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04 Aug 2024

ShareChat Raises Rs 134 Crore From Singapore-Based EDBI; Lays Off 5% Staff

In April this year, ShareChat raised USD 49 million via convertible debentures in the funding round led by existing investors Lightspeed, Temasek, Alkeon Capital, Moore Strategic Ventures, and HarbourVest, amongst others.

16 Jan 2023

91 tech companies lay off over 24,000 employees in first 15 days of January

In India, companies like Ola (which fired 200 employees), voice automated startup Skit.ai, dominated the headlines in January.In December last year, over 17,000 tech employees were shown the door.

16 Jan 2023

Indian startup ShareChat lays off its 20% employees amid fear of recession

India's ShareChat, a short video-sharing platform lets go of around 20% of its employees. Indian startups raised $24 billion last year, a third lesser than in 2021, according to Venture Intelligence. ShareChat confirmed employees would get two weeks' pay for every year served.

03 Dec 2022

ShareChat shuts fantasy sports app Jeet11, lays off around 5% of its workforce

ShareChat was founded in 2015 by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan. It was last valued at $5 billion and has social media brands such as ShareChat App and Moj under its portfolio. In June this year, ShareChat closed a $520 million multi-tranche funding round, taking its valuation to $5 billion.

08 Apr 2021

ShareChat, Moj raise Rs 3,726 crore, join unicorn club

Mohalla Tech founded in 2015. Six fundraising rounds so far. Moj was launched in July last year.

07 Aug 2020

Home-grown social media app ShareChat to get $100 mn funding from Microsoft

ShareChat is a Bengaluru-based regional language social platform. ShareChat has a user base of over 140 million monthly active users in the country. The app is available in 15 languages, including Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Kannada, Assamese, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and Urdu.

07 Aug 2020

WhatsApp may soon allow Android, iOS users to watch ShareChat videos

Once you tap the play icon on a ShareChat video, WhatsApp will begin to reproduce the video in the picture-in-picture mode. The Bengaluru-based regional language social platform ShareChat has a user base of over 60 million monthly active users. It is available in 15 languages, including Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Kannada, Assamese, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and Urdu.

28 Apr 2020

Twitter-backed ShareChat acquires meme-sharing app Memer

Memer was founded in 2018 by three Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni - Amit Singh, Chetan Dalal and Chandramauli Singh - and was funded by Kae Capital.

16 Aug 2019

Twitter leads $100mn funding in vernacular chat app ShareChat

Founded by three IIT-Kanpur graduates, the Bengaluru-based start-up is today valued at over $600 million. ShareChat offers its services in the following languages -- Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Odia, Kannada, Assamese, Haryanvi, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri.

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