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Infosys Foundation Offers Rs 2 Crore Grant for Open Online Resource Sahapedia

17Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Infosys Foundation Offers Rs 2 Crore Grant for Open Online Resource Sahapedia

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of IT major Infosys, today announced a partnership with Sahapedia, an open online resource, to support the development of an online interactive web module on the arts, culture and histories of India. The Foundation has offered a corpus grant of Rs 2 crores invested for a period of 25 years towards the initiative. It said through this association with Sahapedia, a non-profit organisation, the foundation aims to provide content comprising multimedia modules made up of articles, interviews, photographs, performance videos timelines, walkthroughs and bibliographies thereby assimilating a rich experience of Indian history and culture on the web. "We are proud of our partnership with Sahapedia and look forward to jointly positioning the effort ...

25 Investors and 300 Entrepreneurs Participated in Venture Garage “Capitalize Funding Conclave” at IIT Delhi

15Apr By RishabhNo Comments

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25 Investors and 300 Entrepreneurs Participated in Venture Garage “Capitalize Funding Conclave” at IIT Delhi

On Friday 7th April , Venture Garage organized “Capitalize-Funding conclave ” at IIT Delhi which saw an overwhelming response with over 25 investors and 300 entrepreneurs attending the event. The event started with a panel discussion moderated by Rahul Narvekar, ex CEO of NDTV Ethnic and now CEO, Scale Ventures. Rehan Yar Khan of Orios Ventures who is one of the first investors in OLA Cabs was special guest of honor. Other panel members included Ravi Kaushik, Partner at Water Bridge Ventures, Ojasvi Babber of Amity VC, Girish Shivani of Yournest Angel Fund and Tej Kapoor of Fosun Kinzon Capital. These investors together have over $1 Bil to be invested in startups. The investors shared their views on the startup ecosystem and its outlook in the new financial year, why profitability ...

Ola Cabs Raises Rs 1,675 Crore From Softbank

14Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Ola Cabs Raises Rs 1,675 Crore From Softbank

New Delhi: Japanese investor SoftBank has pumped in about Rs 1,675 crore in fresh funding in Indian transportation startup Ola to give it more muscle to take American rival Uber head-on. SoftBank subsidiary SIMI Pacific Pte picked 12,97,945 shares valued at Rs 10 at a premium of Rs 12,895 in ANI Technologies -- which runs Ola -- filings with the Registrar of Companies showed. The allotment of shares was done in November last year, it added. The latest funding, however, is believed to have come at a lower valuation. According to sources, the move comes at a time when Softbank is working on selling Snapdeal, an e-commerce platform it invested heavily in India, to larger rival Flipkart. The Bengaluru-based firm was aggressively looking at raising funds to compete with Uber, the wo...

Axilor Ventures Announces 20 Startups that Made To Its Fifth Accelerator Batch

14Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Axilor Ventures Announces 20 Startups that Made To Its Fifth Accelerator Batch

Bangalore, April 13, 2017: Axilor Ventures announced the list of 20 startups that made it to its Summer'17 accelerator batch. This is its fifth batch and is the largest accelerator cohort in India. Talking of the new accelerator cohort, Ganapathy Venugopal, Co-founder and CEO of Axilor said, “The institutional capacity to support early stage startups in India is quite low - whether it is the structured programs to systematically improve the odds of success of startups, the market access that they need in their early days or the angel investment capacity. This has been Axilor's mission and by doubling the capacity of this batch to 20 startups we have taken one more step to bridge these gaps. We are very excited to work with the new cohort. The cohort of 20 startups and 52 founders mak...

11Apr By RishabhNo Comments

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HackerEarth Raises USD 4.5 mn Funding from DHI Group and Others

HackerEarth, a platform for innovation and talent management, today said it has closed a USD 4.5 million (around Rs 30 crore) investment led by DHI Group. The Series A round also saw participation from Beenext, Beenos, Digital Garage and BizReach as well as HackerEarths current investor Prime Venture Partners. "With this round, we have raised a total of USD 5 million in equity investment to date. With this fresh infusion of capital, we aim to aggressively grow in the space of innovation management," HackerEarth CEO and Co-Founder Sachin Gupta. The company will also use the funds to strengthen its product team and strengthen business internationally in markets like the US, Europe and South East Asia, he added. Founded by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash in 2012, HackerEarth has wo...

11Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Flipkart to Grow With Careful Considerations to Costs: Binny Bansal

Flipkart Co-founder Binny Bansal said while the latest funding round provides the fuel the company needs to reach its goal of transforming commerce in India through technology, it should continue to grow its business with careful considerations to costs. "I must stress that we still have some distance to go before fulfilling our mission - to transform commerce in India through technology. And, while this funding round provides the fuel we need need to reach that goal, we have to continue growing our business with careful considerations to costs," he said in a mail shot-off to his employees after raising USD 1.4 billion from Tencent Holdings, Microsoft Corp and eBay Inc. "I look forward to your continued support," he added. The announcement comes in the wake of Flipkart, India's la...

