February 26th, 2018Apollo Hospitals announced a seed fund for healthcare startups in India. The announcement came at the 15th edition of Bio Asia 2018 – Asia’s biggest life sciences and healthcare conference, held in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals in an interview with Telangana today said, "The total...
February 13th, 2018Nasscom, the software industry lobby has once again expressed concern over the falling funding into indian startups and called for added focus to galvanise the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) had last November shared its concern over the taxation issues in the startup...
October 23rd, 2017With the US economy doing well, Indian IT companies can look forward to a better year in 2018 on the back of growing tech spend and demand from clients, according to senior industry figures.
Noting that the largest market for Indian IT companies is the US, former CFO of Infosys V Balakrishnan said their ability to grab growth...
October 11th, 2017One of India's unicorn, Ola, operated by ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd has confirmed that it has closed a $1.1 billion funding from Tencent Holdings, a leading Chinese internet company.
The round also saw participation from its existing investor- SoftBank Group and other new US-based financial investors. Ola also said that it is in...
October 11th, 2017Artificial Intelligence and deep learning startup ParallelDots has recently raised $1.4 million (around Rs 9.1 crore) in a fresh round of funding from its existing investor Multipoint Capital LLC.
Delaware, US and Gurgaon, India based AI startup was founded in January, 2014 by Angam Parashar along with Ankit Narayan Singh and...
September 28th, 2017India’s Unicorn Internet startups Flipkart and Ola are grouping together with peers including travel portal MakeMyTrip to launch a Nasscom like industry body that will be representing their interests and aim to deal with deep pocketed rivals, and sustain their existence in one of the world’s most prized markets for digital...
August 5th, 2017The Govt of Odisha has recognized 80 startups in diverse areas, during the Second meeting of the Task Force held under the Chairmanship of Shri L.N. Gupta, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, MSME.
During the meeting the Task Force was also informed about the 32 more startups applications which are under the process, by Dr Samarendra...
February 19th, 2017Automation and the new US administration were the big unknowns at the Indian tech sector's annual shindig this week, with machines threatening to take away thousands of jobs and concerns over possible visa rule changes in the key American market.
But senior executives from the USD 150 billion industry, which rose to prominence at the...
February 15th, 2017Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, who is betting big on data-driven telecom with his Jio Infocomm, today described the digital play sweeping the world as the fourth industrial revolution and said data is the "new oil".
"The foundation of the fourth industrial revolution is connectivity and data. Data is the new natural...
December 28th, 2016Nasscom, telecom operators, and NITI Aayog have come together in creating a dedicated helpline 14444 for addressing all queries on digitial payments, as government takes strides to push for more digital transactions post demonetisation.
After the fourth meeting of the Committee of Chief Ministers on digital payments, Convenor and...
October 24th, 2016The last year has been a landmark year for startups in India. As per the Nasscom report, India ranks third among global startup ecosystems with more than 4,200 new-age companies. Aimed at supporting this growth, thinQbate, a new thinking incubator launched in Mumbai today.
Based on a community and entrepreneur first approach to angel...