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Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Investment

India

Pratilipi and Krafton are set to start working on finding IPs that can be translated into global gaming franchises.

PUBG creator Krafton leads USD 48 million Series D round in local storytelling platform Pratilipi | KrASIA

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PUBG creator Krafton leads USD 48 million Series D round in local storytelling platform Pratilipi

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Zomato

Food Delivery

Zomato, which is currently valued at USD 5.4 billion, is targeting a valuation of up to USD 8.56 billion through the IPO.

Zomato IPO fully subscribed on day one | KrASIA

Zomato IPO fully subscribed on day one

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

MobiKwik is eyeing a valuation of USD 1 billion at its public market listing.

Indian digital payment startup MobiKwik files DRHP for USD 255 million IPO | KrASIA

Indian digital payment startup MobiKwik files DRHP for USD 255 million IPO

Flipkart

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Tiger Global

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

The new funding marks the re-entry of SoftBank on Flipkart's cap table after three years.

SoftBank returns to Flipkart's cap table with a USD 3.6 billion funding round | KrASIA

SoftBank returns to Flipkart&#8217;s cap table with a USD 3.6 billion funding round

Private Equity

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Q&amp;A

First-gen entrepreneurs value what Investcorp brings to the table, head of private equity Gaurav Sharma says. Indian startups now have a global mindset.

First-gen entrepreneurs value what Investcorp brings to the table, head of private equity Gaurav Sharma says | KrASIA

First-gen entrepreneurs value what Investcorp brings to the table, head of private equity Gaurav Sharma says

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

In 2019, Ola had said it would go public by March 2021. However, the pandemic has derailed its plans and it's currently focusing on building its electric vehicle fleet.

Temasek and Warburg Pincus pump USD 500 million into Ola in secondary share sale | KrASIA

Temasek and Warburg Pincus pump USD 500 million into Ola in secondary share sale

Taking a cue from the Thrasio-model, a bunch of local startups like 10Club, Upscalio, and Mensa, are buying digital brands to become the online version of P&amp;G or Unilever in the country.

Fireside Ventures' Vinay Singh on the trend of Indian startups rolling up online brands | KrASIA

Fireside Ventures&#8217; Vinay Singh on the trend of Indian startups rolling up online brands

With the most recent funding, the three-year-old startup has now raised USD 183 million across three rounds.

Tiger Global leads USD 144 million round in social e-commerce startup DealShare | KrASIA

Tiger Global leads USD 144 million round in social e-commerce startup DealShare

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

At USD 1.5 billion, SaaS accounted for the second-highest quantum of investments after consumer tech in India last year.