Jamtaras everywhere: Mule accounts mushroom in new pockets as investigators target hotspotsAs cybercriminals shift their mule account operations from known hotspots to quieter Indian towns, authorities are scrambling to keep pace....
RBI in no hurry to launch digital currency: T Rabi ShankarThe Reserve Bank of India has no immediate plans for a nationwide CBDC launch, prioritizing cross-border arrangements and pilot projects fo...
Setu strengthens top deck with senior execs from Razorpay, PhonePe, WibmoPine Labs-owned fintech appoints Anand Raisinghani as CEO, brings in former leaders from Razorpay, Clear, and PhonePe across key roles.
IT sector adds fewer hands; BigBasket’s muted financialsHappy Friday! Hiring in India’s IT sector declined significantly in the April-June quarter. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatc...
Pine Labs-owned Setu partners Axis Bank for UPI-focused payments platformPine Labs' Setu has launched UPISetu, a UPI-focused payments platform in collaboration with Axis Bank. The platform supports diverse paymen...
Pine Labs-owned Setu teams up with Sarvam AI to build LLM for financial servicesPine Labs developed Sesame, a large language model for BFSI in India, with Setu and Sarvam AI. Sesame leverages financial data for credit u...
Setu gets in-principle RBI nod for account aggregator licencePine Labs acquired Setu in a cash-and-stock deal worth $70-75 million last month.
Digital payments provider Pine Labs acquires API infra firm Setu for $70-75 millionPost the acquisition, Setu will work independently and retain its brand entity and continue to serve its existing merchants and Pine Labs w...
API infra firm Setu raises $3.5m seedSetu was founded by Sahil Kini, a principal with Aspada Investments, and Nikhil Kumar, a fellow at iSPIRT Foundation.
Get your cosplay game right: Delhi gears up for the 8th edition of Comic ConThe festival will be held from December 7-9.
Keeping the flock together: The secret behind OYO retaining its top talentRetaining top talent is a bugbear for startups globally but OYO has bucked the trend. Biswarup Gooptu writes on how a startup run by a coll...
Lending to SMEs: How startups are grappling with the issue of combining tech and non-tech strategiesLending to SMEs is inherently tough on multiple counts. Most SMEs operate in the informal economy and sourcing data on them is tough and of...
BHIM app: 'A technology ecosystem for the poor'You may not remember this mobile app in some years as much as you’ll remember the digital payment ecosystem that Bharat Interface for Money...
Personal task management startup Dunzo raises $650K Pre-Series A fundingThe dunzo app, with its full stack approach, leverages both AI and human operators in providing solutions for consumers’ everyday tasks. Th...
Reverie Technologies raises $4 million in Series A fundingFounded in 2010, Reverie devises full-stack solutions to translate, transliterate, input, and search on the web in dozens of Indian languag...
Etailers like Amazon, TaxiForSure are designing technology suited for delivery boysTake for example ecommerce giant Amazon, which provides each of its 7,000 delivery boys a tablet equipped with automated realtime tools for...