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Home services marketplace Urban Company has allocated shares worth Rs 853.87 crore ($97 million) to anchor investors ahead of its Rs 1,900 crore initial public offering (IPO).

Company has raised $50 million in its expanded Series C funding round with fresh participation from UAE-headquartered CE-Invests, Singapore-based Panthera Growth Partners, and Japan’s SMBC Asia Rising

Amazon has completed the acquisition of Axio (formerly Capital Float), one of India’s leading digital lending and checkout finance providers, after securing regulatory approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The fund intends to invest in pre-seed and seed rounds of 18 to 20 startups that are developing critical technologies locally, a strategy it refers to as creating a sovereign edge. The investments are planned to be deployed over four years, with individual amounts ranging from Rs 7 crore to Rs 10 crore, while reserving 50% of the total capital for follow-on funding.