Encouraging women entrepreneurship in India, Prime Minister Modi gave a rousing speech to kickoff the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 (GES) on Tuesday. Held in South Asia for the first time, the GES 2017, had a theme of ‘Women First, Prosperity for All’. “This event not only connects the Silicon Valley with Hyderabad but also showcases […]
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With Indonesia being declared the second largest pollutant of plastic materials in water, and losing their beaches, well-known for their beauty, to pollution, one Indonesian startup has found a material to combat the use of plastic, seaweed. Evoware, co-founded by David Christian, uses chemical-free seaweed to make hand-made containers that would normally be made of […]
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SAIF Partners, Helion Ventures, and FIL Capital Management come back together in Series B of fundraising for ed-tech startup, Toppr. Together they had invested $7 mn in the Mumbai-based startup which provides a mobile app that personalizes education for school students. In an official statement, Toppr declared to have raised a total of $ 12 […]
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According to a statement released on Saturday at Thiruvananthapuram, a proposal submitted by the state startup mission (KSUM) to grant sabbatical leave to faculty members across all colleges of the state to launch startups have been given the go-ahead by the Kerala Government. The move is to encourage academics to join the new entrepreneurship of […]
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A month after raising $ 250 mn in Series D funding from SoftBank, Hero Enterprise and an additional $ 10 mn from China Lodging group, China’s leading hotel management firm, OYO announced the company has selected Hyderabad to set their technology development centre with Priyank Choudhary at the helm. Apart from hiring former Amazon executive […]
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