Enterprise
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Cannabis startups chase opportunities despite low awareness and legal challenges
With gradually growing investor interest, startups working with industrial hemp hope to become part of a global boom where the plant is used in sectors ranging from medicines to textiles
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Indian samurai: A founder and his fight to find an investor
Ram Kumar fought in vain for two years as funders shied away from backing his online ayurvedic platform NirogStreet. Then came Japanese VC firm Spiral Ventures in 2018...
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Cheat for profit: How Chegg became the most valuable edtech company in the US
Students have always cheated, but the Covid-19-driven shift to online learning has turned a problem into an epidemic. This US edtech company is spinning profits by connecting college students to test answers on demand
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Startup Circle: How Digantara, set up by a 22-year-old, is solving the problem of space debris
Digantara, India's first aerospace company, is developing an in-orbit device that will track and monitor debris in space. With countries and companies world over launching space exploration missions, the problem of space junk has become huge
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Bandhan Bank aims for the big league
Bandhan Bank is working to reduce its exposure to microfinance, in which it was rooted, and is now focusing on deposits and loans to drive growth
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Startup Circle: How SquadStack helps businesses drive a 5-10x improvement in their sales conversions
SquadStack helps businesses improve their sales conversions by leveraging Artificial Intelligence to hyper-personalise the sales process for the end customer. The company's clients include Walmart, Pearson, the Tata group, Zomato, and Upgrad, among others.
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Getting expertise is a big problem in India: Inito's Aayush Rai
Inito—a company which builds an all-in-one medical device to enable dozens of diagnostic tests at home, has seen a spike in demand since the Covid-19 outbreak; its cofounder talks about how it equipped itself to increase supply and the challenge of getting expert talent in India
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The 16-year-old who can save your home from fire
Sixteen-year-old Shiv Kampani has created a device using IoT that detects gas leaks, and alerts users and the fire brigade via SMS and calls
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HungerBox: Famished for growth
Having grown over four times in two years, HungerBox was gunning for more. Then came Covid-19. Can the institutional foodtech startup now keep the fire in its belly intact?
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From ShareChat to Amazon, Indic language support gains traction
ShareChat, widely seen as the largest Indian social media venture, has raised a fresh round of funding as well, to double down on product development and to expand the reach of its new short-video creation and sharing platform, Moj
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Startup Circle: How NavGurukul is transforming the lives of low-income youth through coding
In the recent past several startups including Byju's, Unacademy, Vedantu and Toppr have started offering coding classes in a bid to attract more students. But amidst this frenzy, one startup, NavGurukul, a Bengaluru-based NGO has been plugging away at the space since 2016 offering a one year residential programme to low-income youth to teach them software coding. They're also guaranteed a job at the end of it.