Tech news headlines, India
February 2022’s tech news summary for India delivers a snapshot of the month’s technology news headlines, looking at India’s tech startup and VC developments, alongside providing links to relevant India-focused reports and downloads.
Headlines for India’s startup news are below; each tech news headline links to the article, item, opinion piece or download behind it – no middleman service, no intrusive ads, just Startup News Asia’s 1-click access to the Indian tech news headlines that interest you.
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Accenture: Rewire For Success – India and AI (pdf))
- India: Scaler Academy raises $55M Series B with edtech platform focused on helping college students and tech professionals upgrade their skills
- India: Finance minister announces the country will launch a digital version of the rupee, potentially this year, and a 30% tax on income from digital assets
- India: Media-Tech Accelerator launched by IIIT Hyderabad and Arka Media Works, seeking startups in virtual production, Web3, media and journalism
- India: Invact Metaversity, new project from former Twitter India head, raises funding on valuation of $33M with ‘immersive virtual MBA platform’
- India: An intro to CoutLoot, social commerce firm helping SMEs and street vendors sell online, cataloguing offline inventory for online sale and providing logistics, payments and more
- Digital currencies: “…could end up reducing the importance of intermediaries such as card networks, payments gateways and even people involved in reconciling payments…”
EY: The winds of change – trends shaping India’s FinTech sector (pdf)
- India: Gov’t bans 54 more apps of Chinese origin from publishers including Tencent and Alibaba citing surveillance and espionage concerns around data transmission and storage
- India: A look at Hyderabad’s levels of public surveillance, the highest in the country with 500,000 cameras, compared with New Delhi’s 5000 cameras
- India and digital currency: ‘India needs to solve the problem of enforceability of small value commercial contracts through CBDC [but] does not need CBDC for wholesale payments…’
- India: NXP India Tech Startup Challenge 2022 launches, backed by gov’t, to boost startups in IP, processor development, semiconductors and embedded products
- India’s Tata Consultancy Svcs launches Digital Garage innovation and digital collab centre in Sydney, Australia, to bring the firm’s global capabilities to the Australian market
India: BollyCoin NFT marketplace
- India: SmartCoin micro-lending startup raises near $7M Series B with small-ticket personal loans to merchants, the self-employed, SMEs and others
- India: Krishify raises $3.5M with platform allowing farmers, rural communities and other agri-stakeholders to discover, interact and transact among themselves
- India: An intro to STEMROBO, helping students to learn, program and experiment in STEM-robotics, with 1500 schools now running in-class education and coding sessions
- India’s Bharti Airtel telco giant takes stake in Singapore’s Aqilliz blockchain platform, aiming to implement at scale across primarily advertising endpoints
- India: Bhanzu raises $2M with mathematics-focused edtech delivered via live online sessions, clocking over 1M student teaching hours to date
- Malaysia’s Curlec fintech firm has majority stake taken by India’s Razorpay, widening Razorpay’s regional growth moves
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