Stay rooted, Stay fresh and organic! Delhi based, Ritwik Bahuguna (31 years) along with A.P. Sinha and Ranjan Sinha, run multiple companies in partnership, working across the agribusiness value chain. An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce, and University of Delhi, Bahuguna had earlier worked with renowned brands for close to six years. He…
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Virtu Propdeal looking to invest in AI and Fintech startups
The new age is all about artificial intelligence Arpan Shah is Partner at Virtu Propdeal, an India focused fund specializing in real estate and technology investments. A student of Stanford University, he is a technologist, investor and data scientist. He currently heads data engineering at Robinhood, a Fintech company in the Bay area. Shah has previous work…
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‘Lokate’ signs deals with wireless, insurance players
Gizmo changing face of the vehicle-maintenance industry… Chandra Sekhar Rout and Nishikant Pradhan founded Lokate OBDII Tracker. It’s a device which could help people keep a tab of maintenance of vehicles by giving both diagnostics and prognostics value. Rout is a self-motivated and creative individual with 12 years of software and hardware experience in India…
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Sulekha aims at Rs 1800+ crore business per annum
Sulekha bets big on its local services platform On July 19, 2017, Sulekha, India’s largest and fastest growing digital platform for local services, won an award. It’s for the ‘Best App’ at the Global Mobile App Summit Award (GMASA) in the Lifestyle category. GMASA is the largest event on mobile innovations. The award recognizes excellence…
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Noida-based Yourslate raises undisclosed amount
Startups are also grabbing first-time funding Yourslate has recently raised funds from VC Kalaari Capital and Bangalore-based Tauras Mutual Funds. This includes spot funding of half a million by winning ‘Big Startup Idea Challenge.’ It has also raised an undisclosed amount as seed fund. Hasan Ali, founder, Yourslate, said, “It’s like early days of e-commerce…
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‘Rent It Bae’ plans to expand across cities
RIB: You could now reinvent your closet Aanchal Saini along with Amit Sharma, Karan Gujral and Jaspreet Gujral left their successful careers in law and IT to follow their collective passion for entrepreneurship. The young brigade has created a unique model that addresses the need of the niche urban youth. Founded in 2016, Rent It…
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