[Funding alert] Investment firm Upside AI raises $1.2M in seed round led by Endiya Partners

Upside AI, a SEBI registered investment management startup, has raised a seed round of $ 1.2 million, led by VC fund, Endiya Partners. Other investors in the round include Vijay…

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How PESU Venture Labs is helping student-led startups build globally scalable business models

In 2021, India annually produced one million engineering graduates. But the country, which has 3,500 engineering colleges, 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 3,400 polytechnics, 200 schools of planning and architecture, and…

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How Ahmedabad-based wealth management startup Tarrakki is helping Bharat invest

The entrepreneurial calling came to Saumya Shah when he was in Class 5 — he started his first business by selling Diwali greeting cards to residents in his locality and social…

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How 100X.VC creates ‘social proof’ for seed-stage startups and drives deal flow for larger funds

In the middle of 2019, Sanjay Mehta, an angel investor with 130+ startups in his personal portfolio, launched 100X.VC to fund “100 interesting ideas”, and curate a pipeline of “fundable…

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Insolvency law changing the way society perceives business failures: IBBI chairperson MS Sahoo

Fuelled by a "huge unsatiated appetite for freedom of exit", the insolvency law is changing the way society perceives business failures as it becomes a reform by, for, and of…

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authors Theodora Lau, Bradley Leimer on the inclusion opportunity for fintech

Theodora Lau and Bradley Leimer are the co-authors of Beyond Good: How Technology is Leading a Purpose-driven Business Revolution (see my book review here). The material makes for a valuable…

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