Thapar

Funngro has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Shark Tank judges, Amit Jain, CarDekho’s founder and Emcure Pharmaceutical’s Namita Thapar. Early-stage investment firm SucSeed Indovation Fund also participated in the round.Funngro, which offers teenagers an opportunity to earn money through real-life freelancing projects, was first incubated at India’s first fintech incubator Afthonia Lab in 2021 and has a network of four lakh teenlancers (teenagers who are freelancers) and over 1,000 companies.“Funngro's vision…

Recently, I stood on a raised court podium being cross-examined by a roomful of barristers. I was there as an “expert witness” to the case in hand – a group of young Black men from a small English city charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm – which mostly involved commenting on the extensive use of rap lyrics as evidence.Local police officers had transcribed, translated and interpreted songs and YouTube music videos, many of which had been recorded and released more than five years before the alleged crime, to make…