Startup news headlines below each link to articles covering India’s startup ecosystem in July 2020
Each headline below is focused on India’s startup news, and is linked to the full online article for that item. Each linked article covers a tech-focused feature of India’s startup and technology ecosystem in some way.
Items cover a range of subjects, from individual Indian startups to applications of a particular technology in India; for example, an Indian tech startup receiving funding, or the use of artificial intelligence technology in India broadly.
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- India: Across H1 2020, ed-tech startups raised $795M compared to $108M in H1 2019
- ICYMI: Indian gov’t bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, Helo and WeChat, deeming them ‘prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity…defence…security of state and public order’
- India: A video-based snapshot of the country’s tech, startup and funding news from across June 2020, providing the headlines at a glance
- India’s Zeta fintech startup expands neo-bank platform-as-a-service to The Philippines and Vietnam
- India: ChitMonks gains $650K with blockchain-based ‘chit fund’ management platform allowing regulator oversight
- India: Facebook partners Central Board of Secondary Education for certified curriculum on digital safety and online well-being, and AR for students and educators
- India: An intro to 5C Networks, using AI and ML to deliver faster and more accurate radiology scan results
- Sequoia Capital India unveils $1.35BN in new funds for India and Southeast Asia, broken into a $525M venture fund and a $825M growth fund
- India: Frontier Markets secures $2.25M pre-Series A with last-mile rural distribution built on networks of tech-enabled women agents
- Global FinTech Fest India virtual event set for July 22-23
- India: Edhusk gains funding from Mumbai Angel Network with 1-on-1 personalized learning platform
- India: Ministry of Electronics and Info Tech launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, aiming to identify and boost public-benefit apps
- India: An intro to 5 of the country’s education-tech startups helping students deal with maths anxiety
- India: A round-up of the last week’s startup funding and acquisitions news, from Inc42
- India: Tech Mahindra launches digital platform for media and entertainment industry, blockchain-based Contracts and Rights Management System
- India: Qualcomm Inc investment arm to take stake in Jio Platforms for $97.1M in part for 5G infrastructure and services presence
- India: A look at Laminar Global, building a platform to help content creators launch their own Netflix-like platform – a Shopify for video streaming
- India: $10BN Google For India Digitisation Fund launched to invest in businesses, social impact projects and gov’t digitisation efforts over 5-7 years
- India: In the next 3 years, Jio aims to connect 1/2 BN mobile customers,1BN smart sensors and 50M home and business establishments, with 5G trials starting shortly
- India: Following TikTok ban, Roposo emerges as one of its successors with new instals reaching as high as 500K an hour and expectations of 100M users by month-end
- India: A look at Ni-Varak, contactless thermometer system using mobile phone and IoT sensor, focusing on COVID-19
- India: Telangana’s T-Hub initiative joins Ministry of Electronics and Info Tech and Digital India for Scale Up program focusing on hardware and IoT startups
- India: Openapp raises $500K with IoT-based fingerprint and bluetooth-enabled padlocks
- India: Used car leasing platform PumPumPum raises $292K to grow ‘cars as a service’ model
- A brief intro to the 12 finalists from the 5th edition of Qualcomm Design in India Challenge 2020, a wireless hardware startup incubation program
- Startup India Learning Program – 4 weeks, online, free entrepreneurship program from Startup India, available in Hindi and English
- India: An intro to Volody, legal-tech startup with solutions across contract management, meeting recording, insider trading management systems and more
- India: SATYA MicroCapital microfinance startup raised $9.6M with focus on unbanked at the bottom of the pyramid, lending primarily to women-owned businesses
- India: Government bans additional 47 Chinese apps, identified as clones or variants of 59 apps previously banned
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