Articles for Startups

Startups Get $8.4 Billion Funding In 2015; Nearly 1,000 Deals Inked

Entrepreneurship Dec 28, 2015 4 min(s) read

Making it a year of start-ups, Indian and foreign investors have pumped in $8.4 billion in new ventures, including e-commerce platforms, in 2015 through close to 1,000 deals, even as questions have begun to be asked about their hefty valuations

Cambridge Tech Launches Fund To Invest, Partner With American Startups

Entrepreneurship Dec 18, 2015 3 min(s) read

Cambridge Technology Enterprises Limited (CTE), a Hyderabad-based, publicly-listed IT services provider, has launched Cambridge Innovations (CI), an investor and technology partner to early-stage US-based start-ups leveraging technologies in the area of cloud and big data

Beijing Residents Are Now Buying Packaged Air To Beat The Pollution

Entrepreneurship Dec 18, 2015 2 min(s) read

The demand for bottled air in China has sharply risen and people are willing to pay much as $14 for a bottle. A Canadian startup, Vitality Air, has been retailing bottled air

What Ails E-tail

Entrepreneurship Dec 18, 2015 9 min(s) read

Indian startups need to generate 5 million jobs by 2030. But it looks like 90% of these ventures will have shut shop by then

“We Now Have A Platform From Where We Can Really Scale Up:” Chaayos Co-Founder, Raghav Verma

Entrepreneurship Dec 14, 2015 3 min(s) read

Talking about what really made the concept click, Verma says sticking to the basic simplicity of tea and just emulating the way it was consumed, rather than looking at changing things was the basic idea

Infosys Invests $3 Million In US Sports Tech Startup WHOOP

Entrepreneurship Dec 14, 2015 1 min(s) read

Infosys Ltd has bought a minority stake in Delaware, US-based start-up Whoop, which makes activity trackers, for $3 million, the software services firm said on Monday

E-Grocers Confident About Future, Want To Concentrate On Cracking The Indian Market

Entrepreneurship Dec 13, 2015 3 min(s) read

Big Basket’s Abhinay Choudhari said that the initial resistance and skepticism he met was due to a history of unsuccessful businesses in the space with the biggest being Webvan which received a lot of funding and was massively hyped during the dot-com bubble, only to go bankrupt in 2001, becoming a poster boy of failed startups

Start-up Euphoria Will Settle Down, Says Chanda Kochhar

Entrepreneurship Dec 09, 2015 2 min(s) read

With concerns being raised over sustainability of high valuations commanded by startups, ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar on Wednesday said the "euphoria" will settle down once economic sense takes over.