Girish Shetti

A writer with a passion for tech, marketing, and sports, he delivers captivating articles for the tech enthusiasts. Girish’s expertise in technology and startup analysis brings insightful content and the latest trends to our readers. He loves being the ‘first’ to know(and write) all that’s happening in the world of Tech and startups.

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Funding News

Agritech startup Waycool Foods Secures Series C Funding Round

B2B Agritech startup Waycool Foods has raised whooping $35 Mn in series C funding round led by venture capital firm Lightbox. This is the biggest funding round raised by Chennai based startup, which last year reportedly raised nearly Rs 120 crore in equity and debt financing round. Agritech startup Waycool Foods raises $35 Mn in fresh…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 7, 20200Comments

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Agri-Logistic Startup Leap India Leaps forward with series B funding

Agri-logistic startup, Leap India Food & Logistics, has added to its funding muscle after raising nearly Rs 164 crore in a series B funding round, according to Economic Times (ET). ET report claims that Danish SDG Investment Fund and existing investor Neev Fund spearheaded the round. former Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan owns stake in Leap…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 6, 20200Comments

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Snapdeal co-founders Peddles Investment in Bicycle Startup Frog

AlphaVector, which operates India’s home grown bicycle brand Frog, has raised undisclosed amount of capital from Avaana Capital and Titan Capital. Apart from these two firms, no other investors reportedly participated in the funding round. Kunal Bahl, Co-founder of Snapdeal. Titan Capital is an investment arm of Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, marking their entry…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 5, 20200Comments

Business Featured Finance

An unboxing of the Budget 2020 with a side of bettering your Personal Finances

The Budget 2020 has brought mixed feelings among the common man as well as some industry experts. Although the longest ever budget speech has brought relief to some it has aroused confusion in most others. We got some clarity by watching Akash Banerjee’s ‘Unboxing Budget 2020 - Highlights & Analysis’. While he provided us with some much-needed information…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 4, 20200Comments

News

Indian Startups Give Underwhelming Response to the Union Budget

While Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history on Saturday by giving one of the longest budget speeches in India’s history, the startup industry did not find much substance in a record-breaking two hours and 45 minutes long budget. Although the finance minister did touch on few contentious issues like ESOP dual taxation issue, the industry…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 3, 20200Comments

Funding News

Weekly Startup Funding: Tiger Global makes first Indian Investment after Raising new Funding Corpus

This week witnessed decent surge in the funding activities, with three startups raising moderately high funding rounds. The week also witnessed lot of buzz around the upcoming budget as startups desperately hope for some tax relief and bold measures to foster long term growth. Keeping aside the buzz around the budget, we now turn our…

ByGirish ShettiFebruary 1, 20200Comments

News

Indian Startups Wish list from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Barely 24 hours from now, India’s Union Finance minister will unveil the budget for the financial year 2020-21 and expectedly the budget has already caused lot of anticipation in the Indian startup industry. Although the startup industry greets every budget with great sense of hope, this time the eagerness is more palpable due to concerns…

ByGirish ShettiJanuary 31, 20200Comments

News

SoftBank and Tiger Global may become part of Govt’s Startup Advisory Panel: Report

Few weeks back it was reported that Indian government is seriously mooting the idea of setting up an advisory panel that will be dedicated towards fostering the growth of the Indian startup ecosystem. According to Economic Times (ET), the panel would include CEOs and co-founders of some of the most high profile Indian startups including…

ByGirish ShettiJanuary 30, 20200Comments

Funding News

Xoogler.co Community to Held Startup Pitch Event (Demo Day) in Bengaluru

Xoogler.co - a unique community that has been solely formed to help ex-Google entrepreneurs to fulfill their startup ambitions - is all set to launch the first Demo Day of 2020 in Bengaluru on February 2nd. This event will be like any other startup pitch event wherein startups run by ex-Google entrepreneurs can pitch their…

ByGirish ShettiJanuary 29, 20200Comments

Utility focussed

Real Estate platform Uniplatform Raises Undisclosed amount of Funding

Uniplatform Tech, a technology company that operates real estate SaaS platform called MultiplyMyLeads.com, has scooped up undisclosed amount of funding from investors. Frontline Strategy Funds, SucSEED Venture Partners LLP and other investors spearheaded the round. The company said that it will use the funds to launch and expand its services in New Delhi region. L-Amit Jaiswal,…

ByGirish ShettiJanuary 28, 20200Comments

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