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Housing.com

Housing.com is a Mumbai-based real estate search portal, which allows customers to search for housing based on geography, number of rooms, and various other filters. Japan-based SoftBank has invested an additional 100 crore rupees in Housing.com to drive the growth of the realty portal. With 85 million visits in 2015 and 1.7 verified listings to date, Housing.com said it is building scalable revenue streams around its world-class product, market leading demand and supply, and is also going deeper in the value chain towards facilitating and fulfilling transactions.

FirstCry

Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons, has invested an undisclosed amount in FirstCry.com, an e-commerce platform for baby and maternity products. This is his fourth investment-From being an exclusively online retailer, FirstCry has now morphed into a multi-channel retailer with presence across the web, mobile and offline segments.

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