Malavika Velayanikal
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What we can learn from the failure of these 12 Indian startups in 2017
Read more about What we can learn from the failure of these 12 Indian startups in 2017 on Business Standard. Early-stage startups struggled to raise follow-up funding → Read More
Remember the estore that gives big discounts and still hopes to make money? It just got $9m
No mean task to take the distrust out of buying used goods online. → Read More
Google Tez: How the payments app is different from Paytm, PhonePe
Read more about Google Tez: How the payments app is different from Paytm, PhonePe on Business Standard. It does away with the need to enter bank account details and codes or waiting for a beneficiary to be added, reports Tech In Asia → Read More
The inside story of a SaaS startup acquisition: why Freshworks bought Zarget
This could seem like a marriage made at birth. But Freshworks’ founder Girish Mathrubootham explains the hard business logic of it to *Tech in Asia* in a cand → Read More
5 rising startups in India – Aug 28, 2017
India is on the brink of a surge in consumer consumption. Meet a bunch of startups hoping to ride it. → Read More
Quantta - a start up that is spilling secrets to Starbucks, McDonald's
Read more about Quantta - a start up that is spilling secrets to Starbucks, McDonald's on Business Standard. Quantta is now setting up Quantta Labs in Silicon Valley as well → Read More
SoftBank invests $2.5b in Flipkart, its biggest bet in India
Binny Bansal (left) and Sachin Bansal are the two co-founders of India’s top homegrown ecommerce startup. Photo credit: Flipkart. SoftBank has just announced → Read More
SoftBank in talks to invest in Flipkart, Masayoshi Son confirms
This follows the collapse of a deal to sell SoftBank-backed Snapdeal to Flipkart. → Read More
Is it the year of tech IPOs in India, finally?
Between 2015 and 2016, tech IPOs in India rose from 1 to 4. But in 2017, so far, there have been 10 IPOs, six of them in the months of June and July. → Read More
Brief: M17 bags $40m to entertain Asians with more music, livestream, video content
M17 is on the lookout for original content creators like livestreamers, music producers, and celebrities. → Read More
The $950 million Flipkart-Snapdeal deal comes unstuck
“We look forward to the results of the Snapdeal 2.0 strategy,” says its main investor SoftBank. → Read More
How SAIF Partners closed a new $350 million fund in four days flat
A handful of global blue chip companies have been backing SAIF Partners and pumped the fresh $350 million as well. Here’s how that happened. → Read More
India’s top food delivery startup accused of cheating. Swiggy returns fire, calls it a lie
India’s leading food delivery company trades blows with an anonymous blogpost accusing it of cheating restaurants, users, and investors. → Read More
Tencent backs India’s edtech leader Byju’s, which just turned profitable
Byju’s has over 450,000 annual paid subscribers and its revenue climbed from US$17.9 million in the last financial year to US$40 million this year. → Read More
2 billion non-desk workers are strangers to email. These founders built a Slack for them.
A huge chunk of the world’s workforce are dabbling with the internet for the first time, thanks to smartphone proliferation. Slack for the tech-savvy won’t → Read More
Two hardened criminals founded a startup. It did not end well.
Crookstarter: they chose the wrong way to bootstrap their startup. This is a funding hack we do not recommend to founders. → Read More
8 deep tech startups from India to watch
A computer vision startup that can tell what kind of apple you just picked out. A startup that updates store inventory in real time. One that can translates vid → Read More
Anxiety in India’s techdom: layoffs causing high levels of depression
It keeps getting worse. → Read More
Looking for funding? Here are the 10 most active investors in India
India is on track for a return to record funding this year, after a steep fall in 2016. Here are 10 investors in India most likely to fund your startup. → Read More
Co-working behemoth WeWork strides into India’s Silicon Valley
WeWork opens its first co-working space in the heart of Bangalore. → Read More