Indian Patent Office has issued guidelines for facilitators and startups with respect to filling and processing of applications for patent, designs and trade marks aiming to encourage budding entrepreneurs and boost innovation. As per the guidelines, a startup willing to file a patent application…
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Paytunes raises $500,000 from IAN, CIO Angels
Mobile advertisement platform, PayTunes said it has received a funding of $500,000 from Indian Angel Network. The pre-series A round also saw participation from PayTunes’ existing investor, CIO Angel Network as well as Apurva Parekh from Pidilite and Sanjay Mehta. Vishal Khare and Rajeev Ar…
Education technology startup Smartivity gets Rs 6.6 crore for future learning
Smartivity, an augmented reality-based education technology startup, has raised $1 million (about Rs 6.6 crore) in a pre-Series-A round of funding led by publishing firm S Chand and early-stage investment firm AdvantEdge Partners. The round also saw participation from Singapore-based fund CFG Off…
Chinese investors looking for Indian startups
Chinese investors and technology entrepreneurs are looking to invest in start-ups specialising in areas such as mobile gaming, education, healthcare, financial technology and Internet of Things (IoT) in India. This month, a delegation of investors from nine Chinese venture capital firms visited B…
T-Hub incubated health start-up raises $150,000
Life Circle Health Services, a Hyderabad-based home nursing and professional care services provider, has raised $150,000 from European healthcare services provider Groupe SOS. “The funds will help us further penetrate in the Hyderabad market and expand our services to New Delhi,” said Life Circle…
Start-up, agriculture portal launch mobile app for farmers
The life of a farmer revolves around farming activities and financial transactions related to them. While a majority of farmers keep track of these activities in their mind, a few also document them in their own little ways. Now, a start-up from Mangaluru and an agri web portal have come out with…
Nearly thousand Indian start-ups will be funded in 2016 | VCCEdge
As many as thousand start-up companies in India will be funded through various sources during the year 2016, according to a recent study. The VCCircle Network has released key insights from the VCCEdge Q1CY2016 Startup India Funding Report in the run-up to the Bengaluru edition of the News Corp V…
Self-drive service targets 14 cities for expansion
DRIVEN by you (DRIVEN.in), a service provider in the self-drive and ride rental space, has firmed up plans to expand to 14 cities in a phased manner. The start-up currently operates in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. In Phase-1, it plans to roll out its services in Chennai, Bengaluru, Go…
Bitcoin trading start-up Coinsecure raises $1.2 million
Indian bitcoin trading platform Coinsecure has raised $1.2 million as part of its ongoing Series-A investment round from an undisclosed investor. The company opened the fund-raising round earlier in January this year and expects to close a total of $5-million funding soon. The start-up had also r…
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…