Ecosystem Weekly | 18th July’21
OYO raises $660M term loan funding from institutional investors
Oyo has announced that it has raised a Term Loan B (TLB) funding of $660 million from global institutional investors. The hospitality unicorn in its statement said that the offer was oversubscribed by 1.7 times.
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Reliance Retail to acquire 66.95% stake in Just Dial for $469 mn
Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) announced it will acquire a controlling 66.95% stake in local search engine platform Just Dial Ltd for Rs 3,497 crore ($469 million).
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- Vadodara-based specialty chemical manufacturer Tatva Chintan Pharma Chem has raised $21 million in funding from Goldman Sachs India, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Aberdeen Standard Asia Focus Plc, Malabar India Fund, Axis Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential MF, HDFC MF, SBI MF, Aditya Birla Sun Life MF and SBI Life Insurance
- Bengaluru-based business-in-a-box platform for professionals Protonn has raised $9 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners India, 021 Capital, Tanglin Venture Partners, Binny Bansal, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Neeraj Arora, Sujeet Kumar and Kunal Shah
- Bengaluru-based reseller platform OneCode has raised $5 million in funding from Surge, Nexus Venture Partners, WaterBridge Ventures, Aakrit Vaish, Amrish Rau, Anand Chandrasekaran, Arjun Vaidya, Ashish Dave, Cloud Capital, Gaurav Munjal, Harshil Mathur, Jitendra Gupta, Kunal Shah, Lalit Keshre, Miten Sampat, Pravin Jadhav, Rahul Mathur, Sandeep Srinivas, Sujeeth Kumar, Sweta Rau and Vivek Ananda
- Chennai-based aqua farmers’ network Aquaconnect has raised $4 million in pre-Series A funding from Rebright Partners, Flourish Ventures, AgFunder, 6G Capital, Omnivore, HATCH
- Bengaluru-based electric vehicle maker Ati Motors has raised $4 million in pre-series A funding from Blume Ventures, Exfinity Venture Partners and other HNIs

Fintech platform Pine Labs announces $600M round led by Fidelity and BlackRock
MTG acquires India-based PlaySimple; Chiratae, Elevation Capital exit

EdTech platform Saarthi Pedagogy to empower Indian schools with Rs 7 crore of fresh funding led by Ecosystem Ventures
Licious raises $192M in Series F round led by Temasek and Multiples PE

Temasek, TPG Growth backed PharmEasy to buy listed diagnostics firm Thyrocare
Piramal Pharma’s contract division completes acquisition of Hemmo

BYJU’S surpasses Paytm to be India’s most valuable startup after raising $350M
Apna raises $70M in Series B round led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global


Tiger Global leads $35 Mn round in GoMechanic

Logistics startup Delhivery raises $275M in Series H round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company
Urban Company raises $255M in Series F round at $2.1B valuation

Tata Buys Majority Stake in BigBasket, to Compete Against Amazon, Flipkart







Groww acquires mutual funds business of Indiabulls Housing Finance
