Jobs platform Apna hits unicorn status, becoming the youngest Indian start up to hit unicorn status in 21 months after creating app and 15 months after beginning full scale operations. It is backed by marque investors like Sequoia, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India. Given it’s a jobs portal like Naukri the question is Apna.co a threat to Naukri? Watch the accompanying video of CNBC-TV18’s Reema Tendulkar for more details.

Here’s a lowdown of the top deals in the startup space.

Dream Capital is the venture capital and M&A arm of Dream Sports, while Elysian Park Ventures is the private investment arm of the LA Dodgers ownership group. Ambit acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Fittr. The new capital will enable India-based Fittr to accelerate its growth and expansion into new markets, including North America, the UK and Singapore that currently accounts for 30 percent of the company's overall revenue.

According to Venture Intelligence, Indian startups raised more VC funding in the first half of 2021 than in the whole year of 2020.