dunzo raises $650,000 in pre-Series A Blume Ventures & others Chat-based personal assistant app dunzo has raised $650,000 in pre-Series A funding from Aspada and Blume Ventures, reports YourStory. The round also saw participation from angel investors including Rajan Anandan and Sandipan Chattopadhyay. The Bangalore-based startup was founded by Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Mukund Jha and Kabeer Biswas in 2015. dunzo uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human operators together for easing an user's routine tasks. It currently focuses on four main categories: shipping packages from point to point, buying, home service & repairs. *** FTCash secures undisclosed funding from IvyCamp Mumbai-based mobile payments startup FTCash has secured Rs 1 crore in Pre-Series A funding from IvyCamp Ventures, reports Iamwire. The startup was founded in 2014 by Vaibhav Lodha , Sanjeev Chandak , Deepak Kothari. The fresh funding will be used for customer and merchant acquisition, and for product development. FTCash enables cashless transactions and allows the micro-merchants & customers to transact using wallets, cards, net banking, etc. *** Tinystep gets undisclosed funding to strengthen its product Tinystep, a community app for parenting has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Matt Glickman. The startup was funded in September 2015 by Suhail Abidi; it provides parental advice, especially for moms. Tinystep plans to use the money for improving its product offering and strengthening its team. The mobile app has a multiple chat option and a public discussion forum. In January, Tinystep raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Flipkart. *** Tarusa World…
