YouTube Conquers the 10 Billion Milestone

As of July 2021, the presently expected populace on the earth is 7.9 billion people. Google's Operating system Android for mobile phones, celebrated three billion activations of the Operating system on mobile devices this year, and the range of apps to be had at the Play Store became 2.89 million after a steep rise.

If you suspect the ones are awesome numbers, Google's YouTube app for Android has crossed such a milestone that will leave you in an awe. The number is 10 billion, that's extra than the complete expected number of humans on the earth.

To get a fair estimation, you need to consider its presence on each Android phone out there in the world as a part of Google's suite of apps. However, even then, ten billion is an awesome range. To have a better idea, the 2nd  most famous app at the Play Store, Facebook has a staggering number too, seven billion downloads. WhatsApp is one the number 3rd with the number touching six billion downloads and counting, the Messenger by facebook ranks quite well at more than five billion downloads it stands 4th. Surprisingly, Instagram rounds out the pinnacle 5 with just three billion downloads which is a very low number considering its popularity.

TikTok despite being banned, maintains sturdy with two billion downloads which is a huge number for a short video app, the game that took the world by storm, Subway Surfers is subsequent with more than one billion downloads which is more than any other game, Facebook Lite on the other hand is just shy of two billion in number, Microsoft Word as well as the Powerpoint also take a seat down very near to Two billion, and Snapchat has a been a bit behind with the number of downloads at one billion. 

To understand it clearly, the YouTube “Home” feed/web page is superb at recommending films, songs, videos, that you’d like the experience of watching whenever you want. However, it can get repetitive and YouTube desired to address that with “New to you.” A new feature that helped achieve the number and get more audience to use the YouTube in a manner never experienced before.

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On cell phones, “New to you” seems as a notification withinside the top carousel simply where the app bar is located. This innovation by YouTube is paying the results and seems to be making YouTube rich along with people creating on it. This YouTube news could be your sign to get on it and grow with the most downloaded app in the world.

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Meesho Aims To Be Valuated Over $4 Billion

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After just three months, of its previous funding round, Meesho, who is one of the best rising startups in India, is back at fundraising. This time it’s even bigger and better, with an aim to grab almost double its valuation. The social commerce platform is taking bigger steps now and is talking $100 million now, in a new round from two new and existing investors.

“Meesho is looking at a $100 million round from two new investors and existing backers including SoftBank and Prosus,” said one of the sources while staying anonymous. “The round will also have a major secondary component that’ll make it even better for the rising startup.” This attempt to raise the Startup financials is a big step for Meesho’s future.

When the funding goes through, this will be the second time Meesho got funding in the year 2021 and established a good rapport among the investors. The social commerce platform, became the unicorn of Indian startups in April when it raised $300 million from SoftBank and others in a single round. 

According to recent reports by anonymous sources, Meesho is going to be valued at over $3.5 billion in this new investment round. This investment will give Meesho a boosted jump in the company’s valuation as compared to its valuation in April this year.

“Meesho will ramp up its consumer internet play with this new round to eventually challenge Amazon and Flipkart in top 10 and tier I cities markets,” said the same anonymous source. Emails regarding this Latest Startup News, sent to all the companies involved in this investment round could not get any official response. So, there’s no official confirmation of the matter yet.

Meesho has come up like a champion and has set down roots very deep in the soil of social eCommerce by acing the reseller model since 2015. However, the company has also been experimenting, since last year, with a new model that enables customers to order goods directly from Meesho, this gives the rising startup an added advantage. Currently, the company is trying a new method called the white label solution to let itself enter the stage where it is able to get direct orders from the consumers. And the anonymous sources also stated that Meesho will soon start fulfilling these direct orders with Meesho’s own branding.

“Meesho has risen from the ashes and has reached the sky by establishing itself as the third-largest social e-commerce business after Walmart. There has been a lot of inbound interest from investors in Meesho, which tells everyone that there’s a long way to go for Meesho.

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Airblack, Makeup And Beauty Upskill Platform Raises Millions

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Airblack, an online makeup and beauty upskilling platform, has raised $5.2 million in its Series A round funding. The Indian startup Airblack started as a travel and hospitality venture but due to the impact of Covid 19 on startups, the company had to switch to another line of business that saw a new boom due to the same Pandemic, the online education business. The series A round funding, was led by Info Edge Ventures and Elevation Capital, who are also former SAIF partners. Atelier Ventures and Better Capital also took part in helping the rising Indian Startup to grow, Some angel investors from the Indian Startup Community including Kunal Shah, founder of Cred, Ankur Nagpal, Founder and CEO of teachable and Sanjeev Barnwal, Founder and CTO of Meesho also participated with great vim and vigor.

The fund raised, will act as fuel in the accelerating wagon of Airblack, for the expansion of the brand and the introduction of new clubs for users and investment will also be made in product management and development part of the business, engineering and marketing will also get new budgets to raise the brand awareness, said Airblack to press in a recent release.

The startup is founded by former Elevation Capital’s executives, Pulkit Pujara and Videt Jaiswal who worked on this idea together, the startup helps aspiring people to upskill and become what is called the micro-entrepreneurs in the beauty skilling industry. This startup funding news, indicates that investors see great potential in this rising Indian Startup, and have also given a hint that they might fund more upcoming startups in India, if they see some potential.

Started as a company that was focused on the travel and hospitality industry, Airblack changed lanes to the beauty side after the pandemic hit the travel and hospitality industry, and brought everyone in that business on their knees. Airblack had raised $1.5 million seed capital from elevation in August 2019. According to the startup spokespersons, over 25,000 students have attended their various courses across more than 500 cities, and it clocks a surprisingly huge amount of time spent on online classes, over 45,000 hours of live classes every month. This supports the claim of Airblack about their expansion plans and the potential of business all over the globe, not only it’s a piece of good news for the rising startup but also for the Indian Business Community. Let’s see how far this series A funding takes Airblack on the journey to its success.

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