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Venture Catalysts-backed HomeCapital, that offers home down payment assistance program, has raised an undisclosed amount in a...

APEX'19 Summit & Awards witnessed the participation of the Who's Who of the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital ecosystem.  The Summit saw leading top professionals from PE-VC fi...

Mumbai-based venture capital fund goes the extra mile to help startups take off or stay afloat

Astarc Ventures is pleased to announce its latest investment in online poker company 9Stacks

Rijul Jain shares his views on how social commerce startups like Wooplr are carving a niche for themselves in the market against incumbents

Pharmeasy raises capital from Eight Roads Ventures India, F-Prime Capital, Fundamentum Partnership backed by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal, and San Francisco-based hedge fund Think Investmen...

The current market is seeing a growth in investments across all verticals.

Rijul Jain shares his views on how there is a big market opportunity in the verncular space and the thesis on Liv.ai investment.

Ecommerce giant Flipkart buys vernacular speech startup Liv.ai. Astarc Ventures was the sole institutional fund who had invested in the company.

Wooplr continues to grow in the social commerce space, in talks with investors to raise Series C round.

Astarc Ventures invests in premium fashion apparel player Purple Style Labs. The investment also saw participation from Binny Bansal (Flipkart), Jitendra Gupta (PayU) and a bunch of HNIs.

Foyr brings aboard SRI capital as their latest investor in Series A.

How funds use right incentivization methods to source early stage opportunities

Bike taxi firm Rapido acquires hyderabad based peer Getbike. Getbike Founders and team to join Rapido to grow business.

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With 10K Rides a day, Rapido continues to solve commuter woes in heavy traffic cities

How Wooplr changed strategy to break even and look international

E-pharmacy platform PharmEasy has raised around $30 million (approx. Rs 196 crore) in a Series-C round

REAL estate consultancy JLL could now have the world's largest 3D-enabled property portfolio - a result of its partnership with Foyr, an Indian startup that provides visualisation and customisation...

Foyr.com, a tech-based home decor solutions start-up, has raised $3.8 million in Series-A funding. Property consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and a few ​individual and non-institutional inv...

Liv.ai uses deep artificial intelligence and neural networks to communicate with machines in 10 different regional languages.

On December 15th, Virgin Hyperloop One conducted the third demonstration of its not-to-scale system in the desert outside of Las Vegas, sending its magnetically levitating pod through a nearly airl...

Techstars announced the 10 startups that will be joining the 2017 Techstars Retail Accelerator in partnership with Target. They kicked things off this week and are looking forward to three months o...

For the first time ever, American retail giant Target has selected two Indian startups -- Find Me A Shoe and Story Xpress -- from its India-based accelerator program to participate in a retail-focu...

BENGALURU: Anuradha Agarwal first realised the potential of a smartphone when she visited her hometown Jaipur for a break in 2016, and saw the interest in learning English among many of the women m...

As a journalist, I mostly do my interviews over phone. This is not because I am too lazy to go out and meet people, but in a city like Bangalore, which is notorious for massive road traffic, this i...

Many customers calling phone banking numbers of a bank hate wading through automated messaging before they can find their way. Soon, however, if you have lost a credit or debit card, you can simply...

Bengaluru-based AI and virtual reality startup Absentia VR has secured $1.2 Mn (INR 8 Cr) in its Pre-Series A round of funding from Exfinity Venture Partners, T.V Mohandas Pai, Deepak Ghaisas, Giri...

NEW DELHI: Mumbai-based pharmacy aggregator PharmEasy has closed a $17-million deal (around Rs 111 crore) in a series-B round by three of its existing venture capital investors, said a person aware...

Hyperloop One says it has successfully sent a vehicle inspired by Elon Musk's near-supersonic transit concept down its 'DevLoop' test track using magnetic levitation for the first time.