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Binny Bansal may shift to Singapore for deeper role in start-up world

Even from Singapore, Binny Bansal plans to support Indian start-up founders

Acko sells affordable insurance online, but needs to build its brand

Acko breaks the clutter through the traditionally middlemen-driven, commission-loaded insurance business in the country, by offering policies online, which should help it scale faster

Cleared of abuse charges, start-up CEO seeks redemption and $100 million

Zain Jaffer was removed as CEO after he was arrested and charged with performing a lewd act on one of his children, as well as child abuse and battery

Now helping founders: Post-Flipkart, Binny Bansal heavy on Indian start-ups

In past 6 years, Bansal has invested in close to 40 entities, both as angel investor and through his VC fund

Rural lending platform Jai Kisan is giving cheap loans for farm machines

Thanks to the use of technology, channel partners and financing, dealers are able to cater for wider geography and wider product range

Fyle helps employees file business and travel expenses with minimal effort

The company feels hiring the right talent in a competitive market as one of the key challenges

Startups get $7 bn from PEs, VCs in 2018; lions share goes to Oyo, swiggy

Of the total investment, startups such as Oyo, Swiggy, Byjus, Paytm Mall, Pine Labs, Zomato, Udaan, Policybazaar and Curefit collectively raised the lions share of $4.6 billion in 2018

How this start-up disrupts supplies to save costs for smaller hospitals

Medikabazaar is using a disruptive platform and a roster of 150,000 SKUs to help health centres in smaller cities reduce inventory holding costs and boost efficiency

Food distributor WayCool plans to push more products via same channel

WayCool claims to be operationally profitable, and hopes to be EBITDA-positive by June/July

The techies who turned a college project into a successful drone start-up

Mrinal Pai and Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy are building software to power drones for executing critical missions in agriculture, mining, energy and construction

Digital loans soar on faster adoption by millennials, low-salary customers

Fintech start-ups like CASHe, Early Salary, Loantap, NIRA Finance are witnessing robust loan demand on their platforms

Start-up turns the page, helps students by ending paperwork in admissions

With start-up NoPaperForms, you no longer need to get into line to fill admission forms of schools or colleges

Late-stage fundraising for start-ups may be hit as tech stocks fall: Survey

Changes in FDI rules on e-commerce could discourage investors as they like stability in the regulatory regime

Over 450 start-ups took off in 1,000 days in Kerala, claims state govt

Says 35,000 jobs generated, start-up projects in the state have attracted investments worth Rs 314 crore so far

Pickyourtrail offers personalised travel plans using a special algorithm

Pickyourtrail is a travel tech start-up that helps travellers plan and book multi-country vacations online

Vidooly rides the online streaming wave in India to make ad dollars count

Rising internet usage in India presents the right opportunity for online video analytics start-up Vidooly to scale up

Why photo, video sharing platform Roposo is the bellwether for social apps

It has successfully managed to break into the next level of Indian customers that Facebook and Google have been struggling to do

Meet Rohit Sen, the executive who sold his Ferrari to pursue a dream

This former Goldman Sachs top executive drives financial inclusion through his fintech firm NIRA

Healthcare technology space proving to be a gold mine for startups

According to private investment-tracking firm Tracxn, digital healthcare start-ups received about $565 million in 2018, an all-time high and 43 per cent higher than the previous year

How the ShopX app helps small retailers jump onto the e-commerce bandwagon

Having a presence across more than 350 cities and town, ShopX claims around 32,000 transactions per day on its platform