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Ola raises blockbuster $315M funding to stay ahead of Uber in India
India’s homegrown on-demand cab service giant Ola has raised $315 million from a clutch of investors, including Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner’s DST Global, and existing investors Tiger Global,...
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Ola confirms $400M in fresh funding to expand into smaller Indian cities
India’s homegrown on-demand cab service giant Ola has raised $400 million in funding, the startup revealed today. The investment is led by DST Global with participation from GIC, Falcon Edge Capital...
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Indian startup that recommends cheap drug alternatives gets $6M in funding,...
Gurgaon-based drug e-store HealthKartPlus (now 1mg) has raised $6 million in fresh funding. The investors include MakeMyTrip founder Deep Kalra, Omidyar Network, Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, and...
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Good karma: This startup raises more funding to bring doctors to India’s vast...
Primary healthcare infrastructure in India is mostly concentrated in urban areas. There’s a pressing need to provide the rural population with access to quality and affordable services. Karma...
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India wants to be a leader in visual recognition. These startups are leading...
Shikha Gupta came across a pretty dress in a newspaper advertisement of a local fashion store. She knew it would look great on her. But Gupta didn’t want to take the trouble of visiting the shop to buy...
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This Indian 23-year-old built an Uber for home appliance repair – and has...
When Ahmedabad resident Harmin Shah moved to Mumbai last year, the AC at his rented apartment kept causing trouble. The local repairers couldn’t fix it because they aren’t equipped to keep up with the...
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Indian startup raises funding to build a Yelp for childcare services
When Naiyya Saggi returned to India after completing her management degree from Harvard Business School, she heard many young parents complain about the difficulties in finding childcare services in...
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1 in every 5 Indians is obese — this startup gains VC muscle to change that
India is currently witnessing rising numbers of people in the middle class becoming obese. A lot of the Indian population now relies on processed foods that contain a large percentage of trans-fat and...
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Hiring tech talent? This Indian startup bags $7.5M to assess programmers on...
Indian technical recruitment site HackerRank announced on Tuesday that it received $7.5 million in strategic investment from Japanese company Recruit Holdings through its HR Technology Fund. The...
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These engineers founded a startup to save their kids from pesticides and just...
India’s Joybynature, an e-store of organic products, announced on Tuesday that it secured a pre series A funding round of $1 million led by Mumbai Angels and Contrarian Vriddhi Fund along with other...
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Snapdeal raises blockbuster $500M funding to fight other e-commerce bigwigs
Indian e-commerce site Snapdeal announced that it secured $500 million in an investment round led by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, and Japanese telco...
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This device is all you need to have the smartest home on the block
The home of today is populated with multiple devices. There may be separate devices for security management, the television, the air conditioner, and so on. That may be functional, but it can also be...
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This American gave up his scholarship at Cambridge to launch a car rental app...
Two years ago, David Back quit his master’s degree program at Cambrige University to move to India and start a company. He wasn’t just chucking universtiy, but also a prestigious Lord John Browne...
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Ola raises blockbuster $315M funding to stay ahead of Uber in India
India’s homegrown on-demand cab service giant Ola has raised $315 million from a clutch of investors, including Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner’s DST Global, and existing investors Tiger Global,...
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Ola confirms $400M in fresh funding to expand into smaller Indian cities
India’s homegrown on-demand cab service giant Ola has raised $400 million in funding, the startup revealed today. The investment is led by DST Global with participation from GIC, Falcon Edge Capital...
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This American gave up his scholarship at Cambridge to launch a car rental app...
Two years ago, David Back quit his master’s degree program at Cambrige University to move to India and start a company. He wasn’t just chucking universtiy, but also a prestigious Lord John Browne...
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Indian startup that recommends cheap drug alternatives gets $6M in funding,...
Gurgaon-based drug e-store HealthKartPlus (now 1mg) has raised $6 million in fresh funding. The investors include MakeMyTrip founder Deep Kalra, Omidyar Network, Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, and...
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Good karma: This startup raises more funding to bring doctors to India’s vast...
Primary healthcare infrastructure in India is mostly concentrated in urban areas. There’s a pressing need to provide the rural population with access to quality and affordable services. Karma...
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India wants to be a leader in visual recognition. These startups are leading...
Shikha Gupta came across a pretty dress in a newspaper advertisement of a local fashion store. She knew it would look great on her. But Gupta didn’t want to take the trouble of visiting the shop to buy...
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This Indian 23-year-old built an Uber for home appliance repair – and has...
When Ahmedabad resident Harmin Shah moved to Mumbai last year, the AC at his rented apartment kept causing trouble. The local repairers couldn’t fix it because they aren’t equipped to keep up with the...
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