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Funding roundup: More than $60 million invested via 8 deals last week
Funding roundup Feb 14 – 22, 2014: iTraveller.com has raised $1 million funding from ah! Ventures’ investment network. The travel marketplace startup is founded by Shiju Radhakrishnan, Sanjay Kumar,...
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CricFi aims to provide ‘Mauka, Mauka’ for amateur cricket players to make it...
To reach the international arena in any sport or sector one has to invest their sweat, blood and tears. Technology is now making it easier for athletes to figure out where they are going wrong and how...
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Bangalore is the ‘SMAC Valley’ of the East: top eight takeaways from SMAC Day...
Social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) technologies are transforming society and business, and opening up new opportunities for startups not just in Silicon Valley but also in Bangalore. In fact,...
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[Startup Watchlist] 3 startups at the cusp of piping hot trends
This article is primarily a weekly newsletter delivered to your mailbox every Monday morning. It is posted as an article to reach a wider audience. The newsletter sometimes has more information than...
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Things e-commerce companies expect from this Budget
E-commerce companies and, especially, e-traders are facing a global problem of incurring huge losses. In India and globally, e-commerce companies have been trading at suicidal prices; they’re targeting...
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How these three MBA professionals are building a global product from Pune
In 2012, when Praveen Kumar from IIM Lucknow, Karthik Ramachandra from IIM Indore and Saket Newaskar from MDI Gurgaon thought of building a global product out of Pune (India), they planned everything...
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MSME lender Aye Finance raises $1 million funding from Accion and SAIF Partners
Aye Finance, an India-based lender for the profitable micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), has raised $1 million investment from SAIF Partners and Accion. Earlier this month, SAIF Partners...
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Trip38, a smart travel management mobile app raises INR 6 crores
Bangalore-based Trip38 is a startup that wants to disrupt the way travelers find information post booking. The company has raised INR 6 crores from InterGlobe Technology Quotient, a strategic business...
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Wynk Music app crosses 5 million downloads within six months of its launch
The music business continues to expand into new markets and create new business models, attracting more users to digital music services and bringing artists to a wider global audiences. Bharti Airtel’s...
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And the award for the best liar goes to- the Entrepreneur
I am writing this article while watching the Oscar’s award ceremony and I think if they had a category for the best liar it would most definitely be won by an entrepreneur. A wise man had once said,...
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HomeLane.com raises $4.5 M Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Aarin...
Looking to disrupt the $10 billion Indian home design and furnishing market, HomeLane.com, the technology-led, home design and set-up company started by veteran entrepreneur Srikanth Iyer and Rama...
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How technology is helping this visually impaired journalist see and report
Only last night, I finished reading ‘Lights Out’, a brutally honest book by my former journalist colleague L Subramani, who has written about gradually going blind at 18 from a degenerative retinal...
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Which is the most worth dating app out there in India?
Online dating is not a new concept anymore. There is a flood of apps and websites that help you find a date. I’ll help you out with comparisons on a few dating platforms; Tinder, Aisle.co,...
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5 years on and 10 million users later, JustUnfollow rebrands to Crowdfire
Back in 2008, a software developer named Nischal Shetty started a blog dedicated to profiling Twitter apps- Twi5. While running the blog and working with Burrp, he realized a problem that Twitter users...
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From moustache wax to broad ties: The Gentleman’s Community brings vintage...
The Gentleman’s Community is a vintage fashion brand for men and this grabs attention for two main reasons. Firstly, the vintage sector is still quite niche in the Indian fashion industry; secondly,...
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Dalit child bride to $112 million CEO: The wonder story of Kalpana Saroj
Kalpana Saroj is described as the ‘original slumdog millionaire‘, a compliment as backhanded as it is degrading. Born in poverty and subjected to inhuman abuse, she overcame impossible odds to become...
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Quick decisions, robust processes, agile team : marketing expert lists...
Dr Ranjan Banerjee is an expert in the fields of marketing and strategy. He consults big organizations, helping steer them in the right direction. This IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alumnus has worked...
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SteppinOut to pubs and discs in Bengaluru? Check discounts here
While the newly elected Delhi government is all set to demolish VIP culture in the national capital, Bengaluru-based SteppinOut lets you enjoy elite treatment through entry, discounts and upgrades in...
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[Techie Tuesdays] How stalking his girlfriend changed Subho Halder’s life for...
Mark Zuckerberg has admitted it many times that not thinking mobile-first was one of his biggest mistakes. The fact that smartphones rule our lives is pretty clear. With more applications on mobile and...
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The Indian smartphone market witnesses a 4% decline in Q4 2014
While India is the fastest growing smartphone market in Asia, International Data Corporation (IDC) found that the Indian smartphone market observed shipment contraction in Q4 for the first time ever...
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