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Ashneer Grover who is the Former CEO of homegrown fintech giant BharatPe on Tuesday secures seed funding for his latest startup Third Unicorn. Ashneer Grover has raised about USD 4 million in seed funding for his venture, according to media reports.
The seed round has been led by ZNL Growth Fund, the funding round saw participation from over two dozen angel investors, including Anmol Singh Jaggi, Anirudh Kedia among others.
According to media reports, the new venture will be in the fantasy sports sector with a cricket-centric app named CrickPe.
Ashneer Grover has started this venture along with his wife Madhuri Jain. Grover has also roped in Dubai-based blockchain services firm BlockTech Brew’s executive Aseem Ghavri as the co-founder.
As per media reports, the venture which has been launched just ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) starting next month, will be competing with Tiger Global-backed Dream11 and others.
The app CrickPe comes almost after eight months when Grover first announced the launch of Third Unicorn in July 2022 after registering it with the Registrar of Companies (RoC).