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Venture Catalysts Raises $500k Funding From Zaffiro Ventures
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Venture Catalysts Raises $500k Funding From Zaffiro Ventures

Valued in a groundbreaking development for the Indian entrepreneurial landscape, Venture Catalysts has secured $500000 amount from Zaffiro Ventures. VCats was valued at Rs. 40 crore during the investment process, marking a major landmark in the six months of its operations and underlining its position as the fastest growing seed investment platform in the country. "Our aim, ever since our launch, has been to support and augment the growth of promising start-ups across the country. The investment from Zaffiro will not only help us in expanding to multiple cities across India and promote entrepreneurship beyond the metropolitan and tier-I geographies, but will also allow us to access industry insights and business acumen gained by individuals such as Revathi Roy and Jagdish Gothi. ...
Ola to Invest Rs 350 Crore in Haryana Over 5 Years
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Ola to Invest Rs 350 Crore in Haryana Over 5 Years

Taxi hailing app Ola has signed an agreement with Haryana government to create over 10,000 entrepreneurs in the state with an investment of Rs 350 crore over the period of five years, the company said today. "We are proud to partner with the Haryana government to create more than 10,000 entrepreneurship opportunities across the state. To this end, we are planning to invest over Rs 350 crore in Haryana over the next 5 years," Chief Operating Officer, Ola, Pranay Jivrajka said in a statement. Ola will work with the Haryana government to introduce innovative and customised mobility solutions like Ola Auto, Ola Bike, Ola Share and Ola Shuttle across the state. "Ola's commitment to building mobility for citizens, by using mobile technology and by enabling entrepreneurship and skilling, will ...
SimplyFest, Celebrating The Entrepreneur In You!
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SimplyFest, Celebrating The Entrepreneur In You!

It was a weekend with inspiring talks at Zorba Delhi. Talks led by successful entrepreneurs who’ve built their own companies from scratch. Students, to be entrepreneurs, investors; anyone in the business of learning about, or starting a new venture were present at the beautiful lawns on 20th Feb. The list of storytellers across these two days represents some of India’s most sought-after enterprises with collaborators across venture capitalists, incubators, knowledge institutions, social platforms, business groups, business dailies and technology companies. The event was organized by SimplyHR, India’s leading HR consultancies based out Delhi. “With SimplyFest, we want to help pass on their wisdom to the next wave of innovators who have the potential to start the hottest startups of tomorro...
On my 65th birthday, i feel youngest entrepreneur become oldest – Richard Branson
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On my 65th birthday, i feel youngest entrepreneur become oldest – Richard Branson

Editors note: Richard Branson, one of the legendary entrepreneur of 21st century turned 65 today. An all-rounder entrepreneur, who started his first business venture at the age of sixteen, now become a proud owner of Virgin Group (comprises more than 400 companies, estimated net worth of US$4.9 billion). On his 65th birthday, he wrote a beautiful article to share what he is feeling (we shared it below). We all wish him a very happy and healthy birthday!!!    I was once the youngest entrepreneur in the world. I blinked. And now I'm one of the oldest! It's my 65th birthday, an occasion that is supposed to carry associations with that incomprehensible word, retirement. I can assure you I have no plans to retire. I can't imagine not working, as I've never seen w...
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Amit Singhal: The master of Google’s “ranking algorithm”

  Amit Singhal is the current Senior Vice President and head of head of Google's core ranking team. His main area of interests are Information Retrieval (IR), its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Born and brought up In Jhansi this brilliant entrepreneur graduated from IIT Roorkee and the gained his M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth and  later in 1996 he entered the prestigious league of Doctorate in the field of  Computer Science at Cornell University. According to him, "UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have...