India’s startups
in April 2019
Today’s startup news: on LinkedIn, on Twitter and on Facebook
- India: An intro to Tattvan, telemedicine healthcare clinic aims to transform healthcare services in remote regions
- India: Government departments reportedly endorse idea of a complete ban on all types of cryptocurrency
- India: EnKash B2B payments startup raises $3M
- India: ZestMoney fintech startup secures $20M to help consumers with no credit history get a loan
- India: Mobile Premier League e-sports startup secures US$35.5M in part from Indonesia’s Go-Ventures, Go-Jek VC arm
- India: Silicon Road Accelerator launches 4-month program focusing on food and retail tech in Mysuru, funded by US VC and France’s Numa
- India: Bengaluru Fintech Summit set for May 30-31
- India: China’s Bytedance, parent firm of recently-banned TikTok short-video app, reportedly still aiming to invest $1BN in India over 3 years
- India: A look at how the city of Bangalore is developing towards being the Silicon Valley of India
- India: An intro to Anthill Studio, accelerator focusing on media tech startups
- India: Central bank fintech sandbox bars cryptocurrency startups from participation
- India: MyHealthCare raises $3M with integrated digital healthcare tech platform
- India: An intro to SportsFlashes, focusing on original audio programming and claiming world’s largest online radio programming for sports
- The Machine Conference for analytics and data science leaders set for 24th May in India, and 31st May in Singapore
- India: Neewee Analytics raises $4M to aid manufacturing businesses with digitizing systems and processes
- Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi to back startups and research scholars in deep tech
- India: An intro to the country’s female entrepreneurs tapping AI to disrupt fashion ecommerce
- India: Kuvera fintech lands $4.5M with zero-fee mutual fund investment platform
- India takes top-2 position globally on digital adoption across numerous measures
- India: Tripoto travel portal raises $3.6M with sights on vernacular content, short video and influencer commerce
- India: An intro to Wellthy, chatbot-driven diabetes management app startup
- India: Japan’s Incubate Fund to raise new $27M vehicle to invest in early-and-seed stage Indian startups
- India: CureFit health and fitness startup to launch incubator for healthy food startups
- National Payments Corporation of India considering blockchain tech to increase strength of digital transactions
- India: Datacultr IoT middleware startup lands award from Gov’t of Haryana
- India: Digitisation projected to create 65M jobs by 2025 – but redeployment may affect 40M
- India: BigThinx Lyflike app helps shoppers using 3D avatars
- India: BlackBuck logistics startup secures near $80M with network spanning 2000 villages
- A brief intro to the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs in India’s North East
- India: Shuttl app-based office bus aggregator raises $7M on back of 60K rides per day
- India: Vedantu e-learning platform for online and live one-on-one tutoring secures $5M
- Japan’s Incubate Fund India to launch $27M startup fund
- India: Federal Bank partners Ripple for blockchain-based cross-border payments
- An in-depth look at how India aims to harness AI for healthcare
- India: Intello Labs agritech secures $2M backing with image-based AI solution for quality assessment of agricultural produce
- India: Healofy women-focused health network secures $8M from China’s BabyTree Group and BAce Capital, and Omidyar Network India social impact fund
- India: Rebel ‘cloud kitchen’ startup, and Mobile Premier League gaming firm reportedly to gain backing from Indonesia’s GOJEK ride-hailing giant
- Japan: India’s Oyo announces joint venture with SoftBank to launch hotel business
- Kazakhstan considers implementing the startup listing platform and support offered by Bombay Stock Exchange
- Sequoia unveils Surge accelerator’s first startup cohort for India and Southeast Asia
