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Meesho Closes Another $250-270 Mn Round

Inc42 · 11m ago

Meesho Closes Another $250-270 Mn Round

E-commerce platform Meesho has successfully closed a funding round of $250-270 million, attracting new investors like Tiger Global and Think Investments, bringing the total to approximately $550 million. This funding is primarily for covering tax liabilities related to its planned reverse merger with its Indian unit, Fashnear Technologies. The deal values Meesho at around $3.9-4 billion, a decline from its previous valuation of $4.9 billion. Founded in 2015, Meesho boasts over 1.5 million sellers and 140 million annual transacting users. The company aims to file IPO papers in late 2025, with a potential listing in 2026, pending regulatory approval.

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Meesho closes $275 million funding in first tranche, in talks for more

Economic Times

Economic Times · 1y ago

Meesho closes $275 million funding in first tranche, in talks for more

Indian ecommerce firm Meesho has raised $275 million in a funding round that includes both primary and secondary share sales. The funding round is part of a larger $600 million round, which is expected to value Meesho at up to $3.9 billion. Meesho, which competes with Amazon India and Flipkart, plans to use the funds to support its growth and expansion. The company has raised a total of $1.36 billion since its inception in 2015. Meesho is also reportedly considering flipping its US parent company and potentially going public in India.

Meesho closes $550 million round; moves NCLT to shift domicile

Economic Times

Economic Times · 11m ago

Meesho closes $550 million round; moves NCLT to shift domicile

Ecommerce firm Meesho secured $550 million in a funding round, bringing in new investors like Tiger Global. The majority of the funding is secondary, with primary capital raised to cover tax costs related to a reverse merger of Meesho's India unit with its US parent, facilitating its planned IPO by 2026. Valued at around $3.9-4 billion, Meesho aims to file IPO papers by the second half of 2025, contingent on NCLT approval speed.

Meesho Eyes Larger $500 Mn-$650 Mn Round At Lower Valuation: Report

Inc42 · 1y ago

Meesho Eyes Larger $500 Mn-$650 Mn Round At Lower Valuation: Report

Indian e-commerce platform, Meesho, is reportedly increasing the size of its upcoming funding round to $500-650 million, from the initial target of $300 million, due to strong investor interest. The funding round is expected to be led by Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners, with participation from SoftBank, WestBridge Capital and Mars Growth Capital. It is reported that $300 million of the funding will be designated for settling taxes incurred during the transfer of the company's domicile from Delaware to India. The round is expected to value Meesho at $3.9 billion, a 20% decrease from its previous valuation of $4.9 billion.

GIVA raises ₹270 cr led by Wipro Founder Chairman's Premji Invest

Inshorts · 2y ago

GIVA raises ₹270 cr led by Wipro Founder Chairman's Premji Invest

Jewellery brand GIVA has raised ₹270 crore in a funding round led by Wipro Founder Chairman Azim Premji's Premji Invest. The startup raised ₹200 crore in primary capital in the Series B funding round, which saw participation from existing investors Aditya Birla Ventures, Alteria Capital and A91 Partners. GIVA raised another ₹70 crore through a secondary sales transaction and gave partial exit to Kunal Shah and FirstCheque.

B Capital Closes ‘Opportunities Fund II’ At $750 Mn

Inc42 · 1y ago

B Capital Closes ‘Opportunities Fund II’ At $750 Mn

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's venture capital firm B Capital has announced the closure of its Opportunities Fund II, raising $750 million. The fund received commitments from various investors including private and public pension funds, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and sovereign wealth funds. While the majority of the fund will be used for follow-on investments in the firm's existing portfolio, a portion will also be allocated for new startups. B Capital's portfolio includes Indian startups such as BYJU'S, Meesho, PharmEasy, Fi.Money, MSwipe, and Bizongo. The firm primarily focuses on technology, healthcare, and climate tech ventures in North America and Asia.

