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[Funding alert] QTalk raises $1.6M from Accel India, Lightspeed Venture Partners
QTalk, a smartphone dialer designed to make phone calls stress-free, has raised $1.6 million seed round from Accel India and Lightspeed Venture Partners to accelerate product and market...
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Coronavirus: Middle-class gives a thumbs-up to RBI’s deferment of EMI for 3...
The coronavirus pandemic has businesses screaming over the current lockdown in the country as they have to manage the impact on their workers, their interest payments, and their production.To give them...
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Meet the startup that acts as an aggregator for art buying, renting, and...
There is no better time than now to reflect upon the adage, ‘art is long, life is short’. In times of uncertainties, there is comfort in creativity. However, art commerce requires more organisation in...
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Coronavirus: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces new fund for COVID-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new fund to battle the coronavirus pandemic and any other disasters arising in the future. It is my appeal to my fellow Indians, Kindly contribute to the...
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Zoho takes Freshworks to court in the first battle of Indian unicorns
Zoho, the SaaS cloud-based software provider, has taken Freshworks, and its founders Girish Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy, both former employees of Zoho, to court. A complaint has been filed at...
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This organic health foods startup went from just $3M revenue in 2018 to $24M...
The food industry and consumption patterns are going through a sea change with increased awareness leading to consumers wanting organic products more and genetically modified ones lesser and lesser....
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Bosch sets company guidelines for use of artificial intelligence in products
To build trust among humans about artificial intelligence, Bosch AG, a German multinational engineering company, has issued ethical “red lines” for the use of AI in its products.The company’s AI code...
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The week that was – the impact of coronavirus on startups across sectors in...
Amidst the coronavirus crisis and the resultant lockdown in India, people are finding it increasingly difficult to find essential goods such as wheat, rice, pulses, salt, sugar, etc., according to a...
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Startup employees stare at an uncertain future with pay cuts, layoffs due to...
Anand Jayaramanna (name changed), an engineer working with a startup in Bengaluru, was literally shown the door last week as the company could not withstand the sudden slowdown in business due to...
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Startup employees stare at an uncertain future with pay cuts, layoffs due to...
Anand Jayaramanna (name changed), an engineer working with a startup in Bengaluru, was literally shown the door last week as the company could not withstand the sudden slowdown in business due to...
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How test prep startup Pratham Institute grew to Rs 20 Cr revenue in 10 years
Pranav Charturvedi and Ankit Kapoor were batchmates at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business studies. The friends soon found that they had a common interest: starting a business in the education...
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Airbnb to pay $250M to hosts to cover cancellation costs due to COVID-19 crisis
In a letter to stakeholders, Brian Chesky, Co-founder of Airbnb, has outlined the unicorn’s plans to tackle the coronavirus crisis, which has devastated the world economy. Amid travel restrictions in...
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Coronavirus: This startup launches Virtual Event Platform, takes event...
The coronavirus outbreak has hardly spared any industry, with events and conferences also being affected. Major event organisers have cancelled their 2020 editions that were supposed to be hosted in...
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[Funding alert] Data Science startup Obviously AI raises undisclosed amount...
Data science platform Obviously AI has raised an undisclosed amount from Arka Venture Labs. Arka Venture Labs is known to invest nearly $500k in startups, and participates in Pre-Series A rounds.San...
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Pristyn Care healthtech scales up its telemedicine practice to battle COVID-19
With India observing a 21-day nationwide lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the routine process of going to one’s nearest doctor for a consultation has become difficult. To address these...
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UPI transactions cross 1 B mark for 6th month, but drops by 6 pc in volume
The National Payments Corporation of India (NCPI)-owned payment interface Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has captured the imagination of Indians. Its convenience and ease of use have led to the...
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Coronavirus: Amazon India starts essential deliveries in 4 cities, through...
Amit Agarwal, Head of Amazon India, is working round-the-clock to get Amazon India to deliver in times of the coronavirus pandemic. He is focussing all his energy to help his team so that they can move...
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This bootstrapped real estate tech startup helps builders manage their...
Real estate has gone through a long period of turbulence with financial issues piling up due to unsold projects. Four years ago, Venkata Ramana saw this as an opportunity and launched his startup, Near...
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Binny Bansal-backed Avail Finance helps gig economy workers during...
Avail Assist helps ecommerce, food delivery platforms, logistics and mobility platforms support their on-ground workforce in these tough times.The gig economy neobank, Avail Finance has launched a...
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Meddo Health offers teleconsult platform free of cost to doctors to battle...
In support of the government’s recent regulatory go-ahead on telemedicine, Meddo Health, an outpatient care network, has launched an advanced teleconsult platform for its doctors for free of cost. With...
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