Empowerment and education – new mandates for designers, from Pune Design Festival 2021

The annual Pune Design Festival wrapped up its 15th edition with a string of thought-provoking sessions on design purpose and education. Held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seven-day…

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‘Smart decisions are made when humans and machines work together’ – 40 quotes of the week on digital transform

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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Locus.sh co-founder on his entrepreneurial journey and why he pivoted from B2C to B2B

It’s been a long and extremely interesting journey for Nishith Rastogi, Co-Founder and CEO of Locus.sh. After graduating from BITS Pilani and launching RideSafe, a real-time route deviation detection application…

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[Startup Bharat] How Uttarakhand-based Triny is helping businesses with AI chatbots and WhatsApp marketing ser

Entrepreneur Gautam Rajesh Shelley was looking to help businesses connect with their customers in a much closer and deeper manner. While pursuing his BTech degree in 2018, Gautam, now 25, launched…

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Why market leaders BYJU’S and Unacademy want to redefine growth via M&As

Edtech’s sensational rise in the pandemic is well-documented by now. But, of late, deals in the sector have become a bit of a ‘blink-and-you-miss-it’. Typically, there have been two to three…

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[Funding alert] Yugabyte raises $48M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

Open-source distributed SQL database Yugabyte announced a $48 million funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Greenspring Associates, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures, and 8VC. Last year,…

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How Lavannya Goradia is binging sustainability in construction and design with Studio Alaya

Lavannya Goradia describes her experience of growing up as one marked by a lot of separation anxiety and loneliness. “While dealing with depression for years, I learnt that nature and…

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Bengaluru-based Simbo.ai launches flagship API platform for creating voice-enabled electronic medical records

Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Simbo.ai announced the launch of SimboAlpha, its flagship cloud-based application programming interface (API) platform, which will enable healthtech stakeholders to create voice-based electronic medical records (EMR).Representational Image…

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