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Picsart Raises $130 Million at More Than $1 Billion Valuation
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Picsart Raises $130 Million at More Than $1 Billion Valuation

SAN FRANCISCO, 1st Oct 2021-- Picsart, the world’s largest creative platform has raised $130 million in Series C funding. The round was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 with participation from new investors G Squared and Tribe Capital, as well as existing investors Sequoia, DCM, Graph Ventures, and Siguler Guf & Company. With over $100 million in annual revenue run rate, Picsart is now valued at over $1 billion. The company has raised a total of $195 million in capital since its founding. “Picsart is powering visual culture and breaking barriers between inspiration and creativity,” said Hovhannes Avoyan, Picsart’s founder and CEO. “We want to make the world more creative and have users in every country of the world designing, remixing, editing, and sharing on Picsart and beyond. This a...
6 Low Cost Marketing Techniques To Boost Your Business
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6 Low Cost Marketing Techniques To Boost Your Business

As an entrepreneur, you have to wear many different hats and juggle many priorities at once you’re handling product development, sales, and of course, marketing. It’s no piece of cake and requires you to divide your already limited resources in a smart way that helps you optimize product quality and product reach.  Developing the perfect product only to have it remain unused because no one knows about it hardly sounds like an ideal outcome. Hence, the end goal of getting new customers should be somewhere at the top of your list. In order to achieve it successfully, you need an effective marketing plan: you must launch big and promote tirelessly to establish your brand identity. But you can’t spend all your time and budget on marketing either so you’re always looking for ways to cut...
5 Best Online Tools for Startups and SME’S To Increase Productivity
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5 Best Online Tools for Startups and SME’S To Increase Productivity

In our fast-paced changing lives surrounded by technology "all-around", competition to excel is enormous. A strong online presence today is not only a "norm" rather a "necessity". Any budding startup or small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) today requires a strong online presence not only for marketing or expanding its customer base but also to embark on a journey that could bring in brand value and recognition. Launching a startup is surely a demanding task! Yet, starting is not as difficult as most people make it appear so. There could be absolutely no better time starting a company owing to the modern fast-paced lives we are living today. The competition today is "massive", but so are the resources! While the Internet does not provide any space for procrastination, it does offer ...
India’s First Curated Wellness Advisory Marketplace, ZingUpLife is Disrupting the Traditional Wellness Services Consumption Model
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India’s First Curated Wellness Advisory Marketplace, ZingUpLife is Disrupting the Traditional Wellness Services Consumption Model

Personal wellbeing has, for many decades in India, been linked with the absence of illness. Treating and preventing illness has been the focus of our organized healthcare industry and consumer behaviour has also modelled itself around this reactive framework. The few online health and fitness platforms available are also built around the directory model, where consumers discover services and access them online or offline. Now a Bangalore based young start-up is quietly changing this entire paradigm of health and wellness services consumption in the country. Focusing first on self-discovery of an individual’s wellness status using a battery of first-in-class online tools, ZingUpLife builds an incremental model of wellness consumption that emphasizes on empowering the consumer through in...
Startups Promotion with Internet Marketing in 2015 by Sunita Biddu
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Startups Promotion with Internet Marketing in 2015 by Sunita Biddu

With over 243 billion Internet users and 14% growth in 2014, India not only makes the third largest user base in the world but also drove dramatic revolution in business practices and economy. When it comes down to the business world, startups are the closest entities that can benefit the most from this bustling impact of online revolution. There are several startup companies which have turned their small ideas into super revenues by the amazing use of Internet marketing, for example advertising on facebook or other social media platforms. To name a few; Chumbak, Freecharge.in, UrbanLadder, DelhiPedia and more.. So, I am writing this post to share some ideas on how Indian startups can expand using Internet at the fullest. You will be reading what 2015 has in pipeline and what start...