Meet the engineers building a simple mobile wallet for using blockchain-based apps

For engineering college batchmates Abhimanyu Shekhawat and Akshit Ostwal, the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity. With no offline classes to attend at JECRC University, Jaipur, the two developers had time…

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Olsam raises $165M to buy up and scale consumer and B2B Amazon Marketplace sellers – TechCrunch

On the heels of Heroes announcing a $200 million raise earlier today, to double down on buying and scaling third-party Amazon Marketplace sellers, another startup out of London aiming to…

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Sanas aims to convert one accent to another in real time for smoother customer service calls – TechCrunch

In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. It shouldn’t be the case that there’s a “better” or “worse” accent, but in today’s global economy…

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UK-based Heroes raises $200M to buy up more Amazon merchants for its roll-up play – TechCrunch

Heroes, one of the new wave of startups aiming to build big e-commerce businesses by buying up smaller third-party merchants on Amazon’s Marketplace, has raised another big round of funding…

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Tribe and Arkam back Jar app to help millions in India start their savings journey – TechCrunch

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument. Fewer than 30 million people…

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Real Estate Leader, Amit Kumar Gehlot Bags the Times Excellence Award 2021

Aptech International Preschool organized a series of webinars for parents of pre-schoolers. The webinar had eminent personalities and speakers from the industry including Fatema Agarkar who is the Founder of…

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Gatik expands autonomous box truck operations to Texas with $85 million in new funds – TechCrunch

In the two years since Gatik AI came out of stealth, the autonomous vehicle startup has launched pilots with Walmart and Canadian retail giant Loblaw in its bid to prove…

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