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Up until now, your idea was yours and a bunch of others. You have been able to convince some people about your vision, and they have believed in you, put in their money or given their services to building the foundation for your dream.…

Founder and ex-CEO of Housing.com, Rahul Yadav, has officially made his comeback into the Indian startup scene. At an event organized by Flipkart, Rahul Yadav disclosed that he is working on a new startup called ‘Intelligent…

In order to give a boost to domestic manufacturing of electronic goods and to encourage innovation among local manufacturers, Government of India has launched a special Electronics Development Fund (EDF) worth Rs 10,000 crore.…

Grofers, the hyperlocal delivery start-up founded in December, 2013, has raised a fresh funding of Rs 800 crore ($120 million). This new infusion of venture capital is being led by SoftBank and Russian entrepreneur and venture…

Ola, India’s largest car aggregator and rental app for personal transportation today announced that it has raised $500 million in its Series F Funding round. Baillie Gifford, Falcon Edge Capital, Tiger Global, SoftBank Group, DST Global…

PM Modi thundered “Start-up India, Stand up India” during his Independence Day speech in Delhi, in order to inspire more Indians into entrepreneurship. The best part is that, the talks are transforming into concrete action. In a new…

Flipkart has raised $700 million (approx 4,500 cr) from their existing investors at a valuation of $15 billion (around 96,000 Cr) according to a ET report. While Flipkart had raised 3 huge funding rounds in 2014, this is the first time…

Before I begin listing down the not-so-secret recipe to successfully crowd-fund your projects from India, here’s a little background about the project that we successfully crowd-funded. Say hello to Maha Yodha- A strategic card game…

Ola today officially announced that they have raised Series E round of funding of $400mn led by DST Global with participation from GIC, Falcon Edge Capital and existing investors SoftBank Group, Tiger Global, Steadview Capital and…

TripHobo, a Pune based online travel planning portal announced their Series B funding of USD 3 million led by new investor Mayfield  and current investor Kalaari Capital. This is the second round of funding for TripHobo in the 12 months…

The Indian ECommerce Funding machine keeps buzzing – This time the beneficiary is 3 year old Indian marketplace ShopClues. Tiger Global, which is already overweight in Ecommerce space with their big investments in Flipkart, Myntra, Quikr …

The ecommerce giant next door, Alibaba, is all set to invest nearly $575 million in Noida based Paytm, an online payment platform owned by One97 Communications Ltd, valuing the latter at $1.9 billion. None of the two parties to the…

Flipkart Founders seem to be slowly turning into angel investors (and why not, they are playing in Billions, a few crore rupees of seed funding here and there is chump change for them) and it is great for Indian startup ecosystem – A very…

Not that we have a dearth of success stories, but now and then there are some stories worth knowing. One such story is of Son. The renowned richest man in Japan, he is the founder of Softbank and an aggressive investor. Having funded…

The big ticket funding in Indian tech startups just keep on rolling – Zomato, a popular online restaurant search and discovery service today announced that it has closed a fresh round of funding of USD 60 million at a post-money valuation…

2014 will surely go down in history as a marquee year for tech and online startups in India. No one could have predicted at the start of the year that Indian online companies will see such huge infusion of funds from Venture Capitalists,…

Leading online classifieds site Quikr has raised $60 million (around Rs. 365 Cr) in their latest round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. With this round of funding Quikr’s valuation has now ballooned to around $300 million (Rs.…

Bangalore based online grocery store BigBasket has raised Rs. 200 crore in fresh round of funding led by Helion Ventures and Zodius Capital reports ToI. With this fund raise, BigBasket valuation has now crossed Rs. 1000 Crore (approx $167…

Everyone wants a pie of Indian eCommerce now-a-days and some want it more that others. After making his first investment in Indian eCommerce space through Snapdeal, the former chairman of salt-to-steel Tata group, Ratan Tata has now made…

The VC fund raising in Indian Tech sector has reached new heights in year 2014. Between second quarter (2Q2013) of last year and first quarter of this year (1Q2014), Indian tech companies collectively raised $1.3 billion spread across 266…