Category: News

ITILITE partners with ICICI Bank

ITILITE, an all-in-one business travel and expense management platform, has announced an exclusive tie-up with ICICI Bank to issue commercial credit cards to businesses in the country. With this, companies can now get an ‘ICICI Bank Central Travel Account Card (CTA card)’ and make travel bookings for employees seamlessly at a discounted rate on the…

Heritage Foods announces board appointment

Heritage Foods, a private sector dairy enterprise based in Southern India, announced the appointment of Muthu Raju Paravasa Raju Vijay Kumar as a Non-Executive Independent Director, effective November 1, 2021. According to the exchange filing, “the Board of Directors of the Company have approved the appointment of Mr. Muthu Raju Paravasa Raju Vijay Kumar (DIN:…

CarDekho appoints Mayank Gupta as CFO

CarDekho Group, India’s auto-tech company, has further fortified its leadership team by appointing Mr Mayank Gupta as Chief Financial Officer. Mayank will oversee financial, compliance, legal and investor relations areas and will also be responsible for managing the processes for financial planning and reporting, risk management, etc as the company looks ahead to an IPO.…

Atlassian ranks among top 25 companies globally

Atlassian Corporation Plc, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software and the maker of Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello, announced that it has been ranked 23rd in the World’s Best Workplaces 2021 by Great Place to Work. In India, the company is also certified as one of the 2021 Best Workplaces and ranked…

Web Werks appoints Durgesh Pandey as CFO

Data center provider Web Werks has appointed Durgesh Pandey as its Chief Finance Officer (CFO). In his new role, he will be responsible for the management of all financial processes in India for all the legal entities, partnering in the formulation of the overall organisation strategy & facilitating business growth. Owing to his rich and…

Deutsche Bank appoints Essence to lead multi-brand portfolio media campaigns

Global data and measurement-driven media agency Essence will become Deutsche Bank’s new lead media agency from 1 January 2022. “Essence is the ideal partner to have at our side. Essence thinks through campaigns based on data from the customer’s point of view – and scales and distributes them together with their global network GroupM,” said…

Former Sun Pharma exec Ranjan Revandkar joins HDB Financial Services as CISO

HDB Financial Services, a Non-Banking Financial Company and a subsidiary company of HDFC Bank, has roped in Ranjan Revandkar as Chief Information Security Officer. In this new role, Ranjan will be leading the cybersecurity and risk management domains at the financial services company, a statement said. Previously, he was associated with India’s pharmaceutical giant Sun…

Scaler Academy acquires Coding Minutes

Edtech startup Scaler has acquired online learning platform Coding Minutes for USD 1 million in an all-cash deal. This is the second acquisition for the startup. In August, Scaler acquired Coding Elements to accelerate business growth, leading to their Data Science & Machine Learning vertical launch, a statement added. Bootstrapped by Prateek Narang,  Mohit Uniyal and Jatin Virmani, Coding Minutes was started in…

Deepinder Goyal joins Unacademy Board of Directors

Edtech startup Unacademy appointed Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato on the company’s Board of Directors. Deepinder is an investor in Unacademy and participated in the company’s Series H fundraise in August. Commenting on the development, Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder & CEO, Unacademy Group said, “Deepinder has been an advisor for several years and it was…

MetricStream names Aravind Varadharajan to lead India business

MetricStream, the company that provides governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) products and solutions, announced Senior Vice President Aravind Varadharajan’s expanded role as Managing Director of India. Based in Singapore, Aravind will now oversee the growth trajectory for the company in India.  As part of the company’s continued expansion in APAC where organizations are adopting digital…

Microsoft announces proposed election of Carlos A. Rodriguez as Board member

Microsoft Corp. announced the nomination of Carlos A. Rodriguez, president and CEO of Automatic Data Processing (ADP), to the Microsoft board of directors. Rodriguez will be presented for election at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, which will be held Nov. 30, 2021, the statement said. “Carlos is an accomplished business leader and his experience accelerating…

Mala Todarwal appointed to Angel Broking Board

Angel Broking appointed Mala Todarwal as an Additional Non-Executive Woman Independent Director on the Board of the Company, effective October 20, 2021. According to the company’s exchange filing, “the Board of Directors of the Company has approved appointment of Ms. Mala Todarwal (DIN:06933515) as an Additional Non-Executive Woman Independent Director on the Board of the…

Liberwin Announces the launch of Its Skill-based Gigwork Platform

Bangalore-based tech startup Liberwin Technologies has announced the launch of its skill-based Gigwork Platform “Liberwin” to transform the global landscape of future-of-work and democratize the way talent meets the work. According to a statement, “The AI-powered new age platform has both Enterprise (B2B) and Freelance (B2C) editions and desires to storm the fast-growing global HRTech…

Deci Raises $21M to Enable the World to Benefit from the Full Potential of AI

Deci, the deep learning development company that helps enterprises build, optimize, and deploy AI to production, has announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A round led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners. Deci’s existing investors Square Peg, Emerge and Jibe Ventures participated in the round and…

Lacework and Snowflake Partner to Enable Better Cloud Security Analytics and Insights

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company and Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, have announced a product integration and go-to-market partnership. “Clari was among the first to recognize the power of combining Lacework’s security intelligence with Snowflake’s business intelligence,” said Steve Lukose, Director of Security Engineering at Clari. “Together, we created dashboards that enable us to track…