Experimented by IITians Samar Singla (CEO) and Chinmay Agarwal (CTO), Chandigarh-based Jugnoo began as India’s first auto-rickshaw aggregator in November 2014 with the objective of making daily commute easy and reliable.
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IITian diaspora urged to make Startup India a success
India has urged the IITian diaspora to invest in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Startup India campaign to promote a culture of innovation in its ancestral land. Speaking at the 2016 International Conference of the IIT Alumni Canada which brought over 400 IITians from the US, Canada and Australia …
IITian’s NearGroup app connecting neighbourhoods
In today’s world we have gone digital where our social boundaries have blurred. It has become difficult for us to identify that who is living in our neighbourhood. Hence in the time of any emergency we are not able to count on our neighbours. This evolving gap among the neighbours gave IIT Madras…
Sistema Asia fund invests in Seclore founded by ex-IITians
Sistema Asia Fund has invested in Seclore, a Mumbai-based technology firm co-founded by ex-IITians Vishal Gupta and Abhijit Tannu. The proprietary venture capital fund of Russian conglomerate Sistema JSFC has provided $12 million of Series B funding to Seclore as part of a four-member investor co…
IIT-Kharagpur students turn garbage collectors with ‘kabaadi on call’
Selling recyclable garbage in Kharagpur town is now as easy as ordering a pizza over phone, thanks to a social entrepreneurial initiative of a group of IITians. A group of IIT Kharagpur students are successfully running a ‘Kabaadi on Call’ service which allows people living inside and…