Google has funded homegrown agritech startup Cropin in its latest Rs 113 crore round that also saw participation from JSR Corporation and existing investors ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures, according to IANS report. The funds will aid in expanding Cropin Cloud, the company’s intelligent agriculture cloud platform, to cater to the growing demand for digitisation and predictive intelligence…
Cub McPaws (Pochemuchka Kids Pvt Ltd), a tech-driven ecosystem of next-gen kids, has raised a total of $2.2M in Pre-Series A funding from senior executives from Facebook, Google and a few family offices. Existing investors also participated in the current round. Cub McPaws offers a range of products that are loved by kids and parents…
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s premier communications solutions providers, and Google announced that they will partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem. Together, they will work to bring best-in-class end-to-end products to serve customer needs, provide quality customer experience, and bring their expertise to solve problems of…
RBL Bank and Google announced a strategic collaboration to fuel the Bank’s customer experience strategy and expand its value proposition to serve its rapidly growing customer base through its digital platform, Abacus 2.0. This collaboration will enable better customer data management, and analytics, enabling effective cross-selling within the Bank’s large customer base and subsequently reducing…
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), the principal financial institution engaged in the promotion, financing and development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), has entered into a collaboration with Google for having a social impact lending programme with financial assistance up to Rs.100 lakh at competitive interest rates targeted at micro enterprises. A company statement said, “This one-of-a-kind programme…
Drip Capital, Inc., a digital cross-border trade finance platform offering financing solutions to small and medium businesses (SMBs), has announced that Rahul Nath has joined its leadership team as the new Product Head. Based in Palo Alto, California, Rahul brings over 13 years of experience across roles spanning Strategy & Operations, New Product Development, and…
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has successfully completed the final placement process of its One Year Full Time Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) at the end of July. Prof. Ankur Sinha, Chairperson of the Placement Committee said, “We had record placements for our PGPX Batch of 2021 in the history…
Google’s video streaming and sharing platform YouTube has signed a definitive agreement to acquire video-based social commerce startup simsim, according to ETTelecom report. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The deal builds towards Google’s ongoing investments in India, such as the India Digitization Fund worth $10 billion. “Online video will continue to grow as the primary way to find…
Days seem to blend together. Afternoons suddenly turn to nights. Weekdays and weekends become interchangeable. Our concept of time has been completely disrupted, making it simpler than ever to work (or think about work) nonstop. Many of us are struggling to balance the responsibilities of work and child care while dealing with the stress of…
ColorTokens Inc., a Zero Trust cybersecurity platform company, has announced that it appointed Vats Srivatsan as its President and Chief Operating Officer. Srivatsan brings in three decades of experience, including executive roles at various companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Google In his most recent position as the chief strategy officer at Palo Alto Networks,…
Google-backed Delivery startup operating in eight cities of India – Dunzo Digital Private Ltd has raised $140 million and seeks to raise another $150 million in 2021. “The expansion only really starts next year at full pace, so we’ll raise the capital this year, but it gets deployed only next year,” informed Kabeer Biswas, 36-year-old…
Google vice-president Caesar Sengupta to step down after a 15-year stint at the company. His last day will be April 30. He joined the company in 2006. “After 15 wonderful years at Google, I have decided to venture out and start on a new mission. I remain very positive about Google’s future but it’s time…
Google is planning to invest over $7 billion in the United States in the current year and is also aiming to create ten thousand jobs, CEO of the tech giant said on Thursday. “We plan to invest over $7 billion in offices and data centers across the US and create at least 10,000 new full-time Google jobs…
TalentSprint, a leading EdTech platform and NSE group company, announced the launch of the third cohort of the Women Engineers Program (WE) with support from Google. TalentSprint WE was conceived in 2019 to address the gender disparity seen in the tech industry. Given the highly encouraging industry acceptance for previous cohort participants, the third cohort…
Ride-hailing major Uber has extended work-from-home policy for its employees till September 13, as California continues to show a dramatic decline in the number of Covid-19 cases, according to IANS report. Uber is also encouraging employees to get vaccinated when it’s possible to do so, reports TechCrunch. “In considering the extension, we took into account…