Emerging Entrepreneurs

Venturing where angels fear to tread

Venturing where angels fear to tread

Cash-rich PSUs provide start-up funds on the lines of private sector to nurture innovations

A do-it-yourself billing solution from the cloud

A do-it-yourself billing solution from the cloud

Chennai-based Chargebee offers SaaS-based billing platform to enterprises, big and small

How policy muddle is leaving start-up founders worried

How policy muddle is leaving start-up founders worried

In spite of recent changes and clarifications on fund raise and tax issues, entrepreneurs say they have to deal with too much of bureaucracy

Ploughing the full financial field for distressed farmers

Agri India Farm to Market connects farmers and institutional buyers

Entrepreneurship: Beyond self-employment to innovation

With Govt initiatives, start-up ecosystems are being created even at the school level

How a college dropout graduated to a marketing master

With Synup, Ashwin Ramesh helps local businesses control their digital assets and update data

Funding IP/product-led start-ups

Early-stage VC firm pi Ventures invests in outfits developing AI, Machine Learning, IoT solutions

Entrepreneurs, by their DNA, are problem solvers: Vaitheeswaran

E-commerce pioneer and co-founder of Again Drinks talks about entrepreneurship and his philosophy behind starting all over again

Managing the interests of wealthy families

Cervin Family Office offers advisory, governance, strategy and financial planning services

Anicut Capital: Opening the debt dam for small enterprises

Chennai-based debt VC is looking to write larger cheques with its ₹1,000-cr second fund

‘Reading the customer’ to make a perfect pitch

Salesken uses artificial intelligence to offer real-time cues to salespersons

Making payments smoother for businesses

Fintech start-up Cashfree provides a platform that digitises bulk payments for merchants

Providing clients with a complete suite of services

Consark offers the entire gamut of financial, tax and risk advisory services through guaranteed partner-time

Looking at food and agriculture through an entrepreneurial lens

ThinkAg brings together various players in the food, agri value chain to improve productivity

Bombay Play raises ₹11 crore in pre-Series A from Leo Capital

Ensuring better tertiary and quaternary care for patients

ezeehealth connects general practitioners with super-specialists in hospitals to ensure improved service for patients

Gut feel: How Leucine Rich Bio is helping people stay healthy

The company has developed BugSpeaks, which analyses microorganisms in the human intestine to detect susceptibility to diseases

Arkam Ventures achieves first close of fund

How should start-ups play the game in a post-Covid world?

Ability to pivot, temper expectations on fund raising and focus on the burn rate are key to sustain a business in times of crisis

Transporting people to a virtual and augmented world

XR Labs’ AR/VR products help firms in training, sales and marketing, and field support

MediBuddy, DocsApp merge; raise ₹150 crore

Eggoz gets ₹2.5-cr seed funding

How SkoolBeep is helping schools communicate better with parents

The app has a range of features that ensures a smooth flow of information

Four strategies for rapid innovation during a crisis

‘Impact investing is going to be the mainstream’

Aavishkaar’s Vineet Rai believes that Covid-19 has forced the world’s richest people into thinking more about resilience than returns

Nearly 74 per cent of founders upbeat as productivity doubles during lockdown

IIM-B survey shows they are using the time to strategise, identify weaknesses and explore opportunities

Ashwidea: How a chemical engineer is helping connect corporates and NGOs

Ashwin Subramanian curates projects in the sustainability and development sectors

Using reinforcement learning for stock trading

Niveshi has built an automated intra-day quant trading platform that promises consistent returns

Tracking deals: Loadshare raises ₹100 cr in a Series B round

Crafting a tech-enabled supply chain for rural kirana stores

VilCart provides sourcing, logistic and marketing support to kirana stores

How the pandemic will impact the sharing economy

Driver-hiring platform DriveU’s founder shares his perspective on the future of mobility

Tracking deals: April 28, 2020

How to keep your business afloat in uncertain times: Conserve cash, plan survival

Investors tell start-up founders to focus on saving the business as Covid-19 rages and not worry about growth

Tracking deals

Creating a digital market for enterprise debt

Vivriti Capital brings together lenders and borrowers

An app that helps you Groww your money

The start-up aims to make investing easy and quick; has two million active monthly users

Seeking value at the bottom of the pyramid — the TABP way

This start-up manufactures beverages and snacks

A tech and touch play to lend to small enterprises

Prayaan Capital believes in being a continuous part of its customers’ journey

Plenty in the pipeline: Detect gears to crack the US oil and gas market

The start-up’s two main products — GUMPS and Noctua — have been commercially deployed in India