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Nandan Nilekani commits 5% assets to start-ups

Invests $50 mn in 11 entities in just over a year, commits $25 mn more; prefers putting money in firms trying to solve India-specific problems

Launch pad: Cashback app to drive business to restaurants

Online health start-ups breaking taboos, bridging digital gap

Online health services start-ups are connecting people in small towns to doctors in big cities

The Titan behind Singapore's most successful crowdfunding campaigns

He successfully ran two crowdfunding campaigns, most notably that of 3D-printing start-up Pirate3D, reports Tech in Asia

4 Indian healthtech start-ups that could be unicorns

Baby unicorns are emerging in the healthcare space and they could make the leap to unicorn in the future, reports Tech in Asia

BeeNext to do one investment per month till year-end

From used-car marketplace Droom to industrial goods e-commerce website Industry Buying and Bangkok-based, Indian-run Zilingo, BeeNext has stars in its portfolio

90% of start-ups are nonsense, have no meaning: Kishore Biyani

Speaking at The Economist India Summit, Biyani said most start-ups' only goal is to sell themselves, need to think bigger

Quikr acquires vehicle maintenance aggregator Stepni

Stepni is a platform that connects vehicle owners with service providers nearest to them

BigBasket targets Rs 2,000-cr revenue in 2016-17

Grocery e-tailer plans to increase number of farmers in centres from 1,100 to 3,000 by Mar

Zonnett plans to raise $3-5 million

Former Zee Group CEO and his friend founded start-up to expand its service to 6 more cities

Bengaluru-based FloCareer raises $150,000 in seed funding

It plans to become the largest aggregator for services such as crowd mentoring, self-learning & interview offloading services

Eckovation to build a full-blown social learning platform

The app uses technology to bridge the gap and run a feedback and conversation channel

Indian start-up beats big firms in wearable battle

GOQii pips Xiaomi; wearables market in India saw 42% growth in Q2 2016 over the first quarter of 2016

Premji Invest backs Lenskart, expands retail portfolio

Investment from Premji comes after Lenskart raised Rs 400 crore in funding in May led by International Finance Corporation, the venture capital arm of World Bank

Who's filling Southeast Asia's Series B gap

Chinese VCs are also growing more interested in the region, reports Tech in Asia

Healthcare start-up GOQii tops India's wearable market, beats Xiaomi

According to IDC, wearable devices have become popular in India; segment sees 40% Q-o-Q

Zilingo raises $8 million in Series A funding

Firm will use proceeds to capture new markets such as Indonesia and hike presence in Singapore and Thailand

Some start-ups that are changing education as we know it

Using disruptive innovation and the digital drive, these young companies are working on making India's education system more robust

PropTiger acquires PropRates, adds advanced data collation tool to offerings

Customers in the Mumbai market will be the first beneficiaries of the range of data points available on PropRates

Restaurant discovery app Offpeak books strategic investment from Yahoo Japan

Despite the investment, the start-up is not currently looking towards Japan, reports Tech in Asia