Yes, Sri Lanka also has startups, and plenty of them! One of India’s most prolific investors Rajan Anandan hails from Sri Lanka and he is actively involved in the local Sri Lankan startup arena as well. Rajan co-founded Blue Ocean Ventures along with Prajeeth Balasubramaniam to invest in promising Sri Lankan startups and they also [...] Read More
ShoppingWish recently got funded via angel investors that include Silicon Valley based Sandeep Johri.
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) India in association with British Airways and YourStory.in is happy to announce winners of the “UKTI Calling India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK” contest launched earlier this year to discover India’s most innovative companies who are looking to scale globally with UK as their growth partner.
Sometimes, good old experience is very understated. In this world of 18 years olds discovering supercapacitors that will recharge your batteries in 30 seconds, the world looks for these outliers to celebrate and cherish. Our own Techie Tuesdays has been guilty of it to an extent – with young college dropouts going on to prove [...] Read More
At YourStory jobs fair, the makers of Friday and Iris were the winners of our awesome startup workplaces contest. The announcement of the companies happened before the actual job fair itself and they carried a lot of the awesome quotient forward into the their countless interactions with the 5000 odd people who have come to [...] Read More
Well, you have your startup, you have your colleagues and then there’s the client.
A growing startup space like India needs all the support it can get and accelerators play a big role in this. Accelerators are typically three to six month programs where 10-15 startups are picked and put together giving them support in terms of finance, infrastructure, mentorship and networks. India has seen host accelerators coming over [...] Read More
Sometimes opportunities knock at our door at the wildest of circumstances and take us off guard. For Amit Dubey and his team members at Heuristics Info, this happened with 26\11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. During this unfortunate incident the police was late to learn about the attacks and in the interim Railway Protection Force (RPF) guards [...] Read More
Hector Beverages, the makers of energy drink Tzinga, has closed $8m investment round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from existing investors Catamaran Ventures and Footprint Ventures. Hector will use the funds primarily for marketing and expansion of production capacity. Neeraj Kakkar, Hector’s CEO said, “We are delighted to have Sequoia Capital as a partner in this journey. [...] Read More
We had recently written about what the ideal 3rd OS for developers would be, most developers said that Windows would be the third platform of choice. So when a leading Indian app company decides to build for BlackBerry 10 instead, we decided to probe a little further. Sunil Patro of SignEasy shared some interesting insights [...] Read More
