Digitising small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India is likely to be a $80-billion opportunity by 2024 according to management consultancy firm Zinnov.
Growers are getting help in making their field conditions more visible with venture capitalists sinking billions in recent years into a growing number of agtech startups.
Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator also participated in the round, coming almost nine months after the online platform, which sells mutual funds, raised $6.2 million in its Series-A round.
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Cofounded in 2015 by Siddharth Vij, Chaitanya Rathi, Shubham Agrawal and Siddharth Rastogi, it raised its first funding of Rs 95 lakh within a year of operation from IAN.
The company starts operations in Lucknow with 40 trained professionals and plans to onboard more than 100 services professional in the coming months.
In a statement, the Gurgaon based company said that the shows will be around food and will include comedy, reality, fiction, advice and celebrity interviews.
“As we continue to ease and grow business for small merchants in India, the new hires will provide the thought leadership & strategy for our growth,” said Ashneer Grover, co-founder, BharatPe.