Feb 23, 2015 | India, News, South & Central Asia
NoBroker, a peer-to-peer property listings startup that wants to rid brokers from the rental process in India, has closed a $3 million Series A round to expand its service to more cities beyond Bombay and Bangalore. SAIF Partners and Fulcrum Ventures participated in...
Feb 19, 2015 | India, News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch Wooplr, a startup that is aiming to ignite social commerce in India, has closed a $5 million Series A funding round from Helion Ventures to expand its team and grow across the country. Bangalore-based Wooplr started out as a social network for sharing...
Feb 19, 2015 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Stayzilla, an India-based service that combines regular hotel bookings with short-term, Airbnb-style rentals, has announced a $20 million Series B round to grow its business. The round, details of which leaked last week, was led by Nexus Venture Partners and existing...
Feb 19, 2015 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia, Southeast Asia
East-West Digital News Life.Sreda, a Russian fund investing in financial and mobile technologies, has acquired iboxPro, a leading Asian mobile point-of-sale service, and intends to merge it with its Russian portfolio company LifePay. The details of the transaction...
Feb 18, 2015 | East Asia, News, North America
Samsung has acquired LoopPay, the companies announced today. The acquisition confirms earlier rumors that suggested the two were working closely together on an upcoming project, and suggests Samsung could make use of LoopPay’s technology to offer is own Apple...
