Meet India’s education finance startups making learning affordable for millions of students

India’s folklore is littered with poignant stories of parents going to great lengths to finance their child’s education — from mortgaging houses and pawning jewellery to borrowing from local moneylenders,…

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InsurGrid raises pre-seed financing to help modernize legacy insurance agents – TechCrunch

Insurance agents spend hours handling paperwork and grabbing client information over the phone. A new seed-stage startup, InsurGrid, has developed a software solution to help ease the process, and make…

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users – TechCrunch

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps —…

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Backed by Blossom, Creandum and Index, grocery delivery and dark store startup Dija launches in London – TechCrunch

Dija, the London-based grocery delivery startup, is officially launching today and confirming that it raised £20 million in seed funding in December — a round that we first reported was…

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After WhatsApp’s online privacy concern, app-only browser WAVE is finding many takers

When WhatsApp updated its privacy policy early this year, users across the world, including India, were worried about their privacy. It even caused lakhs of users to switch from WhatsApp…

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Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics closes $3.6M for pension funds transparency platform – TechCrunch

Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics has closed a £2.6 million ($3.6 million) funding round for its platform, which aims to create greater transparency on fees in the long-term savings market, such…

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Asynchronous video startup Weet just launched to cement bonds, and know-how, within companies – TechCrunch

For founder Najette Fellache, coming to the Bay Area a few years ago from Nantes, France was a way to grow a company she’d founded and which was already was…

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Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain customers, raises $1.5M – TechCrunch

It’s not uncommon these days to hear of U.S.-based investors backing Latin American startups. But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based startups.…

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Inside Workvivo’s plans to take on Microsoft in the employee experience space – TechCrunch

Maintaining company culture when the majority of staff is working remotely is a challenge for every organization — big and small. This was an issue, even before COVID. But it’s…

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