Tag: Rajan Anandan

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…

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…

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…