State Bank of India became the first public sector lender to launch wealth management service, a space dominated by private and foreign players, to cater to fast-growing affluent segment of the country. The bank also inaugurated a dedicated branch for startups which will provide advisory services to the budding entrepreneurs. “Introducing wealth management has been […]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) Top industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in pet care portal DogSpot.in, continuing the slew of investments he has made in various startups globally. However, the value of the investment was not disclosed. “Ratan Tata has invested an undisclosed amount in DogSpot.in. Ronnie Screwala also invested in this round along with […]
Peppertap, Gurgaon based hyperlocal service startup has taken over Bangalore based hyperlocal grocery delivery startup, Jiffstore for an undisclosed amount. Jiffstore’s team will join PepperTap’s Gurgaon and Bengaluru offices. Peppertap aims to use synergies with Jiffstore to build an excellent customer experience. PepperTap also closed its Series B round of funding; with an additional $4 […]
Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform today released its annual healthcare findings – The Practo Healthcare Map of India 2015 which aims to highlight the key consumer healthcare concerns. The report also highlights the fastest growing concerns to enable the healthcare industry focus on the illness types that ail the population today as well as pro-actively […]
Bengaluru: Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc. has temporarily suspended offering autorickshaw rides on it platform, called uberAUTO, in Delhi, amid plans to revamp and expand the service to more Indian cities. “We are temporarily removing this product to solve specific problems that need to be resolved to help it scale,” a spokeswoman for Uber said […]
E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India’s choked roads and cramped cities to some of its largest developed markets, exporting a model of cheaper deliveries and reduced warehousing costs. Online shopping is booming in India, where millions of consumers are newly able to access the Internet thanks to cheap […]
India’s leading taxi aggregator Ola is looking at a three-fold rise in the number of daily bookings through its platform to three million by April next year. Ola sees over one million daily booking requests at current scale and has served over 150 million cumulative bookings on its platform till date, it said in a […]
SpinKart is a startup operating from Lucknow that has a lot of research work behind it. They understand that usually, shoppers have a harrowing experience in India – going for groceries, running through aisles with their carts, waiting for hours during checkout, add to that the chaos of traffic, parking and fuel costs. Online shopping […]
India’s biggest coffee chain, The Cafe Coffee Day, will launch an initial public offering next week. Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd (CDEL), the holding company of the Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) aiming to raise up to $176 million in the country’s biggest IPO in nearly three years. Cafe Coffee Day’s share sale is scheduled to close on […]
Healthcare startup Practo today said it has acquired Qikwell, a company that facilitates appointment scheduling at hospitals, for an undisclosed amount. The buyout makes Practo the world’s largest appointment booking platform with nearly 40 million appointments managed every year, it said in a statement.
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 […]
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 […]