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Making robots safer for us

Cobotect GmbH, is using the decades-old concept of airbags to cushion potentially dangerous automated parts

Hindalco rolls up the value chain

Rising aluminium prices are strengthening the metals producer's focus on adding value, from bauxite mining to value-added products

Newsmaker: Ritabrata Banerjee, breaking red ranks from within

Ritabrata Banerjee was expelled from CPI(M) for 'anti-party activities'

Smartphones help more Indians find love

India's information technology revolution is transforming the matrimonial market

Newsmaker: Sushil Kumar Modi, the return of GST's troubleshooter

His second term as Bihar deputy CM and finance minister sees the politician back in stamping ground of the GST regime

Impact investment: $8-bn market by 2025

Indian investors touched up to 80 million people with socially impactful financing in the past six years

Key deals last week

There were 17 deals worth $484.61 million and 3 exits woth $26.73 million in the past seven days ending September 13, 2017

Angels tweak their strategy

Dinesh Agarwal founder of Indiamart.com says he is staying away from execution-led ideas, and focusing on technology plays

Angel, seed stage deals down 40%

Angel investors don't see exits on the horizon as funding in the next stages is not as robust as it used to be

Getting rail safety back on track

Train travel has now become a hazardous exercise for the ordinary Indian. What has gone wrong?

Japan's driverless cars to keep rural elderly on the move

Japan to turn highway rest stops into hubs from which to ferry elderly to medical & banking services

Private firms are encouraging changes in states' power distribution reforms

Firms and tech experts are queueing up to offer innovative models of managing the power supply chain

India's aviation sector is flying into severe infrastructure shortage

Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams

August sees 2nd highest VC investments in a month in 2017 at $440 mn

Early-stage investments remains sluggish, says Venture Intelligence data

Alarm didn't ring at Waymo before Uber was sued for theft

According to Alphabet unit's own engineer, stolen info against Uber may not have been precious

Newsmaker: Star India's Uday Shankar, the journalist-CEO

Uday Shankar has just pulled off arguably the riskiest move Star India has made under him

Chart: A snapshot of PE activity and deals

The software & services attracted the most investments

CreditVidya raises $5 mn in Series-B from Matrix, Kalaari

CreditVidya helps lenders accurately assess risk of lending to new-to-credit

Lendingkart raises Rs 70 crore from Sistema Asia fund and others

With this fresh funding, the firm has raised total funding of Rs 534 crore

Next deals will be largish, controlling and transformative: KKR India CEO

Sanjay Nayar shares KKR India's investment plans