Chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata has made a personal investment of an undisclosed amount in the online marketplace for chefs Holachef. Launched in September 2014 by Saurabh Saxena and Anil Gelra, Holachef has seen substantial growth in Mumbai and Pune, the company said in a statement today. “Ratan Tata’s name and body of work is […]
I remember sitting in a tacky cafe in Chennai. It was February 2014 and I was meeting Akshat, one of my brother’s best friends since he was in town for the day. With a glint of excitement in his eyes, he leaned forward and said “I’ve been reading about this organization in South Africa using […]
Healthcare startup Practo today said it has forayed into the Indonesian market with its product, ‘Practo Search’. Practo has a presence in India, Philippines and Singapore and has a team of 1,500 employees. Indonesians will be able to search for over 4,200 verified doctors in over 60 percent of all clinics across Jakarta DKI, using Practo […]
Tuesday afternoon, I finish my lunch sharp at 1.48 PM as Bhuwan is scheduled to call at 2 o’clock. Bhuwan calls two minutes late and somehow I miss it. I check my phone anticipating the delay only to find his miss call. I call him back and he is having lunch. How unprofessional, I eat […]
New Delhi-based PML Solutions Pvt Ltd, which runs PickMyLaundry, a mobile platform that facilitates booking and delivery of laundry services, has raised $100,000 from Green House Ventures (GHV).
Last week, I spoke to an ambitious group of high school students at SPARC in Berkeley. Several of them asked me about things I wish I had done or learned earlier in life, or regrets I had from earlier in my career. Again and again, I came back to the idea that I wish I had […]
In 2012, Dhruv Kumar shifted the base of his online medical advice platform, iCliniq, to Coimbatore after operating it out of Bengaluru for two years. The reason: He didn’t want to be overwhelmed or distracted by the hoopla around startups in the tech capital. “I wanted to be out of all the noise and focus […]
The next food order that you place from your favorite restaurant online might be delivered to your doorstep by Zomato itself. The Gurgaon-based company is planning to foray into last-mile delivery business. The company is in the process of finalizing its strategy for the same and is considering multiple op ions for introducing last-mile delivery […]
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There are over 500 startup accelerators in the US and over 1000 worldwide. Most accelerators are aligned with Universities (at over 35%), some are government funded (local government mostly) at 29% and some (15%) get grants from rich individuals and institutions such as Kauffman Fund. The remainder (21%) are privately funded accelerators such as 500 […]
Ezetap, which had previously raised $ 8 million from Helion Venture Partners, The social +Cpaital Partnership and Berggruen Holdings and has led itself to procure INR 150 Cr in its latest round of funding from its existing investors along with new investors, Horizon Ventures and Capricorn Investment Group.
Axilor Ventures today announced that Kris Gopalakrishnan will be taking over as its Non-Executive Chairman. Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys and its former Vice-Chairman, is recognized as a global business and technology leader. Kris was selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, for the year 2009. A Padma Bhushan awardee, he […]