Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [23 November – 28 November]
SoftBank Corp along with Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, invested about $120 Mn (INR 780 Cr) in on-demand hyperlocal delivery startup, Grofers, marking its fifth investment in an Indian startup....
View ArticleNews Roundup: 10 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [23 November-28...
Ringo Goes Local After revolutionising the international calling space, Ringo introduced local calling service in India priced at 19 paisa/minute. This will enable users to call without an internet...
View ArticleMovers & Shakers Of The Week [23 November – 28 November]
The energy in India’s startup ecosystem is palpable. While the founders monopolise the centre stage largely, with all their dazzle and glory, and many a times failures, there beats another pulse in the...
View ArticleM-TAXI Goes Online With 2-Wheeler Service; Raises Angel Round
M-TAXI, an on-demand app-based 2-Wheeler taxi service, has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding led by Mandeep Singh and Jairaj Singh. M-TAXI’s advisory board consists of entrepreneurs like...
View Article7 Questions Commonly Asked In Startup Job Interviews
Have you ever wondered what questions are commonly asked in startup job interviews? Not feeling very confident for your first startup job interview? That’s all right. For you folks, we have compiled a...
View ArticleCustomer Lifecycle Marketing Lessons From Those Who Made It Work
Customer lifecycle marketing (CLM) defines the key stages that a customer evolves through, from acquisition to retention, over the course of the relationship with a brand. We all know about the sales...
View ArticleWhat If Ecommerce, Services & Recommerce Startups Were A Single Entity?
Imagine you are at Vythiri Resort; an exquisite eco-friendly getaway in the heart of Wayanad, a district in north-east Kerala. Replaced is the daily dose of pollution with a cool forest breeze and...
View ArticleBike As A Taxi Service, Baxi, Raises $1.5 Mn In Seed Round
Gurgaon-based 74 BC Technologies Pvt Ltd, which will launch its bike-as-a-taxi service under the brand name “Baxi”, has raised about $1.5 Mn (INR 10 Cr.) in a seed round funding from friends and...
View ArticleMerchandising Startup, Superhero Brands, Raises Funding From DSG Consumer...
Mumbai-based character merchandising startup, Superhero Brands, has raised about $458K (INR 3.6 Cr.) in its Pre-Series A round of funding from early-stage venture capital firm DSG Consumer Partners....
View ArticleDon’t Detest Failure, Embrace It
Humans like to look at others and say whether someone is successful or not. As much as we enjoy talking about successes and failures we do not have the ability to accurately define success and failure....
View ArticleWingify Acquires US Based Navilytics; To Become A Full Featured Conversion...
New-Delhi based Visual Website Optimizer (VWO), has acquired US-based Navilytics, a visitor analytics solution. Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) – a product by Wingify – is an A/B testing tool that helps...
View ArticleUX Research Startup CanvasFlip Selected For Google’s Blackbox Connect Fall...
Hyderabad-based UX Research Startup, CanvasFlip, has been selected for the 13th edition of Blackbox Connect Fall 2015 programme. The programme is sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs and is being...
View ArticleSnapdeal Launches Snapdeal Ads, Enables Faster Product Discovery Across Web,...
Snapdeal has unveiled Snapdeal Ads, a platform to help sellers drive discovery of their products and increase revenue through targeted advertising tools. The move envisions a key revenue stream for the...
View Article[Live Blog] Digital Desh Is Back To Explore The Internet of India, Join The...
The 1st Digital Desh Drive gave us many important insights – what started as a journey to understand internet users (in Tier 2 & 3 cities) & their technology trends, soon blew us over with all...
View ArticleYourStory Acquires Self Publishing E-book Platform Papyrus Editor
Bangalore-based media tech company, YourStory, has acquired Papyrus Editor, an online editor to create ebooks, in a cash-and-stock deal. With this, Gaurav Tiwari, founder and CEO of Papyrus Editor,...
View ArticleHow A Chance Meeting Of Two Strangers Created A Nursery For Young Startups
Before they decided to start VentureNursery, India’s first angel-backed startup accelerator, Shravan Shroff and Ravi Kiran had traversed different routes in their lives. Both came from business...
View ArticleUpdated: Quikr Closes The Much Coveted Deal; Acquires CommonFloor For $200 Mn
Update: Tracing the speculation of the deal we reached out to CommonFloor and got the response as: We are in the middle of fund-raising and there are multiple options on the table. We have not yet...
View ArticleGiving Gaming A Social Touch, Gamezop Promises To Be A Gamechanger
Standing in the corner of the metro-rail compartment, without even an inch of space to move his limbs, the young man looks unperturbed, his entire attention on his smartphone. One can see his facial...
View ArticleExtra Curricular Activities & Hobbies App, Butterfly Raises Angel Fund
Butterfly Interactive, a Delhi-based online marketplace for extra curricular activities and hobby sciences, has raised an undisclosed amount in angel round funding from a group of Delhi-based angel...
View ArticleHow Ravi Gururaj’s New Venture QikPod Aims To Revolutionise Ecommerce By...
It’s your birthday in a week. You order the dress, you so coveted, from your favourite online store-it could be Myntra, Flipkart, or Jabong and excitedly wait, counting the days and hours in your...
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