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Ahmedabad based startup Gridle raises $100,000 from angel investors

Plans to double team size and expand sales pipeline

Walmart arm scouts for acquisition in Indian start-ups space

WalmartLabs in talks with start-ups in supply-chain, ad-tech, mobile shopping space

Kangana Ranaut to endorse fashion jewellery brand Voylla

Voylla recently raised $15 million from private equity firm Peepul Capital

Early stage VC investments cross $1 billion mark

VC firms invested $536 million over 111 deals in India during the past three months, record numbers for a single quarter

Foodpanda launches campaign for World Food Day

The campaign -- You Say, We Give -- will take place on World Food Day, which is celebrated on October 16

Why Bhupendra Khanal started pet food brand Dogsee Chew

Khanal recently quit his chief executive officer position in Bengaluru-based social media analytics company Simplify360

WalmartLabs scouts for talent in India

WalmartLabs, the digital arm of the US-based retailing major, is scouting for start-ups in India for partnership and work together to develop new technologies

The 7 most active investors in India this year

Based on data from Tracxn, Tech in Asia finds that Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Accel Partners lead the investor pack in India

Inshorts acquires Bengaluru-based Betaglide

Tiger Global-backed Inshorts, earlier News in Shorts, buys Betaglide for its tech tool that tracks app uninstalls, reports Tech in Asia

Micromax invests in Gaana to fight off Xiaomi

Micromax users get a free trial of Gaana's premium service and immediate access to the app, reports Tech in Asia

Four promising female tech entrepreneurs from Pakistan

A taxi app, edtech, handcrafted shoes and beauty and fashion -- these are the sectors in which women entrepreneurs in Pakistan have invested in, reports Tech in Asia

Sasha Mirchandani: The original angel investor

For Mirchandani, his tryst with investing began when his own venture failed to seek funding in early 2000s

It's official: Fund-raising of start-ups is fast drying up

Internet TV platform YuppTV set to raise $50 million in Series-B round

Global Takeoff, which runs YuppTV, aims to use the funds to expand its business in India particularly customer and content acquisitions

Lookup raises $2.5 mn in Vinod Khosla-led Series A funding

Other investors include Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Catamaran Ventures

Organic food start-up Terra Firma to add 8,000 farmers to its network

Terra Firma develops and offers natural food alternatives and produces organic food harvested from its organic farms and partner organic farming groups spread across India

Messaging app Lookup raises $2.5 mn in Series-A round

Funding round also saw participation from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Narayana Murthy's Catamaran Ventures and Global Founders Capital among others

The encouraging future of e-commerce in Pakistan

Although a late entrant in e-commerce, the industry's future in Pakistan looks positive with the market expected to reach over $600 million by 2017, reports Tech in Asia

Xiaomi's CEO invests in an electric bike start-up

This electric-powered two-wheeler is a neatly designed smart bike that connects with an app. The startup just nabbed series A funding, reports Tech in Asia

The acquisitions that signal India as a mature start-up ecosystem

New data shows more exits and bigger deal sizes, as start-ups scale up faster, which will warm the hearts of all stakeholders, reports Tech in Asia