VC firm Artha Venture Fund announces final close of Rs 220 Cr debut fund

Artha Venture Fund (AVF), a Mumbai-based early-stage micro-VC fund, announced the final close of its debut fund at Rs 220 crore. In a statement, AVF said, 50+ limited partners (LPs) participated…

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Reliance spends Rs 1,140 Cr under CSR initiatives in 2020-21

Reliance Industries Ltd spent Rs 1,140 crore in the fiscal ending March 2021 on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives including COVID-19 support, rural transformation, education, health, sports and disaster response.According…

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How the DesignUp 2021 conference aims to raise Rs 1 Cr for COVID-19 relief work in rural India

Launched in 2016, DesignUp is now regarded as the most influential design-in-tech event in India and Southeast Asia. This year, the DesignUp 2021 conference team’s response to India’s apocalyptic second…

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Why CareNow Healthcare’s SpO2 monitoring app CarePlix Vitals is seeing ‘viral’ success

Serial entrepreneur Abhisek Sengupta wants to “challenge the way healthcare is delivered to patients” — a vision he has harboured for over 12 years. In early 2019, the Chicago-based entrepreneur —…

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[Startup Bharat] How Ahmedabad-based coworking startup DevX kept going amidst the pandemic

In 2017, three friends felt the need for a platform and space that could help startups in Gujarat. The trio, Umesh Uttamchandani, Parth Shah, and Rushit Shah, had more than two…

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How Pi Ventures is spearheading AI and deep tech startup investments in India

A first-mover advantage generally tends to bring multi-fold benefits over a period of time, and this is true in the Indian startup ecosystem as well. Early-stage venture capital firm Pi…

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Reliance Retail got 10pc revenue in FY21 from digital commerce, merchant partnerships biz

Reliance Retail's digital commerce and merchant partnerships business has gained significant traction in the wake of COVID-19 induced disruptions and accounted for about 10 percent of its FY21 revenue of…

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