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Travel aggregation to ride-hailing, welcome to India's shared economy

Starting with travel aggregation and ride hailing, it is quickly evolving across categories like furniture rentals, bike sharing, and peer-to-peer lending

How a damaged TV set and shoddy insurance service sparked a $1.5 bn startup

Girish Mathrubootham, founder of Chennai-based CRM software firm Freshworks gives global giants like Salesforce, Zendesk a run for their money

Billionaire-backed Harvard doctors harness technology to revamp cancer care

Tech firm Driver aims to connect patients with novel therapies

How Alibaba's Jack Ma became the role model for China's startup generation

Jack Ma's personal story is now the stuff of schoolyard legend

How artificial intelligence is changing the way MNCs work in India

Artificial Intelligence is already forcing leadership teams of the companies around the world to reconsider some of their core structure

Innovative startups to look out for in the blockchain technology space

The blockchain solution puts creators back in control of their creation

How Delhi-based start-up myUpchar is taking e-healthcare to the masses

myUpchar, a health information platform in Hindi, plans to provide consultation services in 13 other Indian languages

India's only edu-tech Unicorn Byju's could double valuation to $2.2 bn

The company was valued at $1 billion at the time of its previous funding round in August 2017

Observe.AI helps call centre agents perform job better without any pause

Founded in May 2017, the company has recently secured $8 million in Series A funding

Kerala start-ups see opportunity in rebuilding flood-ravaged state

These start-ups are providing drone-mapping and GIS technology to help the rescue forces

Local language health info provider myUpchar raises $5 mn in Series-A funds

myUpchar has partnered with doctors to create credible and authoritative health content in 13 Indian languages

12 Odisha start ups to get Google's technological, financial support

As many as 48 startups from Odisha had applied for the programme but only 12 could meet the criteria set by Google

How Awfis, other co-working startups are changing commercial realty sector

With shared offices in vogue, Awfis plans to add more than 100 centres in 12 months

Car-sharing start-up Revv raises Rs 1 bn in fresh funding led by Hyundai

Hyundai is the only automotive company among Revv's investors and the investment gives the automaker its first foothold in the Indian car-sharing market

Suffering from chronic illness? Get medicines delivered at your doorstep

LifCare, a subscription-based pharmacy, needs to enter more cities as it targets doubling customer base in one year

Co-living space provider StayAbode plans to enter three more cities

StayAbode, which has raised three rounds of fundings from marquee real estate investors will be investing the money to iron out the roadmap to serve millennials across Southeast Asia

Ed-tech startup Quizizz raises $3 mn, Nexus Venture leads funding round

The platform has seen a massive organic adoption in the US schools

Kerala startup ecosystem seeing reverse migration of entrepreneurs

Kerala startups attracted $60-70 million investment last year, according to Kerala Startup Mission

Now, cigarettes that do away with cancer-causing paper, help sprout a plant

A couple down south is manufacturing treeless organic paper that can be rolled into seed-infused cigarette and later, its butt can be watered to help sprout a plant

Driven by late-stage deals, funding activity picks up for start-ups

Many new VC firms, which raised money in 2017, have started deploying