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With a fresh $106 million fund under its belt, Inventus to place bigger bets...
Inventus Capital Partners, early-stage investment firm based in Bangalore and California, has raised a second fund of $106 million, and plans to make bigger investments on India-related startups. “We...
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How to stay organized when you’re running a startup
Files lie strewn across, a coffee mug jostles for space with a laptop that is perched at a precarious angle on the desk; a cell phone lies hidden below a pile of papers as a guy works frantically on...
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Girish Mathrubootham’s pugnacity
Girish Mathrubootham & Shan Krishnasamy Girish Matrubootham doesn’t mince words. Hailing from Chennai, Girish has went on to build a flourishing business in Freshdesk. An online customer support...
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[Jobs Roundup] Freecharge, ixigo, DateIITians, Vakilsearch and many more are...
The first month of the year has brought many reasons to be happy for the job seekers. There are multiple openings in companies like NowFloats & DateIITians whereas Freecharge, Vakilsearch, iXiGo...
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CommonFloor bags INR 64 crores in Series D funding from Tiger Global, Accel...
Real estate portal CommonFloor have raised Rs. 64 crores in a new round of funding from existing investors, Accel India and Tiger Global. Investors Tiger Global led the round. CommonFloor plans to...
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GSF alumnus Gingr lets you chat with restaurants, now expands to include salons
At his age, Himanshu Bamoria has seen a lot in the startup world– co-founder splits, accelerator stint, a complete pivot, acquisition offers, raising a funding round– and all this within three years....
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MineWhat ready to go live with app for smarter online shopping
When consumers go shopping today to a store, they get personal attention to their needs. They are provided with choices that suit them and the assistance they can rely on to make a choice. Indian...
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The report of my death was an exaggeration, Freshdesk tells Forbes & Microsoft
Cash-rich companies like Microsoft have an easy way to get new ideas and talent: acquire smaller, more innovative companies. But when a big company acquires a startup, what happens to other startups in...
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Golftripz offers a heady cocktail of golf and travel
That golf can make men passionate, is a known fact, but when combined with entrepreneurship it can prove to be a double whammy, as illustrated in the case of Madhav, Ajit and Jogi, founders of...
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Myntra hosts Asia’s first Shoppable Hangout with Google Plus and Hrithik Roshan
Myntra, one of the biggest e-commerce websites in India, hosted Asia’s first Shoppable Hangout today along with Google Plus and Hrithik Roshan, who was promoting his brand HRX. Hrithik Roshan has...
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How Akshay Modi turned around the family business with Modi Naturals
An industrialist family from a small town sends its scion to study abroad to a prestigious foreign university. He comes back, his head brimming with ideas and takes the family business to a new level....
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Five Mobile Backend Players to Watch in 2014
Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) is one of the fastest growing cloud services delivery model. Last year, we saw two major players, Parse and StackMob getting acquired by Facebook and PayPal...
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LUVWater: Building a self-sustaining water purification product using UV light
Availability of clean drinking water is a big problem in many areas throughout the world. Around 3.5 million people in the world die each year from water related diseases and 780 million people lack...
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Mumbai-based Grabhouse secures seed investment, plans to foray in Pune
Mumbai-based Grabhouse, the first online roommate search engine which helps people find compatible roommates, has raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from early-stage investment firm India...
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How Smart Vehicles will change the way we travel in future
Sophisticated technologies bring in a slew of both tactic as well as strategic transitions in our professional as well as personal lives. In this article, I have detailed how the latest technologies...
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Kartik Mandaville, coder, product developer from the other MIT [Techie Tuesdays]
“This was back in 2010. I was playing Age of Empires with my friends at the college hostel and in the middle of the game I got a call from an unknown number. My friends told me to reject the call, but...
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What Dhoni can learn from Einstein
Ravichander Ashwin has taken just one wicket in the last four ODIs at a cost of 221 runs. Ravindra Jadeja has similar returns: two wickets in four ODIs for 200 runs. In other words, the two Indian...
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You won’t miss medicines anymore with Israel’s Medisafe app
Israel’s MediSafe Project is a cloud-based app that monitors an individual’s medicine intake to prevent potentially fatal incidences of under-dosing or overdosing. MediSafe is a graduate of Microsoft’s...
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A team of Ivy League and IIM grads launch Properji to help property buyers
Two years ago, Ivy League graduate Priya Maheshwari re-located from the Bay Area, California, to Bangalore. One of the first things she had on her mind was to buy a house. However, there were only...
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BRIC throws open its gates to startups
Last evening, BSE Institute(BIL) signed an MOU with Fraser Simon University (Canada) and Ryerson Incubation Center of Excellence to set up an incubator in the Bombay Stock Exchange premises. The...
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