The managing partner at Prime Venture Partners on why startups must use money as a tool and not a weapon, and how first wave of Digital India has aligned with other factors to create a heady environment for the birth of unicorns
One similarity between grammar and business is that both are defined by punctuation marks. As the recent unprecedented unicorn run of startups indicates, the magic is in knowing when and how the two go together
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Indian startups like BeatO and Oye! Rickshaw, were among 22 ventures that made it to the Forbes Asia '100 to watch' list, which comprises of 100 companies that are making an impact in the Asia-Pacific region across sectors like biotech & health sector, education & recruitment sector, food & hospitality sector, and more
Series B round was led by Eight Roads Ventures, Think Investments and the Mankekar Family Office
Existing backers Y Combinator and Better Capital also chipped in as a part of the edtech startup's Series A funding which saw Sai Krishnamurthy and Rashmi Kwatra, apart from Bansal, joining as new investors
The company's farm diagnostic equipment integrates sensors, mobile connectivity and decision tools for affordable monitoring and automation. It reduces aquaculture famers' risks and increases productivity
ConveGenius was launched to reach 100 million school students at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid, and in 2020 teaching through Whatsapp helped it grow 15X
Delivering diesel to where the customer is has the makings of a big business with modest gains for the environment too
As the pandemic makes Indians turn to the age-old formulations of holistic and preventive health care, startups are riding the internet wave into smaller cities