Kerala stands as first and only incubation and grounding facility provider to student start-ups
More schemes in pipe-line to encourage start-up ecosystem in state
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Ravi Shankar Prasad urges start-ups to strive for digital inclusion of ‘Bharat’
New start-ups should think in line with National Optical Fibre Network programme for digital growth of villages, says the Union Minister for Electronics & IT
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IIT-Bombay is on a roll to boost entrepreneurship development in India: Here’s how!
IIT-Bombay E-Cell has developed 160 entrepreneurship cells in 80 cities & distributed Rs 2m to develop start-up ecosystem across colleges pan-India
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Indian e-Commerce witnesses consolidation; Smaller players face likely wipeout
With wary VCs drastically cutting their investments in cash-burning start-ups, top two players in many categories are standing out from the herd
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Encouraging signs of more domestic capital in the start-up ecosystem: Nandan Nilekani
Bengaluru: At a time when foreign capital primarily continues to fund India’s startup ecosystem, Nandan Nilekani, former chief executive of Infosys Technologies, pointed out that there were signs that domestic investors were beginning to weigh in as well. The architect of Aad…
SoftBank to invest $200 m in logistics start-up Rivigo
Japanese conglomerate Softbank is eyeing logistics industry as it is set to infuse $200 Million in Gurgaon-based logistics startup Rivigo. The investment, if it goes through, could value the three-year-old company at nearly $1 billion, one of them said, while another pegged the potentia…
Start-ups complain to Centre: ‘PSUs not following public procurement guidelines’
The central government is flooded with complaints from start-up firms stating that the Central public sector companies are not following the public procurement guidelines that exempt them from the requirement of “prior turnover and prior experience”. On May 17, 2017, Ramesh Abhishek, secretary, D…
KSUM-recognised start-ups to now solely develop apps for Kerala govt projects
Mobile applications developed by start-ups may cost upto Rs 5 lakh 1 purchasing officer cannot buy more than 2 apps from a particular start-up within 1 FY
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Hyderabad-based start-up CloudBoost to represent India at MassChallenge & Parallel18
CloudBoost.io, a Hyderabad-based startup has been invited to participate in MassChallenge and Parallel18, representing India on the global platform at two of the leading startup accelerators in the world. CloudBoost builds a cloud platform that lets software developers build apps in half less tim…
More than 200 start-up entrepreneurs to meet PM Modi
The country’s think-tank Niti Aayog is organising an event on August 17, for more than 200 start-up entrepreneurs and Chief Executives who have excelled successfully in their businesses, to interact with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister will listen to their views regarding many issues…