One start-up as the most external funding, the other has been bootstrapping for 20 years. Both Flipkart Founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, and Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu have started giving back, investing time and money in other startups. Flipkart’s billionaire Founders Sachin Bansal…
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e-Commerce start-up IndiTatva promoting exclusive ‘Made in India’ handicrafts
IndiTatva, a new eCommerce startup venture by TriCycle Tribe in the handloom and handicrafts segment offers an exclusive and enormous range of curated products from different parts of India. IndiTatav brings the handcrafted and hand-woven treasures of artists across India into the lives of the ne…
Health care, biotech start-ups need support: Shibulal, Axilor Ventures
Former Infosys Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Bengaluru-based Axilor Ventures, S D Shibulal said start-ups in the health care and biotech sectors “do not have a proper platform or framework to do high-end testing and lack adequate avenues to collaborate with hospitals”. “In health care, the ri…
Altigreen promises 20% reduction in auto-emission, 26% fuel efficiency
Altigreen Propulsion Labs – a clean technology company that has developed a retrofit electric kit which, when connected to a four-wheeler, can reduce emission rates by 20% and improve fuel efficiency by a fourth – is testing its technology with the fleet at BigBasket and Carzonrent. Backed by Ju…
Intel Maker’s lab to stabilize hardware start-ups
Intel started its Maker Lab in 2015 to help small hardware firms stabilise by helping them with prototypes and device testing. Intel said it achieved higher success rates because of the method of choosing start-ups, which best suited their acceleration programme. For instance, Jayalaxmi Agrotech …
New windows for talent: Start-ups offer help to start up in entertainment industry
Hailing from Meerut, 24-year-old Abhishek Sharma struggled for an opportunity to break into Mumbai’s entertainment industry. It was only after a Facebook advertisement of recruitment startup Talentrack caught his eye that he landed his first assignment —a part in a Mercedes-Benz ad. “It was a smo…
How online start-ups are reshaping the informal jobs sector in India
For Bharathi, a Class X pass woman with two kids, life has been tough. The Bengaluru based cook would often start work at 7.30 am and not wrap up before 8 pm, with a two-hour afternoon break. Living near the factory of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd, she would work at seven houses in the neighbourhood, …
Contest to identify the country’s top 25 social innovations in Bengaluru
As part of the activities lined up for the forthcoming Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) in Bengaluru, the Ministry of External Affairs is organising a national contest to identify the country’s top 25 social innovations. The Ministry will be conducting this nation-wide search with the support o…
Currency Ban Impact | Trucking business down by 50%, start-up, $300 bn business suffers
The $300 billion logistics and trucking business is hit by the nation-wide cash crunch as the Narendra Modi’s demonetization drive – forcing transportation companies to get closer to truck aggregating and owning startups. According to estimates, the trucking business (largely dependent on cash) i…
India’s first design-led start-up DesignGild launches start-up accelerator
DesignGild, India’s first design-led startup has announced the launch of its first startup accelerator program. DesignGild is an initiative of the MIT Institute of Design (MIT ID), Pune. The boot camp for these startups commences in January 2017 in Pune. Harshit Desai, Chief Operating Offic…