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GIBSS raises Series-A funding from respons Ability, Infuse Ventures

Incubated at the Indian School of Business, GIBSS had earlier received seed funding from Hyderabad Angels and SRI Capital

IAN invests in social enterprise Saahas Waste Management

Saahas is a non-profit that focuses on organic waste management along with collection and recycling of packaging waste and e-waste

What's behind Practo's star-studded galaxy of VCs?

With its high-profile line-up of investors and $125 million in overall investment, Practo is already on a path to high growth, reports Tech in Asia

Ezetap bags $23 million to help mom-and-pop stores accept cards

Launched in 2013, Ezetap processes transactions worth $1 million per day through 60,000 points of sale across India and is adding 500 new small retail merchants a week, reports Tech in Asia

CII to set up a centre to help start-ups in smaller towns

The centre will aid entrepreneurs to create business plans, tools and applications for rural areas

Practo raises $90 million in Series C funding led by Tencent

Sofina, Google Capital, Altimeter Capital, Sequoia Capital Global Equities and others participate in Series C Funding

Ezetap raises Rs 150 crore to fund expansion

Former Facebook exec and Social+Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya joins as chairman

Zeotap set to dominate mobile ads with better user data than Facebook, Google

The start-up is tying up with telcos across Asia and Europe to make their customer data available to mobile advertisers, reports Tech in Asia

What made a Japanese VC bet big on this young Indian logistics start-up?

Tech in Asia explores how LetsTransport received $1.3 million in its first round of funding

Wegilant raises $500,000 in pre Series-A round

Last year, the company had raised $160,000 in angel funding

Doormint raises $3 million in Series-A round led by Helion Ventures

Company to use funds to expand its presence in metro cities

Personal assistance app Haptik gets Silicon Valley veteran on board

Ram Gupta has an industry experience of more than 25 years and he served on various public and private company boards, including Nasdaq-listed companies

Snapdeal to invest Rs 637 cr in R&D

Investment to be made over a period of three years in its Bangalore-based Multimedia Research Lab

Alibaba now has two weapons in India for a proxy war with Amazon

Tech in Asia reports that Alibaba is fighting the e-commerce war in India by proxy, with investments in local rivals of Amazon

Way2Online launches news app in Indian languages

The emphasis is on presenting news as short summarised news snippets that will fit on the mobile screen without having to scro

Logistics start-up Lets Transport raises Rs 8 cr from Japanese VC firm

The Bengaluru-based firm plans to deploy the funds primarily in building technology and its team

Uniply Industries raises Rs 27 crore from R K Damani, Enam Investment and others

Post-issue company's liabilities will reduce to around Rs 50 crore

Jaipur fast becoming the next start-up hub

Former TaxiForSure CFO Deena Jacob joins Helpchat

Helpchat is a chat-based personal assistant application

Online coupons startup GrabOn partners Xploree

Users can now connect to relevant coupons from GranOn's over 5,000 digital coupon inventory