Last Week Funding & M&A Updates (20 - 25 Jan 2025)

Greetings Business Visionaries,

We’re thrilled to share the most exciting funding and M&A updates from the past week.

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Funding Highlights:

- 30 startups raised around $248.87 million.

- 5 growth-stage deals and 24 early-stage deals.

- 1 startup kept the transaction details undisclosed.

Growth-stage Deals:

• Infra.Market , a leading building materials platform, has secured $125 million in its Series F funding round.

• Arya.ag , an agritech startup, raises $30 million through debt financing.

• Ati Motors , an industrial robotics company, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures and NGP Capital.

• Aris Infra Solutions secures Rs 80 crore in a pre-IPO funding round.

• VuNet Systems , a digital transaction monitoring startup, secures Rs 60 crore in Series B funding.

Early-Stage Deals:

- 24 startups secured funding worth $57.66 million.

• Deconstruct , a D2C skincare brand, raises INR 65 crore.

• Medusa, a beer maker, secures Rs 56 crore in its Series A funding round.

• Snabbit , a quick service app, secures $5.5 million in funding from Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.

• Landeed | YC raises $5 million in Series X funding to enhance its AI/ML capabilities

• Followed by KisanKonnect Safe Foods

Series-Wise Deals:

- Seed funding deals are at the top with 12 deals.

- Followed by Series A, pre-seed, Series B, pre-Series A and others.

Funding Trend:

- Weekly startup funding dropped 68.09% to $248.87 million compared to approximately $779.92 million raised the pervious week.

- 8-week average: $356.43 million with 26 deals per week.

Top M&A Deals:

• Hindustan Unilever Limited acquires a 90.5% stake in the beauty brand Minimalist , valued at Rs 2,955 crore.

• Everstone Capital acquires a majority stake in SaaS startup Wingify for $200 million.

• Hatsun Agro Product Ltd acquired dairy startup Milky Moo

What's New:

• DroneAcharya announces a strategic merger with AVPL.
• SBI Payments and Pine Labs announced an expanded strategic alliance
• Unstop launches upskilling internship programme
• ETO Motors and Uber partner to support Hyderabad’s electric 3-wheeler ecosystem
• Curefoods' Olio Pizza expands to new outlets under Reliance SMART partnership.

Other Top Stories:

• Skydo receives RBI authorization as a Payment Aggregator-Cross Border entity.
• The ePlane Company receives DGCA approval for the certification of its eVTOL aircraft.
• Nykaa establishes a new subsidiary in Oman.
• Zomato's 'District' app exceeds 6.5 million downloads.
• Capillary Technologies plans to file its DRHP for a $200 million IPO by June

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