India’s Startup news
India’s tech and startup news in February 20201 touched on items across a wide range of subjects: Technology in sports, electric vehicles, micro-blogging, blockchain-based digital art, digital banking and, of course, recent government moves to control cryptocurrency trading.
Listed items below are India’s tech and startup news headlines; each headline links our readers to a free-to-read, online article for that headline, available to read in full, online. Using this method, Startup News Asia’s readers get 2 things immediately:
- an at-a-glance grasp of India’s tech and startup developments for the month, February 2021; and
- one-click access to full background on the Indian tech news that interests you most.
Technology news: February 2021
Artificial intelligence | Blockchain | Cryptocurrency
Cybersecurity | FinTech
- India: A look at Spektacom’s IoT stickers for cricket bats, allowing users and coaches to track the power of shots and focus improvements
- India: A look at Agribazaar, agritech startup connecting farmers, traders, banks, enterprises and governments to facilitate sales and logistics
- India: Legislation coming to ‘prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India’ but allow ‘for certain exceptions to promote the underlying technology of cryptocurrency and its uses’
- India: “If the bill becomes law, India would become the only major Asian economy to ban private cryptocurrencies rather than regulating them like corporate stocks.”
- India: A brief intro to StanceBeam, bringing AI and IoT to cricket to improve performance with data
- India: A round-up of the past month’s tech, startup and funding news headlines from Startup News Asia
- India: MediBuddy healthtech startup gains Series B funding with platform offering doctor consultations, home-based test bookings, medicine delivery and more
- The 6 startups from Asia on Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch, from India, Singapore and The Philippines
- India: Gov’t threatens fines and jail for Twitter employees following company restoring hundreds of accounts gov’t had ordered blocked
- India: 30 recent tech, startup and funding news headlines from India, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily feeds
- India: InnerHour raises $5.2M Series A with tech focus on mental health, aiming to address lack of service access and awareness, affordability and variable quality of providers
- ICYMI: PayPal to shut down domestic payments business in India, less than 4 years after launching locally
- India: Earth Energy EV startup launches 3 electric 2-wheelers, incorporating app providing navigation, calls/message alerts and more, and 3rd party usage model
- India: Finals of Global Student Entrepreneur Awards 2021 for student entrepreneurs to be held from February 11 to 13
- India: Koo microblogging app raises $4M with Twitter-like platform operating in 13 Indian languages
- India: 2021 Budget includes provisions to extend social security benefits to gig workers and platform workers, along with capital gains exemption increase for startups
- India: Phable health-tech startup raises $12M with full-stack solution focusing on patients dealing with chronic illnesses
- Download: India’s Innovation Ecosystem – Mapping the Trends, via Observer Research Foundation
- India: Dunzo hyperlocal courier startup raises $40M from Google and others with focus on nearby stores and pick-up-and-drop-off errands
- India: India Quotient early-stage investor launches 4th fund, targeting at least $80M and looking at a range of tech spaces
- India: Eupheus Learning raises $4.1M Series B with subscription-based curriculum and homework tracking services for schools and Learn2Code home learning system
- India: An intro to SynqFit, offering a cycling workout-from-home with a high-end indoor cycle and on-demand classes
- India: Pencil content platform raises $1M pre-Series A with online publishing for book authors, providing data insights and potential to convert to video content
- India: Lobby groups Global Impact FinTech and Government Blockchain Association press for a light touch from gov’t on blockchain industry regulation
- India: A video snapshot of 16 recent tech, startup and VC news headlines from India, QR coded to connect to the articles behind each headline
- India: An intro to 5 urban farming startups, working in hydroponics, vertical farming and more
- India: Researchers testing 30 mobile health apps for clinicians found all had vulnerable APIs, potentially leaving 23M app users vulnerable
- India: A brief intro to Saankhya Labs, heading for launch of an open architecture chip in push into Open RAN – Open Radio Access Networks – for 5G
- India: Startup Weekend Online Chennai set for February 26-28
- India: 35 B2B startups gain shortlisting for the Startup Bridge Canada program, landing a 6-week market access program and a 3-months market bootcamp
- India: An intro to Vegandukan, online aggregator focused on plant-based food, mock meats, and dairy alternatives for vegan consumers
- Download: Internet of Things – The rise of the connected world, from Deloitte and focusing on India (pdf)
- Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association survey reckons micro VC firms invested $341M in 566 startups across 730 deals between 2018 and 2020
- India: Kalamint, blockchain-based digital art marketplace, gains backing from Tim Draper’s DGH and others with Tezos-based Non-Fungible Token platform
- ICYMI: Sweden-India Mobility Hackathon to run February 26-28, aiming to design, test and execute ideas for the future of mobility
- An overview of how Indian crypto businesses are coordinating in an effort to convince the government that regulation is better than the all-out ban proposed
- India: An overview of the recent Innopreneurs Startup Contest and the startups and ideas that won
- Download: The Startup Environment And Funding Activity In India, from the Asian Development Bank Institute (pdf)
- A brief overview of India’s strict new rules for policing social media and streaming platforms
- An intro to India’s Zolve, neobank and branchless digital banking service provider, bridging financial systems for people moving to a difference country
- ICYMI: Indian Newspaper Society asks Google to raise publisher share in ad revenue to 85%, stating content generated by newspapers is proprietary
- India: Government-owned State Bank of India becomes the first Indian bank to join JPMorgan’s blockchain network, Liink, for cross-border payments
- ICYMI: A brief mention for the 25 winners of the recent UNWTO SDGs Global Startup Competition, including startups from Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong
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