Google vice-president for South East Asia and India, Rajan Anandan has been appointed new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He took over charge from FreeCharges co-founder and chief executive officer Kunal Shah. MakeMyTrip Chairman & Group CEO Deep Kalra has taken over as vice chairman from music app Saavn co-founder and […]
Mobikwik – the largest independent mobile payments company in India with over 32 million users and a network of 100000 merchants has launched cash pick up in Surat. With this launch, MobiKwik users in Surat can now load their wallet with cash from the convenience of their homes or offices. Upon request, a MobiKwik representative […]
MobiKwik, India’s largest independent mobile payments’ network today announced that it has registered 5000 percent growth on Big Basket, India’s largest online supermarket Bigbasket offers over 20,000 products from over 1,000 brands and is present in 25 cities across the country including Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Delhi-NCR. Upasana Taku, Co-founder, MobiKwik said, “Grocery […]
As per the mint report, Stayzilla has raised $13 million Series C funding from existing investors Matrix Partners and Nexus Ventures, according to documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. In report the funding round of online aggregator of budget hotels split into three tranches of $8.8 million (Rs.58.5 crore), $1.9 million (Rs.13 crore) and […]
Every woman needs to be treated in a special way and to do so, VelvetCase.com has conceptualised a festival titled Women’s Online Shopping Festival (WOSF), wherein various lifestyle and fashion brands will be coming together to provide a shopping paradise to the modern women. Talking about the festival, VelvetCase.com’s Founder and CEO, Kapil Hetamsaria said, […]
At a time when startups and companies facing economy jolt, Oyo rooms led by Ritesh Aggarwal has raised $100 million in its fifth round of funding. The investors, including Japan’s Softbank, and an international sovereign fund, a person with knowledge of the deal said. Other investors are Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, DSG […]
How many of you live in metro? And your family lives in tier 2 and tier 3 cities? Who takes care of your family’s health when in need while you are busy in your work? Two youngsters also came across same questions and came up with a solution: Dawailelo. Dawailelo helps the people through their […]
One of Reliance Industries’ offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country’s largest private firm’s four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month […]
Ratan Tata has joined the advisory board of venture capital firm IDG Ventures India as a senior advisor, third such move by Tata Sons’ chairman emeritus this year. IDG Ventures, which holds stakes in e-tailer Flipkart and online travel portal Yatra, has offices in Delhi and Bengaluru. Tata will be advising IDG Ventures India and […]
A new research report released today identifies 35 Indian companies among the global cashback industry leaders. The report analyzes the growth of the industry, its important role in worldwide e-commerce, and the trends and challenges faced by this quickly growing industry. “We identified 35 Indian companies in this worldwide ranking of cashback industry leaders,” said […]