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The start-up with a one-stop shop for the perfect big fat Indian wedding

With some 25,000 nuptials under its belt, Weddingz.in claims to be India's largest 'wedding company', offering a fully-managed, one-stop platform to deliver the perfect wedding experience

Start-ups providing income-share agreements catching students' fancy

It is still a nascent market but a growing one, which has investors interested

Goal-setting startup Ally raises $15 mn in Tiger Global-led funding round

Ally's product is based on the objectives and key results framework, an operating model for running agile businesses

Fintech start-up offering tools to reduce credit risk raises $3.2 million

Less than 15 per cent of the 50+ million small businesses in India have access to formal credit

Home security tech startup MyGate raises Rs 400 cr in series B funding

The firm processes over 60,000 requests per minute and facilitates over 45 million check-in requests every month to help apartments manage visitors, including guests, as well as deliveries and cabs

Water management startup WEGot raises $2 million in seed funding

The capital will be used predominantly to strengthen its IoT enabled product portfolio and scale its presence in India

Mobile gaming firm Nazara Technologies acquires stake in Paper Boat Apps

This is the fifth acquisition by Westbridge Capital-backed firm

This hearing-impaired entrepreneur is on a mission to empower gig economy

Sanjay Nediyara went through a great deal of hardship before setting up Sieve, a platform for freelancers to work as a team despite separated by locations

Kerala signs MoU with Bahrain to collaborate for startup growth in state

The key focus of the MoU is to build business opportunities for each country's startups in the other's market

Softbank-backed Oyo raises $1.5 bn at $10 bn valuation for market expansion

Agarwal, who founded Oyo in 2013, has built it into India's second-most valuable startup with a valuation of about $10 billion

A slew of alternative ride services to make sure you get to office on time

Start-ups like Quick Ride, GetToWork and Bounce are coming out with innovative solutions to provide office-goers with cost effective alternatives

This aerospace engineer plans to launch satellites at a fourth of the cost

Using additive manufacturing, Srinath Ravichandran's firm Agnikul Cosmos is planning to build launch vehicles capable of hurling satellite into lower orbit

Sequoia India leads $15 million round in HR-tech startup Darwinbox

The start-up is targeting growth in South East Asia market Singapore and Indonesia

Sachin Bansal to be CEO again, buys majority stake in microfinance company

Former Flipkart leader has invested in Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services

This non-profit start-up leverages the power of AI for the social sector

Wadhwani brothers-founded WIAI looks to use artificial intelligence for the benefit of cotton farmers, TB patients and underweight newborns

Room for more: Oyo to raise another $1 bn as it adds stars to its hotels

The plan is to take up luxury properties in India and abroad

Generico devising technology-enabled solutions for chronic diseases

Last week, Generico, which runs a network of pharmacies selling generic drugs, raised $14 million in a Series A funding round, led by venture capital firm Lightbox

Coding the future: This start-up helps children build commercial-ready apps

Can WhiteHat Jr, a platform for childern to learn coding, establish itself in a market that is expected to grow exponentially? Abhishek Kumar explores

QSR chain Wow! Momo raises $23 mn in Series B funding led by Tiger Global

Wow! Momo Foods Pvt. Ltd is projected to get to a topline of around Rs 190 crore for FY 2019-20

Start-up sectors that have the highest probability of receiving funding

Chances of getting funded improved if you were doing a start-up in the areas of artificial intelligence, life sciences, Internet of Things, and enterprise infrastructure, shows this data