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  • Tiger Global slashed value of venture fund by a third last year March 17, 2023 11:06 AM IST

    Tiger Global slashed value of venture fund by a third last year

    Around $9 billion of the markdown came in the second half of the year, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. A representative for the New York-based firm declined to comment.

  • Funding to Indian startups falls 77% in no respite for the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem February 28, 2023 10:47 AM IST

    Funding to Indian startups falls 77% in no respite for the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem

    In February 2023, the country’s startup ecosystem, currently the third-largest in the world, saw only 91 deals worth $1.32 billion, against 308 deals worth $4.77 billion in the year-ago period

  • PhonePe raises another $100 mn from Tiger Global, others at $12 bn valuation February 14, 2023 04:31 PM IST

    PhonePe raises another $100 mn from Tiger Global, others at $12 bn valuation

    PhonePe plans to deploy these funds to scale up its payments and insurance businesses in India, as well as to launch and aggressively scale new businesses like lending, stockbroking, ONDC-based shopping and account aggregators

  • Up to 42% of new customers till date come at zero acquisition costs: Jupiter’s Jitendra Gupta February 07, 2023 07:22 PM IST

    Up to 42% of new customers till date come at zero acquisition costs: Jupiter’s Jitendra Gupta

    The neobank founder says for businesses such as neobanks and lending platforms to succeed and grow, apart from traditional core business fundamentals, customer acquisition costs needs to be capped and strategised better

  • Tiger Global closes zero India startup deals in January for first time in 2 years January 30, 2023 11:41 AM IST

    Tiger Global closes zero India startup deals in January for first time in 2 years

    Tiger Global turning cautious and going slow on investments suggest a painful period for startups in the country that thrive on private equity and venture capital funding.

  • Flipkart's early backers, Accel Partners and Tiger Global, head for exit: Report January 26, 2023 11:02 AM IST

    Flipkart's early backers, Accel Partners and Tiger Global, head for exit: Report

    "They (Accel and Tiger) want to sell and exit now fully. The discussions are moving ahead and the transaction will close in due time," a person familiar with the matter told ET.

  • GoMechanic taps Cars24, Spinny for a distress sale January 23, 2023 04:30 PM IST

    GoMechanic taps Cars24, Spinny for a distress sale

    GoMechanic's latest funding round was called off last week following alleged misreporting of financials during due diligence, which the founders later admitted to.

  • GoMechanic founder admits to financial reporting errors, to lay off 70% of workforce January 18, 2023 01:06 PM IST

    GoMechanic founder admits to financial reporting errors, to lay off 70% of workforce

    GoMechanic was in talks to raise $75-80 million in a funding round led by SoftBank, but the deal was called off due to accounting irregularities

  • Tiger Global-backed unicorn Moglix joins layoff league January 05, 2023 08:20 AM IST

    Tiger Global-backed unicorn Moglix joins layoff league

    With funding drying up, a number of companies, including the most well-funded, have laid off large numbers of employees since the beginning of 2022 impacting close to 20,000 staff, according to data compiled by Moneycontrol.

  • PE/VC funding tanked 30% in 2022; here's how Indian startups fared this year December 31, 2022 11:05 AM IST

    PE/VC funding tanked 30% in 2022; here's how Indian startups fared this year

    The average deal size of late-stage transactions (investment into companies that are over 10 years old, or Series G or later rounds of institutional investments) fell 39 percent to $90 million in 2022 from $148 million last year.

  • Blockchain analytics, wallets, and infrastructure innovations: CoinSwitch’s Web3 Discovery Fund is finding opportunities in a bear market December 28, 2022 03:35 PM IST

    Blockchain analytics, wallets, and infrastructure innovations: CoinSwitch’s Web3 Discovery Fund is finding opportunities in a bear market

    According to Tracxn, Indian Web3 startups raised $624 million in 2022 amid negative sentiment around crypto, a jump of over 500 percent from the $115 million raised in 2021.

  • Lending firm Money View raises $75 million in Series E funding led by Apis Partners December 26, 2022 01:06 PM IST

    Lending firm Money View raises $75 million in Series E funding led by Apis Partners

    The firm is currently operating at an annualized disbursal run rate of $1.2 billion and is presently managing AUMs of over $800 million.

