- Sridhar Vembu Shares The Secret Sauce With Which He’s Run Zoho Profitably For 21 Years As you lie there dreaming about the next best idea, creating the next big thing, all the money you could make, accolades you could earn, luxuries you could buy if your startup clicked, we have an intervention. Sorry to bring you out of your reverie, but we have an important lesson to share with you. […]
- While Digitising Logistics For Fortune 500s, Indian Startup Pando Raises $2 Mn Funding From Nexus And Others Bengaluru-based Pando, a startup digitising the logistics operations for majorly Fortune 500s and global blue-chips, has raised $2 Mn in a Seed round of funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. Kashyap Deorah at Hypertrack, Girish Mathrubootham at Freshdesk, Nishant Rao at Sirion Labs (Ex-LinkedIn India MD) and P Balaji at Vodafone (Ex-Nokia, Sony Erickson India […]
- PayPal To Deepen Its India Presence; To Focus On Tier II & III Cities Too: India MD Anupam Pahuja In a slew of moves made by PayPal, the global digital payments giant is showing its keenness to work towards dominating the Indian market. In a recent conversation with Inc42, Anupam Pahuja, MD of PayPal India emphasised on the fact that PayPal takes the Indian market very seriously. He said, “Is India important to PayPal? […]
- Top 15+ Chennai Based SaaS Startups. Take A Look! Over the years, Chennai has grown to become the SaaS hub in India. But every time, when someone asked about the list of SaaS Companies in Chennai, there was no listing available. So here is a list of all the SaaS companies in Chennai in Alphabetical Order. Chargebee Chargebee is a recurring billing platform for subscription-based SaaS […]
- Zoho To Empower Citizen Developers To Create Powerful Mobile Apps Via Zoho Creator Zoho has made a major announcement over its low-code application building platform, Zoho Creator. The latest version, dubbed Creator 5, has significantly enhanced and refined the core functionality of the platform, including its Mobile App Creator to make powerful mobile apps, Page Creator, Form Creator, Report Creator and Workflow Creator modules. The California-headquartered tech company […]
- Zoho CRM Brings In Sales Teams Focussed Conversational AI – Zia Voice Zoho CRM has unveiled Zia Voice, the first conversational AI for sales teams that adds speech and chat capabilities to Zia, Zoho’s AI-powered sales assistant. Zia can also predict deal closures and analyse email sentiment. Along with Zia Voice, Zoho has also introduced Catalyst – a set of capabilities that allow larger and complex businesses […]
- No Surge Pricing, Lower Commission: 3,000 Drivers To Launch Cab Service In Chennai To Take On Ola, Uber As many as 3,000 drivers have joined hands to start a local cab service in Chennai to take on deep-pocketed players like Uber and Ola. Slated for launch this March, the service will be operated by Ottunar Thozhargal Sangam (OTS), an organisation affiliated with the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). As per reports, OTS’ […]
- Submersible Robotic Inspection Startup Planys Technologies Closes $2.16 Mn Series A Funding Round Chennai-based submersible robotic inspection startup Planys Technologies has raised $2.16 Mn (INR 14 Cr) in Series A round of funding. The investment round was led by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Start-up Fund and Ranjan Pai’s MEMG Family Office. Kris Gopalakrishnan’s (Co-Founder, Infosys; Chairman, Axilor Ventures) Pratithi Trust, Keiretsu Forum (Chennai and Singapore) and […]
- Edtech Startup Littlemore Picks Up $3 Mn Funding From Centrum Group’s Kalpavriksh Singapore- and Chennai-based edtech startup Littlemore Innovation Labs has raised $3 Mn (INR 20 Cr) funding from Centrum Group’s PE fund Kalpavriksh. As per reports, the company is planning to use the newly-secured capital to fund research and development activities. A portion of the financing will also go into filing patents and copyrights in Singapore, […]
- Hyperlocal Delivery Startup Genie Acquires Food Delivery Startup Dinein Chennai-based hyperlocal delivery startup Genie has acquired Chennai’s food delivery services startup Dinein in an all-stock deal. The acquisition will help Genie strengthen its business by bolstering volume and adding customer touch points, the company said in a statement. According to the deal, Genie will acquire the Dinein brand, its 25-member team, the delivery team, […]
- Global Inflight Internet Provider Gogo To Set Up Operations In Chennai By March Just over a week after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued a green signal to inflight WiFi and mobile Internet connectivity within the country’s airspace, several global players in the space have expressed interest in entering the Indian market. One among them is Gogo, an Illinois-headquartered provider of inflight Internet and other connectivity services […]
- FinTech Startup OptaCredit Secures $4 Mn Credit Line From DMI Finance OptaCredit, the alternative-lending fintech startup, announced that it has secured an initial $4 Mn credit line from DMI Finance. The credit facility will be directly imbibed in aiding the company’s present financial offerings in aiding salaried customers across India to get access to timely and transformational credit. The Chennai-based fintech startup was founded by S.Kumar […]