Government’s ambitious Startup India initiative seems to be at the heartland of Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Union Minister has been continuously striving for the promotion and utilization of the scheme to build a strong start-up environment in the nation. Sitharaman, in…
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Autodesk to help rural start-ups fine-tune products, business
Hyderabad: An employee of AquaSoul, a Hyderabad-based incubation-stage start-up, is busy explaining a small robot boat system that consists of two devices. While the first device gauges the temperature and quality of water and sends information to the Cloud, the other roams around an aqua farm to…
NMAMIT & NIT-K chosen as India’s first start-up district
NMAM Institute Of Technology, under Nitte University and NIT-K, Surathkal have been chosen as India’s first start-up district with incubators by Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, who took initiative of making Dakshina Kannada…
How start-ups using tech to simplify equity investing for newbies
BENGALURU: Anugrah Shrivastava used to be a research executive at Japanese investment bank Nomura. During his three year stint at the firm, he realised that a lot of stocks move in the same direction based on a theme, event, or development. What if one could build a technology product that would …
2017: A new agenda for start-ups will get India to the 10% growth rate mark
The last two years have seen a slew of initiatives and agendas announced by the government—starting with the National Digital Literacy Mission with its worthwhile agenda of enabling one person in each Indian family to have digital skills, we have seen Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, Make in India, Start-u…
IIT-Bombay start-up incubator goes for expansion
Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), the incubation centre at IIT Bombay, is looking to expand its operations as it sees steep rise in number of student-start-ups vying for space. The 12-year-old incubator has 28 start-ups. It expects the number to rise to 50-60 by next year and to…
Indus Net Tech to set up start-up incubation labs
Digital solutions provider Indus Net Technologies would open an incubation lab in its premises at Salt Lake electronics complex here for nurturing and mentoring startups, one of its top official has said. “We are launching the Indus Net Labs with the aim to mentor and guide start-ups having…
Government to involve states to push startups
In order to give impetus to startups, the government will hold detailed discussions here with states and other stakeholders on July 23. The main aim of the day-long function is to share knowledge and best practices being followed by few states on promoting budding entrepreneurs, an official said.…
Private incubators too may be allowed to certify startups
The government’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) will issue a notification to put in place a framework to enable private incubators certify startups as part of its Startup India plan making them eligible for tax benefits and other facilities, official sources told. R…
Job portal Monster India to use database for funding startups
Job portal Monster has launched MakeIndiaWork initiative under which it will use its database to crowd source funds for entrepreneurial ventures with an aim to further boost the startup ecosystem in the country. ‘MakeIndiaWork’, a central hub will bring together startups, job seekers,…