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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Inspiring Stories

PC Musthafa: The man who built Rs 100 crore company with the help of Idli Batter

PC Musthafa could have easily succumbed to his poverty to live an uninspiring and unfulfilling life. But he was too stubborn a person to allow adversity to get better off him. To defeat financial difficulties, He chose to tread on a road that was less travelled. And by his sheer guts and determination that road…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 6, 20180Comments

Inspiring Stories

Meet Ramesh Babu: A Barber who owns a Rolls Royce

How far can a poor barber really go in his life? Probably not further than owning a small home. If luck has its way then he can also afford to own a small car. That’s all any poor barber can achieve in his life. Most people will agree to this without any hesitation. But these…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 5, 20180Comments

Funding News

Online Auto Marketplace Droom secures $30 Mn in Series E round

Droom Technology, which operates online marketplace for automobiles, has raised $30 Mn (approximately Rs 221 crore) in series E round. The round was led by two new investors. Joe Hirao, president and founder of Tokyo based Zigexn Co, has been identified as one of the investors. The name of another investor has not been identified,…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 4, 20180Comments

Funding News

Blume Ventures closes first round of Third fund at $40 million

Mumbai based venture capital firm Blume Ventures has successfully closed the first round of its $80 Mn Fund III corpus. Through the first round, the company has raised $40 Mn and will raise rest of the funds by early next year. The angel Investors who participated in the first round mostly hailed from India, Japan and…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 4, 20180Comments

Inspiring Stories

Arokiaswamy Velumani: How a son of Landless farmer built Rs 3,600 crore Diagnostic Company

Poverty is a great education in itself. Arokiaswamy Velumani, 59, knows great deal about this. Born to a landless farmer, Velumani spent half of his life in complete penury. But today all his poverty stricken stories have become part of the inspirational entrepreneurial stories that are trying to offer much needed direction to India’s gen…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 3, 20180Comments

interviews

Millennials love for Videos has forced WittyFeed to focus aggressively on Video Format

Today Indore based WittyFeed can unhesitatingly take lot of heart in the fact that it is one of the pioneers in shaping the revolution of viral contents in India. WittyFeed’s three young co-founders - Vinay Singhal, Parveen Singhal and Shashank Vaishnav – were dreaming to capture the landscape of India’s social media world at a…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 2, 20180Comments

interviews

AxisRooms aims to have 30,000 hotel partners in next 5 years

Today hospitality industry is openly embracing digital solutions for increasing its efficiency and productivity. But back in 2011, this was not the case and this was something that clearly bothered Anil Kumar, Ravi Taneja and Leema Rosali. The hospitality industry was then still stuck in non-innovative software solutions and traditional methods for keeping its productivity intact.…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 1, 20180Comments

Funding News

Online Poker startup 9stacks secures $3.84 Mn in Pre-series A round

Delhi based online poker startup 9stacks has scooped up $3.84 Mn (INR 28 Cr) in pre-series A round. The round saw participation by clutch of angel investors including Swati Gupta (founder, IndustryBuying), Maheshwer Peri (founder, Careers360), Shubhajit Sen (ex-CMO, Micromax) and others. 9stacks said that the fresh capital will be used to scale up technology and…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 1, 20180Comments

interviews

Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu: Never take Good Times for granted

Sridhar Vembu’s achievement is simply hard to overlook. If his name sounds new to you then there can be only two possibilities: either you are new in the world of Indian startup ecosystem or have been simply too ignorant all these years. To give a faint idea about his achievements then Vembu has been at the…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 1, 20180Comments

Inspiring Stories

Kalpana Saroj: India’s Original Slumdog Millionaire

Caste discrimination, a slum dweller, poverty stricken life, marital abuse, enduring social stigma and failed suicide attempt. Life had been more than cruel for Kalpana Saroj to drive her completely crazy. But today if anything is driving her crazy then it is her passion to drive her company, Kamani Tubes, to greater success. Once on the…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 29, 20180Comments

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