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Premium Budget Hotel Chain, Qik Stay, Raises $250K
Delhi-based Qik Stay, a hotel branding and aggregator startup, has raised $250K in seed round of funding from venture capital firm, I.D. Enablers Pvt. Ltd. The transaction was closed in August. Qik...
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ProductNation Announces List Of 25 Startups Attending #PNgrowth
ProductNation has announced the first batch of 25 successful companies who will attend inaugural #PNgrowth program. PNgrowth is an initiative of iSPIRT in collaboration with Stanford’s Graduate School...
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Reducing Bounce Rate In Ecommerce
Let’s say, a user visited your website. He hung around for a few seconds, and without visiting the next webpage, bounced off your site. You just lost one potential customer. Does it sound like an...
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3 Tips On How To Stay Sane While Running Your Startup
Meetings. Reports. Charts. Term Sheets. KPIs. Code. Content. Expectation settings. Planning. Thinking. Constantly Working. But no living. No sanity. Being 21 and founding a startup is hard work....
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What Startup Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Donald Trump
I am not a fan of Donald Trump and don’t agree with many of his positions, but he sure is entertaining to follow. I do actively follow politics, so I am keenly interested in campaign strategies,...
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Marketplace For Consultants & On Demand Expertise, Flexing It, Raises $500K
Delhi-based Flexing It, an online marketplace for consultants and on-demand expertise, has raised $500K in an angel round of funding from private investors. Founded in 2012 by Chandrika Pasricha,...
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Amazon Gears Up For Heavy Investment In Indian Market
Starting with its Diwali sale today, the US-based ecommerce marketplace, Amazon has announced its intentions to continue investing in the Indian market owing to its strong sales numbers and for...
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First Mile Logistics Services Provider, Parcelled, Gets $5 Mn Series A From...
Apart from the investments of Angels and VC, it is raining funds for the logistics startups as matured startups are investing in the new-age ones, ecommerce companies and others, also started showing...
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Ratan Tata & Mohandas Pai Invests In LetsVenture
After announcing its Series A round of funding last week from marquee investors, LetsVenture has now announced that Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata and chairman of Manipal Global Education TV...
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Pune Based EdTech Startup, AlmaMapper, Raises $400K In Seed Funding
Pune based education technology startup, AlmaMapper, has raised about $400K (INR 2.6 Cr) in seed funding from Oswal Techno Ventures LLP. The startup will use the proceeds of the funds raised to scale...
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Entrepreneurship Is Democratizing Access To Legitimate Wealth Creation
Till a few decades ago ‘profiteering and big business’ were considered bad. In the 70s and 80s, the villain was often a businessman, and hence the notion that ‘business and profiteering is for crooks’...
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Online Pharmacy Brand NetMeds Raises $50 Mn In Tranched Financing From OrbiMed
Chennai-based online pharmacy brand, NetMeds.com, has raised $50 Mn in tranched funding led by OrbiMed, a healthcare focused investment firm. As part of the deal, OrbiMed’s Dr. Sunny Sharma will join...
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Times Internet Invests In CarDekho’s Parent Company Girnar Software
Girnar Software that owns auto portals like CarDekho.com, Gaadi.com, BikeDekho.com, TyreDekho.com and Zigwheels.com has received investment from Zigwheels’ parent company Times Internet. Times is now...
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Lazy Attitude Towards Innovation By Incumbent Indian Companies Led To The...
We are seeing growing discussion on the business models of new-age startups. How they are spending money without any plans to become operationally profitable? Some analysts are questioning the business...
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Tiger Global Leads $9 Mn In Online Payment Gateway Firm Razorpay
Online payment gateway Razorpay has raised $9 Mn (INR 58 Cr) in a round led by Tiger Global. The round also saw participation of Matrix Partners. The funds will be used to further build its product and...
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Talent Assessment & Analytics Platform, Jombay, Raises Funding From...
Pune-based talent assessment and analytics platform, Jombay, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from VentureWorks India. According to Mohit Gundecha, CEO and co-founder at Jombay, the raised...
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Healthcare Startup Care24 Raises Funding From India Quotient
Mumbai-based home healthcare startup, Care24, has raised about $350K (INR 2.25 Cr.) in a funding round from India Quotient. Founded in 2014 by Vipin Pathak, Garima Tripathi, Abhishek...
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Unitus Announces MedPrime Technologies As The Winner Of 2nd Edition Of...
Seattle and Bangalore-based Unitus Seed Fund has announced the results of its second edition of StartHealth Competition India. Mumbai-based medical device startup, MedPrime Technologies, emerged as...
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Meet The Winners Of IBM SmartCamp 2015 Ahmedabad Edition
IBM Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) has announced the winners for its SmartCamp Ahmedabad edition. The startups were judged by Samir Patel, COO at InteractCRM Solutions Pvt. Ltd; Dulles Krishnan,...
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Alibaba Backed Quixey Launches Its Android Launcher In India
There are over a million apps on Google’s Play store. But cell phones cannot accommodate so many apps altogether. Out of the total space in the mobile phones, over 50% is occupied by utility apps like...
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