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Cab Aggregator TaxiVaxi Raises $500K In Seed Funding
Delhi-based cab aggregating platform TaxiVaxi has raised $500K (about INR 3.3 Cr) in second round of Seed funding from HNIs. Founded in December 2014 by Neeraj Tayal, Ankit Gupta and Vinod Kumar,...
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Flipkart’s Logistics Arm Ekart Launches Courier Service
Ekart, in a bid to position itself as an independent business, has started with its consumer facing courier services in Bangalore. The firm is incubated as the logistic arm of Flipkart in 2009, and has...
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Steero Is Ready To Transfigure The Car Repair Segment With Its Doorstep Approach
India has over 30 Mn cars on the road and the number is growing at an alarming rate of 17% year on year. But car repairing solutions in India are plagued with shortcomings. Waiting in long queues, lack...
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Parenting Focused Social Networking Startup Parentlane Raises Angel Funding
Bangalore-based Parentlane, a tech-based startup focused on child development, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in an angel round led by Sujeet Kumar, former president (operations) of...
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Digital Sports Broadcast Network VEQTA Raises $500K In Seed Funding
Mobile-based digital broadcast network dedicated to Sports, VEQTA, has raised $500K in Seed funding from early stage venture capital firm Chatsworth Management and sports management company ITW...
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Ratan Tata Invests In AI Startup Niki.AI
Ratan N. Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot niki.ai, along with Ronnie Screwvala’s Unilazer Ventures that did a follow up round to their first seed...
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Mumbai-based O2O Platform Appie Raises $1 Mn In Funding
Mumbai based O2O platform Appie, which helps consumers discover product availability and price from different offline retailers located in their vicinity, has raised $1 Mn in a bridge round of funding...
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Indian Startup Smartron Unveils Its First Smartphone – tphone
Smartron, a Hyderabad and Bangalore-based tech-hardware company, has launched tphone, a 5.5” premium android smartphone, as part of its tronx ecosystem that includes all of its hardware, software,...
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Startups Make Products, Fans Make Brands
Although viral growth is always built into tech business models, in reality it’s quite rare to achieve. The best thing a brand can do is to drive a product’s strategy through a market efficiently by...
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Important Precautions Every Brand Must Take On Social Media
Social media channels are nothing less than a boon for businesses. However, one must take certain precautions when posting on social media so as to not end up jeopardizing their brand. Here is a list...
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10 Rules Of Success By Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the coauthor of Mosaic, the first widely used Web browser; cofounder of Netscape and cofounder and general...
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Founders Need To Use Game Theory To Win The Funding Game
Startups can be quite fragile, and one of the most difficult challenges they face is to raising funding in order to make sure they reach profitability. Money is difficult to come by, because there are...
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Harbhajan Singh launches Micro-Gaming App – Ballr
Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh launched the cricket gaming application Ballr on Thursday and will lead its endorsements in India. Ballr, a Delhi and Singapore-based sports engagement platform, owned...
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100K Users, 15Mn Monthly Streams: Here’s How Muslate Plans To Become The...
Digital India is becoming a reality thanks to rapid Internet penetration. This has led to the growth of consumer internet space, thereby allowing entrepreneurs to identify niche areas in every sector,...
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Angel Investing In India – Crystal Ball Gazing For New Opportunities
As a follow up to my previous crystal ball gazing into the realm of investing trends for early stage angels, I’d like to share some more thoughts amongst the noise of valuation markdowns, ecommerce...
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Uber To End Surge Pricing In Delhi; Will Cap Fares As Per Govt. Rates
Uber has suspended surge pricing completely in New Delhi after strict warnings issued by Delhi CM. Also, in a letter to the Transport Minister, it has agreed to not exceed the fare from what is decided...
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Zomato Wins The Internet Today By Slamming A User On Account Of Solicited...
Zomato has quashed claims of a former Zomato user Prateek Dham, who took to venting his ire in a Facebook post after Zomato deleted his account after he was found to be offering positive reviews as a...
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Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [16 May – 21 May]
Amazon’s investor, Tiger Global Management, which happens to be the largest investor in rival Flipkart reduced its stake in Amazon by nearly 67% in the March-ended quarter. This week 16 startups raised...
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News Roundup: 12 Startup Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week [16 May –...
Paytm, PayU India and Oxigen have got in-principle approval for operating as Bharat Bill Payments Operating Unit. This will allow customers to pay all their bills anytime and anywhere under the Bharat...
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Movers & Shakers Of The Week [16 May – 21 May]
Mobile Payments and commerce platform Paytm made two appointments for its Payment Bank. The company has appointed Ruchita Taneja Aggarwal as its lead of banking operations and Priya Karnik will be...
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