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z21 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, has successfully closed its $40 million second fund by raising $20 million. WestBridge Capital serves as the anchor investor.

Everest Fleet, a mobility startup, has secured Rs 251.7 crore (approximately $30 million) in its Series C round from Uber, a global ride-hailing behemoth. This is Uber's second investment in the company, which is responsible for the platform's taxi fleet.

Shivalik Investment Fund (SIF), a Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) based in Gujarat, has successfully closed its inaugural fund with 50% of its targeted corpus of Rs 150 crore. The fund also intends to raise an additional Rs 150 crore through the green shoe option.

Taj Investment Holdings has invested Rs 417.5 crore ($50 million) in M2P Fintech, an application programming interface (API) infrastructure platform that was previously known as Yap.

Rohan Pewekar has been appointed as the managing director (MD) of Pizza Hut in the Indian subcontinent by Yum! Brands, the US-based quick-service restaurant major.

OPA, an influencer marketing platform, has been admitted to Wondrlab, the platform-first match network.

Domestic help service provider, Bookmybai, has raised INR 2 Crore in Pre-Series A CCPS Round led by Inflection Point Ventures.

Samir Kumar has been appointed as the new Country Manager for India by the ecommerce behemoth Amazon, with effect from October 1.

Manish Patel has led a funding round that has raised approximately $2.2 million for Proxgy, a deeptech startup. Suniel Shetty, Kuldeep Mathur, Nikhil Kamath, and others attended the round.

Nazara, a gaming company, is currently in the process of raising Rs 900 crore (approximately $108 million) in a funding round.