Jaipur:25th September, With a vision of insulating traditional off-line Kirana shops in the country from the online grocery and large format modern retail platforms, a Jaipur based grocery retail store aggregator Kirana King is looking is all set to replicate its ...
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By Nishant Arora, Sydney : India, which saw a tremendous growth in the startup space in the last couple of years, is now witnessing a growth in the business-to-business (B2B) tech startups coming up with innovative ideas to deal with ...
Read More »Feb 1 cut-off date to determine land ownership under PM Kisan scheme
New Delhi : The Union government has made February 1 the cut-off date for the determination of ownership of land under the newly-announced PM KISAN scheme and any changes thereafter will not be considered for eligibility of the benefit to ...
Read More »IIT-Madras launches start-up to train students in AI
Chennai : The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on Friday launched a start-up to prepare the workforce for the advent of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) age by training students at nominal costs. The start-up “PadhAI” offers an affordable hands-on ...
Read More »Rise of unicorns in Indian start-ups across verticals (2018 in Retrospect)
By Bhavana Akella, Bengaluru : India witnessed a dramatic rise of eight unicorns in 2018 from among the start-ups across verticals as against a mere nine in six years from 2011 till 2017, according to IT industry apex body Nasscom. ...
Read More »Edutech start-up Byju’s raises $540 mn venture funds
Bengaluru : Online tutoring platform Byju’s has raised $540 million (Rs 3,865.5-crore) venture funds from Naspers and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the company said on Monday. “The new round of funding will drive Byju’s to further innovate, explore ...
Read More »Japanese e-commerce firm opens research centre in India
Bengaluru : Japanese e-commerce major Rakuten on Monday said it had opened its India research and development (R&D) institute here to focus on deep learning, computer vision and robotics for warehouse logistics applications. “The Rakuten Institute of Technology (RIT) at ...
Read More »Karnataka Innovation Authority to empower start-ups
Bengaluru : Karnataka will soon set up an innovation authority to empower start-ups for the ease of doing business, said Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Thursday. “The Karnataka Innovation Authority (KIA) will be set up through a law with powers ...
Read More »Are you a homepreneur? Impress your first investor with these tips (Business Notes)
By Neha Bagaria and Arshan Vakil, Meeting your very first investor can be nerve-wrecking for a homepreneur or someone who is trying to start her business for the first time. With so much on the line, it’s important to come ...
Read More »Kerala inks MoU with Airbus group to boost start-ups
Thiruvananthapuram : Kerala’s start-up ecosystem got a major fillip as the state government on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airbus BizLab, a global aerospace accelerator which is part of the Airbus group. The MoU was inked between ...
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