Capital Float raises $22 million equity funding from Amazon
Bengaluru based digital lender Capital Float has raised $22 million in equity funding from e-commerce giant Amazon. The latest fund raise has taken up...
True Balance raises $23 million in Series B2 funding!
Digital wallet and financial services platform True Balance has raised $23 million in a Series B2 funding from a number of international investors including...
Ola to add 10,000 electric three-wheelers to its fleet under ‘Mission: Electric’
Indian taxi-hailing company Ola, has today announced its "Mission: Electric", under which it has committed to adding 10,000 e-rickshaws and electric auto-rickshaws in its...
Why India banned Crypto-Exchanges – An entrepreneur recounts his own story….
By Manish Kumar, cofounder of Grex.in
Here 's a little context from my journey – similar to the crypto exchanges but not same...
About two and...
Ideal Insurance raises $1 million led by Venture Catalysts
Insurance management startup Ideal Insurance has raised about US $1 million led by Venture Catalysts in its seed round of funding. A number of...
India’s TravelTriangle raises USD 11 mn funding led by Fundamentum
Indian online travel platform, TravelTriangle, has announced that it has raised about USD 11 mn in series C funding led by Nandan Nilekani and...
Why big companies should fear startups
On a tour of a young food startup trying to disrupt the home tiffin service and a young budget room aggregation brand, one gets...
Why Uber, Ola may be responsible for traffic mess in our cities
Safer and more connected public transit along with a regulation on taxi apps is the need of hour than addition of more taxis on...
Fake goods: Why foreign investors are turning a blind eye to counterfeit e-commerce
As more Indians are expected to shift their daily shopping to the online world, stringent laws will ensure their trust in e-commerce.
By Harsimran Julka
It’s...
COMMENT: How robots, chatbots will change the way you handle your money
The future of payments will be like a sci-fi movie where NFC and facial recognition will enable payments. Currency notes will become a thing...
Paytm deal puts Softbank’s Son on course to become king of Indian e-commerce
Softbank's USD 1.4 billion investment for a 20% stake in Paytm could open a plethora of opportunities for the Noida-headquartered mobile payments and commerce...
Here are 10 ways to become a better salesman
By Harsimran Julka
While working in Singapore with India’s largest software outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services, Shankar G discovered that there was no proper mechanism...
An Uber ride during Diwali and what I learnt about apps that can’t be...
By Harsimran Julka
This is Diwali season in India – the festival of lights, gifts, and joy, when migrants from all over come back home....
Oyo vs Zo Rooms: A forced startup marriage is never a happy one, VC...
By Harsimran Julka
It was an office in Delhi’s dusty Okhla industrial area with walls painted in graffiti and a few employees dozing off in...
