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…
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Ganesh Natarajan backs Studio Coppre in a boost to copper artisans
NEW DELHI: IT industry veteran Ganesh Natarajan, who has donned an investor’s hat post his retirement from Zensar has recently backed Studio Coppre, a Pune-based all-women’s startup which is working towards the cause of copper artisans in Maharashtra and other parts of the country. Natarajan told…
Artoo makes it easier to lend to small businesses
Mumbai, October 17:Capturing reliable data about small and micro business borrowers at the field level has often proved a big challenge for lenders. The process is generally manual, lengthy, paper-oriented, prone to errors at the primary stage and again, at the data entry point at the back office…
Boman Irani turns angel; invests in social platform Rooter
Mumbai: Versatile Bollywood actor Boman Irani has come on board as an angel investor for Rooter, a first of its kind social platform that connects sports fans and engages them during live sporting events. Irani has invested an undisclosed amount in the angel investment round enabled by Kwan Enter…
Start-ups tie-up with newspaper delivery boys, milkman to ensure better service
Chennai: Need an odd-jobs boy to ensure your newspaper, milk, water cans, ironed clothes, groceries, meat at your doorstep by 6 am everyday? A host of mobile apps like Daily Ninja, Morning Cart and Raincan are now stepping up to run your errands. Currently, in India daily services like delivery o…
Chinese co. leads $25 mn round in news aggregating app Dailyhunt
Mumbai: Dailyhunt, formerly Newshunt, an app which aggregates local language content, has raised $25 million in its series D round of funding led by China’s ByteDance with participation from Vodafone’s former CEO Arun Sarin, and its existing investors Matrix Partners and Sequoia Capit…
Start-up firm launches rickshaw tour of Old Delhi
A rickshaw tour of tourist attractions in Old Delhi was launched by two young entrepreneurs aiming to promote rich cultural heritage of the walled city. The specially designed red-and-yellow rickshaws, launched in association with Heritage Haveli Dharampura, will take tourists on a three-hour-lon…
Indian entrepreneurs’ focus on short-term gains turns them into laggards
Only 26,164 patents were granted in India between 2010 and 2014, compared to a staggering 1,275,787 patents in the US, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In 2012, 15.5% start-ups in the Silicon Valley had an Indian founder and this number is growing. This highlights…
Ronnie Screwvala’s ed-tech start-up UpGrad acquihires Pyoopil
UpGrad, the online education provider for working professionals, Co-Founded by well-known entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, has acquihired Pyoopil Education Technologies, a mobile-based SaaS (Software-as-a-service) product used by companies to deploy online training programmes. Delhi-based Pyoopil, …
Postman raises $7 mn in funding from Nexus Venture Partners
Postman, a start-up that provides developers with a toolkit to build apps faster, has raised $7 million in fresh funding from Nexus Venture Partners. Focusing on helping developers build, run, test and share APIs (Application Programming Interface), Postman claims its toolkit is used by over thre…