South East Asia has got its first blockchain incubator and it’s started by the team behind GBMiners.com (South East Asia’s largest bitcoin mining pool), and backed/invested by Amit Bharadwaj. The incubator is very aptly named Satoshi Studios and is inviting applications from entrepreneurs working in the South East Asia region. The incubator has a 3-month […]
Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to a Limited Partner investment of INR 31.6 crores from its Innovation Fund in Stellaris Venture Partners, an India-based early stage venture fund. This investment is towards the first close of Stellaris’ fund. India’s startup […]
Looking to provide an impetus to the early-stage startup ecosystem, markets regulator Sebi plans to reduce minimum angel fund investment for venture capital undertakings to Rs 25 lakh from the current Rs 50 lakh. Sebi may also allow the angel funds to make overseas investments up to 25 percent of their investible corpus, in line […]
Infosys a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, today announced that it has made an investment of 14.5 Crores in UNSILO, a Danish artificial intelligence startup focused on advanced text analysis. UNSILO uses a unique combination of machine-learning and natural language processing to analyze large quantities of text and improve the speed […]
A good product often is the lifeline of many startups, and represents the collective dreams of the team. A good product should also be free or really low cost, if the company is looking to genuinely make society for the better. To that end, we want to offer our software free for the first user […]
Mumbai-based Skills Alpha is one of the newest start-ups in the entrepreneurial ecosystem which helps the corporate employees to learn and develop their skills has raised $450K in Angel funding round from Mr. Ganesh Natarajan. Ganesh Natarajan an IT veteran and former CEO of Zensar Technologies has a stake of 60-65% in the company. The company which […]
Hong Kong – Good Parents Inc., a one-year-old startup focused on children’s health and wellness, today announced a $2 million seed investment round. The latest seed round was led by senior partners at Jungle Ventures with participation from Fireside Ventures, Bio Sensors International, Gaja Ventures and several marquee angel investors across Asia and the U.S. […]
Crowdfunding is a fresh concept that has emerged as a sustenance for budding creators and innovators to turn their ideas into a corporeality. In the recent years, the crowdfunding industry has grown multifold and has helped crowdfunding projects grow into great business ventures. In the world of small biz, it has become one of the […]
The social media giant added one more tool in its kitty, which helps enterprises at work called workplace. Facebook introduced Workplace (formerly known as Facebook at Work) as a pilot project about a year and a half ago adding some big companies and startups. Starbucks, Godrej, Yes Bank, auto rickshaw aggregator Jugnoo and logistics company […]
Monish Karam, a manipuri youth and founder of Jobsenz has received a $40,000 grant from Facebook to develop a mobile application which he founded in 2015. Monish Karam based out of Singapore received the grant under the FbStart initiative, which helps startups. FbStart initiative, Facebook’s worldwide program which helps mobile startups, selected Jobsenz for its […]
Pune based Muhurtmaza, an online puja booking service has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a US based HNI investor. Muhurtmaza currently operates in Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad among a few other cities, and will focus on increasing consumer awareness and strengthening its supply chain over the next few months using this funding round. […]
Leading B2B e-commerce company Moglix specializing in procurement of industrial products has announced that it has raised Rs. 28 crore in Series A round of funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Jungle Ventures and SeedPlus. Founded in August 2015, Moglix is focused on technologically disrupting the B2B Industrial products space for suppliers and […]