New Delhi: SME lending platform, Capital Float, disbursed Rs1,000 crore in loans during the 10 months ended January 2017, and it expects to disburse Rs5,000 crore in the next one year, said top executives of the company. Bengaluru-based Capital Float is introducing more loan products, increasing …
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Paytm’s QR code democratizes digital payments for small merchants
Paytm on February 8 announced that its QR code based payment solution is now powering over 35 lakh merchants to accept digital payments. The solution is actively used by consumers to pay at a wide range of merchants that include large organized retailers, hospitals, tolls, food courts to neighbor…
Ratan Tata to resume investing in start-ups
Tata Sons interim chairman Ratan Tata has said he would go back to investing in startups this month after handing over the reins of the Tata group to N Chandrasekaran, Managing Director and chief executive of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), who will formally take over on 23 February. After retir…
Budget 2017: A hit or a miss for entrepreneurship in India? Start-ups respond
The biggest day on India’s policy calendar had a slew of announcements directed at the middle class and the rural sector, but few that shone a spotlight on the burgeoning startup ecosystem in India. India’s payment industry, however, has much to cheer about with the proposed regulator…
Budget 2017: A thumbs up for ‘Digital India’ – FM unveils series of reforms
In a big push to digital economy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget announced a plan to boost digital transactions by removing service tax on railway tickets booked via IRCTC portal, establishing a travel portal for Indian defence forces and launching Aadhaar Pay, a merchant app for Aad…
Online lending platform Capital Float grows 400% in Delhi-NCR
Online lending platform Capital Float claims to have witnessed a 400 per cent growth in Delhi-NCR region in 2016 as over 1,000 SMEs availed loans on the platform. “Our disbursal volumes and values have skyrocketed in Delhi NCR in 2016. In the coming year, we are expecting a 500% rise in disbursal…
Ratan Tata’s start-up bets
Ratan Tata invested in as many as 29 startups in the past two years through March 2016. He took minority stakes in 22 companies in fiscal 2016, three times more than the previous year when he chose seven to bet on, according to Tracxn Technologies, a data analytics company. Eight of the prominent…
More Chinese investment led by Alibaba Group, continues to flow into Indian start-ups
Lately, there is a bit of China in some of the top Indian startups, from e-commerce platform Snapdeal and mobile wallet giant Paytm to ride sharing company Ola and travel portal MakeMyTrip. In the last year or so, India’s startups have seen an influx of investments from China’s top technology fir…
Start-ups in India set to get Narendra Modi govt tax holiday booster shot
The government is considering a proposal to raise the tax holiday for start-ups from the current three years, aimed at further boosting an eco-system for budding entrepreneurs and job seekers, which could be announced in the coming Budget. Although the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotio…
Nandan Nilekani invests $5 mn more in e-Commerce start-up 10i Commerce
Infosys Ltd Co-Founder Nandan Nilekani has invested $5 million more in Bengaluru-based e-commerce start-up 10i Commerce Services, according to regulatory documents and a person familiar with the matter. With the latest investment, the former chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of Indi…