Small and large enterprises have to procure industrial products from 100s of suppliers. Moglix, a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce start-up, is trying to use technology to disrupt the traditional distribution channels for industrial products. Recently, the B2B start-up which specialises in p…
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We are doing localised solutions for SMEs in India | Maggie Chan Jones, CMO, SAP
SAP, the multinational enterprise application software company, has seen tremendous growth in this country. Maggie Chan Jones, its US-based chief marketing officer, talked about on its plans for India and partnership with government initiatives like Digital India. Edited excerpts: Q: Where is Ind…
Start-ups Graviky, Chattar Patar secure Rs 1.8crore funding
CHENNAI: Startups Graviky and Chattar Patar secured Rs 1.8 crore in funding from multiple investors on the TV show The Vault. Indore-based Chattar Patar raised Rs 1 crore from Ameera Shah, Managing Director & CEO – Metropolis Healthcare Limited, Rahul Singh, founder & CEO, The Beer …
Exim eyes state tie-ups to take local business global
Mumbai: In a bid to boost exports as well as industrialisation in some of the states striving for investments, the Centre has asked the Export Import (Exim) Bank of India to engage with state governments to get companies or businesses that are already successful at the local level to go global. T…
Health tech start-ups to the aid of speciality clinics for IT
CHENNAI: Hospital chains like the Apollo Group, Manipal, Columbia Asia and Fortis were among the first in India to invest heavily in IT. Joining their ilk are speciality clinics like Vasan Eyecare, Davita, Narayana Health, HCG and Agwaral Eye Clinic, which now taking to the IT highway and upgradi…
Barclays launches fintech accelerator programme with 10 fintech start-ups
MUMBAI: Rise Accelerator, a FinTech- focussed accelerator programme started by Barclays announced its first cohort, comprising 10 FinTech startups. The fintech accelerator will provide the selected startups with access to the bank’s technology, insight and expertise via onsite mentors and a…
Monexo to expand P2P lending business in India
MUMBAI: Hong-Kong-based Monexo Innovations, the latest entrant in the Indian peer-to-peer lending space, plans to raise about $10 million by December 2016 to scale up its business in India and South East Asian countries. “We are looking to raise about $10 million by December and talks are i…
Tata, GE to train 10,000 in healthcare
Tata Trusts and GE Healthcare have entered into an agreement to train 10,000 youth in various technical areas of the healthcare sector in three years. The partnership is aimed at bridging the skills gap among healthcare staff in technical or operating roles. Network expansion As per the ag…
The startup which is providing online business software solutions for SMEs
Even as the world is moving fast towards cloud technology, even today we need a licensed CD or flash memory to install a software. It is this gap that two serial entrepreneurs Akash Nangia and Arjun Mittal set out to fill in their entrepreneurial journey. They realized the demand for an online ma…
PM Narendra Modi to present National MSME awards to industrialists today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present the national MSME awards to 225 industrialists at Ludhiana in Punjab this afternoon. He will also launch the national SC/ST hub and zero effect on environment scheme for MSME sector at Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. This hub is being set up unde…