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Ravi-Kaushik-Flourish-Ventures

Ravi leads Flourish Ventures' fintech investments and manages the firm's portfolio across India and Southeast Asia, bringing critical operational experience in scaling technology companies and broad investment knowledge to founder partners across the region. Before joining Flourish, Ravi was CFO at Agro.Club, a global full-stack B2B grain marketplace transforming how...

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February 28, 2024

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[Forbes India] ApnaKlub: Uplifting kirana, one brand at a time

ApnaKlub is stepping up its kirana play across tier 2 and beyond by rolling out a slew of its own brands. Will the gambit of a B2B wholesale platform for FMCG pay off? By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff Originally posted on Forbes India For years, Badrinath Gupta endured a...

[TechCrunch] Indifi raises $35M to expand digital lending to more small businesses

Indifi Technologies, an Indian startup offering digital lending to small and medium businesses, has raised $35 million in a new funding round led by ICICI Venture, the investment arm of ICICI Bank. Existing investors, including British International Investment, OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, Omidyar Network India, Flourish Ventures and...

[APN NEWS] Agritech Startups: A ray of hope in Indian Agriculture

The rapidly expanding agritech industry has a lot of potential to help Indian agriculture and eventually increase farmer incomes. India currently has 450 Agritech startups, and NASSCOM estimates that this number will increase by 25% annually. AgriTech startups have become a ray of hope in Indian agriculture, as well as...

[Forbes India] Why ApnaKlub Shruti doesn't mind being an angry young woman

The cofounder and CEO of of the B2B wholesale FMCG platform channelises her anger to defy norms, discard labels and fight gender bias By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff People kept stoking her anger. And it started early in Shruti’s life. “Such a sad thing. The poor guy has three...

[CNA] Mom-and-pop shops in India struggle amid competition from online platforms, retail chains

One store owner is fighting to survive, offering a wide variety of items and embracing technology to retain his customers. MUMBAI: Mom-and-pop shops, known locally as kirana stores, can be found all over India – on busy city streets, the tiniest of lanes in slums, and even hard-to-reach rural areas....

[Forbes India] This is me: Indian women founders are taking up space by being unapologetic

By Rajiv Singh, Forbes India Staff An army of new-age founders is scripting a bold story, moving away from the clichéd gender narrative. What’s helping them is their valuable higher education, a sizeable corporate stint, and the courage to be unapologetic New York, December 2017 “When the sharpest words wanna...

[Bizz Buzz News] ApnaKlub ropes in new investors to increase total Series-A funding to $16 million

ApnaKlub, a B2B wholesale platform for fast-moving consumer goods, has raised an additional funding of $6 million in its Series-A round. It had earlier raised $10 million in the round. The latest round brings the Series-A total to $16 million. ApnaKlub, a B2B wholesale platform for fast-moving consumer goods, has...

[Hindu Businessline] Men in veshti – leaders responsible for M2P Fintech’s rise to fame

How five back-to-back deals put them in the spotlight It was very easy to spot R Madhusudanan, A Muthukumar and R Prabhu, founders of M2P Fintech, in the crowded two-floored Jio World Center, which hosted Global Fintech Fest last year. They were the only veshti-clad men. But it was almost...

[Inc42] Aquaconnect Bags $15 Mn To Streamline Aquaculture Value Chain

Originally posted on Inc42 By Chetan Thathoo The funding round saw participation from Louis Dreyfus Company Ventures, Suneight Investment, Omnivore, AgFunder, Rebright Partners, Flourish Ventures and HATCH The startup will use the funds to expand its service offerings in both the pre-harvest and post-harvest value chain In March, the startup...