Page 26 - Start-ups

Funding of start-up slowing

Between January and March 2015, $465 million was raised by Indian start-ups. This year, funding has come down to $252 million

Start-ups eye car servicing, spare parts retailing business

GaadiFix and CARXPERT are at the forefront of offering original spares and authorised mechanics for cars that exhausted their warranty

Impact Chapter to facilitate $100 million investments to start-ups

Touted as Asia's biggest start-up conclave, in Hyderabad from April 13.

A rising number of start-ups reckon they'll never go public

Troubling starts for the recent IPOs of prominent unicorns have also weighed on sentiment

Start-ups in Solan? Tech hubs bloom in unlikely places

Many state governments are ready with policies to promote entrepreneurs, backed by funding plans

Budget 2016: 5-fold hike for funding start-ups

For the next fiscal, government has increased the overall funding to startups from Rs 40 crore to Rs 200 crore

myGubbi.com raises $2.5 mn in seed funding

Angel investors include Vipul Parekh, co-founder of Big Basket, Ananda Kallugadde of NeoBytes and Rajesh K Murthy, EVP of Infosys

Indian start-ups get back to basics

Investors tighten belts and revalue assets; greater degree of focus on generating cash and profit

MIT to hold global start-up workshop in Hyderabad

Start-ups from 70 countries to take part; 350 of the best start-ups will be chosen for the event from about 10,000 applications

8 things that start-ups expect from Budget 2016

Start-up entrepreneurs expect Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to focus heavily on policies that would help start-ups thrive and give a leg up to the economy

Lendingkart partners with Craftsvilla for loans to sellers

Mumbai-based Craftsvilla has recently launched 'seller financing' program which has been providing a financing aid platform to their sellers

Now, a clinic to offer legal advice to start-ups

As new age start-ups face legal hurdles, TiE-Bangalore launches 'legal clinic' to offer pro bono services

After 12,000 cups of coffee, start-ups await investors' call

Five years later, when the Irish organisers brought the event - Surge 2016 - to Bengaluru this week, there was hardly any pub-hopping by start-ups and investors

Start-ups take to mergers to survive

The deal is among the latest signs that start-ups are consolidating in India amid slowing venture capital funding and growing competition

Telangana govt sets up IT incubation centre in Warangal

With Hyderabad as a role model, other cities like Warangal, Karimnagar and Khammam are being developed as Tier-II IT hubs

The Chennai Angels invests in Finance Buddha

Three year old start-up operates in hybrid marketplace model for financial services products

StartUp India and Viacom18 join hands

Will launch outreach programme in year-long initiative to encourage young entrepreneurs, encompassing on-ground, digital and TV communication

Wiwigo brings cab service for inter-city travel

The company has already raised first round of funding of $1 million in April 2015 and is ready to raise second round

Indian Angel Networks invests in UK-based Ascema

Indian Angel Network (IAN) has made an undisclosed investment in UK-based Ascema, a disruptive technology solution for locating, securing and controlling the movement of sensitive data and intellectual property within cloud collaboration environments and email systems. Nitin Jain and Nitin Singhal have led this round of investment on behalf of IAN and joined the board of the company. This is IAN's fourth major investment in a UK based startup. Ascema has been developed by GeoLang Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of GeoLang Holdings Ltd, a business resilience and cyber security startup based in the UK. GeoLang was awarded the title of UK and Working with UK Government research funding and a global manufacturing partner, Ascema is designed to meet the needs of business users to prevent the loss of high value content. The company was founded byDebbie Garside and Lee Gillam to prevent high value data loss. Debbie Garside, CEO and co-founder at GeoLang said "we are also already seeing ...

Start-ups to offer record salary increase in 2016, says survey

Overall, it has projected a 10.3% salary rise for India Inc in 2016 compared to 10.6% in 2015