Over the last five years, consumer internet companies have grabbed most of the dollars but it’s the workhorse business-to business start-ups that are racking up revenues
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Funding Revival: Chinese & US tech corporates re-energise Indian start-ups
There’s a start-up funding revival in 2017, and it is being driven by Chinese and US tech companies. In 2015, it were hedge funds and pension funds that played a big role in large funding rounds, and it was their retreat that led to the slowdown of 2016. But now, corporate funds have come t…
Nandan Nilekani teams up to set up VC firm to fund mid-stage start-ups
Bengaluru: Infosys Co-Founder and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani is teaming up with venture capital investor Sanjeev Aggarwal to set up an investment firm that will back midstage startups, according to four people aware of the plans. The fund, with a corpus of at least $100 million, will consi…
B2B start-ups raise $98 mn across 30 deals so far this year
Earlier this year, three former executives from Flipkart Ltd, India’s most valuable e-commerce firm, launched Udaan, an online marketplace connecting manufacturers, wholesalers, traders and retailers. In November, Udaan.com raised $10 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners I…
Virat kohli starts new venture Stepathlon to tackle fitness issues affecting kids
Fitness is the next rising industry in the startup space, given the amount of investor interest they are seeing both from celebrity cricketers and well-known entrepreneurs. Cricketer Virat Kohli on June 28 kicked off a new fitness venture in a joint venture with Stepathlon Lifestyle. The venture,…