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Freecharge, Freshdesk Founders Invest in O2O Platform Crownit
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Freecharge, Freshdesk Founders Invest in O2O Platform Crownit

Freecharge founders Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon, and Freshdesk founder Gireesh Mathrubootham have invested in Crownit, an Online to Offline (O2O) local merchants discovery platform. The size of the deal is however not disclosed. Ex-Snapdeal chief product officer Anand Chandrasekaran has also invested in the venture, the company said in a statement. "We are building Indias largest offline deals company using app-only cost efficient cash-back approach. We are replicating the success of Meituan (China's largest offline deals company) in India. We will continue to scale using product innovation without the need of large capital," Sameer Grover, founder and CEO, Crownit said. Crownit primarily targets offline merchants segment with direct consumer discounts and deals category in India...
Almost 70% of Startups Globally Will Fail: Kris Gopalakrishnan
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Almost 70% of Startups Globally Will Fail: Kris Gopalakrishnan

Infosys Co-Founder and former CII President Kris Gopalakrishnan today said almost seventy per cent of startups globally will fail and only five to ten per cent will become large and scale up. "Almost seventy per cent of startups will fail. About 20 per cent will survive but will not grow. They will remain small enterprises, and may be only five to ten per cent will become large and scale up - that is the spastics globally," he told reporters at the announcement of the 12th Innovation Summit 2016 here, of which he is the chairman. This should not, however, be treated as a concern or a challenge, but it is a part of natural process of evolution, he added. "The key is what are the learnings, and how do we continue to nurture this," he said. Asked who has made a mark globally ...
Saas Startup Zarget Raised $1.5 million Seed Funding
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Saas Startup Zarget Raised $1.5 million Seed Funding

Founded in 2015 by three ex-Zoho employees Arvind Parthiban, Naveen Venkat, and Santhosh Kumar, Zarget has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from global venture capital firms Accel Partners and Matrix Partners, and angel investors such as Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk. The company launched its Zarget platform, a conversion rate optimization tool built as a Chrome plugin and intended for use by marketers, product managers and web designers. The new platform is a much needed solution for firms that previously used multiple software products to complete A/B testing, funnel analysis, and heatmaps. Zarget provides all of these tools in one platform with the added simplicity of a Chrome plugin, so users no longer need to waste time and valuable resources loading websites into an...
Freshdesk Acquired Noida Based Company Having 1000 Companies To Communicate on Visual Files
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Freshdesk Acquired Noida Based Company Having 1000 Companies To Communicate on Visual Files

Framebench, a fast visual collaboration platform which, over the past 3 years, enabled more than a 1000 companies to annotate and communicate on visual files in real-time got acquired by Freshdesk. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed. After weeks of keeping it secret, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by Freshdesk, Inc and the team will move on to building superior customer engagement experiences in our new roles. – said Framebench Team. We’d like to thank everyone who tried and used Framebench. It’s because of you that we’ve kept building awesome stuff along the way. While we’re not accepting any more sign ups, Framebench will continue to work as is for all current customers.   Some of the questions Framebench team has answered below regarding this acquisit...