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Sequoia India leads $15 million round in HR-tech startup Darwinbox

The start-up is targeting growth in South East Asia market Singapore and Indonesia

Sachin Bansal to be CEO again, buys majority stake in microfinance company

Former Flipkart leader has invested in Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services

This non-profit start-up leverages the power of AI for the social sector

Wadhwani brothers-founded WIAI looks to use artificial intelligence for the benefit of cotton farmers, TB patients and underweight newborns

Room for more: Oyo to raise another $1 bn as it adds stars to its hotels

The plan is to take up luxury properties in India and abroad

Generico devising technology-enabled solutions for chronic diseases

Last week, Generico, which runs a network of pharmacies selling generic drugs, raised $14 million in a Series A funding round, led by venture capital firm Lightbox

Coding the future: This start-up helps children build commercial-ready apps

Can WhiteHat Jr, a platform for childern to learn coding, establish itself in a market that is expected to grow exponentially? Abhishek Kumar explores

QSR chain Wow! Momo raises $23 mn in Series B funding led by Tiger Global

Wow! Momo Foods Pvt. Ltd is projected to get to a topline of around Rs 190 crore for FY 2019-20

Start-up sectors that have the highest probability of receiving funding

Chances of getting funded improved if you were doing a start-up in the areas of artificial intelligence, life sciences, Internet of Things, and enterprise infrastructure, shows this data

Fitness start-ups bet on corporate clients to keep their top lines healthy

Customers at the enterprise level give these start-ups a more predictable revenue model than that offered by price-conscious individual users

How fast is India's start-up universe expanding? Explained in 7 charts

Over the years, start-ups are struggling more to garner funds as they pass the elementary stages of growth

This start-up is making accounting easier, helping small traders go digital

The mobile version is free for simple accountings, but premium subscribers pay according to tariff plans

How CleverTap's in-app solution is bringing product, marketing teams closer

The company currently offers a mobile marketing platform to app developers, with marketing automation across a wide variety of interactive media

Nexus, Omidyar, Owl Ventures invest $10 mn in ed-tech start-up WhiteHat Jr

WhiteHat Jr helps children of ages six to 14 to build commercial-ready games, animations and apps online using the fundamentals of coding

Start-up Myelin Foundry promises buffering-free OTT viewing experience

Myelin Foundry, launched in January this year, was conceptualised in the technology war room of the Tata group

How this Indian start-up is bringing fitness closer to the masses

The unorganised nature of the fitness sector augurs well for fit-tech start-up Fitternity's growth

Start-ups seek separate data policy, don't want to be part of e-commerce

Under the e-com policy, a number of proposals are around data protection and storing data onshore

Buyout fund TIW picks up majority stake in Digital Refresh Networks

The company plans to utilize the proceeds from the investment to strengthen its expertise in content creation

Chiratae Ventures to raise $20 mn from International Finance Corporation

World Bank's investment arm said that the proposed transaction is an aggregate $20 million equity commitment in Fund IV

Yachts, Audis and other luxuries on rent for social media-crazy millennials

Hype, a Bengaluru-based start-up offers anything from designer bags to chartered planes on lease to niche, wealthy customers whose lifestyles don't follow the larger economy curve

Making Miko: Sneh Vaswani's journey to co-create a robotic revolution

The co-founder of Emotix, a leading B2C robotics company, highlights the need for a systematic strategy to work towards building a great start-up