While Team Indus had backing from Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata and Flipkart founders Sachin and Binny Bansal, it could not even muster half of the Rs 4.5 billion it required for the mission to the moon.
While industry is upbeat, start-ups in the space sector are finding it difficult to cater to the demand due to a lack of funding, issues related to policy like foreign funding, intellectual property, etc, and a lack of support in testing.
It is eyeing the transportation and infrastructure modernisation opportunity in the country, expected to attract $500 billion in investment over the next five years.
The company has been a part of the start-up ecosystem in a big way from early stages right up to when the companies start achieving full scale.
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
Directors look at ways to avoid overstretched valuations.
Babychakra's online community has 500,000 mothers seeking advice and support and who share lessons learnt on their journey through pregnancy and parenthood.
In a start-up set up, nothing is fixed, not even your job-description
'Even if you are aping the West, if you customise the idea for the Indian market, localise it based on the Indian ethos, it will succeed.'
Eleven start-ups completed a programme launched by Gennext Ventures.
Here stood a man who embodied the legacy of whatever Brand Tata stood for, embellished it, and departed into the long night, leaving the brand legacy for others to further enrich, notes R Gopalakrishnan.
Technology infrastructure solves many problems, but it cannot build roads or bridges and provide clean water. However, such activities are essential for human progress, and their creation provides jobs, says R Gopalakrishnan.
Manchester City squandered a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 with Feyenoord in the Champions League on Tuesday.
India emerges as a top destination to set up incubators for global firms
This is not the first EV that Mercedes would be making in India though. It has been making the EQS sedan here for the last 18 months, and has sold 500 units of the car.
Avoiding these common mistakes will help you scale your business.
From a modest two-bedroom apartment in Koramangala, the Bengaluru-headquarted company now has multiple offices across the country.
'We started AgniKul to show that space transportation should be as simple as road transportation.'
Despite all the incentives, the start-ups' mega event fell short of expectations
Nasscom is sending team there to check out ways of accessing markets, funding and the technology landscape.
The country will witness a mushrooming of technology start-ups over the next five years.
From $10 billion deployed in Indian start-ups in 2017, $6 billion went to unicorns
Persistence is the name of the game, says Vineet Bajpai.
Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems
There is no shortage of books on the Microsoft founder, but this latest one is different in that it paints Mr Gates in shades of grey, leaving it to readers to make their own judgement about the man
From 50 stores Vimal Textiles aims to have 150 in 3 years.
Rs 1,000 crore for promotion of start ups.
Presenting a list of the most trending jobs in the start-up world.
History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com takes a walk down memory lane, recounting India's sojourns Down Under from 1947 to 2021, in a 4-part series.
What are the reasons why a girl's education falls by the wayside? Why was Safeena a casualty too? Maybe because the education system doesn't give youngsters enough options? Or there are societal issues or pressures?
'If you go on with your start up ensure that you put all your might behind it.' 'Ensure that you talk to a lot of people and bounce off your ideas before you go out and make a pitch.'
If it helps the business, go ahead and do it, says Anurag Srivastava, co-founder, BigStylist.com.
Business chambers now inviting start-ups for membership.
CoLife offers shared living and working spaces under the brands CoLive247 and CoWork247.
Every start-up that wants to make a difference has to be properly prepared
From bus search on mobile, free photocopying services to preserving rare Indian art forms, these start-ups are already tasting success.
There are around 4,500 tech-based start-ups in India.
'Our brothers and sisters are headed to Paris, hungry for medals. A billion of us will be watching them nervous and excited as our athletes set foot in the tracks and fields and courts and rings.'
Managing human resources remains a major and under-appreciated challenge for most start-ups.
