Bengaluru: The startups span across five sectors – consumer internet, enterprise, artificial intelligence, healthcare and fintech. Axilor, whose programmes include accelerator, scale-up, and early-stage funding, counts Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal of Infosys, …
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Challenge for start-ups to get funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan
Securing series C and beyond funding is a challenge for start-ups, information technology veteran and Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said as he called for a simple, orderly and fast-track mechanism to shut failed businesses. The start-ups scenario in India is pretty good but when those fi…
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…
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…
Silver lining: Infosys founders’ accelerator doubles start-up intake
Amidst the gloom in India’s startup ecosystem over a funding crunch, here’s a silver lining: Bangalore’s Axilor has announced a doubling of the intake of startups for its accelerator program. Axilor was launched in November 2014 by Infosys founders Kris Gopalakrishnan and S D Shibulal along with …
Education technology start-up Acadgild provides learning via mentors
Vikalp Jain is a techie who believes that software development requires highly specialised skills, best learned with guidance from experienced practitioners. “Online videos or classroom formats are poor substitutes for building real projects with the help of a dedicated mentor,” says Jain, Co-Fou…
Eye on start-ups: IIMB has cutting-edge lessons in entrepreneurship for company founders
Rajiv Srivatsa, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of online furniture retailer Urban Ladder, holds an MBA degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Part of the institute’s 2002-2004 batch of approximately 200 students, Srivatsa was awarded the gold medal as the be…
India’s startup ecosystem scales up with widespread government initiatives
With 4,200 tech startups, India is the third-largest tech startup hub in the world. But the steady increase in startups and a range of initiatives by the Indian government to spur growth does not mean the challenges for entrepreneurs are any less. In India, 40% of startups failed since 2014, whil…
Axilor opens applications for accelerator programme starting in September
Axilor, a Bengaluru based platform for supporting early-stage startups, has opened applications for its accelerator programme starting in September. It is looking to induct up to 15 startups in the upcoming batch. Axilor, whose founders include Senapathy ‘Kris Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal…
Only 5-10% start-ups globally will become large | Kris Gopalakrishnan, Infosys Co-Founder
Infosys Co-Founder and former CII President Kris Gopalakrishnan on July 18, said almost seventy per cent of start-ups globally will fail and only five to ten per cent will become large and scale up. “Almost seventy per cent of start-ups will fail. About 20 per cent will survive but will not…