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One of the largest vendors of Flipkart, Marco Wagon Retail has sent a legal notice to the B2B arm of the Bengaluru-based e-commerce marketplace. The vendor has asked Rs 20 crore in return for non-payment of dues and damages.
This is a retaliation from the company after Flipkart filed a legal case against the vendor in April this year. The online marketplace, however, has called these allegations as baseless and already filed a legal proceeding, including criminal action against Macro Wagon. The matter is currently under subjudice.
Kishore Biyani-led Future Lifestyle Fashions Limited has agreed to pick a 29.9 percent stake in fashion e-tailer Koovs plc. This comes after Wal-Mart announced a deal to buy a significant stake in e-tailer Flipkart and Biyani questioning e-commerce business models.
Koovs will issue 57,876,600 new ordinary shares to Future Lifestyle at a price of 10 pence per share, representing 24.8 percent of its enlarged issued share capital, for £5,787,660 (Rs 525 million, $7.6 million). Two representatives Future Lifestyle will join Koovs’ Board of Directors in due course.
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Digital lending company LoanTap has raised $6.25 million (Rs 42.83 crore) in an equity funding round led by Beijing-based venture capital firm Shunwei Capital.
The round also saw the participation of Mumbai-based private investment firm Tuscan Ventures and Ashish Goenka, owner of Suashish Diamonds who invested in his personal capacity. Existing investors India Quotient and Kae Capital also participated.
HungerBox, a B2B-focused foodtech company, on Monday announced it had closed $2.5 million in pre-Series A funding led by Lionrock Capital and Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys. HungerBox also counts GrowthStory, the venture-builder platform founded by serial entrepreneurs K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh, as one of its promoters.
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