Startup India: Policies abound but limited impact on groundMooted with the objective of creating a conducive ecosystem for startups, an assessment of its impact a year on puts a spotlight on the cha...
India's bleeding startups stare at a harsh summer, hands out pink slips to hundredsWhile the trouble at Snapdeal has grabbed attention, others such as Craftsvilla, YepMe and Tolexo are among the startups that have fired st...
Chinese fund ZDream acquires Xeler8Xeler8 offers a database of Indian startups, covering 47 industries, with curated information on their business models, funding, founder de...
Startups won’t be the first choice on campus in 2017In August 2016, the IIT placement committee, for the first time, barred 31 startups — including Grofers, Zomato, Portea Medical and Babajob...
Flipkart sees highest number of senior exits among e-commerce peersFrom CFO Sanjay Baweja, CTO Peeyush Ranjan, the list of high-profile exits at the e-commerce marketplace has been long.
Dheeraj Jain: Meet India's most prolific angel investor this yearDheeraj Jain spent the first few months to understand the ecosystem, went to several startup events and kept relentlessly hunting for his m...
Global investors scout Indian startups for next Infosys, WiproOf the 82 Indian SaaS companies that received investments this year, almost one third of them have been funded by global investors.
288 start-ups cumulatively raised $1.36 billion in Q3; lowest till now: Xeler8Delhi-NCR continued to hold the top position with the highest number of deals (98) constituting one-third of the total deal size, followed ...
Startups take concierge services to aam aadmi's doorstepsConcierge or personal assistance services, which were conventionally used by the wealthy or corporates are now becoming more commonplace an...
Layoffs in startups: What's the other side of India's entrepreneurship story?As funding dries up and ventures either flame out or slowly grind their way to an inevitable death, it is the workforce that’s proving to b...
Travel planning startups going places despite funding gloom56 companies were founded in travel sector since January, with 20 coming up in the past three months alone.
Startup M&As see three-fold jump in July on funds crunchData from Tracxn, another startup research firm, also shows a significant increase from the second half of last year, when funding started ...
Recycling companies stymied by unorganised players struggle to scale upThe startups are seeking effective quality norms for recycled products and homogenous applicability of tax laws to plug leakages.
How failing helps you get starting up rightA recent study by startup tracker Xeler8 shows that 43.7 per cent of startups have gone bust since June 2014, most of them in hyped sectors.
Nearly one in every two new startups fails: StudyAs many as 997 (43.7%) of 2,281 startups have had to down their shutters since June 2014, shows latest data with market research firm Xeler...
Significant rise in mergers and acquisitions in startup space with 48 deals in past three monthsWhether it is a strategic move to eliminate competition, or to take advantage of the conducive market situation, startups are looking at ac...
Top 10 angel investors support 425 Indian startupsGoogle India MD Rajan Anandan is by far No. 1, with investments in at least 80 startups. Following him are Sunil Kalra and Anupam Mittal.