• Ketto

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2015

  Ketto is a Mumbai-based crowdfunding platform that facilitates fundraising for social, creative, and personal causes. The platform helps individuals and organizations raise donations for charitable and personal needs. The company announced it has raised $4.2 million (Rs 30 crore) with the help of CleverTap’s philanthropy arm, CleverTap4Good. The reported funds were raised for charitable causes. The article does not provide additional operational metrics or future plans. Ketto Online Ventures operates an online crowdfunding platform for creative and social causes, connecting individuals, brands and non-profit organisations with investors and donors. The company was founded in October 2012 by Varun Sheth, Kunal Kapoor and Zaheer Adenwala and is based in Mumbai. It raised Rs 4.4 crore ($700,000) in a fresh angel round and had previously raised Rs 77 lakh from Club ah! and Calcutta Angels in 2013. Ketto plans to use the new funds to double its technology and business development teams and to facilitate $100 million in funding for other firms. The startup also intends to expand operations into Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries. Its platform has been used by multiple celebrities and corporates, including Hritik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, Anuskha Sharma, Myntra and Star Sports, and it recently partnered with Lakme Fashion Week to help designers raise launch funds. Ketto Online Ventures operates an online crowdfunding platform that connects individuals, brands and nonprofit organisations with fundraisers for creative and social causes. The site enables entrepreneurs and NGOs to raise funds by linking them with companies and individual supporters. The company says it is getting over 15,000 unique investors on its platform per month. Ketto was founded in October last year by Varun Sheth, Kunal Kapoor and Zaheer Adenwala and is based in Mumbai. The startup aims to increase engagement and participation among NGOs, supporters and corporates while reducing the cost of fundraising. It plans to use new capital for product and business development as well as marketing.

• AppVirality

  Participated · Seed · Jan 2015

  AppVirality provides a toolkit for mobile apps that helps developers implement growth techniques such as personalized in-app referrals, customer retention and social sharing without having to code. The product is designed to let developers increase user acquisition and engagement via growth-hacking features. The company says it has generated more than 1.5 million installs for customers and lists clients including MakeMyTrip, Bharti Airtel, Quikr, Byjus, Paytm, iXiGO, Redbus, 1MG, MySmartPrice and Faasos. AppVirality was founded by brothers Ram and Laxman Papineni; Laxman serves as CEO. The company is US- and Hyderabad-based and emerged from Microsoft Accelerator in May 2014. Following a $500K funding round, AppVirality plans to focus on product innovation and expand its team from 12 to 25 over the next 12 months. AppVirality offers a software development kit (SDK) and dashboard that allow developers to add growth-hacking techniques to mobile apps without writing new code. Its current tools include an in-app referral system similar to Uber and a feature to let users share purchases from e-commerce apps to social networks. The company is adding new tools such as sweepstakes, share-to-unlock premium content, and personalized in-app referrals. The dashboard targets marketers without coding experience, enabling them to run A/B tests and view analytics that show reach, downloads, and revenue generated by each tool. AppVirality launched in November and participated in Microsoft Accelerator last year. The startup raised seed capital and will use the funds for product development and hiring.

• Tookitaki

  Participated · Equity · Aug 2013

  Tookitaki builds AI-driven solutions for real-time fraud detection and AML compliance, including its FinCense product and the AFC Ecosystem collaborative platform. The company focuses on enhancing crime-detection models through collective intelligence among industry participants. It has a presence across the Asia-Pacific region and has monitored over 10 billion transactions for roughly 100 million consumers among its clients. Tookitaki plans to use fresh capital to enhance its AI-driven AML and fraud prevention platforms and to expand its presence in key Asian markets. The company positions itself at the intersection of regulatory technology and machine learning to address financial crime and compliance workflows. Tookitaki is headquartered in Singapore. TookiTaki builds machine-learning financial compliance software focused on anti-money-laundering (AML) and reconciliation. Its platform uses explainable machine-learning models and a distributed computing framework that can run in the cloud or on-premise. The product has two main modules: cross-system suspicious-transaction monitoring and names screening for high-risk customers. TookiTaki says it reduces false positives in transaction monitoring by 50%, a result validated by Deloitte. The company plans to use its recent funding to enhance its AML and reconciliation software and to hire for its offices in the United States, Singapore and India. The startup was co-founded in 2014 by Abhishek Chatterjee and Jeeta Bandopadhyay and pivoted to regulatory-compliance AI in late 2016. Tookitaki provides enterprise software solutions for anti-money laundering (AML) and reconciliation for financial institutions. Its Anti-Money Laundering Suite (AMLS) uses AI, machine learning, distributed systems and deep business expertise to support compliance management. The company is accredited by the Infocomm Media Development Authority’s Accreditation@SG Digital programme. Tookitaki has deployed its AMLS with United Overseas Bank and global banks such as Societe Generale. Led by founder and CEO Abhishek Chatterjee, the company has offices in Singapore, India and the US. Following a US$7.5m Series A, it plans to use the funds to strengthen R&D capabilities. TookiTaki offers a software platform that analyzes multiple datasets to produce predictions about customer behavior, marketing outcomes, and product sales. The company began as an ad tech service for ad placement and has since expanded into broader data analysis and prediction services. TookiTaki differentiates by aggregating multiple data sources, including publicly available and offline data, to generate actionable forecasts. The startup is developing a platform to predict how consumers discover specific brands and products. TookiTaki plans to use new capital to expand its platform into Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. CEO Abhishek Chatterjee leads the company from Singapore. Tookitaki is a Kolkata-based startup founded in 2010 by Abhishek Chatterjee and Jeeta Bandhopadhyay. Its platform queries millions of data points from social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to identify purchasing patterns. Using machine learning it maps behavioral patterns in real time so clients can target those groups with ads across online platforms. Clients listed on its website include CouponRani, Done By None and Craftvilla.com. The company raised $200,000 from a group of investors including Blume Ventures, India Internet Group, Harvard Angels and CIIE Ahmedabad. Pricing for its services is not disclosed in the reporting. The article notes the technology could help consumer brands gain clearer insight into online behavior and optimize ad budgets.

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