With more than 100 investments and 8 exits under his belt, Abhishek Rungta advises investing in founders more than business models

Abhishek Rungta revels in the joy of angel investing. More than a decade after founding Seeders, an angel fund with Pallav Nadhani of Fusion Charts, Abhishek has backed over 100…

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[Funding alert] Social investment startup StockGro raises $32M in Series A round

StockGro, the Bengaluru-based social investment platform startup, has raised $32 million in Series A round of funding from BITKRAFT Ventures, General Catalyst, and Itai Tsiddon, who is the co-founder of…

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[Startup Bharat] How Kota-based Sehat Sathi makes medicines accessible to rural India using tech

In 2014, Shreyans Mehta’s father - a practising doctor himself, suffered a major slip disc problem, which hampered his movement. This was all the more a challenge as most of…

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[Funding alert] SaaS Labs raises $42M in Series B investment led by Sequoia Capital

SaaS Labs, the SaaS startup that builds business automation tools for sales and support teams worldwide, has raised $42 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital India with…

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Why travel and hospitality tech firms are cautiously optimistic amid 3rd COVID wave

After seeing an upswing in travel and hotel bookings during the end of year, the Online Travel Aggregators (OTA) and hospitality sector has seen a significant dip in both domestic…

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Pi Ventures raises Rs 300 Cr to invest in 20-25 deeptech startups

Pi Ventures, which invests in deeptech startups, raised Rs 300 crore ($40 million) from Binny Bansal, Flipkart's former boss, Mamearth's Varun Alagh, and Makemytrip's Deep Kalra, in the first close…

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Will collaboration, capacity, and culture drive the future of developer tools?

The accelerated pace of digital transformations due to COVID-19 has pushed many businesses in the recent past to leverage SaaS-based tools for advantages like flexibility, cost optimization and the ability…

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This computer vision startup is addressing one of the biggest gaps in manufacturing production quality, powered by the Intel Startup Program

Regardless of whether companies manufacture cars, semiconductor chips, smartphones, or food and beverages, production quality and yield are two of the industry’s top performance metrics.Poor production quality control results in…

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