Ola Cabs acquires TaxiForSure in $200-mn deal.
The final policy may be out only after formation of the new government, according to sources
The Jain brothers' $300 mn-worth Girnar Software has really humble roots.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
Google boss's absence at US-China internet forum meet raises eyebrows.
Company says it is just replacing old guard with stronger leaders
Few angels have seen exits; till that happens, they won't be rushing to invest again.
Ramping up globally, the Indian restaurant search service is going as local as possible in its markets to improve its brand's stickiness.
New entity is likely to get a top-up of $200 million from a Chinese investor
It is Tata's fourth such investment in an e-commerce co.
Globally, the viability of on-demand businesses is being questioned
'One good thing that has come out of all this is that it shown people that online ordering is the way forward.'
The proposed company, Yu Televentures, will import handsets from China and sell in the Indian market.
The development comes close on the heels of Uber planning to invest substantial part of $3.5 bn Saudi money in India.
After a recent spate of big-bang funding of food discovery and delivery apps, experts believe the sector's consolidation might be over and the remaining players are here to stay and thrive.
They encouraged start-ups to pay for acquiring customers rather than focusing on the business fundamentals.
Five Star Business Finance is in the business of providing loans to MSME entrepreneurs. Gireesh Babu finds out more about the company that plans to grow to 3,000 crore by 2020.
The family office category was up 38 per cent, led by names such as Ratan Tata, Ronnie Screwvala and various Infosys co-founders.
Experts believe MNCs, which look for a strong foothold in the Indian kitchen appliances space, target the leading organised players in the industry.
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
Anupam Mittal, the fund man behind OlaCabs has lined up more investments.
OlaCabs' hyper-growth and an ambitious plan to expand to 100 cities by the end of 2015 are perhaps what attracted Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son, chairman of telecom and media group SoftBank Corp, to announce an investment of $210 million (around Rs 1,260 crore) in the company.
Arnab Dutta traces how Bira 91 is already among the top two in the premium segment in all the cities that it is present in today and how it is giving larger brands Kingfisher and Budweiser a run for their market share.
Investors spent much of 2016 cleaning house. And a VC tells Ranju Sarkar, "There's still some bad news left in the portfolios (of VC firms). What happens to Ola and Flipkart will drive sentiment in future."
Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee reveal how they built the company from scratch.
The past few years have seen the first cycle of mergers and acquisitions, exits, and track-records being created.
Pai has direct and indirect investments in about a dozen companies.
Murthy no more chairman emeritus; founders do not want to be addressed as promoters.
Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
It hopes to leverage the growing number of mobile transactions
Giants like Pepsi and Coke are fast losing shelf-space to healthier, functional options.
Reddi has so far made 10 investments in the US.
Practo is an online health service platform which assists patients to meet the best doctors and keeps digital records.
Mitra Biotech's personalised cancer therapy could be a game changer in the field of cancer medicine.
Chillr recently raised $5 million from Seqouia Capital.
According to data from Venture Intelligence, PEs invested in two mobile payment solutions firms each in 2009, 2010 and 2011. This grew to four deals in 2012 and five deals in 2013.
Vikramank Singh looks back at the year gone by!
The total staff strength - once 1,100 - is now under 200.
The inspiring story of how Saurabh Aggarwal conquered it all with his mobile gaming company Octro.
Medha is an organisation created with the idea of bringing in better employment opportunities and life for educated youth.
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