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…
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Budget 2017: Start-ups get more time to choose their 3-year tax holiday
No gain, without pain is the verdict from startups and investors on tax measures unveiled in the Budget. Income tax rebates for startups have been extended for three out of the first seven years since incorporation. The industry is cheering the move to allow startups -certified under the IT Act o…
Lawyered | Making legal easier to put cases at rest
You face a dispute, or you’re falsely accused, you file a complaint, or you request an appeal, and then the court is adjourned – hectic, right? Now imagine this – enters a team of passionate professionals who are on their way to disrupt the legal industry, they put your case at rest and the dispu…
Treebo Hotels raises Rs 112 crore in new funding round
Treebo Hotels, a technology-enabled budget hotel chain, has raised Rs 112 crore in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII) with participation of existing investors, SAIF Partners and Matrix Partners India. Treebo, which competes with budget hotel room aggregator OYO Rooms, …
Start ups in furniture sector finds momentum; study predicts 49% growth
Economic recession of 2008 and dynamic conditions of market have hit the furniture industry strongly in the past. It negatively impacted the power of Indian consumers to spend money on furniture but after few years from the year 2011, start-up environment started gaining momentum in the industry …
Pepperfry ups ante with furniture at cost of pizza
Online furniture and home décor marketplace Pepperfry, which hit the 3-million shipment milestone last month, is widening its net to lure a new set of customers who choose to rent furniture instead of buying it. After studying the operating model of furniture rental firms such as Furlenco, RentoM…