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Cornerstone Ventures bags $100 Mn exit from Intelligence Node

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Cornerstone Ventures bags $100 Mn exit from Intelligence Node
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Cornerstone Ventures, a SaaS-focused venture capital, has successfully exited Intelligence Node, a retail analytics and AI platform. The exit was achieved through a $100 million (Rs 849.5 crore) acquisition by global advertising giant Interpublic Group (IPG). The exit follows Intelligence Node’s acquisition by global advertising powerhouse Interpublic Group (IPG). This marks the second exit for Cornerstone Ventures Fund I (after Wigzo Technologies was acquired by logistics unicorn Shiprocket in 2021). With just two exits, the fund claims to have returned around 20% of the corpus raised and has several of the remaining 19 portfolio companies coming up for liquidity events in the near term. According to Cornerstone Ventures’ managing partner Abhishek Prasad, the fund expects to return around 100% of the corpus over the next 18-24 months, and overall deliver a 3.5-4X multiple through its lifetime (another 5 years to go). Founded in 2012, Intelligence Node has AI-driven solutions that empower businesses to optimize their digital shelf presence and pricing strategies. Cornerstone Ventures’ portfolio includes notable players in the Service SaaS space, such as ManageArtWorks, THB, EnParadigm, WatchYourHealth and Credit Nirvana, as well as SaaS + Marketplace models like Blubirch, Credilio, and Mystifly.

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Cornerstone Ventures launches Fund II at $200 Mn

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Cornerstone Ventures launches Fund II at $200 Mn
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Venture capital firm Cornerstone Ventures has announced the launch of its second fund with a target size of $200 million including a green-shoe option of $50 million. The fund ticket sizes range from $5 million to $15 million in a mix of early- to growth-stage startups. As per Cornerstone, it plans to invest in 15-20 startups with the latest fund. The Mumbai-based firm plans to invest across software platforms and marketplaces operating in sectors such as financial services and insurance, retail, consumer goods and ecommerce, distribution and supply chain, and healthcare products and services. Its portfolio companies of the first fund includes Credilo, THB, Blubirch, and Dhiway. The fund claims to have facilitated $1-2 million additional annual recurring revenue for each of its portfolio companies and been an active participant in their respective growth journeys. The firm first launched Cornerstone Ventures Fund-I in 2019 with a size of about $50 million. The fund was deployed across 21 portfolio companies, primarily focused on B2B enterprise software-as-a-service business models.

Irame.ai bags $1 Mn in seed round from SenseAI Ventures

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Irame.ai bags $1 Mn in seed round from SenseAI Ventures
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Irame.ai, an AI-powered enterprise productivity and audit intelligence platform, has secured $1 million in its seed round from SenseAI Ventures, an AI-first venture capital fund. The proceeds will be used to accelerate Irame.ai to transform audit automation, anomaly detection, and enterprise compliance through AI-driven insights. Founded by Kapil Arora, Irame.ai streamlines the knowledge processing and forecasting process. The framework enables users to design, develop, and launch AI-driven applications without coding. Its approach claims to deliver audits up to 3-4x faster while significantly reducing costs helping enterprises modernize governance with efficiency. Built by Rahul Agarwalla and Raja Gopalakrishnan SenseAI Ventures is a Rs 200 crore fund.

Awign bags $24.5 Mn in series C, Mynavi now holds 73% stake

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Awign bags $24.5 Mn in series C, Mynavi now holds 73% stake
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Awign has raised Rs 203.5 crore or $24.5 million from Japan-based Mynavi Corporation, which will now control a 73% stake in the Bengaluru-based HR tech startup, according to the company’s filings with RoC. In May, the board at Awign passed a special resolution to issue 11,485 Series C CCPS at an issue price of Rs 1,77,206 each to raise Rs 203.5 crore or $24.5 million, its regulatory filings show. This coincided with Awign’s public announcement that MyNavi will control the majority stake in the former. However, the startup had not divulged more details of the transaction at the time. Sifting through Awign’s filings, Entrackr has learned that the company also passed a separate resolution to buy back 2,641 Series A CCPS representing 7% of the capital at a cumulative amount of Rs 43.1 crore. Mynavi Corporation purchased 24,018 shares from existing investors worth around Rs 393 crore to Rs 490 crore. The investors who got partial or full exit include Unitus Ventures, Pinnacle Investment, Dell Foundation, and the company co-founders. As per Fintrackr’s estimates, Awign has been valued at around Rs 828 crore or $100 million (post-allotment). Entrackr has reached out to Awign to learn more about the transaction. We’ll update the story in case we hear from them. Awign will use these proceeds for general operations, meeting working capital needs, and business expansion, filing revealed. Founded by Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh, and Praveen Kumar Sah in 2016, Awign helps enterprises run their businesses via outcome-based execution along with discovery, deployment, and payroll. Awign continued to post solid performance in terms of financial growth in FY23. Its scale spiked over 2X to Rs 134.35 crore in the fiscal year ending March 2023. Akin to its revenue growth, the firm’s losses also grew around 2X to Rs 39.6 crore in the same period. The company is yet to file annual results for FY24. As per the startup intelligence platform TheKredible, funding in the HR tech space shrank over 70% to $90 million in 2023 from $315 million in 2021. In 2022, the space received a funding infusion of $341 million.

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