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Kicked off by the Centre, Startup India is now finding echoes across statesStartup India has started two important trends, the first being that it has catalysed states to back startups.
Vibrant Gujarat Startup & Technology Summit 2018 kicked off todayThe three-day long event co-organized by Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) and GESIA...
India Innovation Growth Programme earmarks USD 2 million funding for this yearSpeaking at the event, Tata Trusts Head Entrepreneurship and Innovations Manoj Kumar exhorted the need to have more participants in the pro...
Warangal gets its TiE, Angels chapter; SRiX opens incubator facilityKT Rama Rao, Minister for IT and industries, Telangana government, said, “This facility could be one of the largest incubators in tier-II r...
Why SIDBI’s rise as a sovereign fund is a game changer for venture capital industryThe trend in capital sourcing marks a silent revolution for the domestic venture capital industry, which has hitherto been majorly dependen...
Tata Trusts joins hands with Lockheed Martin, DST for IIGPThe first edition of the programme that began in 2007 and ran for a decade provided support of around USD 1 million per year to a total of ...
The rocky road to Startup India initiativeMore than two-thirds of the companies that applied for the scheme have been rejected by the nodal body - the Department of Industrial Polic...
Centre eases norms for startups to bid for government worksThis year, under the same initiative, they plan to bring in more number of start-ups along with bringing in more incubators under their net...
Department of Science and Technology launches Rs 100 crore programme to support startupsDST, which has so far supported 100 technology-focused incubators across the country, plans to support another 15-20 incubators this year.
Sidbi readies money for more startup fundsSIDBI has already committed a sum of Rs 168 crore so far to six alternative investment funds from the Rs 500 crore provided for the FFS in ...
Sidbi clears Rs 930 crore from fund-of-funds to support venture capital fundsSidbi’s India Aspiration Fund has screened 30 venture capital funds since its launch and has already issued sanction letters to more than h...
Arun Jaitley launches India Aspiration Fund to boost startups in IndiaArun Jaitley launched the India Aspiration Fund to be set up as a fund of funds under the Small Industries Development Bank of India.
Startups may enjoy excise duty, service tax waiver for a specified periodThe union government is in the process of gift-wrapping a bonanza for startups with proposals to exempt them from service tax and excise du...
Investors eager to help government spend its startup capitalMany set up new initiatives that use government money as a force multiplier to increase the amount of seed funding available to startups.
- Power of ideas 2012: Policy recommendations to boost entrepreneurship in India
A high-power committee has made a number of recommendations to the Planning Commission to invigorate the startup ecosystem. But industry in...
- Tech Dev Board ties up with Nokia to create entrepreneurs
Technology Development Board will launch a 'Knowledge to Wealth' initiative with Nokia next month to encourage entrepreneurship among stude...