Lookup, a free and secure messaging app, raises $2.5 millionIn January this year, Lookup had raised $382,000 in its seed round from Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, DeNA Japan, Beenos founder ...
Deepak Ravindran: A dropout who is now his college's biggest hirerMeet Lookup's Deepak Ravindran, a CEOentrepreneur who chose funding over finishing college and got his competition to invest in his venture.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone invests in Deepak Ravindran's start-up LookupImpressed with the 27-year-old's roster of accomplishments, Stone soon committed an undisclosed amount to Lookup, and decided to advise the...
Messaging app Lookup raises rs 2.4 crore from two Japanese investorsRavindran shut his earlier start-up Innoz, which provided an SMS-based search service for feature phone users, last year and started up aga...
Evernote scouts for partnerships with Indian software makersThe company partnered with 3M to turn handwritten Post-It Notes into digital notes that can be saved, shared or viewed from anywhere.
Sequoia India leads Truecaller funding roundTruecaller, a Sweden-based caller id company, has secured $18.8 million (Rs 117.5 crore) in a series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital...
- Global mentors share tips with young guns at startup village
The group's stopover in Kerala comes midway through their journey route that covers 25,000 nautical miles to reach 14 countries in 100 days.
Will BlackBerry 10 give Kochi a global head start?The largely student-developer crowd at the BlackBerry Innovation Zone in Kochi’s Startup Village has developed nearly 150 apps for BB10.
- Innoz Technologies develops SMS-based Operating System
Innoz Technologies has developed an innovative Operating System 'Innoz OS' for mobile phones that will give access to internet through SMS.
More than funding, it is mentorship that is needed, says Kris Gopalakrishnan"More than funding, it is mentorship that is needed. Funds will be available if there is a good idea," says the Infosys co-chairman.
Four Indian startups win a boat trip for global mentoringFour Indian startups have been chosen for a 100-day ship voyage that will help entrepreneurs showcase products to international investors.
Power of Ideas 2012: Start-up Innoz creates text message platform for plain mobile phonesInnoz, founded in 2008, has built a service that reaches out to a large chunk of India’s mobile subscribers who use plain or feature phones...
Power of Ideas 2012: Car rental start-up Savaari.com creating vendor network across IndiaSavaari.com, started by Aggarwal and three co-founders, is an online car rental company that currently services 60 cities across the countr...
Power of Ideas 2012: Unmetric provides corporates with social tools to understand competitors' strategyThe start-up provides tools which help restaurants & spas use social tools to understand their competitors’ social media strategy.
- Seed Fund to invest Rs 80 cr in current fiscal
Seed Fund Advisors, the venture capital (VC) fund that invests in early-stage companies, is planning to invest around Rs 80 crore in the cu...
- Tata Communications partners with IIM-A to encourage enterpreurship
Tata Communications, a Tata group company, today said it has partnered with IIM-A's flagship programme- iAccelerate- to encourage enterpren...
- Startup atmosphere is helping entrepreneurship take root in small towns
An evolving startup ecosystem is helping entrepreneurship take root in places far away from our big cities.