{"id":383063,"date":"2020-11-09T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383063"},"modified":"2020-11-09T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:46:51","slug":"ather-energy-raises-35-mn-in-a-funding-round-led-by-sachin-bansal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ather-energy-raises-35-mn-in-a-funding-round-led-by-sachin-bansal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ather Energy raises $35 mn in a funding round led by Sachin Bansal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hero MotoCorp-backed electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy on Saturday said it has raised funds to the tune of USD 35 million in a funding round led by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal&#8217;s investment of USD 23 million. <\/p>\n<p>Besides Bansal, Hero MotoCorp has also invested USD 12 million as a part of the Series D round in the EV startup, according to a release. <\/p>\n<p>This round of investment will allow Ather Energy to accelerate its expansion plans and speed up the deliveries of its electric scooter, Ather 450X, the Bengaluru-based startup said. <\/p>\n<p>Ather Energy was one of the earliest start-up investments of Bansal, who chipped in as an angel investor with USD 0.5 million funds in the firm in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hero MotoCorp-backed electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy on Saturday said it has raised funds to the tune of USD 35 million in a funding round led by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal&#8217;s investment of USD 23 million. Besides Bansal, Hero MotoCorp has also invested USD 12 million as a part of the Series D round in the EV startup, according to a release. This round of investment will allow Ather Energy to accelerate its expansion plans and speed up the deliveries of its electric scooter, Ather 450X, the Bengaluru-based startup said. Ather Energy was one of the earliest start-up investments of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}