- NowFloats Raises $10 Mn In Series B Funding; Aims To Ramp Up Technology NowFloats, a digital enabler of Small and Medium Businesses (SME) business presence has raised $10 Mn in its Series B round of funding from Iron Pillar Capital and IIFL, along with existing investors Blume Ventures & Omidyar Network. IIFL invested through its Seed Ventures Fund I & Cash Opportunities Fund. The startup plans to use […]
- Here’s Why Lookup’s Acquisition Makes Sense For NowFloats NowFloats, a Hyderabad-based enabler of SME’s online presence, has acquired chat-commerce platform LookUp in a cash and stock deal. Post acquisition, the technical and customer-support division of Lookup, will join NowFloats. All the existing investors of Lookup have agreed for an exit. Other terms and details of the deal are undisclosed. LookUp was launched in November 2014 […]
- How These 10 Indian Startups Are Mastering The Art Of Chilling With Their Cool Offices! While summer may be beating down harshly in the country, but coolness continues its upsurge in our startup ecosystem with cool startup offices coming up regularly. Motivating employees to beat summer heat, winter dullness, rainy season frenzy, boredom quotient, and Monday blues, is something the following startups are doing really well in these uber-cool offices! […]
- Haptik Gets Times Internet As Strategic Investor; Hopes To Leverage Its 150 Mn User Base Marking the beginning of a strategic alliance, chat based personal assistant app Haptik has raised an undisclosed amount in its Series B funding from Times Internet. The funds will be utilised for for product development, improving artificial intelligence capabilities and business operations. Aakrit Vaish, CEO of Haptik, stated, “ We started Haptik so that consumers […]
- News Roundup: 9 Startup Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [22 February – 27 February] Just few months after making a foray into grocery delivery, Flipkart, this week, shuts down its grocery delivery division ‘Nearby’. Important Developments Of The Week Revised Patenting Guidelines For Startups The Indian Patent Office has rolled back its guidelines on patenting software which caught eyeballs, last year, when the Patent Office interpreted the law stating […]
- Lookup Launches ‘Lookup Biz’ For Merchants Bangalore-based Lookup, a free chat-based local commerce app, has launched its merchant app, Lookup Biz. The app will provide a free suite of tools to showcase a business and connect it to the Lookup shoppers’ community. Lookup Biz offers a gamut of services to the merchant community by enabling them to track customers, respond to […]
- Why Lookup’s Snazzy New Office Is Worth Looking Up To! Nothing ventured, nothing gained Reads a quotation on one of the solid brick walls of the new 5000 sft snazzy office of Bangalore-based messaging app Lookup. The words in their brevity sum up the ambitions of Lookup, whose CEO Deepak Ravindran has stated in clear words at the time of their Series A fundraise, “We want […]
- Progress Report: Here’s How Our Top Mobile App Picks Of 2015 Fared This Year The late American best-selling author, physician, producer, director and screenwriter, Michael Crichton, once famously said, “They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything.” “They” were absolutely right; it’s all a matter of keeping track of things and that’s why our predictions are […]
- Lookup Looks Up To Twitter To Ensue Local Commerce Bangalore-based Lookup, a free and secure messaging app that connects shoppers with local businesses, has tied up Twitter to launch @lookuplite for live, public conversations on Twitter’s platform. In this, users have to Tweet their requests like booking appointments, ordering food, enquiring about products to @lookuplite, and Lookup will monitor those tweets and send solutions […]
- JARVIS, Watch Out! Chat Based Personal Assistance Apps Are Catching Up Fast From booking hotels and cabs, to delivering your groceries, to letting users set up reminders for personal responsibility, meetings, tasks or reminders, chat-based assistants are now organising our lives like our very own personal assistants. No wonder, every day they are becoming more and more adept at understanding and processing handling all sorts of possible […]
- HeyNeighbor App Wants To Become The Peer-to-Peer Support System For Neighbours And Communities In recounting the paradoxes of our age, His Holiness the Dalai Lama states, “We’ve been all the way to the moon and back. But we have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We built more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.” His words […]
- How Startups Are Doing Their Bit To Push Relief Operations For #ChennaiFloods Chennai is deluged with torrential rain and its denizens are in distress. The rainfall has broken a 100-year record with one day’s downpour covering a month’s average. Many areas in Chennai and Tamil Nadu have been affected due to overflowing of nearby lakes. To add to the woes, the weather forecast show that rains will […]