Bengaluru: Values and perseverance, ambition and vision are attributes that entrepreneurs must possess in plenty, according to a galaxy of stalwarts who gathered to celebrate the spirit of enterprise at India’s de facto startup summit in Bengaluru on August 18. Even as they lauded the role …
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Encouraging signs of more domestic capital in the start-up ecosystem: Nandan Nilekani
Bengaluru: At a time when foreign capital primarily continues to fund India’s startup ecosystem, Nandan Nilekani, former chief executive of Infosys Technologies, pointed out that there were signs that domestic investors were beginning to weigh in as well. The architect of Aad…
Trend Tracking: Small fashion e-Tailers stitch together new categories
Several second-rung online fashion retailers are introducing categories not core to their businesses expecting to seize a little more of the market not captured by Flipkart and its units or Amazon. But analysts say they might be merely grasping at straws. Flipkart, along with its fashion units My…
Digital drive tilts hike scale in favour of fintech start-ups
New Delhi: Financial technologies and learning solutions are this appraisal season’s winning bets at startups in India, where last quarter’s currency swap and the government’s visible drive toward digital transactions may help dislodge marketplace unicorns as bulge-bracket paymasters. The reversa…
Beardo raises $500k from Venture Catalysts in seed funding
Actor turned entrepreneur Suniel Shetty backed men’s grooming brand Beardo raises seed funding of $500k from Venture Catalysts. The investment round was led by Raj Vazirani – RHV enterprise, Siddharth Somaiya of Godavari Biorefineries & Somaiya Group, Rohit Parakh – Diector, Touchston…
Sunil Munjal, Harsh Mariwala lead Rs 82 crore funding round in Nykaa
Nykaa.com, an online luxury beauty retailer founded by investment banker-turned entrepreneur Falguni Nayar, has raised Rs 82 crore in a fresh round of fundraising led by Sunil Munjal and the Mariwala family, cementing interest from affluent Indian families in a rapidly growing ecommerce market sp…
IIT-Indore & IIM-Indore to host i5 Summit to foster entrepreneurship
Start-ups, entrepreneurs, students, investors and others experts to congregate at i5 Summit, an event hosted by IIT-Indore and IIM-Indore to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship in the country and support young entrepreneurs by connecting them with investors and mentors to take their ideas to th…