BollyWoo, a recently established e-commerce start-up that sells wardrobe replicas of what actors and actresses wear in Bollywood films, is foraying into tourism of a new kind. It says it plans to offer tours to the destinations featured in movies. Launched this April, it has already tied up with …
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Gurgaon-based Skrilo secures seed funding of $1.5 million
Gurgaon-based Skrilo, a mobile marketing and rewards platform, has raised $1.5 million (about Rs 10 Crore) from angel investors including Livspace CEO Anuj Srivastava and Arvind Tiku, Chairman of AT Capital Group. The company will use the money for marketing its rewards program, developing new pr…
Paytm plans to invest in three-four start-ups in India
Paytm, mobile wallet and e-commerce marketplace, is expected to close three-four start-up funding deals this month as part of its investment programme from a corpus of $150-200 million fund which the company had started in 2015, Kiran Vasireddy, Senior Vice President at Paytm told. “Most of the s…
Compliance services venture HiGrit raises seed fund
HiGrit, a start-up that advises other start-ups on legal and other statutory compliance issues, has raised a seed funding from two Chandigarh-based investors. The Founders refused to divulge the size of the investments but said they might soon go for another round for expansion. The Delhi-based s…
Dentist gear sourcing start-up eyes $ 2m Series A
Digital technologies have been disrupting several traditional businesses. Dental practice has not yet, relatively, seen a digital transformation. Dental practice requires a lot of tools and equipment, but dentists find it difficult to procure them, especially in Tier-II and III cities. Seeing sev…
Hyderabad-based fintech start-up lets you get a loan in a minute
Does the notorious credit scores and unending list of documents worry you while applying for a bank loan? A Hyderabad-based fintech start-up says now one can forget all that and tap their ‘social’ score to get a loan. Customers can get a ‘need loan’ in flat one minute — at any time of the day [&h…
1mg acquires Medd to boost diagnostics image
Taking a step further in its aggressive growth plans, Sequoia Capital backed online pharmacy 1mg on July 4 announced that it has acquired Medd, a marketplace for booking diagnostic and imaging tests. 1mg did not divulge the deal size and structure. “Diagnostics is a huge opportunity within …
Couponhaat.in records half a million monthly hits mark
Within just one year of its operation, Delhi based start-up and India’s leading coupons and deals company – Couponhaat.in has recorded half a million monthly hits traffic milestone across its website store, blog, forum, and shop pages. Over last quarter it had attracted over 1.5 million hit…
Telangana wants to be the next start-up hub
Pitching as a new start-up haven, India’s youngest state Telangana has been trying to emerge as a base for budding companies in the country. Looking to keep the momentum alive on generating home-grown entrepreneurs, the government is planning an event similar to Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
KVGB plans to disburse Rs. 1,000 cr to MSME sector by December
Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB), a Regional Rural Bank sponsored by Syndicate Bank, plans to disburse Rs. 1,000 crore to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector by December. “The bank is already working on development initiatives for the benefit of MSMEs to fund 1,000 crore. We are…