VCs baffled by SoftBank's massive $100 billion tech fundSoftBank shocked VCs worldwide last October when it announced plans to raise a $100 billion "SoftBank Vision Fund" — a tech fund larger tha...
03 Aug, 2017, 08.53 AM IST
Inside Rocket Internet’s Ailing Startup FactoryMangrove Chief Executive Officer Mark Tluszcz regrets getting involved with Rocket and says Nestpick’s survival is far from assured.
08 Oct, 2016, 12.57 PM IST
WudStay: Teaching Hospitality to HotelsWudStay is competing on multiple fronts, where at one end it is competing with players like Oyo and on the other battling world's second mo...
04 Aug, 2016, 03.50 PM IST
Budget hotel aggregator WudStay ventures into retirement homesStartup WudStay Pride has already signed up with 25 retirement homes in Delhi NCR and Mumbai, offering close to 750 rooms.
08 Mar, 2016, 12.06 PM IST
Hotel startup WudStay partners with Spice Hotspot to enhance travel experience on smartphoneSpice Hotspot will enable its customers to book WudStay properties at discounted rates with exclusive deals and packages for Spice Hotspot ...
04 Feb, 2016, 03.06 PM IST
Budget hotel aggregator WudStay to provide paying guest accommodations to working professionals and studentsThe startup has already signed up with 50 PGs in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kota offering close to 2,500 beds.
17 Dec, 2015, 04.02 AM IST
Microsoft ties up with Wudstay to facilitate hotel bookings on Windows platformMicrosoft has entered into a partnership with budget accommodation marketplace Wud-Stay to facilitate hotel bookings on the Windows platfor...
15 Oct, 2015, 05.33 AM IST
Wudstay to add 30 more cities in the kitty by 2016Online budget accommodation aggregator Wudstay is looking to ramp up presence in 30 more cities by next year as part of its expansion plan ...
04 Oct, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
WudStay acquires Awesome Stays for undisclosed amount to enter 6 new marketsThe acquisition marks WudStay's entry into six new markets including Varanasi, Goa, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Pune.
12 Aug, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
OYO Rooms get funding worth Rs 635 crore from SoftBank, othersThe startup, founded three years ago by college dropout Ritesh Agarwal, now 21, is expected to be valued at about $400 million (Rs 2,500 cr...
14 Jul, 2015, 01.31 PM IST
Wudstay.com raises $3 million from Mangrove Capital, Nimbuzz's Vikas SaxenaThe Gurgaon-based company will use the funds to expand its presence to 50 cities in India including Delhi, Agra and Udaipur.
07 Jul, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Mangrove invests $250 million in India's e-commerce, internet and telecom startupsThe venture capital fund will look at investing in companies that offer disruptive models in the e-commerce and telecom space, for an inves...
10 Feb, 2015, 04.31 AM IST
- Bengal tiger confronts a new creature: Development
A plan drawn up by the state government will see building of roads, hotels and other tourism infrastructure in ecologically sensitive Sunda...
07 Feb, 2015, 01.17 PM IST
Threat to tigers: Mamta Banerjee's govt to build roads, hotels in SundarbansThe CMwants to make sure everybody can afford to visit the mangroves. To this end, the tourism dept floated a tender seeking the establishm...
07 Feb, 2015, 04.59 AM IST
Smile Group to overhaul biz model of DealsandYou after closing footwear portalSmile Group, one of the earliest Indian firms to foray into e-commerce, is restructuring its businesses in a bid to make a comeback in the ...
01 Jan, 2015, 05.01 AM IST
- Driven by India, Nimbuzz eyes 400 million users by 2014
Instant messaging platform Nimbuzz expects the Indian market to be one of the main drivers in touching the 400-million userbase mark in the...
19 Aug, 2012, 02.06 PM IST
Venture capital beats private equity as Indian start-ups attract millions of dollars in fundingInvestment in start-ups totalled just $300 mn in 2010. But last year, it expanded more than four-fold, making up $1.2 bn of the $9.3 bn in ...
08 Feb, 2012, 11.29 AM IST