Mahesh Murthy teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob to set up Seedfund in 2005, which is a leading early-stage venture capital fund with marquee investments, including Carwale, RedBus, MyDentist, Chumbak, AFAQs, and Vaatsalya. The trio was passionate about the internet boom and with gian…
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India world’s largest start-up ecosystem, but in VCs & angel networks it stutters
India is the world’s third largest start-up ecosystem with over 4,200 start-ups in existence according to NASSCOM. Yet, in terms of VCs and angel networks, India compares poorly to the developed world. In the US alone, there are an estimated 1,300 venture funds in operation in contrast to a paltr…
Telangana government launches India’s first social innovation centre
Hyderabad: Telangana government launched the Kakatiya Hub for Social Innovation in Nizamabad on February 5, which is expected to be up and running by September. Funded by the Telangana government, Kakatiya Hub, which will function like a rural incubator to encourage entrepreneurship at grassroots…
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…
HR analytics start-up inFeedo raises $200k in angel round
HR analytics platform inFeedo has raised $200,000 from a clutch of investors led by Dheeraj Jain, Managing Partner, Redcliffe Capital and Anupam Mittal, CEO of Shaadi.com. Ameera Shah, CEO of Metropolis; Vivek Bhargava, Group CEO of DAN Performance; Rahul Singh, CEO of Beer Cafe and Ambarish Gupt…
Sillicon Valley Company Innovaccer has raised $15.6 million funds
Silicon Valley-based big data startup Innovaccer has raised $15.6 million in series-A funding led by Westbridge Capital Partners. The round also saw participation from other angel investors including former Yahoo Chief Technical Officer Raymie Stata, founder of Route Science Technologies Herb Mad…
PayU India plans to double value of processed transactions to $1 billion per month
Financial technology arm of Naspers, PayU India, said its payment gateway business plans to double the total value of transactions processed, to $1 billion per month in the next one year, backed by boost in volumes from offline and online partnerships. “Striking partnerships is critical to …
Mobile players like SnapBizz, Goodbox welcome new e-Commerce guidelines
The new e-Commerce guidelines have boosted the growth prospect of upcoming mobile e-Commerce players that connect brick-and-mortar merchants directly to customers. Players like Orderr, m1-Order, Goodbox and SnapBizz say that the new e-Commerce guidelines have created a level playing field for you…
Truecaller plans alliances with e-commerce giants
In an effort to tap on the start-up system in India and open a new revenue stream, phone number identification app Truecaller is planning to get into tie-ups with e-commerce giants such as Snapdeal, Flipkart and other online players which require phone number verification on their customers and o…
Snapdeal integrates Redbus, Zomato, Cleartrip inventory in mobile app to woo customers
Snapdeal has integrated Redbus, Zomato and Cleartrip inventory in its mobile application as a pilot that will help customers book bus tickets, flight tickets, hotel tickets and food directly from the application. This association gives Cleartrip, Zomato and RedBus access to Snapdeal’s user …