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Patient record management firm PurpleDocs raises funds for exapansion

Plans to enter NCR, Karnataka and Maharashtra markets within one year

Pepperfry.com raises Rs 210 crore from current investors

Funds will be used to scale firm's logistics and service network

Uber to mentor start-ups with social impact

Signs MoU with start-up incubator T-Hub for partnering with UberExchange, its global mentorship programme

TeamLease to acquire NichePro Tech for Rs 29 crore

The move will help it get into higher margin business to place product engineers

Founder's Diary: How to battle the funding squeeze in today's start-up market

CredR co-founder Sumit Chhazed says organic growth and a strong USP are essential for start-ups in today's funding environment

Swiggy raises $15 million funding from Bessemer

The firm currently operates in 7 cities, says it's profitable in Hyderabad and Bengaluru unit

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Chennai start-up failure rate lower than NCR and Bengaluru

Investors in TN capital conservative, bet on good ideas

Hotel start-ups look to franchisee format for profits

Cite limited control over service variation, especially in budget hotels, move to brand-led franchise format

Vertigo clinic chain NeuroEquilibrium eyes PE-VC funding

Aims to break even by 2017, treat 1 million patients by 2021

Urban Ladder moves away from stand-alone play to be on Amazon

Shifts strategy from being a pure-play online furniture store to becoming a vendor on a marketplace

Flipkart opens second warehouse in UP ahead of BigBillionDay sale

The warehouse is spread across an area of 55,000 square feet and can store up to 300,000 products

ShoppinPal: One-stop platform for Indian merchants

Tech company is in the process of making simple products for small sellers across the country at an affordable price

NewsDistill raises $100,000 in seed funding

NewsDistill aggregates news from Indian newspapers, TV channels, RSS Feeds, custom feeds and social media in English and eight Indian languages

Flipkart opens second warehouse in UP ahead of Big Billion Days

This latest addition will take Flipkart's warehouse count in country to 18 with total storage space of 6.2 mn cubic feet

Health care Start-Ups see low levels of funding: KPMG

Health care start-ups in India received $27 million in the first four months of 2016

Start-ups to see turnaround in 1-2 years: Senapathy Gopalakrishnan

Popularly called 'Kris', he is also a co-founder of venture capital firm Axilor Ventures along with Infosys

Tax relief for first 36 start-ups in Chhattisgarh

The units would get all the state taxes reimbursed for three years under the Start-up Chhattisgarh campaign

Hotel startups move away from aggregation model

Decision by prominent agents such as MakeMyTrip and Yatra to delist OYO was a major disincentive for aggregators

Ahmedabad-based startup Food Memories to go for Series A funding

To utilise funds for expansion of its 'geographically unique Indian food' vendor network