Sustainable mobility brand, Ninety One has raised ₹225 crore (or roughly $30 million) as a part of its latest Series A funding, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. The round saw A91 Partners LLP infusing around ₹160 crore, with participating investors including Fireside Ventures, Avaana Capital and Tital Capital infusing another ₹65 crore … Read more
Micro Services aims to take on AWS. M30. The firm has launched M30, a cloud computing platform designed to challenge Amazon’s dominance. Insider got an exclusive look at the pitch deck Micro used to bring investors on board. Micro Services, a cloud computing firm founded by an ex-Googler, has raised $2 million in seed funding … Read more
The story so far: Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Monday issued directions to stock exchanges in the commodity derivatives segment for immediately suspending trading in derivative contracts in key farm commodities, namely paddy (non-basmati), wheat, chana, mustard seeds and its derivatives, soya bean and its derivatives, crude palm oil and moong for … Read more
Fitness and wellness startup Cult.fit on Monday said it has acquired at-home cardio equipment brands – RPM fitness, Fitkit and Onefitplus. The deal size was not disclosed. Cult is also making a foray into outdoor bicycles business with acquisition of brand Urban Terrain. “The brands were built and scaled by Mohit Mathur and his … Read more
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., said on Twitter that he’ll pay more than $11 billion( ₹85,000 crore) in taxes this year, an amount that could constitute a record payment to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The billionaire may face a tax bill of more than $10 billion … Read more
The government is unlikely to come up with the IPO of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in the current financial year ending March 2022, as the valuation of the state-owned behemoth is taking more than anticipated time, and the preparatory work is still far from complete. There are still some issues that need to be addressed … Read more
In the presentation, senior officials highlighted the issue of trackability of transactions, valuation of cryptos, the extreme price volatility, legal issues and identifying the various actors in the crypto transaction chain as areas of concern. Among the board members Revathy Iyer (former deputy comptroller & auditor general) expressed the need to proceed with caution. However, … Read more
Tiger Global-backed Byju’s is in talks for a U.S. listing through a deal with veteran dealmaker Michael Klein’s blank-check firm that could value the Indian edtech firm at $48 billion, a source told Reuters on Thursday. Byju’s, which offers online education and caters to all age groups, has benefited from a boom in online education … Read more
Toyota said it wanted all models in its upscale Lexus brand to be electric by 2030 in the U.S., China and Europe. And it showed off more than a dozen of the 30 EV models it intends to have on sale by that year. Still, it cautioned that many of its customers, especially in the … Read more