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.
Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech, block chain, and entrepreneurship.
Samant said he has been into R&D for the past 24 years and before joining GlobalLogic, he was president at Ness Technologies and had worked at Hewlett-Packard lab in India and also has worked at IBM labs.
'Banking is a business of trust.'
Oyo has recently undergone large-scale corporate restructuring, setting up several subsidiaries and bifurcating operations globally.
With its foray into self-drive, Ola will go head-to-head with early entrants Zoomcar, Revv and a few other.
Proto.in, a support platform for the Indian startup community picked up these young startups
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Ola competes with Uber Technologies in India.
Venture Intelligence data shows that during January to July 2020, investors infused $998 million in 31 deals. The total number of deals reported in 2019 was 42 worth $404 million.
The good news is that India is hitting critical mass across product categories like mobile telephony, auto and consumer electronics, to name a few.
Dr Manjiri Bakre's OncoStem is revolutionising breast cancer treatment. And has raised $6 million to do more!
Awfis stands out for its 'ambience' and 'ease of doing business'.
Investments are pouring into online portals for add-ons.
TikTok is up against not just government sanction but also a set of feisty home-grown brands that have raised the 'vocal for local' banner to stake claim to the platform's vast small-town reach, point out T E Narasimhan and Sai Ishwar.
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 you are an entrepreneur and apprehensive that the global market meltdown will strain your fund-raising plans, fear not. India-focused private equity and venture capital funds raised $7 billion (Rs 27,958 crore) in 2007, excluding real estate, last year. They had garnered a similar amount in the corresponding previous year, according to data from Venture Intelligence, a venture capital research company.
The company, which rents cars by the hour, day, week and month, has Mahindra E2O Plus and Tata E Tigor available on the platform for which it charges a subscription fee of Rs 15,000-20,000 per month.
With the help of Practo Ray, doctors can share reports.
Pai has direct and indirect investments in about a dozen companies.
The idea behind starting Chingari is not to build a TikTok clone but to position itself as a super app for India like WeChat.
For now, Bounce, Shuttl, Fab Hotels, Instamojo, Zomato, Curefit, and HealthifyMe, among others, are going for salary deductions. Most of the consumer internet start-ups, besides those who are in the grocery delivery, education tech, and video conferencing business, would ultimately lay-off people and cut back salaries.
Lenders taking up incubator-style roles with small investments in start-ups
Starting from a team of part-time workers to an employee base that exceeds over 3,000, Wildcraft has come a long way
1mg has made buying medicines easy and it aims to do more in online health care.
Even at early stage, start-ups are raising more money faster owing to the rise of a lot of specialised early-stage VCs and emergence of seed-stage programmes.
Since you can't step out, virtual sessions held by fitness experts have come to the rescue.
The Qatar Investment Authority deal follows Byju's raising money from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which was also the first direct investment by the Canadian pension fund in an Indian start-up. In March, Byju's had raised $540 million at a valuation on $5.4 billion, making it the most-valued ed-tech company in the world.
Valued at $5 billion, Byju's has seen growth sky rocket in the last two years on the back of mega VC top-ups.
Maharashtra govt, California-based Zipline to launch the automated delivery service funded by Serum Institute.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
Leading the Indian-Americans on the list is 49-year old Aneel Bhusri.
Company's revenue rises 3-fold to touch $206 million while total cost jumps over 6 times to $500 million
This e-series funding round also makes OYO the most valued hospitality company in the country, ahead of the Tata group's Indian Hotels Company, which owns the Taj brand of hotels, and EIH, which owns the Oberoi brand of hotels.
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.
Private labels remain big business for e-commerce marketplaces. They comprise almost 15 per cent of the total business of such firms.
Micromax to raise up to $1 bn from global investors.
The final policy may be out only after formation of the new government, according to sources
Few angels have seen exits; till that happens, they won't be rushing to invest again.
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.
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