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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Trade Finance startup Drip Capital strikes Partnership with Canvs

Prominent Fintech startup Drip Capital has sealed a partnership with Canvs – a leading community of designers – for fulfilling plethora of design and technological solutions. As part of this deal, Canvs helped in completely redesigning Drip Capital’s seller portal, which will help sellers to effortlessly create & manage invoice limits as well as using…

ByGirish ShettiDecember 3, 20190Comments

Funding News

Amid Slowdown Accel India Announces $550 Mn Funding Corpus

Accel India, part of the Silicon Valley based Accel Partners and one of the prominent investors in India’s startup ecosystem, has raised nearly $550 Mn for its sixth India focused fund. The latest funding corpus has been raised almost after the period of three years and is also among its largest funding corpus for India.…

ByGirish ShettiDecember 3, 20190Comments

Funding News

Insurance Startup Acko Raises $16 Mn in Fresh Round: Report

After getting $65 Mn funding boost in March this year, insurance startup Acko General has now raised $16 Mn in a fresh funding round. Venture capital firm Ascent Capital, according to company’s latest filing with the registrar of companies (RoC) spearheaded the funding round. Reports further claims that no other prominent investors participated in the…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 29, 20190Comments

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Mindtree co-founder Rostow Ravanan Wants a Pie in Fast Growing SaaS Market

Rostow Ravanan, co-founder of India’s mid-size IT company Mindtree, is apparently the latest member to make debut in India’s burgeoning startup industry. According to Economic Times (ET) report, Ravanan is all set to start a software as a Service (SaaS) startup that will primarily concentrate on healthcare and manufacturing sectors. The co-founder may very well sell…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 27, 20190Comments

Acquisitions

Global Crypto Exchange Binance Acquires Indian Crypto player WazirX

It is no secret that India’s cryptocurrency industry is going through period of great uncertainty due to regulatory clampdowns and lack of clarity on account of government policies. In such testing times, it was only matter of time that the industry would eventually some consolidation. And today the industry did witnessed the much anticipated consolidation,…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 21, 20190Comments

Funding News

Bengaluru based Fintech startup Perfios Raises $50 Mn from PE Investors

Today Fintech startups are largely credited for simplifying the hassles of our day-to-day payment. However, they can equally play a big role in clearing the mess of non-performing assets (NPAs) that is currently plaguing the growth of India’s banking sector. One such startup happens to be Perfios, which has just announced a fresh funding round.…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 20, 20190Comments

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Smartworks Inks India’s Largest Co-working Space Deal

India’s leading co-working startup, Smartworks, has inked a real estate deal to rent 5.00.000 sq. ft. space for an upcoming co-working project in the city of Pune. Although the project will become operational only in 2021, once the project becomes operational it will help Smartworks in consolidating its presence in critically important city of Pune.…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 20, 20190Comments

Funding News

Health startups Mediakabazaar and Healthians Raise Fresh Funds

Two healthcare startups, Mediakabazaar and Healthians, have received fresh cheques from investors to scale up their businesses further. However, both startups touch on different horizons of the healthcare business; the former is B2B healthcare and the latter is B2C healthcare startup. Mediakabazaar raised Rs 112 crore or $15 Mn from in a series B round. Healthcare…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 18, 20190Comments

Funding News

Men’s Health & Wellness Startup Misters.in Raises $1mn in Series B Round

Misters.in, India’s first direct-to-customer men’s health and wellness brand has raised $1mn as a part of its series B round of funding led by Sauce.vc, Rainforest Ventures Pvt. Ltd. and angel investors. Further to the recent series A round of funding of INR 2.54 crore received in August 2019, the total funding received so far is…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 14, 20190Comments

News

Foodtech Major Zomato trims Cash Burn Rate by more than 50%

It is no secret that foodtech sector’s overreliance on the strategy of deep discounting has resulted in higher cash burn rate, eventually leading to erosion in profitability and piling up losses. Therefore it is no brainer that success of any foodtech company would depend on its ability to control its cash burn rate. It seems that…

ByGirish ShettiNovember 13, 20190Comments

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