Prince Harry joins coaching startup as Chief Impact Officer

Prince Harry has joined the corporate world as employee coaching and mental health firm BetterUp Inc's Chief Impact Officer.Financial terms of his employment were undisclosed.BetterUp, based in San Francisco, works…

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[Funding alert] Fintech startup Velocity raises $10.3 M in seed round led by Valar Ventures

Bengaluru-based fintech startup Velocity, founded by IIT Bombay graduates a year ago, and which provides collateral free loans to online businesses, has raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by…

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[Funding alert] Healthtech startup Cancer Clinics closes pre-Series A round from Axilor, others

Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Cancer Clinics recently closed pre-Series A funding of $1.5 million led by Axilor Ventures. With this, M-Venture Partners (MVP), a Singapore based early-stage fund, also marked its…

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‘Technology is only as successful as the person harnessing it’ – 30 quotes of the week on digital transformati

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 quotes focuses on the increasing…

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[World Tuberculosis Day] These 5 startups are developing solutions for faster TB diagnoses

A severe global health crisis that needs to be addressed, WHO classifies tuberculosis (TB) as one of the top 10 causes of death across the world. In India itself, TB…

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Why IvyCap’s 22X exit from Purplle could make startups a viable asset class

In what is being called a “defining moment” for the domestic investor ecosystem, Indian VC fund IvyCap Ventures earned a whopping 22X return on its early-stage investment in online beauty…

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10 Indian startups that rode edtech’s hockey stick curve in the pandemic

In the last 12 months of the pandemic, online education (edtech) has not only topped user growth and VC funding, but also Twitter trends and Google searches. Between April and December…

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[Funding alert] Processed food exporter Allana Group picks minority stake in LT Foods; invests Rs 20Cr

The Allana Group — an exporter of processed food products and agro commodities — on Tuesday said it has picked a minority stake of one percent in consumer products company…

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GST collections top Rs 1 lakh Cr for 5 straight months since Oct 2020: MoS Finance

Increased economic activities have resulted in higher GST collection which stood above Rs 1 lakh crore for five months in a row since October 2020, Minister of State for Finance…

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