S anjiv Bajaj, Managing Director, Bajaj Finserv, won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 award for solutions in lending, life and general insurance and wealth advisory, EY said in a press release here on Thursday. The consulting firm also named nine other category winners for the Entrepreneur of the Year Program. E Sreedharan, widely…
Indonesia’s hyperlocal transport startup Go-Jek is planning to launch its bike-taxi service in India in the second half of 2018, people aware of the development said. They said the company is evaluating some southern cities and the Gurugram-NCR region and it may launch a pilot in one of these cities at the end of the…
The engrossing story of tech startups in the year of SoftBank’s India invasion Most of the time, numbers hide the real story. But at times, they show the complete picture. Consider this: of the $13.5 billion invested in the Indian tech startup ecosystem last year, about $4 billion was invested by Japanese internet giant Soft-Bank,…
Artificial intelligence is one of the most celebrated and hyped concepts today. From science fiction to the nightly news, AI has been making record headlines, whether it will become the most dangerous technology around or the one most likely to save humanity. And it isn’t the only technology riding the hype wave. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain,…
We all know about the unicorns of the startup world — fast-growing companies that appear to be on the road (or have already arrived at) valuations of $1 billion or more — and we hear a lot about the unfortunate ones that either run out of money or fail for another reason. But what about…
In business, mistakes happen to even the most seasoned of entrepreneurs. As a new entrepreneur, you will be faced with business challenges on a daily basis, and not every decision made will go as well as you might like. Some missteps are small enough that you are left with just a little regret, while others…
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Online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy has raised $100 million in Series F funding, its largest round to date, taking its total fund raise to $255.5 million. Led by Naspers, which also led Swiggy’s previous round of $80 million last May, this Series also includes new investor Meituan-Dianping, China’s largest service e-commerce platform. “As…
London-based Glint has been pretty stealthy about what it planned to offer, despite several funding rounds and a vague description that it wanted to a create new “global currency” based on gold. Well, today the fintech startup is finally de-cloaking with a staggered launch of its multi-currency account, app and card that does indeed let…
After graduating from Hindu College, Delhi University, Akshay Gupta began exploring ideas to start a business. Gupta, who was inspired by Comic-Con, the globally popular entertainment and comic book convention, zeroed in on the pet care industry to start his events business. “Events around pets do very well in the West and the space offered…