Make some noise: Voice technology is revolutionizing economic activities in Bharat — you just didn't know about itVoice holds the power to open up incredible economic opportunities for the underserved mass of people who come under the umbrella term of ‘...
Chinese app ban opens the field for Vokal, Trell and other local tech venturesOver the last two years, Chinese companies such as TikTok, Likee, Club Factory and SheIn, had made deep inroads into India's fast-growing d...
Desi clones Roposo, Chingari, Mitron rush to fill space vacated by TikTokBengaluru-based Chingari has seen one million new users in the last 24 hours. As of Tuesday afternoon, it had about 3.5 million downloads.
Startups ask government to taken steps to flatten the coronavirus curveStartups like Urban Company, Bounce, Cred, Snapdeal, Unacademy, 1MG have supported the findings of the report.
Local language content cos help stem fake infoJosh Talks has added advisories in eight regional languages to all its videos and started a special series featuring doctors and medical pr...
Stellaris, Fosun and others fund Lithius Energy“Making shared mobility work reliably at scale, while keeping it affordable and convenient, is a massive technology problem. We spent many ...
Xiaomi, VC arm to pick 10% in mobility startup chalo.comThe deal, which is part of Xiaomi’s efforts to increase its presence in the Indian mobile application space, values chalo.com at around Rs ...
Budget 2019: Onus on Govt to separate few questionable transactions from genuine startupsAprameya Radhakrishna, Co-founder and CEO, Vokal, says startups are looking forward to the government abolishing ‘angel tax’ forever.
Manch raises Rs 5 cr led by Stellaris Venture PartnersThe company which is founded by Pritam Roy an alumni of IIT Bombay and Hari Sunkari, an alumni of Osmania University, will use the cash to ...
Why some founders love starting from scratchEntrepreneurs who have successfully sold startups are on their second innings, inspired by the joy of building a new venture
Here's why investors are queuing up to back Indian language content startupsThe first wave of Indian language content startups with entertainment as the theme has already garnered a lot of attention from investors i...
China’s Shunwei Capital raises $1.21 b for its latest global fundChinese early-and growth-stage venture capital fund Shunwei Capital has raised one of its largest funds yet at $1.21 billion.
myUpchar raises $5 million from Nexus, Omidyar and ShunweiThe company will use the newly infused funds to further strengthen its voice, video and virtual reality interfaces along with the developme...
Vokal, the P2P info-sharing space for Bharat, raises $5 millionVokal’s big bet is on the use of voice as a medium to ask questions in regional languages. Users get on to the platform to get their dose o...
Google kicks off its India focused Launchpad AcceleratorThis Bengaluru based initiative comes on the back of Google’s global Launchpad Accelerator, wherein selected startups were taken to San Fra...
Vokal acquihires quizzing app company StupidChatThe StupidChat Technologies team has been assigned roles spread across product design and technology verticals.
How Indian startups gear up to take on the voice assistants of Apple, Amazon and GoogleFrom asking Siri existential questions, to ordering Alexa to give us the weather report, India’s gadget aficionados have come a long way in...