Edtech Startup Testbook Raises Funding From S Chand And Company
Mumbai-based Edtech startup, Testbook, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from publishing house S. Chand and Company. Testbook leverages technology to make exam preparation more efficient and...
View ArticleThe Sport Of Entrepreneurship And Its Players
I initially set out to write this piece to give my perspective on the controversial topic — Are Entrepreneurs Born or Bred? The more I researched and studied I found out the question was like the...
View ArticleEvernote Sees India As The Fastest Growing Market; Announces INR Payments
A cross-platform note-taking and productivity app, Evernote, has announced localised credit card payment and discounted pricing for the Indian market. Users can now pay in Indian Rupee (INR) for...
View ArticleCIIE Calling Out Healthcare Startups For Its New Accelerator Program
IIM Ahmedabad’s technology business incubator, Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), has launched a Healthcare Accelerator, in partnership with The Dasra Girl Alliance. The...
View Article100 Days, 450K Installs: How Times Internet Backed Smartapp Is Helping Users...
Today, we carry our world in a single device – the smartphone. But with ever-changing data and mobile plans, choosing the best plan for our smartphone becomes a predicament. This becomes a greater...
View ArticleOla Plans To Shut Its Hyperlocal Grocery Service ‘Ola Store’
Days after Flipkart announced the shutdown of its hyperlocal grocery service Nearby, Ola is reportedly shutting down Ola Store. Ola started beta testing of its app ‘Ola store’ for grocery and daily...
View ArticleLearnings From A Single Founder Startup
“There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome cofounder. There are few factors that can make a company more unsuccessful, aggravating, and pathetic than...
View ArticleRoundGlass Partners Invest In Fitness Discovery Portal, Gympik
Bangalore-based online fitness discovery platform, Gympik, has raised an undisclosed amount in it pre-series A round of funding from RoundGlass Partners. In August 2013, Amaresh Ojha, an IIM Bangalore...
View ArticleHere Are The 6 Startups Graduated From ISDI Creative Accelerator
The Indian School of Design and Innovation (ISDI) and Microsoft Ventures has announced graduation of first batch of startups of ISDI accelerator program. The accelerator’s first batch was commenced in...
View ArticleSkedool.it Raises Funding To Build “Alex” – An AI Powered Smart Personal...
Skedool.it, a B2B smart assistant startup powered by Artificial Intelligence, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding round from a group of prominent Silicon Valley and Indian technology...
View ArticleThe Bootstrapper’s Dilemma
You have an idea, and you start up. Then you quit your job, and pursue it full-time. What follows next is the quintessential dilemma of a startup founder — “Should I raise money now?” Unless you have a...
View Article22 Years, 6 Failures And One Hell Of A Startup; And Ritesh Is Not Stopping Yet!
“If you have not failed, you have not hardened yourself.” Coming from a 22 year old CEO, these words might seem a bit cocky. But when Ritesh Agarwal in conversation with Shruti Mishra at the recently...
View ArticleRevolutionary Road Of An Entrepreneur: 5 Lessons From Leonardo DiCaprio’s...
Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won his first Oscar. He was named the Best Actor at the 88th Academy Awards, for his role in ‘The Revenant’. The crowd gave DiCaprio a standing ovation as he picked up his...
View ArticleNandan Nilekani Invests In Robotics Firm Systemantics
Bangalore-based robotics firm, Systemantics, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from existing investor Accel Partners, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, reported ET. Systemantics...
View ArticleMobile Based Marketing Solution Provider MoMark Raises $600K From YourNest...
Noida-based Momark Services, a mobile app-based customer engagement platform and mobile wallet aggregator has raised $600K in pre Series-A funding led by YourNest Angel Fund. Kolkata-based LNB group...
View ArticleTechnology And Real Estate: An Evolving Relationship
Real Estate around the world is getting smarter. Construction technologies are changing and evolving to create time saving methods. China is building skyscrapers in 24 hours and architects and...
View ArticleOla Routes To Public Listing
Indian Unicorn Ola has decided to go the IPO way, reports ET. The news comes after Rajiv Bansal, former Advisor to the CEO and the Board of Infosys, joined Ola as chief financial officer in January...
View ArticleBreaking: Meeting of Unicorns – Zomato Turns To Snapdeal For Better Delivery
In a rare union of parallel universes, Zomato, the restaurant finding and food ordering app, has tied up with Snapdeal. According to a mail by Zomato co-founder Pankaj Chaddah, “Zomato has partnered...
View ArticleWill The Marketplace Model Work For BigBasket?
Hyperlocal grocery became a buzzword in the media as 2015 saw some major developments in the online grocery market in India. While some companies, like Ola and Flipkart, took a U-turn, other...
View ArticleNASSCOM Signs MoU With Tamil Nadu Government To Launch Startup Warehouse
IT industry body National Association of Software & Services (NASSCOM) has partnered with Tamil Nadu Government to open its first warehouse in Chennai. The MoU was signed between Department of...
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