Tag: health and safety

Health-tech startup HealthPlix raises $6mn in Series B funding round

Bengaluru-based health-tech startup HealthPlix recently said that it has raised $6mn in Series B funding round. The funding round was led by a new investor in the company, JSW Ventures. JSW Ventures is the venture capital arm of Jindal family-backed JSW Group. The funding round also saw participation from existing investors like Chiratae Ventures and…

PayTM Gurugram employee tests positive for coronavirus

Fintech unicorn PayTM recently announced that it has decided to shut all its 6 offices in Delhi-NCR for at least two days after one of its employees from Gurugram tested positive for COVID-19 (Coronavirus). PayTM has five offices in Noida and one in Gurugram, Haryana. In an official statement, the company informed that it asked…

Intel employee “potentially” exposed to COVID-19, under quarantine

Tech giant Intel recently confirmed that one of its employees based in Bengaluru has “potentially been exposed” to the novel coronavirus and is currently under quarantine. As the death toll due to the virus crossed the 3,000 mark, corporations around the globe have begun to take preventive measures to safeguard their employees’ health. The company…

CoronaVirus causing the world’s largest work from home experiment

The novel coronavirus outbreak, which began from Chinese city Wuhan in December, has now infected more than 67,000 people and killed over 1,500 in China alone. With the World Health Organization declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the virus has shut forced the Chinese economy on its knees with many analysts failing…