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Blue Box Media Co-Founder Pawas Jain Acquires Incubation Platform Startify
Pawas Jain, co-founder of Blue Box Media (company that owns and manages The Tech Portal) has acquired online incubation platform Startify, in a mix of cash and stock buy out deal. Jain will be...
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Voonik Forays Into Premium Ecommerce Segment; Acqui-Hires Three Startups
Bangalore-based fashion marketplace Voonik has forayed into premium ecommerce segment with launch of Vilara. The company has also acqui-hired three startups, Zohraa, Picksilk.com and Styl, to build the...
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Netflix Goes Hyperactive in India, Announces First Original Indian Series
Four months after the world’s largest video streaming company Netflix entered India, it has announced a new Netflix original series, based on the critically-acclaimed best-selling novel Sacred Games by...
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Flipkart Revises Return Policy, Imposes 10-Day Return On Select Products
Ecommerce firm Flipkart has revised its return policy for buyers. As per the new policy, a customer who has bought a product on Flipkart can now return the product within 10 days. Earlier the return...
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Meet The Three Women Led Startups That Won The HerPitch Event
In order to promote women entrepreneurship, HerSaga in association with Hong Kong based Jaarvis Accelerator recently organised an event –HerPitch. The event’s aim is to provide a platform for women...
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7 Things Every Startup Should Learn From Marvel
Captain America : Civil War just crossed the $1 Billion mark at the worldwide box office and marked the beginning of phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with a bang. It is the first movie...
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7 Types Of Employees That Startups Should Immediately Get Rid Of
A startup office culture is much different from a regular corporate culture. Therefore, the level of commitment and conviction required to work in a startup is quite different too. Not everybody is fit...
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Oracle Selects Five Startups For Its First Batch Of India Accelerator Program
Enterprise software company, Oracle, has announced its first batch for its startup incubation centre in India called ‘Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator’. The selected Startups are- ExpertRec: A...
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Amazon Launches New Platform To Take On Quikr And Olx
Online marketplace Junglee, the Indian subsidiary of Seattle-based Amazon, has finally rolled out its service to enable a platform where users can sell used goods. The company has started with pilot in...
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Sequoia Capital And Unitus Seed Fund Invest $4Mn In Edtech Startup CueMath
Delhi-based edtech startup CueMath, run by CueLearn has raised $4Mn in Series A round of funding from VC firm Sequoia Capital India with participation from existing investor Unitus Seed Fund. Founded...
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Modi Government Hits Startups Hard, Only 1 Out Of 250 Passes Startup India...
It seems that PM Narendra Modi’s Startup India initiative is proving to be a walk on pins and needles for aspiring startups. In the last 3 months, out of 250 applications received, only one got...
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Now Tax Scare On the Corner For Startups With Marked Down Valuations
The funding climate is as such being touted heading towards winters with drying funds and falling valuations. Added to that scare now is the problem of tax authorities proposing a rather controversial...
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Virtual Lawyers and Millennial Entrepreneurs
Millennials have grown up in an environment where they have been told, time and again, that they can be anything and do anything they set their minds to, by their elders and their peers. With dozens of...
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Microsoft And Temasek Enter In Global Partnership To Accelerate Startups
Microsoft has entered into a global partnership with Singapore-based investment company Temasek, to help support and scale startups across the world. As part of the collaboration, Temasek and six of...
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MadRat Games Raises Fresh Funds From Ratan Tata
MadRat Games, which has launched a wearable gaming platform SuperSuit for kids & families this year has raised fresh funds from a consortium of investors including Ratan Tata, Ola’s founders...
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Fashion Talent Platform 6Degree Raises $200K From IAN, Plans To Launch...
6Degree, a Hyderabad-based fashion talent and tech startup, has raised a seed round of $200K from Indian Angel Network. The investment was led by Abhishek Agarwal, who will be joining the company...
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The Era Of The Millennial: How 80s And 90s Kids Are Redefining Business Today
We know them; the ones with their heads buried in their phones or mac books, oversized glasses and scarves draped around them even in the month of July. The millennial, the modest,...
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Ecommerce Enabler StoreKing Raises $16 Mn From Malaysia’s Axiata Digital To...
Bangalore-based ecommerce enabler StoreKing has raised $16 Mn (INR 106 Cr.) from Malaysian telecom operator Axiata Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad. This is Axiata’s first...
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Koovs Confirms Strategic Investment From HT Media
Koovs PLC, a New Delhi and UK-based fashion etailer, has confirmed $3.4 Mn (£3 Mn) strategic investment from HT Media Ltd. The company has raised the capital through the issue of 12,000,000 new...
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Ratan Tata Backed Teabox Raises Funding
Online Premium Tea Seller, Teabox, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Cameron Jones, a Singapore-based angel investor. Concurrently, Teabox has also raised venture debt from DBS Bank...
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