Mars Growth to lead Meesho’s secondary round

The Arc Web

The Arc Web · 1y ago

Mars Growth to lead Meesho’s secondary round

Singapore's Mars Growth Capital is looking to acquire a stake in Meesho, an ecommerce platform. Through its Dragon Fund, Mars is expected to purchase the largest block of shares in the secondary deal. Existing investor, Peak XV Partners, is also planning to increase its stake through its growth fund. Other investors, including Meta, Venture Highway, and a group of angels, will sell their holdings in Meesho as part of the secondary round, which is estimated to be worth $200-250 million. Meesho reported profitability in Q3 2021, with a profit after tax of $7 million on revenues of $227 million.

Magma closes Series A round at $8 Mn

Entrackr

Entrackr · 10d ago

Magma closes Series A round at $8 Mn

Snippets Magma closes Series A round at $8 Mn Industrial B2B solutions provider Magma has closed its Series A round at $8 million, following an additional $3 million extension to its previously announced $5 million raise in April 2025. Gyan Vardhan 18 Dec 2025 14:01 IST Follow UsNew UpdateIndustrial B2B solutions provider Magma has closed its Series A round at $8 million, following an additional $3 million extension to its previously announced $5 million raise in April 2025. The $3 million fresh infusion includes $1.2 million from its existing investors Capria Ventures and Avinya Ventures, $1.3 million from the Gujarat Government’s VC arm, GVFL, and $0.5 million from AVNM Ventures.Magma has raised a total of $11.3 million to date, including $3.3 million in seed funding.The proceeds will be deployed to scale its operations across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Telangana; strengthen precision manufacturing networks, accelerate the growth of TerraMag, its advanced industrial materials brand, and introduce new factory-focused solutions, Magma said in a press release.Launched in 2022 by Neal Thakker, Magma builds an ‘Industrial Operations Stack’ for factories and contract manufacturers. With deep proximity to industrial clusters and a fundamentals-driven, profitability-first approach, the company works closely with mid-market manufacturers to modernise production, improve throughput, and bring transparency to supply and demand in India’s fragmented industrial ecosystem.Magma claims to have over 250 industrial customers across ceramics, industrial chemicals, paper, polymers, plastics and packaging sectors including Reliance, Adani and Arvind Group among others. With a footprint across 12 states in India, the startup serves a wide range of industries, including chemicals, packaging, polymers, paper, plastics, ceramics, and more. The Ahmedabad-based startup plans to double down on Magma Green, a green manufacturing and materials platform delivering waste-management and recycled-materials solutions across the paper, plastic, agro, and sawdust value chains. Capria Ventures is a global south-focused venture capital firm investing in applied AI innovations shaping the future of emerging markets like India, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. With over $200 million in AUM, the firm backs high-growth startups that embed AI to transform foundation sectors such as jobs, finance, healthcare, agriculture, and enterprise solutions.

Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn

Entrackr

Entrackr · 1y ago

Atomicwork closes Seed round at $14 Mn

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.

Beta Boom Closes $14.5M Fund II

Finsmes · 1y ago

Beta Boom Closes $14.5M Fund II

Beta Boom, a Salt Lake City-based venture capital firm, has successfully closed a $14.5 million Fund II. The funding round received support from various limited partners including Ally Bank, Pivotal Ventures, Bank of America, and Atento Capital. This marks another milestone for Beta Boom as it continues to support pre-seed and seed stage startups. For more information, visit VCWire.tech, a dedicated website for the tech venture capital industry.

PremjiInvest scripting nearly $250 mn exit with bumper returns

VCCircle

VCCircle · 1y ago

PremjiInvest scripting nearly $250 mn exit with bumper returns

PremjiInvest, the family office of Azim Premji, founder chairman of Wipro, has made a successful partial exit that yielded 10x returns earlier this year. The investment firm has now sold a five-year old private equity-style portfolio bet, aiming for another lucrative return. The amount for the latest exit is estimated to be around $250 million.

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