Technology giant Google is deepening its engagements with startups in India and is working with a bunch of “high growth“ ventures as part of a global programme to mentor and deepen its technical engagement with the potential winners of tomorrow. Over the past year, Google has been working with In…
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B2B’s time has come: Rajan Anandan, VP, Google India
Ace angel investor and Vice-President, Google India & South East Asia, Rajan Anandan talks about the challenges in the start-up environment in India. Edited excerpts: Q: Are investments hard to come by? A: Two things are going on. At very early stage the pace has not changed. Early stage inve…
Startup India: Centre needs to think scale like it did with Aadhaar
Digital India, Startup India and Make in India are synonymous in some sense as the visible thrust from the government has raised awareness and focus on startups. Within months of the government coming to power in 2014 there was a complete change in sentiment. Last year, IDG Ventures India saw 2,8…
H-1B lottery: Why a loss for Infosys, Cognizant will be a gain for tech start-ups
I’m travelling in the Bay Area, in a cab driven by a woman software tester. She says she has been out of job for months now and driving a cab is the only way she can pay her bills, living just outside of San Francisco. My company is looking for coders and testers but in Asia, I […]
It is the beginning of start-up boom in India: Rajan Anandan, VP, Google India
With the median age of 27, India has the largest number of youngsters and the Google chief says that they’re born digital with a growing insatiable need for the internet. When it comes to the internet, the growing tribe of emerging businesses on the internet can’t be ignored. Anandan feels that t…
PipeCandy bags $1.1 mn from IDG, Axilor, others
Chennai: Data science startup PipeCandy has raised a seed round of $1.1 million from multiple investors including IDG Ventures India, Axilor Ventures (promoted by founders of Infosys), Silicon Valley based Emergent Ventures, Indian Angel Network and other individual founders. PipeCandy uses data …
Coworking start-up Innov8 raises an undisclosed amount from angel investors
Mumbai: Coworking space provider Innov8 has raised an undisclosed amount in an angel round enabled by LetsVenture and Venture Catalysts. The round saw investments by prominent angel investors such as Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Rajan Anandan of Google, Kunal Shah of FreeCharge, Girish Mathrubo…
GoBumpr bags $300k from Chennai Angels
Chennai: Automobile services platform, GoBumpr, on February 10 announced that it has raised $300k in funding led by The Chennai Angels. GoBumpr.com is an end-to-end pitstop for car and bike owners to find, book & pay for automobile services at a click of the button. The investment round was l…
Sharing is caring: Start-ups come together to tackle rising cost of quality resources
Chennai: In a bid to solve the rising cost of quality resources – such as office space, access to CRM softwares etc – which are unaffordable at times for bootstrapped, early stage startups, their established well-funded counterparts such as Freshdesk, Zarget, Chargebee and CloudCherry…
Why Indian SaaS start-ups are set to rule the world
The Indian software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecosystem is witnessing an increase in activity in terms of new startups emerging and establishing themselves. There’s a belief within the industry that by 2025, India will become the SaaS hub of the world. SaaS is a software distribution model in which app…