Fund to augment operations, expansion and innovations StanPlus, a Hyderabad based medical transportation startup secured a funding of $1.1 million seed funding for a minority stake, according to a press statement. This fund will help continue its aggressive scale-up in the rapidly growing medical transportation industry in India. The latest round of investment is being…
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GyanLab plans to rope in one million students
A space for misfits, rebels, odd ones Priyadeep Sinha, 28 years, started his entrepreneurship when he was in the final (4th) year of Mechanical Engineering from Manipal institute. Sinha stayed in Manipal for additional two years running his enterprise, GyanLab, from the University incubator. He finally moved to Bangalore in 2013 and has been living…
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Ola raises $1.1 billion led by Tencent
Ola looks to get another $1 billion Ola, India’s largest ride-hailing application has recently closed a $1.1 billion round of financing, led by Tencent, a Chinese internet conglomerate. Salient points of the story: . Ola said that it is in “advanced talks with other investors to close an additional $1 billion as part of the…
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Bemefit plans to set up 7-10 workout hubs across east India
Hit the workout hub to be me fit. Read this. Kanika Satnaliwala is the founder and CEO of Bemefit, a Kolkata- based fitness and wellness startup. An alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Kanika has a certification from Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Boston. She was working as the Operations Head at Eastern…
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UC Berkeley sets up Smart City co-innovation lab
Smart City project gets yet another kick! The University of California (Berkeley) plans to set up a smart city co-innovation lab in New Delhi. This move is aimed at providing an accelerator program for young entrepreneurs. Here are the salient features in a nutshell: . The accelerator lab will be launched in India in collaboration…
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Brahmaputra Fables: To expand into north-east
Tales from the mighty river from North-East Started by Dhruba Jyoti Deka (age 25), Brahmaputra Fables is an e-commerce website of traditional indigenous and ethnic products from Assam, Viz, traditional attire and handicrafts. Hailing from Sarthebari, Barpeta district, Assam, Deka is now settled in Guwahati, Assam. M.Sc in Chemistry from Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, he…
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