Tech News: India
In September 2019
- India: Telecom Minister announces that 5G spectrum auction will be conducted this year-end or early next year
- India: Government launches CHC Farm Machinery app to aid farmers with connecting to machinery available to hire within 50km of their location
- ICYMI: The 10 shortlisted Indian AI startups selected for the Facebook India Innovation Accelerator
- India: Google to expand AI-driven flood prediction to cover more than 11000 square kilometers along the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers
- India: Google to establish AI research hub in Bengaluru, focusing on educatino, agriculture and healthcare sectors
- China’s UCWeb to launch e-commerce service in India, focusing on content platforms to build on browser’s 120K bloggers and 700 media outlet partners
- India: AttainU online platform offering live tuition courses gains angel investment focusing on the post-college tuition market
- India: A look at AWS EdStart program, aiming to help build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on AWS Cloud
- Indian government outlines ambitious targets to push electric vehicles adoption: By 2023, all 3-wheelers to run on batteries; by 2025, most 2-wheelers
- India: 11 ways technology is transforming the country’s dairy industry
- India: LenDenClub online P2P lender raises $1M pre-A with focus on small-ticket loans and coverage of 150 cities
- India: BharatPe raises $50M to help merchants accept digital payments, and to provide access to working capital
- India: An intro to ToneTag, backed by Amazon and using sound waves to drive digital payments for nearly 52M customers to date
- India: Groww, investment app aimed at millennial, raises $21.4M, offering every fund currently available in the country
- India: An intro to 4 women entrepreneurs in India’s burgeoning online gaming space
- India: Dream11 online fantasy gaming startup reportedly in talks around $500M fundraise, aiming for 100M platform users by year-end
- India: SoStronk e-sports gaming startup gains funding with platform approach
- India: A brief intro to 6 of Delhi’s startups, working on health-tech, transport, co-living and more
- India: Digi-Prex online subscription pharmacy secures $5.5M serving patients with chronic diseases via WhatsApp
- India: Advantage Club employee rewards and recognition platform raises $1M pre-A funding
- India: An intro to 5 of Hyderabad’s startups, working on robotics, CX, HR tech and more
- India’s Aquaconnect wins Indonesian award for AI-driven shrimp farming tool used to identify disease
- India: Bharti Airtel, telecoms major with 18-country presence, sets sights on building Internet of Things ecosystem, initially focusing on the auto sector
- India installed more mobile apps in 2019 than any other country, accounting for 4.5BN app installs in the first quarter alone…
- India: Qdesq gains funding with digital platform allowing companies to transact workspaces and offices, currently listing 500K desk in real-time in 35 cities
- India: An intro to 5 of Delhi’s startups which raised funding from angel investors via the recent India Accelerator Demo Day
- India: A quick intro to 5 startups from Pune, working on blockchain, wellbeing, the sharing economy and more
- India: Zomato app-based food delivery startup launches Zomato Originals video streaming
- India: An overview of Vizag’s startup ecosystem and its moves to compete with other regional hubs
- India: Karnataka Government to boost startups in the state’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities, aiming to also involve industry and academia
- India: Karnataka Innovation Authority to be launched by State Gov’t to focus technology and startup efforts on Tier 2 cities
- India: A collection of just some of the country’s tech startup funding news from the month past, via Startup News Asia
- India: An intro to 7 of Mumbai’s tech startups, working on edtech, IoT, e-commerce and more
- India: Global Startup Awards to run India leg for the first time, building on 60-country presence
- An overview of Surge, Sequoia India’s rapid scale-up program for early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia
- India: “Even if the Automated Facial Recognition System is perfectly accurate, it is still…contrary to our fundamental rights and principles of criminal justice”
- India: Government to open bidding to build a system to centralize facial recognition data drawn from surveillance cameras, raising alarm due to lack of data privacy laws
- India today has the lowest data prices worldwide, the highest monthly data usage per smartphone, the lowest cost payments rails and the lowest cost of KYC
- India: Huddle Kerala tech startup conference set for 27-28 September, featuring expo, pitch event and more
- India: Bengaluru Tech Summit set for November 18-20, featuring conference, expo, awards and more
- Thailand’s Whizdom Club enters India to build ‘inspiration hubs’ aimed at startups, students and young professionals
- India: T-Hub startup incubator partners LetsVenture early-stage venture capital firm to launch 3-month T-Angel funding and acceleration program
- $1BN Addition fund preps for launch, to focus on startups in India and in South-East Asia
- India: Kae Capital seed-stage investor in talks to raise up to $60M for 3rd fund, aiming for cheque sizes of around $1M
- All India Council for Robotics and Automation launches new initiative, AICRA Tech Startup Programme, aiming to boost sector entrepreneurship
- A quick look at how women entrepreneurs are changing Indian society
- India: An overview of the 10th edition of YourStory TechSparks startup conference, set for October 11-12 in Bengaluru
- India: Onco online aggregator for cancer care raises $7M
- India: China’s Oppo signs MoU with Kerala Gov’t to boost startup and mobile tech ecosystems
- India: Facebook eyes investments in India’s tech startups, with Twitter also considering
- India: An intro to PayNearby, hyperlocal fintech enabling retailers at the first mile to provided financial and non-financial services digitally
- India: An intro to 10 speakers presenting at the YourStory TechSparks conference in Bengaluru, October 11-12
