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TechStars graduate Shippable raises $2 million in seed funding
(L to R) Avi Cavale, Manisha Sahasrabudhe, Devashish Meena Shippable is a cloud based ALM service focused on helping developers ship code faster. The company was founded by Avi Cavale and Manisha...
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Paxata takes the pain out of preparing data for business intelligence
Prakash Nanduri Companies wanting to use data to understand their markets, customers, and business now have a number of agile business intelligence tools available to them. But while there is no...
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India in the middle of an energy trilemma: Ranked 54 in growth, 98 in access,...
How to fuel economic growth with better access to energy in a sustainable way is the trilemma that India and other nations face. And to track how they are doing on all three fronts — growth, access and...
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Two IITians on a mission to optimize energy efficiency in manufacturing...
To help startups, especially in the manufacturing sector, with tangible improvements in production, process and energy efficiency, Bangalore-based Magnetworks offers end-to-end hardware and software...
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Trade virtually and track influencers with Bobby Bhatia’s TrakInvest
Bobby Bhatia was a prodigal student. Born in India and brought up in Kuwait, at 16 he was a participant of Young Scholar’s Program at Stanford and subsequently earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Duke...
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Mentha Technologies: The makers of a Parking Lot Solution with NFC enabled...
Mentha Technologies is a Bangalore-based company founded in April 2011 by three professionals, Ramesh Ponnuru, Makam Nagendra and Ramesh Senthuraman. Together they have more than 70 years of experience...
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The Tehelka Effect
Starting this Friday YourStory brings you a weekly column It’s Official by Bangalore-based author Shinie Antony. Stand by for some hot gossip on office politics, workplace wars, professional rivalries....
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Uber: Easy and classy way to get around Hyderabad
Since the time of the Nizams, Hyderabad took pride in its luxury cars. Today, you do not have to be a royal to ride in one. All you need is a smart phone with the Uber app and you are set for a...
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Don’t reinvent the flat tire, paint your own masterpiece: Bill Aulet
Bill Aulet Bill Aulet is the author of ‘Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup’. He is the managing director at the Martin Trust Centre for Entrepreneurship at MIT and also a...
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Is attracting talent for startups tough in India?
Entrepreneurship is the latest buzz word. However, to run a startup efficiently, one requires strong passion, conviction, perseverance and determination. I have been close to startup ecosystems for...
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YourStory at LeWeb 2013, a ringside view of the conference
LeWeb is one of the most popular international conference for startups and web entrepreneurs. Touted as the place where ‘revolutionaries gather to plot the future’, the just-concluded LeWeb in Paris...
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From Subroto Bagchi: Six ways to scale
Growth is unidimensional, scale is multidimensional. This is something that is vital for entrepreneurs to understand, according to Subroto Bagchi, entrepreneur extraordinaire, best known for...
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Presenting MobileSparks 2013 startups
MobileSparks is the talk of the day in India. It is India’s first Mobile Innovation Discovery Platform and we had 11 innovative mobile startups demo their offerings on 14 December 2013. Here’s is the...
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CultureAlley launches app to learn languages while you’re on Twitter
CultureAlley, the young and hugely popular web-based way to learn languages, launched its iOS app today (14 December 2013) at Mobile Sparks. Since its inception a year ago, they have taught Spanish and...
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[YS Lounge] Making the most of elephant poop- Haathi Chaap
One usually lands upon best of the stories when not looking for them. In Dharamasala, I was talking to a couple who were about to startup their business in fair trade for which they were moving to the...
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[Jobs Roundup] Egghead Creative, Rapid Value, Harness Handitouch and many...
Yesterday, at MobileSparks, all talks were about mobile startups. Eleven innovative & emerging mobile startups demoed at the event. Subroto Bagchi’s splendid session on scaling up was the talk of...
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FindYahan: Location based discovery platform primarily for C2C services
Location has always provided entrepreneurs with interesting opportunities and we also ran an entire series decoding LBS. Combining this with the huge market of individuals seeking and providing...
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Acquisition and collaboration are Getit Infomedia’s new mantra to target...
Earlier this year, Infomedia Yellow Pages, Askme and Getit joined hands to form a unified operation to cater to SMEs. The combined entity referred to as ‘Getit Infomedia’ is now in a position to...
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Sachin Tendulkar’s shadow over the South Africa tour
We sent a team to South Africa two days before an ODI series, to face the world’s toughest pace bowling attack, and sniggered when they cut a sorry figure. Even the two-day gaps between games were...
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Cab service and Hardware: Unusual trends in Indian startups
In the past couple of years, startup activities in India are getting an unusual focus. What was predicted to be “dead on arrival” has become “rock star”. Everyone said “when eBay and Amazon are...
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