The investment will help start-ups build products and services to grow business and sustain financially Fund will be backed by IT professionals having deep domain expertise
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Ireland keen to woo Indian start-ups, offers tax benefits
With quite a few nations mulling stronger immigration laws, Ireland, the island in North Atlantic, wants to play a different tune. The Investment and Development Agency (IDA) wants to triple the number of start-ups, IT services organisations, entrepreneurs from various sectors in India in the nex…
Donald Trump’s new plan may create hurdles for PM Modi’s Startup India
The US is all set to become a tax-haven for most companies wishing to save tax after the Trump administration last evening announced lowering corporate tax to as low as 15 per cent from the present 35 per cent. Currently, several Indian tech startups including the likes of Flipkart, Grofers, Prac…
How can start-ups add value to IT services companies
Can IT services companies and new age start-ups form a good and profitable cocktail? IT services companies need to innovate and start-ups have an opportunity to capture the situation. Krishnakumar Natarajan, Executive Chairman at Mindtree spoke to the Entrepreneur India about the nuances of colla…
Microsoft hones enterprises of future, empowers over 2k Indian start-ups with its Azure cloud
Bangalore: For Microsoft, the flourishing startup ecosystem in India has become one of the new growth engines for its cloud business. The usage of Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering and infrastructure services among Indian companies including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and partners has ju…
JustLikeNew.in raises $500k from angel investors
Smartphone repair e-commerce platform JustLikeNew.in said it has raised funds worth USD 500,000 (about Rs 3.3 crore) through LetsVenture.com, from angel investors Mindtree Executive Chairman Krishnakumar Natarajan and former Oracle India MD, Sandeep Mathur. Existing investors Aneesh Reddy and Vik…
Smaller IT firms are yet to embrace disruptive tech
Bengaluru: From building intelligent platforms to finding smarter ways to analyse complex data, it is becoming clear that the secret sauce to make it big in the information technology (IT) world now lies in mastering all things digital. After the Y2K problem at the turn of the century, the curren…
Large companies open purse for start-ups
The participation of large Indian corporate’s in providing financial backing to startups is growing, and while only firms such as Infosys and Wipro have set up dedicated startup funds, others are tracking disruptive technologies in their own sectors with clearance from their boards to sink …