While much has been written about the difficulties faced by women entrepreneurs, the Startup Outlook Report by InnoVen Capital, a venture lending platform providing debt capital to high growth ventures, has presented a different but progressive scenario of the Indian startup ecosystem. According …
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Incentives for MSME sector expected to result in credit bank for start-ups
The incentives announced for the MSME sector in this year’s Budget, combined with the entire windfall from demonetisation, is expected to result in increased credit uptake and could take the form of a credit bank for start-ups. “Whether it will be in terms of an institutional formation such as a …
Budget 2017: 6 key expectations of SMEs from FM
This Union Budget 2017 is particularly significant as it comes on the back of two recent big economic policy decisions that are directly going to affect startups, SMEs, and small businesses: demonetization and GST. Moreover, the success of the economy as well as the heavy duty policy decisions hi…
IKP plans to setup 5 start-up incubation hubs in Karnataka
Hyderabad-based IKP Knowledge Park is planning to establish five startup incubation hubs in tier-II cities of Karnataka. Already, it has created an incubation facility in Bengaluru with an investment of Rs 8 crore, raised from Karnataka government. IKP is in the process of raising Rs 31 crore fro…
UK spy agency hires Indian start-up for cybersecurity programme
Bengaluru: The next time a hacker tries to break into a British bank, chances are that technology from a small Indian startup will detect the hack. Earlier this month, Britain’s top communications spy agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), which had cracked Nazi Germany’…
Budget 2017: Nasscom seeks removal of angel tax, MAT exemption for start-ups
Reduction of long term capital gain tax, allowing tax sops for angel investors besides exemption from minimum alternate tax are some of the key recommendation suggested by India’s apex technology industry body Nasscom to the Finance Ministry ahead of the Union Budget 2017. In a note, it sug…
स्वरोजगार को बढ़ाने में स्टार्टअप इंडिया का अहम् योगदान, सबके लिए बनाये नए अवसर: DIPP सेक्रेटरी रमेश अभिषेक
देश के विकास में आज स्टार्टअपस एक अहम भूमिका निभा रहे हैं और स्वरोजगार की भावना को बल दे रहे हैं। स्वरोजगार को बढ़ाने के लिए एक नए युग की शुरुआत करते हुए साल 2016 में सरकार द्वारा कई पहलों को शुरु किया गया था। जिसमें वाणिज्य मंत्रालय के अधीन औद्योगिक नीति एवं संवर्धन विभाग (डिपार्टमेंट […]…
Start-Up India is open for all|DIPP Secretary Ramesh Abhishek
The start-up revolution has taken over the country. Started on January 16, 2016 as an initiative to push the spirit of ‘self-employment’, the leg up of Start-Up India has been phenomenal. The journey has witnessed a humongous share from Department of Industrial policy and Promotion (DIPP), under …
NASSCOM Japan expresses interest in tie-up with Assam govt
In a bid to boost Assam’s agriculture, food processing and tourism sectors, NASSCOM Japan Council has expressed its keen interest in a tie-up with the state government in the ‘Start-up, Stand-up’ initiative. NASSCOM Chief Yukio Takeyari, leading a three-member Japanese delegatio…
Quality Council of India aims to certify 22k MSMEs with bronze level in 2017 under ‘ZED scheme’
The Quality Council of India (QCI) aims to certify minimum 22,000 MSMEs with the bronze level in 2017 under the ‘ZED scheme’ initiated by the Prime Minister of India and the process of assessment will begin in the next 15 days, stated Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman, QCI, here on January 20 at FICCI’s …