Breathe Well-Being, Avishkaar, GalaxEye, Almo get early cheques
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Aurogreen Health, the Gurugram-based company behind diabetes reversal platform Breathe Well-Being, on Tuesday said it has raised $1 million (Rs 7.28 crore at current exchange rates) in a fresh round of funding, dubbed pre-Series A. The funds raised will help us grow our capabilities both from tech and coaches perspective and also enable us to scale exponentially,” Rohan Verma, the co-founder and CEO of Breathe Well-Being, said. Building Blocks Learning Solutions’ ed-tech startup Avishkaar has raised $700,000 (Rs 5 crore) in pre-Series A funding from returning investor Auxano, Mumbai Angels, Indifi Technologies’ CEO Alok Mittal, and Aspiring Minds co-founder Varun Aggarwal. The investment has been led by AngelList India with participation from multiple angels, including Dr. Vaidya’s former CEO Arjun Vaidya, InMobi group co-founder Piyush Shah, Xiaomi India COO Muralikrishnan B, Uni Cards CEO Nitin Gupta, Hero Corporate Services’ ex-president Rohit Chanana, CarDekho co-founder Umang Kumar, Indvest MD Darshan Deora, and Avendus Capital VP Pranay Jain. “We believe it is a shifting dynamic for an emerging brand like ours to tap into via a digital first approach which works well for today’s millennial consumers, with our focus on our D2C channel which currently drives the majority of our business,” Shah said.