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8 Takeaways For Women Entrepreneurs From Claire Underwood Of House Of Cards
Spoiler Alert: The article has references from Season 4 of the show, which went on air on March 4, 2016. “A cold fusion of two universal elements. Identical in weight, equal in force. United they...
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AI Platform vPhrase Analytics Raises Seed Funding From Venture Catalysts
Mumbai-based Venture Catalysts (VCats), India’s first seed investment and innovation platform, has invested an undisclosed amount of seed funding in vPhrase Analytics Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The investment...
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Personal Task Management App Dunzo Raises $650K From Aspada & Blume Ventures
Chat-based daily tasks management app dunzo has raised $650K (around INR4.4 Cr) in pre-Series A round of funding led by Aspada Investment Advisors and Blume Ventures. Rajan Anandan and Sandipan...
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InnerChef Acquires EatonGo & Flavor Labs
Gurgaon-based food-tech startup InnerChef has acquired two startups in the food tech domain including Bangalore-based EatonGo and Gurgaon-based Flavour Labs. With the acquisition of Flavour Labs,...
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Uber Signs Pact With Haryana Government, To Invest $17.7 Mn
Cab-hailing app Uber has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Haryana government wherein it will invest $17.7 Mn (INR 120 Cr) in technology-based ride-sharing services. Gagan Bhatia,...
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Startups – Don’t Change Directions Just Because You Can
As a startup founder, you get to hear the following things: Take quick decisions and move fast Pivot, be agile, and iterate Fail fast The aforementioned points, in some sense, tells you to change...
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Paragon Partners Growth Fund Raises $50 Mn, Invests $10 Mn in Capacite...
Paragon Partners has raised $50 Mn in commitments, marking the first close of their $200 Mn private equity fund. PPGF was established in 2015 by Siddharth Parekh and Sumeet Nindrajog. It is an...
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IndiaMART Raises Series C Funding From Westbridge Capital, Intel Capital And...
Delhi-based online listing platform for small and medium businesses, IndiaMART, has raised an undisclosed amount in Series C round of funding led by Bhavani Rana on behalf of Amadeus Capital. The round...
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Who Will Be In The Core Team Of Your Startup?
There is a famous anecdote about Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s tweet which made Ryan Graves a billionaire. The car-hailing company’s CEO’s tweet was for tips on finding an entrepreneurial product manager,...
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Virtual Reality Startup SmartVizX Raises $500K from Indian Angel Network and...
Noida-based SmartVizX, a virtual reality solutions startup, has raised over $500K from the Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India (SA&E India). The round was led...
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Why Startups Fail And How To Build Up Interest Before The Launch
If you asked me, I’d say: The biggest reason most startups fail is because they don’t build up to their launch and they don’t market from day one. It’s like the 50/50 rule from Traction: Traction and...
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Housing’s Fall Out Continues As Co-Founder Advitiya Sharma Resigns After...
Housing.com has always been at the eye of controversial hurricanes. This time its co-founder Advitiya Sharma has resigned from the firm, nine months after its maverick founder and CEO Rahul Yadav had...
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Quikr Launches Doorstep Services
Online classified company Quikr has launched Quikr Doorstep to revolutionise consumer-to-consumer buying and selling in India. It brings the convenience of ecommerce to pre-owned goods by facilitating...
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Car Rental Startup JustRide Raises $400K From Angel Investors
Mumbai-based car rental service provider, JustRide, has raised $400K in pre-Series A round of funding from a group of angel investors including Dheeraj Jain, partner at Redcliffe Capital, reported...
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Here’s A Blow-By-Blow Account Of The Tussle Between Houzify & Houzz
After Palo Alto-based design and decor company Houzz sent a legal notice to Bangalore-based Houzify, claiming “deceptive similarity” between the trademark Houzz and Houzify/Housify, Facebook has...
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AI Transaction App, Yana, Raises Seed Funding
Artificial Intelligence startup Yana has raised an undisclosed amount of seed round funding from Hong Kong based investors led by Puneet Gupta of Goldman Sachs. Founded in May 2015 by Rahul Gupta,...
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Exclusive: Ola Hits The Brakes On Its Food Delivery Service Ola Cafe
Cab hailing app, Ola has shut down its food-delivery service ‘Ola Cafe’. This comes a few days after the news of shutdown of its grocery service, Ola Store, surfaced in the media. The Ola Cafe icon has...
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Tripoto Launches AI-Based Travel Assistance
Delhi-based online global travel community for travellers, Tripoto, has launched the beta version of the AI-based travel concierge by the name Tripoto.Ai. The platform is presently in beta stage. It is...
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Big Fish Ventures Raises $11 Mn From Angel Investors
Big Fish Ventures that runs premium dining lounges like the Junkyard Cafe, the Vault Cafe, among others has raised $11.1 Mn (INR 75 Cr) in the second round of funding from angel investors including...
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Joining The Dots Is Fine, But It’s High Time For World-Redefining Inventions
When I look around, I see tiny, incremental changes in our lives everyday. These are, what we call, innovations. These are not great inventions. These are upgrades, adjustments, improvements, even...
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