Zomato, on Thursday, confirmed it had raised $150 million from Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment affiliate. As a part of the deal, Ant Financial will also buy shares worth $50 million from investor InfoEdge, taking the total investment up to $200 million. With this deal, Zomato’s valuation has been pegged at $1.1 billion. According to a…
Months after the six-seater aircraft built by Thrust Aircraft Pvt Ltd was cleared to fly by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Maharashtra government inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the company promoted by Amol Yadav to set up an indigenous factory for smaller aircraft, and develop Palghar as an aviation hub.…
Those reports from the summer that Volvo’s parent company had snapped up flying car startup Terrafugia? They were true. Geely has officially completed its acquisition of Terrafugia, turning it into a fully-owned subsidiary of the Chinese automotive giant. Terrafugia will remain based in the US and will continue working on flying cars, but it will…
OPIC’s budget comes from Congress, but the money it makes goes back to the U.S. Treasury. The U.S. government plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funds overseas as part of an expanded federal program to do good around the world through what’s known as “impact investing.” The program, unveiled Wednesday…
The Madhya Pradesh government needs to accelerate the pace of reforms and simplify rules and regulations if it wishes to cash in on investments committed during the 5th Global Investors Summit and make the state one of the fastest growing economic zones of the country, participants said. Most of the delegates, including investors from abroad,…