Nexus Venture Partners

Star partner at Indian venture firm Nexus to leave and launch own fund

Sameer Brij Verma, a high-profile investor at the venture firm Nexus, will be leaving the fund later this year, he confirmed to TechCrunch, in a move that has sent shock waves through the Indian VC in

Microservices orchestration platform Orkes raises $20M Series A

Back in 2016, Netflix open sourced Conductor, its microservices orchestration platform, but last December, it announced that it would discontinue maintaining it. Thankfully, for the many companies tha

India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets

High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3-5x inves

With $33M Series C, Fingerprint looks to expand device intelligence platform

Fingerprint, a device intelligence API, helps developers build security solutions using information from hardware accessing a website. The primary goal is to help prevent fraud. Today, the Chicago-bas

Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs

Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Part

Mukesh Bansal seeks over $100M valuation in new venture’s maiden funding

Mukesh Bansal of Indian fashion e-commerce giant Myntra and fitness platform Cult.fit fame is evaluating a new venture. Even though he hasn’t yet decided on his exact plans for the new offerings

ToolJet, an open source low-code app builder, wants to help companies do more with less

“Do more with less” has emerged as something of a business mantra over the past year, with companies across the industrial spectrum facing growing economic headwinds. Organizations of all

Doola nurses new capital for its ‘business in a box’ tool targeting global founders

Doola, which has seen its revenue grow by seven times since 2020, is building a one-stop solution for compliantly forming a company.

HyperTrack, which provides last-mile routing software, raises $25M

In a sign that the market for logistics and transportation tech isn’t cooling (economic downturn be damned), HyperTrack, a startup offering APIs for freight order planning, assignment and tracki

Neuron7 raises $10M to help customer service agents find solutions

In the customer service arena in particular, enterprises are facing a historic labor shortage. Owing to burnout, flexibility and customer satisfaction challenges, agents are quitting at a faster rate

Aerotime aims to continuously optimize workers’ calendars

Setting aside time for focused, undistracted work is a challenge not only for workers, which face a growing barrage of notifications, but teams and companies broadly speaking. One source pegs the cost

Former AWS engineer sets out to build a better log search engine

When ZincSearch founder Prabhat Sharma worked as a solutions architect at AWS, he helped customers implement a lot of tools on top of AWS infrastructure services. He noticed that most of the solutions

Observe.ai raises $125M, adding Zoom as an investor, to supercharge the contact center market

Contact centers play a key part in how a company engages with customers, amounting to what is a $400 billion market globally. Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them

India tax department probe into Infra.Market finds bogus purchases, undisclosed income

The Indian Income Tax Department said it has found and seized “a large number of incriminating evidences” that reveals that a Pune- and Thane-based unicorn startup, referring to Infra.Mark

Apollo.io raises $110M as its sales intelligence platform crosses 16K paying companies

One of the bigger impacts of COVID-19 has been that more business than ever before is now being carried out online. To meet that opportunity, today a startup called Apollo.io has raised $110 million.

GraphQL developer platform Hasura raises $100M Series C

Hasura, the company behind the popular open source Hasura GraphQL Engine that can turn virtually any database into a GraphQL API, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series C funding rou

Travel experiences app Headout survives the Omicron surge, grabs $30M more in funding

Though the COVID-19 pandemic almost immediately devasted the business of travel booking startup Headout, the company has been able to return to growth as domestic travel rebounded in recent months. Th

AskNicely answers how companies can best connect with frontline workers

The company's tools pull in Net Promoter Score, workflow, recognition and feedback, coaching and insights so that businesses can lead from their frontline workers.

Naren Gupta, co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners, passes away

Naren Gupta, a venture capitalist who co-founded Nexus Venture Partners to help plant Indian SaaS startups on the world map, died on Saturday. He was 73. Gupta, who moved to the U.S. to pursue higher

Doola raises $3M to help global founders launch an LLC in the US

Doola, a startup that aims to help global entrepreneurs form a U.S. business, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Doola actually started its life in 2020 as StartPack as a pivot from another startu
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