Bengaluru-based vernacular social networking app Sharechat, owned by Mohalla Tech has raised Rs 120 crores (around $18m) in a Series B round of funding from Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi and its founder Lei Jun’s venture capital fund Shunwei Capital along with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Saif Partners, India Quotient and VH Capital, as reported by YourStory and Mint. Earlier in November 2016, Sharechat has raised Rs 27.5 crores ($4m) in a Series A round from the existing investors.
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Founded in 2015 by three young IIT Kanpur alumni Farid Ahsan, Ankush Sachdeva, and Bhanu Singh, ShareChat allows users to create, discover and share content such as videos, jokes, songs and images and is available in multiple Indian languages – Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada and Odia. With a monthly user base of more than 8 million, it was also reported that the regional networking app plans to use the fresh funds to expand its technical capabilities, strengthen the machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts of the company and efficiently manage increasing cloud infrastructure costs.
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indianexpress.com/article/education/institutions-of-eminence-ugc-extends-deadline-for-applications-to-february-22-5036800/
So can you please find out if the NLUs (especially Delhi) will now apply under the fresh window? NLUD has the best chance, as the criteria is faculty quality. Also, NLUD profs has said that Prof Ranbir Singh did indeed want to apply but ultimately did not.
Also, the members of the selection committee have been announced:
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/pichai-nooyi-on-govts-wish-list-to-pick-indias-institutes-of-eminence/articleshow/62643263.cms
Please cover this.
Manish, congratulations!! You and your talented team have miles to go. Bunch of studs, all of them.
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