I got “wings to fly” from IBM, says Sandeep Singh Kolhi, Co-Founder of a patent searching and analytics tool Xlpat. The US tech major mentored the tool, apart from offering infrastructure, training and hosting the platform on their cloud. “With IBM technology and services aiding us, we could focu…
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PharmEasy raises Rs 111 cr in Series-B round
New Delhi: Mumbai-based pharmacy aggregator PharmEasy has closed a $17-million deal (around Rs 111 crore) in a series-B round by three of its existing venture capital investors, said a person aware of the deal. The funding indicates continued interest in the online pharmacy segment despite a repo…
Social start-up Haqdarshak secures angel funding
Nitish Kumar Releases Bihar’s Startup Policy, Announces Rs 500Cr Fund At the 4th Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit (BES), organised by Bihar Entrepreneurs Association, on March 21, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar released Bihar StartUp Policy 2017. Bihar is among the few states in India to have a startup…
Speed hatching India Inc 2.0: What we can learn from Israel
In the 1990s, Israel faced a serious challenge. An influx of over a million ex-Soviet Jewish immigrants needed to be provided for, in rough economic times. The government of Israel launched the Technology Business Incubator Program. The goal was to arm the immigrants (who were mostly educated) wi…
Start-ups can learn a lot from Infosys, Wipro: Nandan Nilekani
Infosys Co-Founder and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani said the last few months have exposed various frailities of Indian startups and that it’s the responsibility of everyone in the ecosystem to see how entrepreneurs and companies can build better businesses from a leadership and value system …
इनफ़ोसिस के पूर्व सीएफओ वी. बालाकृष्णन ने लॉन्च की कम्पनी, SMEs को देगी लोन
इन्फोसिस के पूर्व सीएफओ वी. बालाकृष्णन अपनी नई कंपनी ‘बिलियन लोन्स’ (Billionloans) को लॉन्च कर रहे हैं जिसके माध्यम से बालाकृष्णन भारत के वैकल्पिक ऋण (lending) बाजार में प्रवेश कर रहे हैं। कंपनी का लक्ष्य एसएमई इकाइयों (SMEs) और उपभोक्ताओं को सहायता करना है, साथ ही उनको निवेशकों के साथ जोड़ने में …
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 …
Ex-Infosys CFO launches SME lender
A former CFO of Infosys, V. Balakrishnan, is entering India’s alternative lending market through the launch of his new company, billionloans. The company will target SMEs as well as consumers by linking borrowers to investors, reports said March 3. MicroGraam Executive Rangan Varadan is a joint f…
IDG Ventures India & Axilor to invest in virtual and augmented reality-based start-ups
IDG Ventures India (IDGVI), in partnership with Axilor Ventures, has launched a Frontier Tech Innovators Program, to invest and partner with new-age disruptive start-ups which specialize in frontier tech like virtual and augmented reality. Frontier technologies are deep technologies which have no…
Creating value: Why a start-up needs to sell more than just a product or service
The golden era of the startup ecosystem in India seems to have hit a rough patch with a lot of shutdowns, mergers, and acquisitions before stepping into 2017. Investments have slowed down by almost 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter, as investors are carefully scrutinising business economics, due d…