$47.6 bn capital invested across 921 deals in India in 2020, despite pandemic.
Ratan Tata has made investments in his personal capacity in more than 15 start-ups over the last 20 months.
India's ODI and T20 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been named as the face and brand ambassador of the Craig McDermott International Cricket Academy (CMICA), a leading state of the art private cricket and educational sports academy in Australia.
Like the other platforms, the Clubhouse will have more users in India than anywhere else because of the interest we have in knowing what others are doing and in letting others know about our activities, predicts T P Sreenivasan.
The Finance Ministry's Economic Survey had projected a growth rate of 7-7.75 per cent.
...and getting GDP to measure India's data economy, recommends Ajit Balakrishnan.
India has around 355 million Internet users, second only to China, says a report
Facebook is fast learning the limits of tech exceptionalism.
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
Sayre Therapeutics aims for a spot among top 5 players in oncology.
Wadhwani joined the billion-dollar club in 1999, when he sold a venture for $9.3 bn to i2 Technologies.
Unlike many peers in the VC space, LSE grad Juneja doesn't have an entrepreneurial background but is said to be strong in finance skills
Wang ranked second on the list this year, with a fortune of 145 billion yuan.
Will Covid-19 permanently change higher education, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Will help entrepreneurs collaborate and develop a culture of innovation in the country.
The Intel Capital India Technology Fund, with a corpus of 250,000, was established in 2005-06 in India through which tech VC has invested a lot in data centre technology, telecom and infrastructure, apart from e-commerce.
Long before he launched Paytm, Vijay Shankar Sharma, a 32 year old from Aligarh, embarked on his ambitious entrepreneurial journey.
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.
For the first time the government is organising an event where consolidated efforts would be made to help start-ups.
At the pre-Budget meeting at Niti Aayog, Modi called for a focussed effort from all stakeholders in order to achieve the target of $5 trillion economy. The participants urged the government to focus on credit expansion, exports growth, governance of PSBs, increasing consumption and job creation.
Sources say investors of the company have expressed their desire to speak to the management shortly and it could be about discussing Yadav's role in the company.
Five Indian-Americans have been named among the 400 richest people in the US by Forbes, a list topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the 21st year in a row with a net worth of $81 billion.
Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new.
Flipkart intends to use the funds for building and strengthening its technology capabilities, bolstering the robust supply chain and developing the talent pool.
A new solution to raise deal speed is expected to avoid hiccups in trading when launched on August 1
It is not clear as to whether we are in a bubble in technology stocks. What is clear, however, is that there is no reason why this potential bubble will pop anytime soon, notes Akash Prakash.
If you don't design a winning culture, a culture will get created by default. And, most often than not, it's not pretty, says well-known Indian American venture capitalist, Desh Deshpande.
According to documents with the US State District Court Southern District of Ohio, Douglas Tarlow was arrested April 18. He appeared in the District Court of Ohio and on the orders of Magistrate Judge Norah McCann King, he surrendered his passport. Tarlow is not in jail.
The tax forces young startups to part with a portion of the capital they have raised from investors due to disagreements over the valuation of the company by Income Tax officials.
Tesla began taking orders for its $35,000 Model 3 sedan from Indian customers in April last year.
Indian companies are now more confident about the execution skills of local banks.
Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
'Biden's promise of returning to 'normalcy' after Trump appears to mean that the same old politicians, who are responsible for the 'endless wars' in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, are being brought out of the woodwork after four years,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Second hand goods are catching up with customers on renown shopping websites.
'The whole country has to aspire to move up. They should look at their neighbours, see where they are, and should work to get there.'
A fun excerpt from Diptakirti Chaudhuri's Bollygeek: The Crazy Trivia Guide to Bollywood.
Sharad Sharma, co-founder and governing council member at iSPIRT, on Tuesday admitted using anonymous accounts to troll on social media those who raised questions on Aadhaar and its applications by the government.
Eleven start-ups completed a programme launched by Gennext Ventures.
Billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani has turned a venture capitalist and is backing a new television channel Epic TV due to go on air next month.
India needs to get back to economic growth of seven to 10 per cent growth.
