The funding round was led by Blume Ventures, V3 Ventures, MIXI, and Times Internet, with participation from cricketers MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Tilak Varma, Sai Sudharsan, and Hardik Pandya.
The funding round was led by Neo Asset Management, with participation from existing investors including Blume Ventures, IndiaMART, Elev8, Analog Capital, and Kae Capital.
The round also saw participation from Ikemori Ventures, Raise Financial Services, QED Innovation Labs, and existing investors Antler, IIMA Ventures, and Neon Fund.
The pre-Series B funding round was led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund, with continued participation from British International Investment, UTEC, Blume Ventures, Avaana Capital, Riverwalk Holdings and SE Ventures.
The round also included participation from Y Combinator, Blume Ventures, Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital and Eight Capital, along with angel investors Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer and Taro Fukuyama, among others.
The fresh capital will be used to strengthen product development, particularly around autonomous finance capabilities, and to expand the company's presence across Asia-Pacific, North America, and the Middle East.
Sensa Core Medical Instrumentation, CoreEL Technologies, PlasmaGen Biosciences, Dugar Finance, Qucev, DJT Microfinance and PowerUp Money led this week's top funding deals across healthtech, defence, fintech, EV and wealthtech sectors.
The funding round included participation from existing investors Accel, Blume Ventures, and Kae Capital, along with continued backing from 8i Ventures and DevC.
The round was led by Japan based Mynavi Corporation and also saw participation from existing investors Blume Ventures, Bharat Inclusive Technologies Seed Fund, and Rebright Partners.
Fund V continues the firm's focus on supporting early-stage Indian startups across technology-led sectors such as health tech, consumer products, fintech, and deep tech.
Lucira plans to channel the newly raised capital toward opening new retail stores, expanding its design studio, and strengthening its technology and hiring efforts.