Can Net Neutrality and Zero Rating coexist?
If you’ve been online, watched TV, or read a newspaper recently, you’ve probably heard about Net Neutrality and the the “Save The Internet” campaign. Indeed, in the last few weeks, the issue of Net...
View ArticleWhat Lightspeed saw in Craftsvilla early on – the ethnic ecommerce...
This week Craftsvilla announced a Rs 110 Cr round led by Sequoia Capital and supported by existing investors Lightspeed and Nexus and new investor Global Founders Capital. This is an important...
View Articlehappay, the visa card for business expenses suits up to change the way...
Founded in 2012, happay is a business expense management solution that streamlines an organization’s expense workflow. It is an end-to-end solution that take cares of expense management to reporting...
View Article‘Gone are the days of mouse and keyboard, AI is the next big thing.’ – Akash...
Early last year when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared the developing of artificial intelligence (AI) as one of his top three key goals for the next ten years, the trend started to pick up. Over...
View ArticleHeadout raises $1.8 million seed round from Version One Ventures, 500...
Headout, a last minute mobile marketplace for tours, activities and experiences has raised a seed round of $1.8M from US based Version One Ventures, 500 Startups, Nexus Venture Partners and Arena...
View ArticleWorld Book Day: 85 quotes on the joy of books and reading!
April 23 is designated by UNESCO as World Book Day, a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries across the world. Each year, UNESCO selects the World Book Capital for...
View ArticleSaurabh Aggarwal, the geek-turned-gamer behind Teen Patti, the game with 10...
This is a story of a geek who turned out to be the man behind some of the most entertaining and engaging games in the mobile app world. Saurabh Aggarwal comes from a family of Master’s and Ph.D degree...
View ArticleDisruptions are the new common – Naveen Tewari, InMobi, Founder and CEO
Naveen Tewari brings his insights into how the startup ecosystem is rapidly growing. At the LetsIgnite convention by LetsVenture, he gave some valuable inputs on how organisations need to change in...
View ArticlePracto acquires Fitho, to focus on preventive healthcare
After raising $30 million funding from Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners in Feb 2015, Asia’s largest doctor search engine Practo today announced acquisition of digital fitness solution Fitho...
View ArticlePoolCircle launches Standard Fuel Share Fare to ensure consistency in radio...
Given the chaotic traffic condition of Bangalore, one would do anything to get a break from driving everyday. With the aim to take thousands of cars off the road every month, Raghu started PoolCircle....
View ArticleEx-Flipkart and Samsung engineers start ‘TheKarrier’, an intra-city...
Technology has made life easier for consumers as well as service providers. Many disorganised sectors are now more organised and scalable. Earlier it was difficult for consumers to discover service...
View ArticleInside the office of Simplilearn, the ed-tech company that just raised $15...
Simplilearn is a Bengaluru based ed-tech company providing certification courses to professionals. Led by Krishna Kumar, Simplilearn recently celebrated its fifth birthday and over this time has...
View Article8 solid reasons why you should intern with startups
Those long, lazy summer holidays, filled with cricket, Rasna, and 12-hour Shinchan marathons are a thing of the past – a part of school and childhood. In college, holidays mean only one thing —...
View ArticleValuation 101 – for startups looking to raise their first round
A recurring topic in conversations with young entrepreneurs and journalists across India has been that of startup valuations. Despite all the writing that’s out there, innumerable forums and meet ups,...
View Article[App Fridays] ‘Bill Predict’ by Zenatix helps Delhi residents save on their...
A few decades ago keeping track of many different aspects of our lives was time consuming and difficult. But now technology has made it easy for us to gather huge volumes of data about our day-to-day...
View ArticleBOLD invests in Hipcask, announces a fellowship program for designers
BOLD is a design driven early stage investment firm that wants to help build companies that are changing the way business is done in Asia. The early stage investment firm has been started by...
View ArticleIndia drops to 117th rank in the world happiness report. Time for...
According to a UN report, India ranks 117th in happiness. It ranks below nations like Pakistan (81), Palestine (108), Bangladesh (109), Ukraine (111) and Iraq (112). India’s rank has dropped six...
View ArticleRanaram Bishnoi, the 75-year-old who stopped the march of the desert
Ekalkhori village is about 100 kms from Jodhpur, but it takes us more than five hours to get there. The light is fading fast but in this Bishnoi territory in Rajasthan, the driver has to make...
View Article‘I had a remarkably unambitious childhood,’ Abhishek Majumdar of the Indian...
On a balmy Sunday evening in Bangalore, if you are headed towards Rangashankara to watch an acclaimed popular play, then it is most likely to a play by the Indian Ensemble theatre group. Any discussion...
View ArticleThe First Hundred: Key lessons we learned while hiring for MySmartPrice
The greatest of companies, causes and even nations have been built not just by its founders, leaders or kings, but rather by its first few soldiers, employees and generals. If Apple didn’t have the...
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