There has been a huge boom in the number of delivery only restaurant model start-ups in the last 6 -12 months. Just to be sure, we know the definition being referred to – a food delivery company is the one who takes the customer order on its system and transfers it to a food production […]
Facebook said on Monday, that it would launch a satellite called AMOS-6 in partnership with France’s Eutelsat Communications to bring Internet access to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The satellite is a part of Facebook’s long-term goal, Internet.org, to expand internet access mainly in rural areas via mobile phones.
A scientist, inventor and entrepreneur from India. But there is more to know about the inventor of EMAIL. Dr VA Shiva Ayyadurai, now living and working in the US, left India as a seven-year-old with his parents and in 1979, as a high school student, he developed an electronic version of an interoffice mail system, […]
Saras Agarwal’s main agenda at a networking event early this year was to meet Zishaan Hayath, cofounder and chief executive of education technology startup Toppr. The associate vice-president at VenturEast, among India’s oldest venture capital firms, wasn’t looking to invest in Toppr but discuss startups Hayath had put his money into. “It was a general […]
Munna – a simple man with a common name but worth emulating. Coming from humble origins and against all odds, Munna runs his Khwab Foundation with a lot of zest and enthusiasm an infectious ‘must-do’ attitude to uplift the status of the rural youth. We heard his speech in an event and thought why not […]
UDAIPUR, India, PRNewswire/ — Prayas Innovation, an international social enterprise, is launching ‘YELO’, a revolutionary bag that converts into a school desk. This bag would empower students studying in the rural areas of third world countries to study more efficiently.
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 […]
“Grab the Opportunity – It won’t be lying around on the ground!” “The Sanitary Napkin Man” may sound an awkward title, but is a resounding Google search – about 2,55,000 results in 0.37 seconds – all about Arunachalam Muruganantham – a social entrepreneur who has empowered women in a way […]
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 […]
Cybiz BrightStar Restaurants, the master franchisee of US-based fast food chain Carl’s Jr in India has attracted funding, reportedly worth Rs. 4 Cr ($0.63 Mn) from Yuvraj Singh’s VC Fund YouWeCan Ventures. Yuvraj will also come on board as a brand ambassador for Carl’s Jr in India. The funds will be used for opening about […]
What is an Accelerator? Seed accelerators also known as startup accelerators are fixed-term, cohort-based programs, that include mentorship and educational components and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day – wikipedia Business Accelerator exploration is the engine that drives innovation, innovation drives economic growth, and to be on this right track to explore […]