The numbers in India may not be as big but the opportunity for serious growth is all there.
UrbanClap's business model is still a work in progress.
Anjana Reddy explores the market for home-grown Indian celebrity fashion brands at affordable prices.
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.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
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Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
Sayre Therapeutics aims for a spot among top 5 players in oncology.
Grant Thornton reports says total value of deals in 2013 crosses $8 bn, up 34% from the year-ago period, momentum likely to continue
With Nikesh Arora's exit from Softbank, India's start-ups have lost one of its biggest supporters.
The family office category was up 38 per cent, led by names such as Ratan Tata, Ronnie Screwvala and various Infosys co-founders.
The 'angel tax' and notices to start-ups and angel investors from the income tax department was certainly a dampener. However, a bigger factor is the lack of exits.
Besides the passion, your disciple and endurance is what will take you to the end.
In terms of the number of deals, there has been a decline of 13 per cent
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."
If Sachin Bansal sells his stake at a little over 5 per cent and steps down from Flipkart, as reports have suggested recently, either Binny Bansal or Kalyan Krishnamurthy, CEO of Flipkart, could be an option for the leadership position.
There are about 600,000 taxis in India, generating combined annual revenue of about Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion).
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