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The Guild plans to bring founders together on a regular basis to share their experiences and learn from each otherThe programme will have growth stage Sequoia portfolio companies from India and South-east Asia

Gayatri Vasudeva Yadav has been appointed as chief marketing officer

Qure.ai was incubated in data firm Fractal Analytics, which is currently valued at over $500 millionThe deal also comes at a time when Sequoia is raising its seventh India fund, and its largest so far

The startup raised $4 million in June this year from SequoiaThe company plans to use the funds to expand to other smaller cities

Darwinbox’s cloud based end-to-end Human Resource Management System caters to HR needs across the entire employee lifecycleOver 200 plus global enterprises have powered their HR digitalization agenda on Darwinbox

New investors in this round include GC1 Ventures and institutional investor platform Trusted InsightThe company has raised over $45 million in equity to date and $55 million in debt, taking the total funding to $100 million

Firm to use funds to expand commercialization efforts in US, AsiaThe investment in Biofourmis marks Sequoia India’s second growth stage deal this year

CleverTap, a SaaS startup, will use the funding to improve product capabilities and help meet growing demandThe funding round, which saw participation of Tiger Global as a new investor, pegs CleverTap's valuation at $150 million

Google India's sales head Vikas Agnihotri will temporarily assume Anandan’s responsibility until a replacement is appointedRajan Anandan will help scale up Surge, Sequoia Capital’s India-focused accelerator for early-stage technology startups

Zilingo has raised $226 million from investors including Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings Pte Ankiti Bose is now part of a group of founders in Southeast Asia who are capitalizing on the region’s rapid adoption of smartphones and rising incomes