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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[App Fridays] Social commerce app d’hybrid gives an elegant spin to lifestyle and grooming for urban men

With increased digitisation and the widespread use of social media, the way we shop is also changing. This has led to the rise of social commerce. According to a report…

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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality  – TechCrunch

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional…

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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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