Retail Jewellery Marketplace, Joolz raises USD 500K funding from ah! Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures & others
Joolz, an online jewellery community and a marketplace that facilitates jewellery retail, has taken the Indian jewellery industry by storm. This enterprise has recently raised INR 3.3 Crores amount of funding as a part of its Pre Series A round from ah! Ventures and others.This current seed round was also led by Mahesh Ahuja – […]
GST and its impact on Start-ups
The announcement about passing of the Goods and Services Tax or the GST bill as is referred to is something everyone seems to be euphoric about and well, it is news worth the noise. The GST bill that was first recommended in 2003 by Kelkar Task Force, was mooted in 2006-07 budget, was supposed to […]
How Mumbai-based ah! Ventures built a global network of 750 investors.
You may have often heard of a startup idea or two emerging from a sleepless night doused in alcohol. But what is rare is an idea to set up an investor network venture fund born over a pint of beer. Set up in 2010 in Mumbai, ah! Ventures was the brainchild of Harshad Lahoti, an […]
Investor Reverse Pitch? Yes, there is a method to the madness!
Indian is fast becoming the blue eyed baby in the eyes of the global entrepreneurial world. With intra & cross nation funding transactions on a consistent rise, the start-up fervour is no longer confined only to India. Given this scenario, it goes without saying that the number of start-up investment deals cracked is skyrocketing. India, […]
Exclusive: India’s ah! Ventures eyes 15 investments in ’16, to close 3 deals by July.
June 17, 2016: Mumbai-based ah! Ventures – that typically participates in angel and seed stage funding through its platform of over 800 investors – is on an overdrive as it plans to invest in 15 startups in 2016. The firm, which has already invested in seven startups in 2016 so far, is in the process […]
Kickstart Jobs raises Series-seed funding from ah! Ventures, others
Kickstart Jobs, a Gurgaon-based entry-level talent acquisition startup, raised an undisclosed amount of funding in its Series-seed round. Led in collaboration with ah! Ventures, this round saw investments from marquee investors like Vivek Joshi – Founder, Wyzen Tech; Mohit Satyanand – Chairman, Team Works Art; Amit Banati – President (Asia Pacific), Kellogg’s; Arun Khanna – […]
Why just startup, when you can STARup? Yes, it’s time!
India, the land of mighty, with $1.42 billion already invested in the start-up ecosystem in the first quarter itself of 2016, has no dearth of disruptive start-ups being born every single minute of the day and none whatsoever of enthusiastic individuals eagerly waiting to discuss & debate them. Mirroring the practice in the western markets, […]
ah! Ventures’ investee co, DriversKart acquires Mumbai based on-demand driver service provider Driven
Chennai, May 17, 2016 DriversKart, an innovative startup based out of Chennai, has acquired a Mumbai headquartered on demand driver provider – Driven. Prior to the acquisition, DriversKart, an investee company of ah! Ventures, had recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding from ah! Ventures and few other investors as a part of its Pre-Series […]
ShabdaNagari, a hindi language social media startup, raises follow-on bridge funding from ah! Ventures
May 12, 2016 (Kanpur) ShabdaNagari, a social media start up catering to the niche Hindi content consuming audience, raised an undisclosed amount of bridge funding from ah! Ventures. Through ah! Ventures the start up has been strongly backed by key investors like Yogesh Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs,Anirudh Damani from Artha Energy Project and Abhimanyu Singh from TaskUs. […]
ah! Ventures’ Investee Co iDreamCareer.com raises Pre-Series A funding from Times Group’s Brand Capital
iDreamCareer.com (iDC), a Delhi based career planning ed-tech startup, has raised an undisclosed sum as pre-series A funding from The Times of India publisher BCCL’s (Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd’s) strategic investment arm, Brand Capital. Founded in late 2013 by Ayush Bansal & Pravesh Dudani, iDreamCareer.com has grown to become India’s leading EdTech […]