India’s Liberal Drone Policy To Startup IPOs: Indian Tech This Week
P2P lending is back, the drone sector could be ready to fly high in India and the club of IPO-bound tech companies continues to swell, despite CarTrade getting off to a slow beginning in the stock...
View ArticleAnnouncing Pitch42: Discovering India’s Hottest Blockchain Startups
A study from blockchain data platform Chainalysis reveals that crypto investments in India grew to $6.6 Bn in May 2021 from $923 Mn in April 2020. While Asia leads crypto adoption globally, India ranks...
View ArticleIndian Startup Funding Hits All-Time High With $26 Bn Raised In First Eight...
The record pace of startup funding in India in 2021 means that with each passing month, there’s a new benchmark for investor interest in the Indian tech industry. With $26 Bn raised in the first eight...
View ArticleNon-Fungible Tokens: What Are They, How Do They Work?
In March this year, a digital artist named Mike Winkelmann aka ‘Beeple’, sold an NFT of his work at the auction house Christie’s for $69 Mn. The digital work of art termed “Everydays – The First 5000”...
View ArticleUdaan Takes Top Biscuit Manufacturer Parle To CCI Over Alleged Anti-Market...
B2B ecommerce unicorn Udaan has filed an antitrust complaint against biscuit manufacturer Parle for alleged abuse of the latter’s dominant position in the market. In its complaint before the trade and...
View ArticleDelhi-NCR Startups Raised $6.7 Bn Funding Across 270 Deals In 2021
As the Indian startup funding hit an all-time high with $26 Bn raised in the first eight months of 2021, the startup ecosystem in Delhi-NCR witnessed a strong capital infusion in the same period, with...
View ArticleFrom Account Aggregator To Snapdeal & MapmyIndia IPO: Indian Tech This Week
It is fintech’s moment to shine. The developments are coming rapidly in this sector, with the account aggregator being the biggest one this week. Besides this, the impending IPO of Paytm, as well as...
View ArticleUnacademy Elevates CMO Karan Shroff To Cofounder-Like ‘Partner’ Position
Edtech unicorn Unacademy has elevated its chief marketing officer Karan Shroff to the position of partner, which is part of the company’s internal ‘Partner’ program for employees. Unacademy Group CEO...
View ArticleIndia Needs To Learn From Other Countries To Regulate Digital Payments Space
The digital payments growth in India has positioned the country as a global fintech leader, with online transactions growing 80% in 2020 and UPI transactions witnessing a 120% growth last year....
View ArticleStartups Vs Big Tech, Part Deux; BYJU’S Splurges On Acquisitions & More
Big tech companies have not had the friendliest of years in India in 2021, and it’s not about to get any easier if recent developments are any indication, particularly in ecommerce and fintech. The...
View ArticleThe Crypto Summit: Unveiling A 2-Day Power-Packed Agenda To Decode India’s...
With an estimated 15 Mn users and a $6.6 Bn market size, the Indian crypto industry may not be the biggest in the world, but it ranks second in a list of countries with the highest crypto adoption...
View ArticleTrader’s Body CAIT Launches 30-Day Campaign Against Ecommerce Giants
Calling for a decisive fight against the ‘gross violation’ of laws and rules of the country by the foreign e-commerce giants, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has launched a month-long...
View ArticleUber Enters Shuttle Business In India As Pandemic Hits Mobility Startups
As the pandemic left India’s mobility, travel and hospitality sectors shattered, leading to Gurugram-based bus aggregator Shuttl shuttering its business and exploring merger and acquisition...
View ArticleHow India’s EPNS Is Building Decentralised Push Notifications For Web 3.0
“Example of email — gets pushed down to all devices. Change a contact? Gets pushed up to MobileMe, down to all other devices. The best part of this, it works over the air. Everything is up to date.” –...
View ArticleZomato’s Bad News Streak, Best Of The Crypto Summit & More
Even as the pace of funding has slowed down in the past few months, the market continues to churn out unicorns in an unprecedented manner. We have seen a record number of unicorns in the year — the...
View ArticleSome Quick Lessons For Entrepreneurs How To Build A Blockchain Startup
Amid the ongoing buzz around crypto and blockchain in India, several entrepreneurs are aiming to enter the sector and build world-class products. For such young souls, some of the leading subject...
View ArticleFacebook India Hires Ex-IAS Officer As Public Policy Head As New IT Rules...
As the Indian government tightens control over social media platforms with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules of 2021, Facebook India has appointed...
View ArticleKotak Mahindra Bank To Invest INR 310 Cr In KFin Technologies For 9.9% Stake
Kotak Mahindra Bank will invest INR 310 cr in Hyderabad-based registrar and transfer agency KFin Technologies to pick up a 9.9 per cent stake in the company. It announced that it has agreed to make an...
View ArticleSMB Digitisation Platform FloBiz Raises $31 Mn; Eyes Foray Into Financial...
Fintech startup FloBiz, a neobank for the Indian small and medium businesses (SMB), has raised $31 Mn in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital India, Think Investments and its existing...
View ArticleCars24 Raises $450 Mn Before Going Public; Valuation Soars To $1.8 Bn
Online used car marketplace Cars24 has raised $450 Mn in its latest funding round led by DST Global, Falcon Edge and SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding round also witnessed the participation of Tencent,...
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