Shivam Srivastav

'It is evident that the entire ecommerce ecosystem has been damaged in the last four years," said AIOVA

The complaint comes a few days before Amazon India’s 'Small Business Day' online shopping event on December 16

AIOVA alleges control of India’s retail market has been passed on to the hands of "two foreign companies"

A week ago, WhatsApp CEO Chris Daniels made a formal request to the RBI for expanding WhatsApp Pay service in India

Late last month, WhatsApp appointed Abhijit Bose, former CEO of Ezetap, as head of WhatsApp India

WhatsApp has still not given a timeline for complying with the RBI's data localisation norms

May rename 'Institutional Trading Platform' to 'Innovators Growth Platform'

Reduce waiting time for startups to upgrade to main board from 3 years to 1 year

To reduce the minimum trading lot from $14,016 to $2,803

More than $8Bn investments came from Japan in the period 2014-2018

Easing regulations, the India Stack, and the UPI have made Japanese investors excited about India

Apart from Japanese VCs, more and more Japanese corporates are also exploring Indian startups

Scalability is never an accident — it is done brick by brick and takes a lot of work

The investment downturn of 2015-16 was a great learning experience for Indian startups

Contemplating scale? A lot depends on the product you’re building and the stage you’re at

“India will have 50 more unicorns in 7-10 years,” says Revant Bhate, partner at Kstart

Non-institutional investment in early rounds has gone down but institutional seed funding has gone up

Till date, Kstart has made 16 investments

Netmagic’s new Mumbai data centre is completely booked less than three months after its launch, says Sanghi

The revival of ecommerce post the Walmart-Flipkart deal has helped drive demand for cloud, he adds

Netmagic’s cloud business is growing close to 100% a year

European Commission has listed seven reservations on the draft Indian Data Protection Bill

The data localisation requirements appear unnecessary- EC's Bruno Gencarelli

Gencarelli hints that the bill could have negative consequences for businesses and politics alike.

Artha Venture Fund aims to make its second close of $27.4 Mn by July next year

Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund Anirudh Damani says 3-4 deals will be closed in the next 2-3 months

According to Damani, there is a paradigm shift happening in consumer confidence in India

“We like to call ourselves a community-led incubator, said Pranay Gupta, cofounder of 91Springboard.

We don’t want to be those guys that open in 100 cities and then realise that quality is very low,” said Gupta.

Leasing in India is expected to touch 10 Mn sq ft by 2020 which is equivalent to over 173 football fields - report

Japanese investors invested over $8 Bn into the Indian startup ecosystem between 2014 and mid-2018, according to Inc42 Datalabs

In terms of FDI, UK ranks third after the US and Japan as an investor in India

In 2017, Chinese internet companies invested $5.2 Bn (INR 378.1 Bn) in 30 Indian companies

According to Geetansh Bamania, the CEO Of RentoMojo, India is seeing rampant adoption of subscription services across sectors

“We are using machine learning to evaluate consumers,” Bamania confirms to Inc42

Subscription will be the underlying thesis across all new-age businesses in the new Indian ecosystem