‘Video call is to businesses what websites were 20 years ago’ – 25 quotes of the week on digital transformation

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YS, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. This special series of quotes focuses on the increasing…

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[Funding Alert] Y Combinator-backed matchmaking startup Betterhalf.ai raises $3M in pre-Series A round

Betterhalf.ai — the AI-driven matrimonial app — on Wednesday said it has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round. The Y Combinator Winter 21 batch startup saw participation from…

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If you’re an entrepreneur, you have to be an optimist: Will Poole, Unitus Ventures

Will Poole co-founded Unitus Ventures, a social impact investment venture fund based in Bengaluru and Seattle, in 2013, to support early-stage fintech, edtech, healthcare, and jobtech startups “with India scale and…

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[Startup Bharat] Madhya Pradesh-based edtech platform is offering one-to-one learning to students

Nikhil Bhatnagar always wondered why there was a gap in education for kids coming from rural, urban, and developed countries. When he started taking tuitions to earn pocket money during…

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[Product Roadmap] How FlexiLoans tapped tech and SaaS to disburse over Rs 1,000 Cr in SME loans

In 2015, a statistic captured the attention of four ISB Hyderabad friends. Abhishek Kothari, Deepak Jain, Manish Lunia, and Ritesh Jain were shocked to realise that India had more than 60…

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Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M – TechCrunch

Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5 million in a cash-and-stock deal. Affectiva,…

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