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Zzungry’s Curated Indian Cuisine Entices Silicon Valley Investors
Zzungry, a Bengaluru-based foodtech startup has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Silicon Valley-based entrepreneurs Satish Vasudeva, Madhusudhan Jujare and a group of other individual...
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TiE Mumbai SmashUp 6.0 Announces Winners Of Smasher Awards
The Mumbai chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) TiE Mumbai concluded the Smasher Awards on Saturday (August 20). Six curated startups got the opportunity to pitch to get audience votes as well as...
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My Company Got Acquired: What Did I Learn And How Do I Feel?
I remember getting on a call with one of our investors — Gautham Radhakrishnan late last year and there’s something simple he mentioned which stuck with me for a long time and somewhere made it easier...
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Performance Was The Reason I Was Replaced Says Flipkart’s Ex-CEO Sachin Bansal
Look at the top level. Everyone has changed. Even I’m gone. This was Flipkart’s ex-CEO and co-founder Sachin Bansal’s reply to his employees who were questioning the company regarding its recent spree...
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All Hail Democracy: Jail Time And Fine For Viewing A Torrent Site In India
India’s government officials have been on a pro-ban strategy for quite some time now, implementing regulations and ordinances in various facets of life. While the Indian government has banned a few...
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Cyber Security Platform TAC Security Raises Pre Series A Funding
TAC Security Solutions, a cyber-security solutions provider has raised an undisclosed amount of Pre-Series A funding from Vijay Kedia. With this development, the investor will also join the company’s...
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5 Reasons Why Startups Raising A Smaller First Round Is Good For The Ecosystem
Based on reviewing the business plans of thousands of startups, it is clear to me that a number of startups that struggle for months to close $446.2K (INR 3 Cr) – $892.4K (INR 6 Cr) angel/seed round...
View ArticleExclusive: Global P2P Student Notes Exchange Marketplace Notesgen Raises...
Globally, the education market is valued at $1.3 Tn with the EdTech products market valued at $40 Bn. Presently, more than 740 Million students use EdTech products and services while 30 Mn teachers use...
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Divyank Turakhia’s AdTech Company Media.net Acquired By Chinese Consortium...
AdTech platform, Media.net, is being acquired by a Chinese Consortium in an all-cash transaction valued at about $900 Mn. Founded by Divyank Turakhia, Media.net, is a global advertising technology...
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Be The Change You Wish To See: Young Makers Conclave Shines Spotlight On...
Our country woke up this week, still euphoric from India’s phenomenal silver win at the Rio Olympics. This year, the youth dominated, the young thrived. They carried forward the torch of ideas and...
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MobiKwik Launches Partial Payments And Cash Pick Up For Bus Bookings
Mobile wallet company MobiKwik that has recently entered the bus booking industry has announced partial payment for ticket reservations. With a target of 25,000 daily bus bookings by December 2016,...
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Kelly Services And Temp Holdings Launch $10 Mn VC Fund For HR Startups
Gurgaon-based recruitment firm Kelly Services has launched a corporate venture capital fund in association with its joint venture partner for Asia Pacific, Temp Holdings. The fund which is called ‘Temp...
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Ratan Tata’s RNT Capital All Set To Deploy $300 Mn Fund In India, SouthEast...
RNT Capital, the VC fund by Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Ratan Tata is reportedly planning to deploy $300 Mn across startups in India, Southeast Asia and the US. Headquartered jointly in Mumbai and...
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Kerala’s Profoundis Labs Acquired By US Based FullContact
US-based tech firm FullContact has acquired Profoundis Labs, known for its flagship product Vibe, for an undisclosed amount. Post-acquisition, the complete team of 70 employees will be absorbed into...
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Myntra Right On Track; Crosses $1 Bn In Annual GMV
Indian fashion ecommerce platform Myntra has crossed $1 Bn (INR 6,709 Cr) in annualised GMV, post discounts in July 2016. This has been a rise from its earlier figure of $800 Mn in January. According...
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Frauds Claiming To Be An ‘IT Startup’ Con 600 People For $224K
PC Technology Pvt Ltd have duped at least 600 people in Mumbai by promising to provide them with assured jobs. The company claimed to be based in Dehradun and asked individuals to pay $373 (INR 25,000)...
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Droom Launches Orange Book Value – An Algorithmic Pricing Engine For Used...
Gurgaon-based online automobile marketplace, Droom has launched an OrangeBookValue (OBV) destination website, along with its Android and iOS apps, multiple partnerships and third party web publishers’...
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24 Two-Sentence Horror Stories to Terrify Your Office Colleagues
Did you know there are scarier things that ghosts and ghouls? Well, there are. Here are 23 two-sentence horror stories to truly terrify your co-workers on Halloween or any other day. For more humour,...
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Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan Launches ‘Itihaasa’: An App To Trace...
In an attempt to chronicle the history of the Indian IT industry, former CEO and co-founder of Infosys, Kris Gopalakrishnan has announced the launch of Itihaasa Research and Digital. This non-profit...
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Advertising Platform NearU Raises Funding From International Marketing Guru...
Mumbai-based O2O startup NearU has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Dr. Goutam Challagalla, international marketing guru and professor at IMD business school, Switzerland. NearU team will...
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