Medical content startup myUpchar has raised Rs 2 crore ($300,000) in seed funding from a clutch of investors through online deal-making platform LetsVenture, a company statement said. The investors were Rajan Anandan, managing director at Google India; Alok Mittal, co-founder and chief executive …
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Kerala CM assures stanch support to budding entrepreneurs in state
Kerala stands as first and only incubation and grounding facility provider to student start-ups
More schemes in pipe-line to encourage start-up ecosystem in state
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Decoding initiatives from Google for Indian SMBs
For small and medium businesses, technology is no longer witnessed as a threat to business but a catalyst for future growth
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IT Minister proposes special innovation zones to boost start-ups
At a meeting of the Indian technology industry’s stalwarts, the IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad called for greater cooperation between the government and industry and proposed setting up of special innovation zones to support start-ups better. The government estimates the digital economy to surpa…
Google deepens engagement with Indian start-ups via Sand Hill programme
Technology giant Google is deepening its engagements with startups in India and is working with a bunch of “high growth“ ventures as part of a global programme to mentor and deepen its technical engagement with the potential winners of tomorrow. Over the past year, Google has been working with In…
B2B’s time has come: Rajan Anandan, VP, Google India
Ace angel investor and Vice-President, Google India & South East Asia, Rajan Anandan talks about the challenges in the start-up environment in India. Edited excerpts: Q: Are investments hard to come by? A: Two things are going on. At very early stage the pace has not changed. Early stage inve…
It is the beginning of start-up boom in India: Rajan Anandan, VP, Google India
With the median age of 27, India has the largest number of youngsters and the Google chief says that they’re born digital with a growing insatiable need for the internet. When it comes to the internet, the growing tribe of emerging businesses on the internet can’t be ignored. Anandan feels that t…
SaaS platform Omnify raises funding from Google India MD
Software as a Service (SaaS) has been an emerging technology in today’s world supporting many applications. SaaS technology is the part of cloud computing that provides many business applications like payroll processing software, enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM)…
SaaS start-up Squad raises $2.1 mn from Blume Ventures, others
San Francisco- and Delhi-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup Squad, earlier known as SquadRun, has raised $2.1 million in a fresh funding round led by early-stage investor Blume Ventures, a company statement said. Contrarian Capital, 91springboard, Emergent Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Ant…
SaaS start-up Omnify gains funding from Rajan Anandan, others
Global SaaS platform for SMEs, Omnify has secured $150K from Rajan Anandan( VP, Southeast Asia and India, Google); L.D Sharma (CEO, Shoogloo Group and MD, Optimise Media Group, India); and Saurabh Arora (founder and CEO, Airwoot). The round also saw participation from a few investors via Let’s Ve…