  • Tiger Global-backed neobank Jupiter, valued at $710 million, earns Rs 40 lakh from operations in FY22 December 22, 2022 01:34 PM IST

    Tiger Global-backed neobank Jupiter, valued at $710 million, earns Rs 40 lakh from operations in FY22

    Jupiter's losses increased to Rs 164 crore in FY22 from Rs 14 crore in FY21 as its employee benefit expenses tripled to Rs 68.6 crore from Rs 17.7 crore a year earlier, show regulatory filings

  • Tiger Global startup investments drop 70% in 11 months of 2022 as funding winter worsens December 12, 2022 09:55 AM IST

    Tiger Global startup investments drop 70% in 11 months of 2022 as funding winter worsens

    In terms of value, Tiger Global has slowed in India this year, as it has globally, shows data. Tiger Global invested $807 million in the first eleven months of 2022, a 70 percent decrease from the previous year's total of $2.75 billion.

  • Tiger Global-backed Vedantu lays off another 385 employees to focus on profitability December 07, 2022 03:59 PM IST

    Tiger Global-backed Vedantu lays off another 385 employees to focus on profitability

    Employees from across verticals have been laid off but learning content, HR (human resources) and sales enablement teams are the most affected teams

  • Tiger Global, SoftBank are the culprits. They are the bad guys: Inventus Capital's Kanwal Rekhi on private market slowdown and correction December 06, 2022 06:46 PM IST

    Tiger Global, SoftBank are the culprits. They are the bad guys: Inventus Capital's Kanwal Rekhi on private market slowdown and correction

    In a no holds barred interview, Rekhi said SoftBank pushed for growth instead of profitability and that a growth-stage startup with no profitability is nonsense.

  • Tiger Global Series A participation up 80% on year  as startups face funding winter December 06, 2022 10:29 AM IST

    Tiger Global Series A participation up 80% on year as startups face funding winter

    Tiger Global has participated in Series A rounds totalling $458 million in the first 11 months of 2022, an increase of 80 percent compared to the same period in the previous year

  • Classplus is overvalued, Unacademy's Gaurav Munjal says citing Graphy's growth November 29, 2022 01:47 PM IST

    Classplus is overvalued, Unacademy's Gaurav Munjal says citing Graphy's growth

    "We believe one can only understand their business and numbers well enough. Others can only speculate. And hence, we don’t like to look down upon anyone," Classplus' founder told Moneycontrol.

  • Spinny opens 1,000 acre park in Bengaluru as it sees used cars demand continuing to remain strong November 24, 2022 09:47 AM IST

    Spinny opens 1,000 acre park in Bengaluru as it sees used cars demand continuing to remain strong

    Founder said that they are witnessing strong demand in Bengaluru as the city contributes nearly 8 percent to overall sales. He also said that Bengaluru is the largest hub for Spinny

  • Tiger Global’s Scott Shleifer 'very bullish' on India amid global tech rout November 23, 2022 08:00 AM IST

    Tiger Global’s Scott Shleifer 'very bullish' on India amid global tech rout

    Tiger Global, though bullish, is not comfortable writing late-stage cheques just yet. It will continue to play in the early stage phase and India is expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of Tiger Global’s new fund

  • Tiger Global-backed Scaler grants 10 days paid time off to all employees, calls it 'gratitude' for a successful year November 17, 2022 02:03 PM IST

    Tiger Global-backed Scaler grants 10 days paid time off to all employees, calls it 'gratitude' for a successful year

    The upskilling platform said the company-wide year-end shutdown is to offer ‘gratitude’ to employees for their efforts throughout the year that turned out to be a struggle for Indian edtech companies.

  • Tiger Global offloads 2.98% shares of PB Fintech worth Rs 522 crore November 14, 2022 08:47 PM IST

    Tiger Global offloads 2.98% shares of PB Fintech worth Rs 522 crore

    The shares were disposed of at an average price of Rs 389.38-Rs 389.44 apiece, taking the transaction value to Rs 522.50 crore.

  • Tiger global joins China exodus as market swings turn extreme November 04, 2022 12:43 PM IST

    Tiger global joins China exodus as market swings turn extreme

    Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management has become the latest in the string of big-name money managers to divest or reduce exposure to China, taking the country’s share of its portfolio to the mid-single digits last month from the mid-teens earlier in the year.

  • Tiger Global pauses investments in Chinese equities November 04, 2022 07:27 AM IST

    Tiger Global pauses investments in Chinese equities

    Tiger executives have told others that Xi’s reelection and his stacking of the Communist Party’s leadership with loyalists at the recent party Congress could increase geopolitical tensions and means the country’s Zero-COVID policy will likely continue, the WSJ reported.

  • Tiger global’s venture Capital gets loans from Apollo global November 02, 2022 11:02 AM IST

    Tiger global’s venture Capital gets loans from Apollo global

    Affiliates of Apollo’s Athene insurance business made at least $330 million of loans secured by assets in Tiger Global venture funds, primarily their stakes in private firms, during the first six months of this year, state regulatory filings show.