Bengaluru: An Indian technology firm, working with IBM public cloud unit, is looking to help Indian kirana stores defend their turf in the online grocery war. Pace Automation, which has previously built software for restaurants, wants to bring 1,50,000 local grocery stores onto its platform in th…
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SAP launches ‘GST in a Box’ to help SMEs
Mumbai: German software company SAP SE on March 1st launched ‘GST in a Box’ — an all-inclusive solution portfolio to help the Indian firms become GST compliant. The ‘GST in a Box’ solution enables organisations to effectively manage suppliers, customer engagement an…
Germany keen to increase industrial partnership with SMEs in Vidarbha
Nagpur: Expressing a strong desire to collaborate with small scale industries in Vidarbha, Ashish Pandit, a partner at Let’s Bridge IT, Freiburg, Germany, said, “Vidarbha has a very prosperous SME’s (Small and Medium-sized enterprises) industry. We are trying to bridge the both …
Odisha launches Start-up Odisha Helpline
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on March 1st launched Startup Odisha Helpline no. – 18003457100 – in a bid to encourage entrepreneurship among youth in the state. “I hope this Helpline will provide a platform to our youth, incubators and other stakeholders to address their issues,…
To support women founded start-ups, Facebook launches SheLeadsTech
Social networking site Facebook on March 1st launched a new initiative, SheLeadsTech, to support women-founded or co-founded startups and said it will also be expanding its SheMeansBusiness program that supports women-led small businesses. SheLeadsTech will give women-founded or co-founded start-…
Finova Capital organized loan camp for the MSME sector in Jaipur
Jaipur, March 1, 2017: Driven with the intention to relive the oftentimes snubbed or underserved MSME sector of the Indian economy, Finova Capital organized the loan camp for the same on 28th February 2017 in city. With the unmet finance gap of Rs 3 trillion arising from over 55 mn micro enterpri…
Govt to roll out programme for promoting women entrepreneurs
New Delhi: The government will roll out a programme in coming weeks to bring more women into the startup ecosystem by offering them mentoring and capital for setting up businesses. “We are now trying to put together a small startup programme where we want to focus on women in technology. We…
Government’s biotech innovation centre to be set up in Bengaluru’s C-CAMP
Bengaluru: The government’s nodal funding agency for the biotech industry, the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), will house its regional entrepreneurship centre at Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a biotechnology innovation incubator.…
SMEs will tremendously benefit if electronic process continues for some more time: V Vaidyanathan
In an interview to Shilpy Sinha, V Vaidyanathan , chairman of non-banking finance company, Capital First, said Capital First exercises great diligence in lending, but the method of lending is different from traditional ways. Edited excerpts: Q: A large part of your portfolio comprises SMEs, which…
Digital start-ups get together to engage better with policymakers
Bengaluru: A handful of bitcoin startups, led by Zebpay’s Saurabh Agrawal, had been talking for a while about reviving their defunct industry group. It finally took a Central bank warning notice that resurfaced in February after four years to kick them into action. The Digital Asset and Blockchai…