Tag: Indian Angel Network

Indian Angel Network expands its operation to Israel

Indian Angel Network expands its operation to Israel

Indian Angel Network has expanded its operations to Israel and will invest in areas like healthcare, agritech, cybersecurity and cleantech. IAN, which claims to be the world’s largest angel investor group with over 450 institutional and individual members, has presence in the US, the UK, Ca…

US launches incubator programme to mentor Indian start-ups

The US government is looking to mentor Indian start-ups, hoping that some of them would scale up their operations and set up shop in that country. The US State Department has begun a start-up incubator programme, Nexus, in association with the IC² Institute of The University of Texas at Austin, i…

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 …

Startup India: Decoding government’s Fund-of-Funds for start-ups

The single biggest challenge that startups in India face is the lack of funding, both debt and equity. Over the last few years, angel investors have emerged as welcome entrants but there are too few of them. Indian Angel Network, the largest with 450 odd members, invests barely Rs 100 crore in so…

Ficci calls to replicate London model to boost start-ups

Hyderabad: Many of the policies responsible for establishing the UK and London in particular as a startup hub have happened in the last 5-6 years. London accounted for one seventh of the UK investment into startups in 2010, a figure that has since increased to two-thirds. To establish such an eco…