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.
Total exit value breached the $10 billion mark for the first time to touch $10.3 billion this calendar, from $9.4 billion in 2015
'I'm an unbalanced human,' the founding partner of AZB, India's top law firm, tells Pavan Lall.
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 proposed company, Yu Televentures, will import handsets from China and sell in the Indian market.
They encouraged start-ups to pay for acquiring customers rather than focusing on the business fundamentals.
Global private equity (PE) major Carlyle is in talks with renowned cardiac surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan to acquire a minority stake in his Gurgaon-based multi-super speciality hospital, Medanta -The Medicity.
The family office category was up 38 per cent, led by names such as Ratan Tata, Ronnie Screwvala and various Infosys co-founders.
Uber started its business three years ago in India and is now operating in over 20 cities with thousands of cab drivers.
While the redeployment of talent from companies that have shut down into other start-ups is a great move, some say the gesture is gaining more visibility than the actual companies
Experts believe MNCs, which look for a strong foothold in the Indian kitchen appliances space, target the leading organised players in the industry.
India-located funds have already raised $3.9 billion so far this year.
People move from investment banking to growth equity or from venture capital to growth equity or entrepreneurship, depending on what's attractive at different points of life.
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.
Anupam Mittal, the fund man behind OlaCabs has lined up more investments.
Awfis stands out for its 'ambience' and 'ease of doing business'.
Practo is an online health service platform which assists patients to meet the best doctors and keeps digital records.
The past few years have seen the first cycle of mergers and acquisitions, exits, and track-records being created.
Start-up Belong.co uses an unconventional way of hiring that trusts more on data available on social media or tweets than the resume.
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.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
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Murthy no more chairman emeritus; founders do not want to be addressed as promoters.
Lenders taking up incubator-style roles with small investments in start-ups
Giants like Pepsi and Coke are fast losing shelf-space to healthier, functional options.
It hopes to leverage the growing number of mobile transactions
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!
Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new.
UrbanClap's business model is still a work in progress.
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.
Internet entrepreneurs are the next big thing in India.
What work in Jaipur's favour are lower costs, a good talent pool, better quality of life, and proximity to the Delhi National Capital Region
'I always say I am a teacher by choice and an entrepreneur by chance.'
Using apps allows AdNear to optimise the number of ad impressions but the push towards stricter privacy norms could pose a challenge.
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