January 21st — Poem Writing App and Pre-School Software
A few interesting rounds this week:
- 🇬🇧 HaikuJAM raised over $3m for its collaborative Haiku-writing mobile app…
- 🇮🇳 Epifi received $13.5m from Sequoia Capital and others for its digital banking solution.
- 🇮🇪Genesen raised over $800,000 for its pre-school management software. It looks a really slick product and is backed by London based Frontline Ventures.
Find link to the rounds and who funded them below
Figures this week:
Funding rounds covered:
16
Countries covered:
6
Largest round:
$13,200,000
Estimated funds raised:
~$35,000,000 (Please Note: not all deals are outlined below)
Categories & countries:
Most rounds:
🇬🇧UK
Largest Round:
🇮🇳IND ($13.2m) Epifi
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🇮🇳IND $14,000,000
Epifi
Raised: $13,200,000 (Seed)
Category: FinTech, Banking, Payments
Description: Epifi is a digital banking solution that will be focusing on young millennial workers. The company also provides digital banking solutions for digital natives across India. The secure platform will function as a primary hub for consumers, providing them with co-branded debit cards and linking all their existing financial services products onto a single mobile banking interface. Read more here.
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital Group & Ribbit Capital.
Location: Bangalore, India.
Raised: $2,000,000 (Seed)
Category: Food and Beverage, Wholesale
Description: TechnifyBiz is a B2B technology-driven food wholesale platform. On the supplier side we have a broad base of suppliers with stringent quality measures and customised solutions, whereas on the customers end we supply to big industries to small wholesalers.
Investors: Omnivore and others.
Location: Bangalore, India.
Raised: $700,000 (Seed)
Category: AI, CRM, Education
Description: Data Science powered — Admission & Marketing CRM Automation for Education Enrolments
Investors: Indian Angel Network, Sprout Venture Partners, UIncept and others.
Location: Pune, India.
Raised: $400,000 (Seed)
Category: E-Sports, Gaming
Description: Gamerji is an online esports gaming platform where tournaments are created for different games such as PubG, Clash Royale etc.
Investors: La Gajjar Group
Location: Pune, India.
🇬🇧GBR ~$9,200,000
HaikuJAM
Raised: $3,400,000 (Seed)
Category: Apps, Collaboration, Software
Description: HaikuJAM is a free collaborative haiku-writing mobile application through which people write haiku poetry together, line by line by line. Haiku are 3-line syllable based poems that originate in Japan.
Investors: Social Capital, Lightbox and others.
Location: London, England, UK.
Float
Raised: $2,000,000 (Seed)
Category: Accounting, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence
Description: Float is a SaaS-based real-time financial intelligence solution for small businesses to forecast short and long-term cash flow.
Investors: Marchmont Ventures
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Good-Loop
Raised: $1,600,000 (Seed)
Category: Adtech, Marketing, Software
Description: Good-Loop converts advertising money into charitable donations — whilst delivering 70% higher engagement for the advertiser.
Investors: You & MR Jones Brandtech Ventures
Location: London, England, UK.
Renovos
Raised: $800,000 (Seed)
Category: Biotech, Medical
Description: Renovos is an orthopaedic regenerative medicine company, offering a complementary range of products, services and therapeutics to address the needs of researchers and clinicians for bone healing that is quicker, safer and more cost-effective.
Investors: Orthopaedic Research UK
Location: Southampton, England, UK.
CCell
Raised: $690,000 (Seed)
Category: Renewable Energy
Description: Transforming the coastal protection industry and protecting beaches by building coral reefs using 100% renewable energy.
Investors: Crowdcube
Location: London, England, UK.
Scoodle
Raised: $685,000 (Seed)
Category: Education, Mobile
Description: Scoodle connects people who want to learn, with people that can teach. Students can ask questions on any subject, get answers from tutors and follow up by booking lessons or joining classes.
Investors: Biz Stone (Twitter Co-Founder), Tiny VC and others.
Location: London, England, UK.
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🇫🇷FRA $6,675,000
CSN Energy
Raised: $6,675,000 (Seed)
Category: Energy, Renewable Energy
Description: An end-to-end SaaS platform for the energy market.
Investors: Goldman Sachs.
Location: Paris, France.
Urania Therapeutics
Raised: $6,675,000 (Seed)
Category: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Description: Urania Therapeutics company is developing a unique SBDD platform for the generation of new readthrough compounds with high potential in cancer and monogenic disorders.
Investors: Bpifrance
Location: Strasbourg, France.
Raised: $1,115,000 (Seed)
Category: Events, Music
Description: LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.
Investors: SIDE Capital
Location: Paris, France.
🇮🇩IDN $3,000,000
Hacktiv8
Raised: $3,000,000 (Seed)
Category: Education
Description: Learn and become a professional full-stack web app developer in 12 weeks.
Investors: East Ventures.
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia.
🇹🇷 TUR $1,100,000
Prisync
Raised: $1,100,000 (Seed)
Category: Marketing
Description: Prisync helps E-Commerce businesses optimize their pricing strategy by automating data collection & providing smart suggestions. The dynamic pricing engine takes the automation to an advantageous level by keeping businesses at the “sweet spot” where they decide on which profit margins they want to be while staying ahead of the competition.
Investors: Collective Spark and others.
Location: Istanbul, Turkey.
🇮🇪IRL $835,000
Genesen
Raised: $835,000 (Pre-Seed)
Category: Education, Cloud Management
Description: TeachKloud is the first platform that allows preschool providers to assess their compliance levels in their country.
Investors: Enterprise Ireland, Frontline Ventures and others.
Location: Cork, Ireland.
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