Tech news
07/2016
- India’s Portea Medical scouts acquisitions, planning foray into SEA
- India: Fashion e-commerce platform Voonik raises $3 million
- Angel investment in Indian startups hits 5-year high
- Central India gains its first angel investment platform, SAN
- Ahmedabad startup gets $12.5k pre-launch for performance sportswear
- India’s Distiman in talks to raise $5m funding for on-demand stock procurement
- India’s My Home Group plans $75m fund to invest in startups
- India: Karnataka state partners IBM, Amazon to boost startups
- Delhi’s agriculture supply chain startup Lemon Leaf lands funding
- India: EVC Ventures backs student deals platform BigDeal
- India: used books marketplace AbeRuk lands funding from HK firm
- India: Ford and Sequoia invest $25m in rental startup Zoomcar
- NinjaCart aims to solve India’s farmer problems with data and tech
- IFC to invest $15m equity in Indian edtech Byju
- India’s Treebo, tech-enabled budget hotel chain franchise, lands funding
- India’s Skrilo mobile mktg startup gets $1.5M in funding
- India: Applop, 5-minute mobile app creation startup, lands funding
- India’s furniture rental startup RentoMojo lands $5m
- India’s SIDBI picks 8 VC funds to invest in startups
- India: Wide gender gap persists for internet, mobile use
- India: Cityfurnish and Tripshelf both land funding
- India: sports-focused healthcare startup, HEAL Institute, lands funding
- India’s Google Launchpad alumni, ShareChat, lands $1.35 million
- India’s food startup Twigly raises $600K to expand ‘cloud kitchen’ business
- Looking to break into Bollywood? TalentNext will connect you
- A look at Curofy, India’s online community for verified doctors
- India’s management tech startup SirionLabs raises $12.25m
- India’s SmartKarma aims to be ‘Spotify for investment research’
- India: Purplle, online marketplace for beauty products and services, raises $6m
- Bangalore’s Kyron accelerator raising $3m to widen startup investments
- Y Combinator inducts 3 Indian startups in its programme
- India’s SavvyMob sets sights on last-minute hotel bookings
- India: Quickli gains 500 Startups and Asia Ventures Group funding
- India: Mobile purchasing expected to hit 70% of digital purchases by 2020
- Infographics: India’s 15 top-funded startups
- India: IIM-A incubator’s $150m innovations fund to look beyond cleantech
- InnoVen Capital India extends $12m debt to 8 startups in Q1
- UK aims to attract Indian startups with Tech Rocketships award
- The Economic Times Startup Awards 2016: Jury and categories
- InnoVen Capital closes deals with startups Xpressbees, Housejoy, Stayzilla
- Fulfil.IO gains funding from Google India MD
- In India: Incubator T-Hub plans VC fund; WeddingWishlist raises $300K
- Five startups tackling social problems in India
- Pappco India startup: sugarcane, bamboo, wheat straw into disposable cutlery
- Societe Generale launches India accelerator focused on AI, big data
- A look at India’s Artificial Intelligence startup wave
- Bangalore’s BlogBeats platform raises early-stage funding
- Bangalore fintech startup Scripbox raises funding
- India: HR startup Darwinbox, video discovery platform PressPlay TV land funds
- India: Mastercard invests in Razorpay startup
- India’s seed investment platform Venture Catalysts raises $500k
- India’s Eckovation using AI to make open school platform smarter
- Cisco rolls out startup initiative LaunchPad in India
- India’s LiveHealth aims to expand in SE Asia and Middle East
- AVTEG aims to give Australia an opening to the Indian VET sector
- India: GHV Accelerator partners Japanese VCs for US$52M startup fund
- IFMR Investment Mgrs raises $15m targeting microfinance
- NASSCOM launches India’s first IoT Centre of Excellence
- China’s startup ecosystem vs India’s- more similarities than differences
