Wiom provides affordable and unlimited Internet to lower-middle-income households using their scalable architecture to split fixed broadband access and its costs across multiple homes, thereby making it affordable and secure.
The Series-A round was led by RTP Global while YourNest Venture Capital and Omidyar Network India also participated, along with Global Brain, Blume Founders Fund, Alteria Capital, Stride Ventures, Stride One and 9 Unicorns. With this funding round, it will now focus on expanding its footprint to cities throughout India while investing in high-quality talent and distributed delivery architecture.
Datamotive Raises US$ 3.8 mn in a Pre-Series-A Funding Round
Datamotive allows organisations to build a hybrid cloud blueprint that supports freedom of choice for any cloud service provider and offers them the ability to run workloads anywhere on any cloud.
The Pre-Series-A round was led by Morphosis with participation from YourNest Venture Capital, 3one4 Capital and Patni Group. The new funding round will accelerate the delivery of Datamotive's products that enable organisations to seamlessly and securely scale, migrate and recover data and workloads across public and private clouds with a guaranteed 10-minute recovery service level agreement (SLA) regardless of cloud and workload size.
Yogesh Anyapanaware (left) and Sameer Zaveri (right)
Lavelle Networks Raises INR 60 crore from Bharti Airtel
Lavelle Networks provides advanced networking software that optimises, secures, and manages enterprise branch networks. The company's flagship scaleAon SD-WAN platform has successfully connected numerous Indian enterprises, ranging from large financial institutions to e-commerce networks.
Bharti Airtel (an existing investor in the company) has acquired an additional 20.6% stake in Lavelle Networks taking its total ownership to 45.6%.
From left to right: Karthik Madhava, Shyamal Kumar, Randhir Bhattacharya and Drritiman Boraah
Exponent Energy Unveils 15-minute Fast-charging Tech for EVs
Exponent Energy has unveiled its revolutionary technology behind a 15-minute rapid charging solution for the electric vehicle (EV) industry in an event it hosted in Bangalore on 31st July 2023. It showcased its proprietary energy stack: battery pack (e^pack), charging station (e^pump) and charging connector (e^plug) which together unlock a 15-minute rapid charge, and long battery life (3,000 cycle life warranty, 3X the industry standard) – and all this is done on regular LFP cells.
The company announced that it has completed over 25,000 rapid charging sessions and covered over a million kms by powering more than 200 EVs in Bangalore.
Thriwe is India’s largest tech-enabled benefits as a platform ecosystem and has over 100,000 partner associations and service delivery presence in 130 countries globally.
It has covered nearly 70% of the market in India and UAE, and the company is planning to expand its business in Middle-East and South-East Asian countries, which have high potential and sizable markets. The company expects to achieve annual revenues of INR 1,000 cr by 2025, driven by the travel boom and expansion in newer markets.
Opkey Launches Innovative Features
Opkey, the industry leading provider of ERP test automation solutions, has released more innovative features to solve unique customer problems:
Wilfred, Gen AI and process mining powered Testing Assistant
Opkey ConfigOps – a Devops orchestration platform focused on ERP implementations
Opkey Quality Lifecycle management (QLM) – a Gen 3 Test management platform
The Opkey team remains excited about continuing to work with customers, partners and the System Integrator community to bring more innovative features that will solve challenges faced by SaaS Era IT teams.
