Taxi aggregator Ola today said it has appointed former Infosys Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Bansal to head finance operations as part of its expansion drive in the country. Bansal, who announced his resignation from the country’s second largest software services firm in October this year, will join the Softbank-backed Ola in January 2016. “Rajiv […]
Quikr, India’s No. 1 cross category classifieds business, has launched QuikrServices with a special focus on the unorganized sector of service providers across the country. Quikr has been facilitating buying, selling and rentals across 12 categories via its platform, and its new vertical provides easy access to reliable service providers across sub-categories such as home, […]
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 […]
Taxi hailing app Ola said its wallet, which was earlier only used for paying for taxi rides can now be used on other platforms including budget hotel rooms aggregator Oyo Rooms, online spectacle retailer Lenskart, and music streaming service Saavan. The company expects to add more players from other retail categories. “We will be leveraging […]
Stanza Living, a student housing has raised undisclosed funds from US based private equity firm Equity International.
Axis Bank has selected three fintech startups from its ‘Thought Factory’ accelerator programme, to incorporate solutions in operational efficiency, lending and tax planning which it will commercially deploy at its business units, it announced at an event in Bengaluru on Friday. The bank will collabborate with Pally, FintechLabs and Gieom out of the six startups, namely […]
Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world. Journalists with access to the vast trove of data used the firm’s open-source database to make sense of 11.5 million documents, including emails, images, and spreadsheets, leaked […]