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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.

FarMart bags $10 Mn through equity and debt funding

EntrackrEntrackr · 2m ago
FarMart bags $10 Mn through equity and debt funding
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FarMart allotted 977 Series C CCPS at Rs 4,52,182 per share, with GC India Investment Holdings leading the round with Rs 43 crore, followed by Matrix Partners India (Z47) contributing Rs 1 crore. SaaS-based food supply platform FarMart has raised Rs 84 crore (approx $10 million) through a mix of equity and debt funding. FarMart allotted 977 Series C CCPS at Rs 4,52,182 per share, with GC India Investment Holdings leading the round with Rs 43 crore, followed by Matrix Partners India (Z47) contributing Rs 1 crore, its regulatory filing sourced from the Registrar of Companies (RoC) shows. Besides equity funding, FarMart has issued non-convertible debentures to Stride and Trifecta Venture, totaling Rs 40 crore, the filing shows. The company will use the funds for growth, expansion, and general corporate purposes, as per filings. Entrackr estimates that FarMart has been valued at around Rs 1,800 crore (around $210 million) post-allotment in the latest funding round. FarMart’s B2B platform digitizes the supply chain for agricultural inputs and produce, connecting nearby buyers and sellers to reduce logistics costs associated with long-distance transportation. The company has a strong retailer network across central and northern India, though its presence remains limited in southern states and Jammu & Kashmir. The company has raised over $60 million to date, including its $32 million Series B round led by General Catalyst, with participation from existing investors, Z47, and Omidyar Network India. According to TheKredible, FarMart’s operating revenue grew 30% year-on-year to Rs 1,341 crore in FY24, while it reported a net loss of Rs 68 crore for the same period. GC India Investment Holdings Group, Z47, and ON Mauritius are among the company’s lead investors. Farmart directly competes with Info Edge-backed Gramophone, Kalaari-backed Agrim, Krishify, and others.

Generative AI startup Ema raises $25 Mn from Accel, Prosus, others

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Generative AI startup Ema raises $25 Mn from Accel, Prosus, others
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Generative AI startup Ema has raised $25 million in its first funding round led by Accel, Section 32, and Prosus Ventures. Other investors who participated in the round are Wipro Ventures, Venture Highway, AME Cloud Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Maum Group, and Firebolt Ventures. High profile angels who joined the round include Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Snowflake chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy. Ema will use the funds for research and development, and enhance its existing product suits, the company said in a press release. Founded in 2023 by Surojit Chatterjee, Souvik Sen, and Swati Trehan, Ema’s AI solutions aim to automate processes and workflows within an enterprise. The solutions work with Zendesk, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, Slack, and other popular productivity tools. Ema is said to be capable of engaging in conversations, comprehending context, taking continuous human feedback, reasoning, and making informed decisions. It leverages about 30 large public language models, including GPT 4, GPT-3.5-turbo, Claude 2.1, Gemini, Mistral-S and Llama2, and small in-house language models to maintain accuracy. Ema’s adaptable AI capabilities cater to a wide array of industries, including healthcare, retail, travel, hospitality, finance, manufacturing, e-commerce, technology, and more. At present, Ema has a total workforce of 30 across India and the US. Ema has scooped up the second largest funding for an early-stage startup operating in this space and has a base in India. In December 2023, generative AI startup Sarvam AI raised $41 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed along with participation of Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures.

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