The culture of empowerment at FairMoney leads to creation of right products for financial inclusion

FairMoney, the Paris headquartered mobile bank has set its target onto the Indian market now having gained a strong foothold in the Nigerian market.FairMoney was founded in 2017 by Laurin…

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‘Mental wellness is one of the most important aspects of our life’ – 20 quotes from India’s COVID-19 struggle

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. This special series of compilations focuses on India’s COVID-19…

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Indian startups continue to show robust funding activity in Q1’21

Good morning!Despite the continuing economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the first quarter of 2021 saw robust funding activity in the Indian startup ecosystem. In Q1’21, Indian startups raised $3.76…

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Key requirements of the Indian spacetech sector to become the next space hub

India’s spacetech sector has come a long way. Headed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which was launched by Dr Vikram Sarabhai on August 15, 1969, ISRO has been…

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With Paytm, ShareChat, and Bigbasket as its clients, how YC-backed Able Jobs is making entry-level jobs easier

For Ravish Agarwal, Siddharth Srivastava, and Swatantra Kumar, the world of edtech, startups, and skilling was nothing new. In fact, Ravish was already running an edtech startup and was also…

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Prime Venture Partners’ Shripati Acharya on how entrepreneurs can build venture-funded tech startups

Many aspiring entrepreneurs find themselves facing this conundrum — “What are the considerations you think of as you plunge headlong into entrepreneurship?”First some context — while many of these considerations…

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Amazon Pay has 5M registered merchants, focuses on helping SMBs embrace e-payments: Amazon

Amazon on Saturday said it has registered five million merchants through its payments unit Amazon Pay and that it remains focussed on helping more SMBs in the country to embrace…

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From the rise of robots in Rebel Foods’ kitchens to the launch of iSeed II

The future of work entails humans and robots working together. Rebel Foods believes that it was born of the marriage of great food and innovative tech. At present, the largest cloud…

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[Funding alert] SoftBank in talks to invest around $450M in Swiggy; valuation to rise to $5B

SoftBank is in advanced talks on investing around $450 million (around Rs 3,348 crore) in the food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy.The deal is likely to peg the valuation of…

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