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Chennai Angels Invest $500K In Home Automation Startup Silvan
Bangalore-based home automation startup, Silvan Innovation Labs, has raised about $500K (INR 3.5 Cr.) in a funding round from The Chennai Angels. Silvan will use the raised capital to promote the...
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Expedite Your Success With These 9 “Smartcuts”
Have you ever looked at someone who achieved rapid success, and with awe or even jealousy, wondered, “How did she do that?” You know what I’m talking about. How did Gina get promoted to VP when she’s...
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Adult Products Estore, IMbesharam, Raises $4 Mn In Series A Funding
IMbesharam.com, an adult products e-store, has raised $4 Mn (INR 27.2 Cr.) in a Series A round of funding led by two unnamed US-based angel investors. The company is now valued at $20M, after the...
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Ecommerce Enabler, SnapBizz, Raises $7.2 Mn From Jungle, Blume & Others
Bangalore-based retail technology firm, SnapBizz, has raised $7.2 Mn (about INR 48 Cr.) in a funding round led by Jungle Ventures, Taurus Value Creation, Konly Venture and Blume Ventures. The company...
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Deal Discovery Platform ‘Little’ Raises Funding From GIC
Bangalore-based O2O deals marketplace, Little, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. The new round of funding is an extension of the July round, where...
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Hindi Social Networking Website, ShabdaNagari, Raises Angel Funding From...
Uttar Pradesh-based Hindi social networking portal, ShabdaNagari, has raised about $200K in an angel round of funding from Kanpur Angels and a cluster of other investors. The raised capital will be...
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LocalCircles Gets Funding From Puneet Dalmia
Online citizen engagement platform, LocalCircles, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Puneet Dalmia, Managing Director of Dalmia Group. The raised capital will be used to expand...
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Here’s Why Pitching With An Angel Investor Increases Your Chances Of Fundraising
One of the most trusted approaches in startup marketing is to have your customers advocate your brand. Can the same approach bring similar results when an Angel Investor advocates your startup and...
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Why Indian Founders Need To Share Their Stories
Founders in Silicon Valley are usually quite articulate about their experiences. They get interviewed all the time, which is why we learn a lot about what’s happening within these startups. It’s a...
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Google Announces WiFi Availability For Mumbai Central Railway Station Passengers
Google has announced the availability of free wifi service for passengers traveling from Mumbai Central railway station. In September 2015, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, had announced its plans to...
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Big Data Startup, Qubole, Raises $30 Mn In Series C Round From IVP & Existing...
Big data-as-a-service company, Qubole, has raised $30 Mn in a Series C round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) along with existing investors CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners and...
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UrbanClap Acquires Electronics Services Startup HandyHome
Gurgaon-based mobile services marketplace, UrbanClap, has acquired after sales services platform HandyHome, according to TOI. According to our sources, the deal is currently undergoing legal...
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Online Retailer, Skycandle.in, Raises Series A Funding
Online retailer and home decor brand, SkyCandle.in, has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A round of funding led by GPA group. As per the deal, GPA Group’s chairman, Vivek Aggarwal will enter as...
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Startup India Action Plan: Our Definition Of Startups Has To Go Beyond...
PM Modi’s Startup India initiative has certainly made the terms ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘startups’ well known across India. It has made ‘doing a startup’ cool and respectable, and has certainly...
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So You Don’t Have Monetization Figured Out!
This is an extension to Show me the Money. I realized I hadn’t covered non-transactional businesses or transactional businesses which aren’t yet charging money to either side of the marketplace in...
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Managing Virtual Teams: How We Built And Manage A Successful Remote Company
When we started Hubstaff, being a remote company was simply the obvious choice, and getting an office was never even a consideration. We understood the software that we wanted to create and the type of...
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News Roundup: 5 Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week [18 January – 23...
Snapdeal has reported a loss of INR 1,328 Cr. on revenue of INR 938 Cr. in FY 14-15. As per the documents filed with the Registrar of Companies, Jasper Infotech Private Limited, which owns and operates...
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Movers And Shakers Of The Week [18 January – 23 January]
Mukul Singhal and Rohit Jain, two principals at SAIF Partners, have quit the firm to set up an early stage fund. The two, who were leading the seed investments at SAIF Partners, will adopt a similar...
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Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [18 January – 23 January]
Global venture capital and growth equity investment firm, Norwest Venture Partners, raised $1.2 Bn for its XIII fund, to support its sector and stage independent investment strategy. The firm now has a...
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PlexusMD Raises Funds From Arihant Patni
Ahmedabad-based, an online networking platform that connects healthcare professionals and organisations together, PlexusMD, has reportedly raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Patni family...
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