Naspers leads $80 mn round in Swiggy; Flipkart, Snapdeal see top-level exits amid merger talks; Fin-tech startups hit purple patch as VCs line up; Zooty, SimpliLend, Nivesh.com, LeadSquared get funding

[] SATURDAY, 3 June, 2017 [twitter]( [linkedin]( [facebook]( [you tube]( [VCCircle]( [techcircle] [Naspers leads $80 mn Series E round in food-delivery startup Swiggy]( Online food ordering startup Swiggy.com, which is run by Bengaluru-based Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd, has secured $80 million... FUNDING [Exclusive: Beauty services platform Zooty raises follow-on funding]( [Exclusive: Online rental marketplace RentOnGo raises fresh funding]( [Mutual fund investment platform Nivesh.com raises angel round]( [Logistics tech startup Loadshare raises first funding round from Matrix Partners]( [Exclusive: AppDynamics' Bansal bets on LeadSquared, Funds Tiger; may float fund]( [Exclusive: Digital lending startup SimpliLend raises angel funding]( [IIM Kozhikode inducts 12 startups into first incubation programme]( [Karnataka govt starts Elevate programme to back 100 startups]( [Fin-tech startups hit purple patch as VCs make a beeline]( [Lightspeed, WaterBridge, others back hyperlocal discovery startup Magicpin]( [Grocery startup Supr Daily gets $1.5 mn from Silicon Valley investors]( [Travel ERP platform Tripeur raises seed funding]( UNICORNS [Exclusive: Former Flipkart exec Vasudev set to head Walmart Labs India]( [Exclusive: Snapdeal issues stock worth $17 mn to Nexus, founders]( [Flipkart appoints former biz development head as CEO of after-sales service arm]( [After COO Nitin Seth, Flipkart loses two more senior executives]( [Snapdeal's HR chief Saurabh Nigam resigns amid merger talks]( [In another top-level exit, Flipkart's COO Nitin Seth resigns]( [Uber finance head Gautam Gupta quits; Jan-March loss narrows]( [Recruitment portal Hiree's co-founder quits Quikr, joins Tata Digital Health]( [Flipkart will soon offer customers financial products and services]( < VIEWS [AI startups in India will go global in 2-3 years: pi Ventures' Manish Singhal]( VIDEOS [Can Naspers' backing help Swiggy take on Zomato and Foodpanda?]( OTHER STORIES [Google, Apple lead tech giants in acquiring AI startups]( [DigitalF5 acquires digital marketing startup AdClear]( [Exclusive: Bill splitting app Splitkart halts operations]( [Careers360's strategy chief buys out NoPaperForms to run it as separate entity]( [Rocket Internet eyes profit from startups, narrows quarterly loss]( [Happiest Minds acquires US-based digital transformation firm OSSCube]( [Foodtech startup MonkeyBox acquires juice maker RawKing]( [Former ICICI Bank exec Rajiv Sabharwal joins Finova Capital as adviser]( [Exclusive: Former Snapdeal category management head Saurabh Bansal joins Lenskart]( [Naukri.com parent Info Edge's Q4 net profit drops 15%]( [Reliance Jio's impact, falling data cost key takeaways from Mary Meeker's report]( [Online marketplace Infibeam's net profit rises six times in Q4]( [India's ed-tech industry to grow eight-fold to $2 bn by 2021: Google-KPMG study]( [Secondcry: A startup that unlocks the value of your child's old possessions]( FROM VCCIRCLE [Exclusive: Temasek-backed analytics firm Manthan in talks for majority stake sale]( [M&A deal of the month: Ebix cashes in on digital payments boom with ItzCash buy]( [Exclusive: Online insurance broker Coverfox raises Series C round]( [Helion's Rahul Chandra to launch $100 mn early-stage fund]( [Exclusive: Image processing startup Wowflux raises fresh funds]( [Exclusive: Citrus Pay co-founder's Cube Consumer raises seed funding]( [Carpediem backs online medical devices distributor Collateral Medical]( [Exclusive: IndiQus Technolgies acquires Delhi-based data analytics firm]( [IAN Fund appoints former Cisco director as managing partner]( [vccircle]( Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd. A - 83, Ground Floor, Sector - 2 Noida - 201301, India Tel: 0120-4171111, Email: subscription@vccircle.com Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt Ltd, A-83, Sector -2, Noida, 201301 India [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by newsletter@vccircle.com in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](