Conversational AI startups hear sound of money as demand risesInvestor interest in voice technology is rising sharply. Venture capital funding surged to $202 million in 2024 across 12 deals, up from $7...
22 Apr, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Robotics company Difacto raises $4.8 million from Stakeboat CapitalBengaluru-headquartered Difacto will use the funds to expand across sectors such as cars, home appliances and electronics, as investment an...
10 Jun, 2024, 10.59 AM IST
Companies hail tweaked advisory easing AI model rolloutThe revised advisory from the IT ministry does away with the provision that mandated intermediaries and platforms to get government permiss...
18 Mar, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Govt missive to seek nod to deploy LLMs to hurt small companies: startupsSeveral startups and companies developing LLMs, venture capitalists and experts told ET that such missives can kill startups trying to buil...
04 Mar, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Bootstrapped Ozonetel Communications gets first funding in 14 yearsStakeboat Capital has invested $5 million in Ozonetel Communications’ Series A funding round. The capital will be used by the cloud communi...
06 Oct, 2021, 09.04 PM IST
Desi demand spices up the Indian SaaS storyA recent NASSCOM report said that the Indian SaaS market is estimated to hit $3.3-3.4 billion by 2022. This will be largely on the back of ...
01 Nov, 2019, 09.11 AM IST
HUL wants its employees to think like an entrepreneurTo send mid-level executives to work at startups for 3 months to 2 years to instil entrepreneurial mindset and agility.
28 Nov, 2016, 12.46 AM IST
Global advertising firm WPP partners with cloud telephony company OzonetelAdvertising company WPP has partnered with Hyderabad based cloud-telephony company Ozonetel to utilise its suite of branding services.
29 Sep, 2015, 08.12 PM IST
Knowlarity eyes $100 million in revenue within three yearsKnowlarity, which has been funded by Sequoia and Mayfield, has a stated goal to reach $1 billion in valuation and serve millions of SMEs in...
03 Jun, 2015, 05.23 AM IST
Exotel eyes 90 per cent sales growth in 6 monthsCloud telephony works like a virtual call-centre that manages business and customer calls for third party customers, with minimal cost as t...
15 Apr, 2015, 10.24 PM IST
Service providers experiment with voice biometrics as an additional layer of security for remote transactionsIn India, a large number of solution providers utilising speech recognition and authentication are startups and growth-stage companies focu...
22 Nov, 2014, 03.20 AM IST
Startups adopting cloud telephony duck as storm brews in segmentZivame, Druva, red-Bus, CommonFloor and Ola are among the prominent startups that use cloud telephony services of either of these players.
15 Oct, 2014, 06.43 AM IST
Startups pitch for internet connectivity in rural areas with basic mobile phonesAn Avendus report in 2013 on India's mobile internet indicates that over 70% of data users and 50% of traffic still comes from basic phones.
23 Jul, 2014, 07.59 PM IST
Students from IITs, IIMs and other elite colleges prefer startups over big brands for internshipsStudents from a bevy of prestigious colleges in India and overseas are lining up in increasing numbers to intern at startup firms this summ...
07 Aug, 2012, 06.53 AM IST
Cloud telephony offer web-based, pay-per-use solutions to help firms and NGOs cut down on costsAll hardware associated with traditional telephony can be done away with using softphones, hosted interactive voice response systems and ot...
03 May, 2012, 02.40 PM IST
- Sequoia capital to mentor start-ups
In a move that underscores renewed focus on early stage investing, Sequoia Capital India is collaborating with Pluggd.in to identify and me...
15 Mar, 2011, 07.00 AM IST
- Starting up: Making cloud telephony affordable
Moving voice calls to cloud can be profitable. Ask Ozonetel.
11 Feb, 2011, 02.06 AM IST