India’s startup news headlines in October 2020
The India tech startup headlines listed here were drawn from online media coverage of India’s tech, startup and funding news items in October 2020.
Each Indian startup news headline listed links you to the news article behind that headline, giving you an at-a-glance overview of India’s startup scene in October 2020, whilst also allowing readers to instantly click through to read the news articles that interest them the most.
India-focused startup news headlines listed deliver a broad overview of India’s startup news; subjects cover anything from an Indian startup gaining funding, to a tech development relevant to India generally, and items might focus on anything relevant – cryptocurrency, datasecurity, legislation or, simply, an introductory look at an Indian startup.
- India: GPS Renewables gains $2M with modular biogas plant and artificial intelligence solution for remote bioprocess management
- India: A collection of the past month’s tech, startup and funding news, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily feeds
- India: Defence India Startup Challenge launched, aiming for eventual self-reliance in India’s military sector
- India: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment virtual summit set for October 5-9, looking at areas including healthcare, agriculture, education and smart mobility
- India’s ETgarage partners Australia’s VeriDoc Global with blockchain-based verification solutions aimed at eliminating counterfeit products and preventing fraud
- Indian tech giants and startups reportedly working to form alliance to launch their own app platform in order to reduce reliance on Google and Apple app stores
- India: NASSCOM Startup Hub online platform – aiming to be a one-stop online location for India’s startups for news, events, incubation and more
- India: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry launch FICCI for Start-ups initiative
- India’s Tata Consultancy Services to implement Quartz blockchain-based wallets-and-rewards solution for UK’s Zapaygo, pre-order payments startup
- India: Condé Nast, media organisation behind brands including GQ and Vogue, opens technology lab in Bengaluru to design and build digital content platforms
- WeKan product accelerator unveils 20 India and US-based startups selected for Future of Work cohort
- India: Supply Chain Labs unveils 11 startups selected for Cohort 2020, working on warehousing, track and trace solutions, AI-driven automation and more
- India: SAIF Partners venture and growth capital firm plans to raise $400M for India-focused fund
- India: Tata Group reportedly in discussions with global investors to raise capital for super app, pulling its retail offerings under one umbrella, with Walmart seeking JV
- India: An intro to the winners of the National Startup Awards 2020, selected across 12 categories including fintech, agriculture, energy and health
- DevFest India set for October 16-18, bringing together 50 Google Developer Groups
- India: A brief look at CreatorOS, recently-launched platform enabling creators to build, manage and grow their businesses
- India: BIV-Ashika India Alternative Protein Fund launches with accelerator focused on supporting India’s protein replacement ecosystem with $25M corpus as initial target
- India: TechSparks conference goes virtual for 11th edition from October 26-30
- India: An intro to the winning startups from the AI Solution Challenge at the recent Responsible AI for Social Empowerment event
- India’s Tata Consultancy Services launches 10 new threat management centres across the globe to provide cybersecurity services to enterprise customers
- India: Unocoin cryptocurrency raises funds from VC Tim Draper, with sights on decentralized finance and more
- India: Gyan Circle Ventures incubator launches to provide investments, infrastructure and mentoring for tech startups and entrepreneurs in Andhra Pradesh
- India: Pepper Content raises $4.2M Series A, connecting content creators with businesses in need of marketing; aiming for expansion into video and audio
- India: A brief intro to GUVI’s HackerKID platform, aiming to teach coding to kids using a game-based environment
- India: Marwari Catalysts opens applications for first cohort for Thrive, virtual accelerator program focusing on education-tech startups
- India: Waybeo lands 10% stake investment from Bharti Airtel telco with AI analytics for call intelligence
- Critical technologies and the Indo-Pacific: A new India-Australia partnership – available to download now
- India: AvataarMe raises $7M with 3D and augmented reality platform focused on customer engagement in e-commerce
- ICYMI: Cybersecurity-focused Memorandum of Cooperation signed between India and Japan
- India: A 3-page collection of recent tech, startup and funding news headlines – linked for online reading, and QR coded for offline-to-online reading from print
- Pushing the Boundaries of Indian Tech – Women on the Frontlines report available to download now from Observer Research Foundation
- India: A look at AI startup Process9, adding localization to major apps and sites for local languages
- India: Jio and subsidiary Radisys, with Qualcomm, test 5G solution with virtualized Radio Access Network and achieve over 1Gbps speed
- India: Gov-TechThon 2020 Hackathon launches to boost innovation and tech in agriculture, education and transportation, backed by Oracle India
- India’s Tata Consultancy Services IT services major partners University of Tokyo for research, collaboration, talent exchange, innovation and startup engagement
- State-owned Indian Bank partners IIT-Madras Incubation Cell for IND Spring Board initiative to fund and advise startups
- India: TechSparks tech and startup conference 11th edition set for October 26-30, running entirely online – here’s the schedule
- India: An interview intro to Afthonia Lab fintech startup incubator and 5 of the financial tech startups approaching graduation from the program
- India: Reserve Bank bars digital payments firms from issuing proprietary QR codes in move to create interoperability between systems
- Video: TechCircle’s TechThisWeek round-up, covering India’s technology news and in this episode also looking at the Bangladesh startup ecosystem
- India: An intro to Uable, edtech helping children from age 6 to 12 learn using role-playing, solving problems by imagining themselves as astronauts, detectives or scientists
- India: Pocket FM vernacular audiobooks platform raises $5.6M, led by Tencent
- India–Australia Circular Economy Hackathon set for December 7-8, organised by India’s Atal Innovation Mission and Australia’s CSIRO and focusing on 4 broad themes
- India: A look at Easy Pay digital payments startup, connecting small kirana stores and their customers to payment options and financial services
- India: Jumbotail, B2B ecommerce platform focusing on groceries and digitizing small kirana stores, raises $11M
- India: Startups Fedo and Knight FinTech selected for Accenture FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific mentorship program
- India: A look at Godaam, startup helping warehouses prevent onion wastage using IoT sensors to monitor micro-climate changes
- Wharton India Startup Challenge applications close November 15th, with winners to present at Wharton India Economic Forum
- India: A dive into the opportunities and challenges in India’s podcasting space
- India: A look at Ziptrax Cleantech, using AI to repurpose discarded Li-ion batteries for electric two and three-wheeler vehicles
- India: Teachmint raises $3.5M with mobile-first, video-first product range focused on tutors for students and schoolchildren
- National Payments Corporation of India and Euronet fintech make joint bid to build Myanmar’s proposed real-time Retail Payments System
- An intro to the 5 startups selected for the finals of MedTech Innovator’s 2020 Asia Pacific Grand Prize
- Taxmantra Global tax and legal firm to invest $100M into tech startups in India and SE Asia across 18 months, via standalone investment arm ProfitBoard Ventures
- A brief intro to 4 of the startups set to present at the 2020 Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit from November 18-20
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