- Inside Flipkart’s New Massive Bengaluru Office Google. Facebook. Apple. Twitter. Spotify. These tech giants might be excelling in different segments on the consumer front, however, one thing that’s still common between them is, their massive office buildings. Post weekend comes Monday with its dreadful Monday blues and this marks the beginning of a monotonous office routine. To enliven time in the […]
- Banking On 10 Mn Patients, $36 Mn-Funded Big Data Analytics Startup Innovaccer Is Aiming To Break Even By 2019 The global healthcare market is expected to touch $2 Tn in 2018, as per predictions by consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. Despite its unprecedented growth in the recent times, the healthcare sector is still largely dependent on outdated, inefficient methods of data collection and processing. Fighting these problems in the US is a three-year-old Indian […]
- Bessemer Eyes Healthtech And Fintech Startups, To Invest $50 Mn In India In 2018 Silicon Valley-based VC Bessemer Venture Partners is planning to invest $40- $50 Mn in 2018 while broadening its existing portfolio of startups in India. Reportedly, the company is looking at the growing opportunities in segments such as healthtech, fintech as well as consumer internet segment. Vishal Gupta, MD of Bessemer Venture Partners, India, said in […]
- The Man Behind Angry Birds On Creating Europe’s Silicon Valley, India-Nordic Collaboration And More Peter Vesterbacka was the force behind creating the world-beating Angry Birds franchise – one of the most significant startups to come out of the Nordics. And today, he is widely acknowledged as the father of the Nordic startup revolution, and the pre-eminent entrepreneur and visionary from the region. No surprise, he has been listed by […]
- Flipkart To Invest $25 Mn In Silicon Valley Based AI Startups To Bolster Deep Tech Push With rival Amazon doubling down in its efforts to capture the Indian market, homegrown ecommerce unicorn Flipkart has now set its eyes on Silicon Valley. As per reports, the company is looking to invest $25 Mn in at least one artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in Silicon Valley. The move, according to sources, is aimed […]
- SalesPro Raises Funding From Silicon Valley VC Bengaluru-based SalesPro has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a Silicon Valley-based VC firm 37.37 North Capital. Dealing with customised market research and sales strategy, SalesPro, currently, boasts a presence across global markets including North America, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Australia, and India. With this funding, SalesPro aims to accelerate […]
- Khosla Ventures, Matrix Partners And Others Pump $5 Mn Funding In Healthtech Startup DocTalk Mumbai-based DocTalk, a messaging app for doctors and patients, has raised $5 Mn funding in a round led by Silicon Valley-based VC firm Khosla Ventures and Matrix Partners India. This marks the healthtech startup’s first institutional round of funding. The round also saw the participation of Altair Capital, Liquid2 Ventures, YC Partner Paul Buchheit and […]
- Punit Soni On His Mantra For Developing A Cutting Edge Tech Product And His Foray Into Healthtech With Robin Punit Soni, ex Chief Product Officer of Flipkart and current CEO of healthtech startup Robin, is someone who has traversed with equal ease both the Indian and the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. An engineering graduate from NIT-Kurukshetra, with masters degree in Engineering from the University of Wyoming and an MBA from Wharton, he was working […]
- Raising money from the big VCs — a winning formula A founder of a young startup recently asked me if there is a formula to raising Series-A money from big-name VC firms — the top 15-20 venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, the ones who typically have billions of dollars under management, and who regularly show up in Forbes Midas list and the like. When […]
- The Curious Case Of The Bad Board Member Over the last 40 years, the US has evolved an entrepreneurial ecosystem with two of the most unlikely partners – venture capital investors and technology entrepreneurs. This alliance has led to an explosion of technology innovation, scalable startups, and job creation. Tied at the hip, VCs and entrepreneurs take large risks together. VCs invest in […]
- I’m A Creep, I’m Sorry: 500 Startups Dave McClure Apologises For Mistreating Women 500 Startups co-founder, Dave McClure accepted guilt for his wrongdoings and apologised to his team and Sarah Kunst in a Medium blog post. His blogpost titled: “I’m a Creep. I’m Sorry,” which came out yesterday, started with the below-mentioned lines: “By now you may have heard I fucked up, and people are calling me a […]
- Indian Startup Ecosystem Versus Silicon Valley Startup Ecosystem Indian entrepreneurs are often very envious of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem because they feel that seed-stage investors in the US are far more liberal and intelligent. Their impression is that US angels are more willing to take risks, and are far-sighted enough to be able to back a passionate founder based on just a […]