Younion: A gritty life paved the way for Shajesh Menon’s entrepreneurial dreams
Shajesh Menon’s father passed away when he was sixteen, leaving the family in a lurch-not so much financially as it did emotionally. Forced to see to adult responsibilities, he attended a job interview...
View ArticleFunding report for 2015 Q1 – startups raised the highest ever amount for a...
Today India’s story shines with an amazing opportunity. With more connected users, comes growth like never before. Check the Q1 funding infographics here. According to the data that YourStory has...
View ArticleSHUT Clinic: An internet de-addiction centre right in the heart of Bangalore
In the modern age, internet has become like electricity. A basic utility on which things are built that a person utilizes. Internet penetration is well below 25% for developing countries like India but...
View ArticleEtashee aims to become OLX for fashion and apparel renting space
The sheer size of Amna Abbasi’s wardrobe always had her appalled — nothing to wear, and no place to keep her clothes in. On casual bickerings over brunches and high tea, it dawned upon her that this is...
View ArticleStartups grabbing talent from tier one and tier two colleges in India
Startups are not necessarily hiring only from elite colleges in India – usually comprising the IITs and IIMs – but have become omnipresent across placement drives even in tier two colleges. The story...
View ArticleQualities that will help you thrive in the ‘Startup–Osphere’
The average age of a ‘Startup Promoter’ is way below traditional company heads Pointers are divided into three progressive buckets – hygiene, success quotient and scaling up In my current role I...
View ArticleWhy should you care about company culture?
“The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture.If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.”...
View Article8 food tech startups to watch out for in 2015
Food tech is the hot talk in the startup town. After technology startups have made their mark in the e-commerce, taxi & real estate sectors, now the ever-hungry Indian entrepreneurs are looking to...
View ArticleStarted by Zansaar’s co-founder, modular furnishing service provider...
Bangalore-based online modular furnishing solutions provider, CapriCoast.com has raised $1.25 million in a seed round led by Accel Partners India. Starting with modular furniture, CapriCoast.com plays...
View Article3 early stage startups thinking out of the box
There is fairly unanimous agreement that starting up is a journey. The beginning – the moment one starts unrolling a project- is often a very interesting phase because it is equally blessed and...
View ArticleA ‘wingman’ to discover great deals across 60,000 stores, SAIF Partners...
Co-founded by IITians, Edul Patel, Prince Arora and Viraj Shah, Niffler aims to be a destination to find deals from offline merchants across different lifestyle needs such as food, drinks, spas,...
View ArticleFormer SlideShare and Naukri developer launches Hackr.io, an online education...
It’s an online world; from groceries to education the internet is affecting every aspect of our lives. “Education is going online and we expect formal degrees to get obsolete in a few years from now....
View ArticleLed by IIT alumni, Witworks enables Indian inventors to rub shoulders with...
Coming in May this year, two people will have the chance to become inventors and possibly change the way things are done across the world. Omkar Kulkarni, an electronics engineer, and Bina Keshava, a...
View ArticleCommitted to change healthcare sector with technology, 4 friends across the...
Passion for the startup scene brought together four friends in three different cities of the world to form Zywie Technologies — an end to end healthcare solution. Steve Khod in New York, Anuj Dasgupta...
View ArticleCompeting with Honeywell, Siemens and Bosch, SecurAX offers cloud-based model...
With more information comes more power and with more power comes a greater need for security. SecurAX Tech Solutions is focused on assisting clients to identify and mitigate security challenges....
View ArticleAirAsia and Libra Capital Group co-founders float an accelerator and...
The co-founders of AirAsia, a budget no-frills airline and Libra Capital Group have come together to launch Tune Labs, an accelerator and incubator for technology companies from SE Asia. Tan Sri Tony...
View ArticleFlipkart walks away from the ongoing discussions with Airtel Zero, commits to...
After receiving a huge backlash on social media for the ongoing discussion on partnership with Airtel’s platform Airtel Zero, Flipkart has announced to walk out of it. It all started a week ago when...
View ArticleOnline booking enabler for hotel Commeasure raises $ 1M funding from Jungle...
Business centric hotel search engine Commeasure has raised $1 million seed fund from Jungle Ventures, an entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps early stage startups to scale across Asia...
View ArticleFrom a hole-in-the-wall ‘paan’ shop to a multi-store chain, Sapna Book House...
It was 1967. A small ‘paan’ shop spread over a humble 10 by 10 square feet at Gandhinagar in Bangalore started selling books along with condiments by the roadside. It was exciting when they sold their...
View ArticleZomato acquires 4 year old Delhi based startup MapleGraph, launches Zomato Base
Zomato, the high growth restaurant search company has announced the acquisition of a 4 year old Delhi based startup MapleGraph that built MaplePOS, a cloud-based point of sale product for restaurants....
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