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Funding roundup: Bluestone, Healthians, Phantom Hands and Fareye

Ratan Tata invests in jewellery e-tailer Bluestone Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Group's holding company Tata Sons, made an undisclosed amount of personal investment in the online jewellery store Bluestone, reports the Times of India. Bluestone targets Indian women between 20 to 50 years and claims to offer one lakh designs with a one week delivery schedule. The online store manufactures, designs and delivers its own jewellery and competes with other jewelry stores like CaratLane.com and Gitanjalishop.com. The startup had earlier secured $10 million in funding from Kalaari Capital and other existing investors, in March this year. Last month, Ratan Tata had also made a personal investment in the online marketplace, Snapdeal.com. Healthians raises undisclosed amount of seed funding Online marketplace for preventive health checkups Healthians.com, raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from an unnamed healthcare focused accelerator, reports Techcircle.com. The startup said it would use the funds to partner with other companies for marketing, expand operations to new areas and launch new services like video conferencing with doctors. Healthians currently provides recommendations for preventive checkups based on age, risk areas, symptoms and gender while also acting as a service aggregator for diagnostic centres, comparing prices between them and providing discount coupons. The startup claims to have partnerships with around 300 hospitals and 70 diagnostic centres across 22 cities in the country. Online antique store Phantom Hands raises angel funding Online antiques marketplace Phantom Hands raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding from four angel investors including Google…

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