable production-grade AI system and manage the development lifecycle without writing a single line of code. As per the company, its platform lets an amateur as well as an expert train and monitor ML models collaboratively on almost any kind of data or use-case. Sources assert that the company will be valued at around $35 million. Accel declined to comment on the story while queries sent to Simplismart did not elicit any response. In July 2023, AWS and Accel launched the AWS ML Elevate program which selected 35 generative startups from India and Simplismart was a part of the cohort. A recent study by NASSCOM said that the number of generative AI startups in India has more than doubled from 2021 to 2023. This can also be evident from the surge in funding in such startups since December 2023. As per data compiled by startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, more than half a dozen early-stage generative AI startups have raised nearly $100 million in funding in the past six months, Sarvam AI leads the pack with $41 million in Series A followed by Ema and Neysa which raised $25 million and $20 million in their seed round respectively. The list also includes Vodex, KonProz, Dubpro.ai, PlanckDOT and Ayna.

Exclusive: Mobility unicorn Rapido set to raise $60 Mn from Prosus

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Exclusive: Mobility unicorn Rapido set to raise $60 Mn from Prosus
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Mobility firm Rapido is set to raise $50-60 million in a mix of primary and secondary capital from Prosus, according to three sources familiar with the deal. This tranche is part of its ongoing $200 million round. “Prosus will acquire a $60 million stake in Rapido. The terms of the deal have been finalized, and it will also enable partial exits for early backers,” said one of the sources, requesting anonymity. Rapido has already secured $120 million in its Series E funding round from WestBridge Capital, through investment vehicles including SETU AIF and Konark. Entrackr had exclusively decoded this tranche in August. “With Prosus’s $60 million, Rapido will conclude its Series E round,” said another source, who also wished to remain anonymous. Sources indicate that the company’s valuation will remain unchanged. According to estimates from startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, Rapido was valued at around $1.02 billion in the initial tranche of the Series E round, funded entirely by WestBridge. Queries sent to Rapido and Prosus didn’t elicit any immediate response. We will update the story in case they do. It’s worth noting that Prosus is the largest stakeholder in food delivery and quick commerce major Swiggy. Swiggy acquired over a 12% stake in Rapido after leading its $180 million funding round in November 2022. Prosus’s interest in Rapido comes at a time when Rapido has surpassed Ola and Uber to become the largest player in the overall ride-hailing space (covering bikes, autos, and cabs), according to Rapido’s internal documents reviewed by Entrackr. Rapido has yet to disclose its FY24 numbers, but the firm’s operating revenue tripled to Rs 443 crore in FY23. This steep growth in scale also led to a 54% increase in losses, reaching Rs 675 crore in FY23.

Exclusive: M2P Fintech to raise $80 Mn at $900 Mn valuation

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Exclusive: M2P Fintech to raise $80 Mn at $900 Mn valuation
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Application programming interface (API) infrastructure platform M2P Fintech (formerly Yap) is in the final stage to raise a new round from new and existing investors, three sources aware of the details told Entrackr. The new round will come for the Bengaluru-based company after two and a half years. It raised $56 million in an equity round led by Insight Partners at a valuation of $650 million (post-money). “M2P is closing a $80 million new round of funding led by a new investor. Existing investors including Insight Partners are likely to join the round,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. Sources assert that funding will be used to beef up tech infrastructure and accelerate growth pedal in India and overseas markets among others. For the uninitiated, M2P Fintech’s API enables businesses to offer their own branded financial services through partnerships with fintech companies while ensuring regulatory compliance. Apart from India, it operates in Nepal, UAE, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Bahrain and Egypt among several other countries. “M2P will be valued at around $880 to $900 million (post-money) in the new round,” said another source requesting anonymity. “The company has already received the term sheet and the deal is set to be public soon.” Queries sent to M2P Fintech and Insight Partners did not elicit an immediate response. To strengthen its offerings, the Tiger Global-backed firm has acquired six companies to date including Goals101, Syntizen and BSG ITSOFT. According to startup data intelligence platform TheKredible, M2P has raised Rs 864 crore till date. Beenext is the largest stakeholder in the company with over 13% holding. Its co-founders Madhusudhan R, Muthukumar A and Prabhu R collectively own 34% of the firm. M2P is yet to disclose its FY24 numbers but its operating revenue surged 2.26X to Rs 440.7 crore in FY23 from Rs 194.74 crore in FY22. The growth triggered the firm’s losses by 3.35X to Rs 134.26 crore in FY23. M2P Fintech is a leader in the API infrastructure business which counts Setu, Signzy and Decentro as other key players.

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