Mavenir – end-to-end cloud-native network software provider – has announced the appointment of Dipesh Ranjan to Senior Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific. With more than two decades of experience and expertise in fast-moving technology trends including cloud, AI, software-defined and zero trust networks, Dipesh will lead Mavenir’s go-to-market strategy to accelerate and accommodate…
Chennai-based, Rs 4000 crore worth business group, Kalpathi Group has launched a new ed-tech firm, Veranda Learning Solution, with an initial investment of Rs 50 crore. Suresh Kapathi, one of the founders, has announced that the firm will hire 1,000 employees in one year, 75% of which would be regular staff. Veranda Learning Solutions will…
Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE-IIITH) Avishkar accelerator program startup Instoried raises $1 million from pre-series A round of investment, with Mumbai Angels leading the round, and follow-on investments from Venture Catalysts’ 9 Unicorns Fund London-based JPIN and others. Commenting on Instoried’s successful funding, Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, CIE-IIITH said, “All our programs target early-stage deep-tech…
After Aadhaar, UPI (Unified Payments Interface) has been the single biggest contributor towards ushering in digitization in India. Launched in 2016, it has by now transformed the economy in innumerable ways… How has such a transformation come about?
Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley start-up accelerator has picked 28 Indian start-ups for its 2019 winter batch, which is more than double of their earlier batch from India. Last year the strength was at 12 for its summer batch, said sources familiar with the development.* This is a significant increase from the past few years…
ELEVATE is an initiative by Government of Karnataka to provide a comprehensive entrepreneurship platform for startups. The Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, and science and technology have shortlisted 77 startups out of 250 finalists for Elevate 2018. These top technology-based startups chosen through a rigorous hunt across Karnataka State will receive a whopping sum of…
Headstart one of India’s oldest and largest startup ecosystem development organizations has has launched #StartupSaturday, its flagship event in Gurugram with IILM University as Knowledge Partner. Headstart is a volunteer driven not-for-profit organization. The volunteers are a passionate bunch comprising – entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship enthusiasts, with a fervent desire and commitment to being change…