Flipkart Raises $1.4 Billion From Microsoft, Tencent and eBay

10Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Flipkart Raises $1.4 Billion From Microsoft, Tencent and eBay

Indias largest e-commerce firm Flipkart has raised USD 1.4 billion from Tencent Holdings, Microsoft Corp and eBay Inc amid speculation that the online marketplace is in talks to take over smaller rival Snapdeal. The biggest-ever fund raising by an Indian Internet firm values Flipkart at USD 11.6 billion, the company said in a statement today. With over 100 million customers, Flipkart owns fashion retailers Myntra and Jabong, logistics firm Ekart and payments app PhonePe. The valuation was a decline from Flipkarts USD 15 billion reported worth in 2015. Prior to the latest round of funding, it had raised more than USD 3 billion, mostly from international investors. eBay will invest USD 500 million in Flipkart as the two firms will merge their operations in the country. As part of the de...

Flipkart Acquired Ebay India, Also Received $500 Million Cash Investment From Ebay

10Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Flipkart Acquired Ebay India, Also Received $500 Million Cash Investment From Ebay

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), a global commerce leader, and Flipkart, a leading eCommerce company in India, have agreed to jointly pursue eCommerce opportunities in the Indian market. In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay will make a $500 million cash investment in and sell its eBay.in business to Flipkart. Flipkart will own and operate the eBay.in business upon the close of the transaction. eBay and Flipkart have also entered into an exclusive agreement in which they will jointly pursue cross-border trade opportunities to make eBay's global inventory accessible to more India consumers, while eBay's millions of active buyers globally will have access to more unique Indian inventory provided by Flipkart. "The combination of eBay's position as a leading global eCommerce company...

Hyderabad Based Startup Smartron Raise Rs 250 Crore

8Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Hyderabad Based Startup Smartron Raise Rs 250 Crore

Technology company Smartron today said it will raise up to Rs 250 crore more and plans to more than double its workforce over the next 18 months. Smartron, a Hyderabad-based start-up today celebrated its first anniversary of the public launch and introduction of tbook, tphone, and ttab devices and tronxIoT platform. The day also marked the expansion of the R&D and other operations with the opening of the new corporate headquarters located in Gachibowli here, which was inaugurated by Telangana’s IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao. Smartron Founder and Chairman Mahesh Lingareddy said "this expansion is a step towards building a stronger base to support the R&D and innovation to create a smart product ecosystem." Smartron, in the last two years, went from inception to 200 plus team...

Paytm Steps In Healthcare Domain, Invested in Startup

7Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Paytm Steps In Healthcare Domain, Invested in Startup

Paytm, India's leading mobile payment company has invested in healthcare startup QorQI. The funding amount has been undisclosed. The startup offers a solution that gives doctors access to patient’s health and clinical data at the touch of a button. The startup aims to use AI and big data to improve productivity and care quality of doctors and help patients manage their health and existing ailments better. Commenting on the funding, QorQl’s Sanjay Singh said, “QorQL is pursuing the vision to democratise healthcare access. Our connected health applications are leveraging AI and big data to collect, integrate and interpret data for all users. This not only helps us solve tough problems but also helps our users stay healthy.” “Paytm’s investment in QorQl is a huge endorsement of our prod...

Challenge for Startups to Get Series C & Beyond Funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan

7Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Challenge for Startups to Get Series C & Beyond Funding: Kris Gopalakrishnan

Securing series C and beyond funding is a challenge for start-ups, Information Technology veteran Kris Gopalakrishnan said as he called for a simple, orderly and fast-track mechanism to shut failed businesses. The start-ups scenario in India is pretty good but when those firms go for series C and beyond funding, there are some challenges, the co-founder and former CEO of Infosys said. "But at the seed stage or series A (funding), there is still money available; good ideas will get funded and there are lot of opportunities for innovation and new startups in the area of financial services, healthcare, niche retail and deeper technologies, converting research into new products and new businesses," Gopalakrishnan told Pixr8 here. "So, there are significant opportunities still (to tap in t...

IIT Bombay incubated Startup Raises 2 Crore

6Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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IIT Bombay incubated Startup Raises 2 Crore

Nanosniff Technologies, an IIT Bombay incubated company, has raised Rs 2 crore (about USD 300,000) from 1Crowd and its investor community. Nanosniff is a deep technology company working on high impact offerings in MEMS domain with applications in healthcare and security markets. "Nanosniff is an exemplary case where genuine IP has been created from robust R&D to address healthcare and security markets," 1Crowd co-founder Anil Gudibande said in a statement. It had previously raised an undisclosed amount from a group of angel investors.