{"id":1045884,"date":"2026-10-30T08:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045884"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:52:10","slug":"octopus-ventures-leads-38-million-investment-in-enterprise-connectivity-firm-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/30\/octopus-ventures-leads-38-million-investment-in-enterprise-connectivity-firm-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopus Ventures leads $38 million investment in enterprise connectivity firm Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: London-based venture capital firm Octopus Ventures, along with KPN Ventures, has invested $38 million (around \u20b9361 crore) in Netherlands-based enterprise connectivity platform Braid in a Series A funding round. <\/p>\n<p>KPN Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of KPN, the Netherlands&#8217; leading telecom &#038; ICT service provider. <\/p>\n<p>Braid, launched in 2023, said it is profitable and cash-flow positive, with nearly 90 enterprise customers, including global fintech and travel brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: London-based venture capital firm Octopus Ventures, along with KPN Ventures, has invested $38 million (around \u20b9361 crore) in Netherlands-based enterprise connectivity platform Braid in a Series A funding round. KPN Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of KPN, the Netherlands&#8217; leading telecom &#038; ICT service provider. Braid, launched in 2023, said it is profitable and cash-flow positive, with nearly 90 enterprise customers, including global fintech and travel brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045885,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045884\/revisions\/1045885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}