Tag: SME

Textiles Minister launches eco-friendly jute bag initiative in Delhi

It is well-known that the indiscriminate use of polythene bags is one contributor to the pollution problem in the national capital. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has on multiple occasions, tried to ban use of plastic carry bags in Delhi. However, we find these plastic carry bags continue to b…

27 SME IPO Papers in 2016

To tap the upbeat market sentiment, as many as 27 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have filed draft papers this year to raise funds totalling over Rs 220 crore through initial public offerings. The shares will be listed on the SME platforms of BSE and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Since t…

Tork Motorcycles bags funds from Ola founders and other angels

Tork Motorcycles, which is building an electric motorcycle, has raised angel funding from a host of investors including Ola founders Bhavish Agarwal and Ankit Bhati and a group of angels led by Co-Cubes CEO Harpreet Grover. Tork was founded by Kapil Shelke, a mechanical engineer with a passion fo…

Paytm leads $10-million funding

Online mobile wallet major Paytm has led the Series-B round of funding for on-demand auto-rickshaw aggregator, Jugnoo, for $10 million (Rs 66.65 crore). Last October, Chandigarh-based Jugnoo had received funding of $10 million from the Vijay Shekhar Sharma-led company. This is the Series-B2 round…

Re-imagining SME Fund Raising – The Exchange route!

One of the principal challenges of small & medium enterprises whether in India or anywhere else in the world has perennially been finance. Apart from friends and family, typically MSMEs rely heavily of private money lenders and the unorganised financial markets for their finance needs. Needle…