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Vegan lifestyle brand Zouk raises $1.5mn in pre-series A led by Stellaris

Having gained 50,000-plus customers with a 4x growth in the past seven months, Zouk aims to double its consumer base every six months for the next 5 years

Startup eBikeGo inducts 1,800 e-scooters; hires over 70 staff

eBikeGo has increased the number of vehicles in its fleet from 300 e-scooters to 2,100 during the pandemic

Valuing growth

Start-up listings will open up opportunities

SaaS platform Bookee raises pre-seed funding from Antler India, others

Founded in 2020 by Vistar Singh and Rajat Hans, Bookee is a complete business solution developed with the needs of fitness entrepreneurs at its core

In a first, BASF Venture Capital GmbH invests in Indian startup UrbanKisaan

Conceptualised in 2017, UrbanKisaan operates several suburban greenhouses and vertical indoor farms in Hyderabad and Bangalore

AdmitKard raises Rs 10 cr in pre-series A round from startup founders

The pandemic certainly wreaked havoc on the start-up industry, however, ed-tech has been one of the sectors to witness growth in traction

Electrifying mobility: How entrepreneurs changed tack to survive pandemic

To survive the Covid-induced downturn, bike-sharing start-up Bounce changed its strategy and jumped on the EV bandwagon

Beyond the bottom line: The journey of newsmaker Deepinder Goyal

In FY21, the founder & CEO of Zomato took a steep pay cut from an annual Rs 3.5 crore to Rs 1.6 crore and waived his salary for 36 months starting April 1, 2021

Practo, BharatPe and Grofers in line to be the next Indian unicorns

Currently, there are 48 Indian start-ups valued at $1 billion or more, and Paytm is the most valuable start-up at $16 billion, according to the Venture Intelligence data

Zomato's Rs 8,250-crore IPO can deliver boost to consumption sector

Projections suggest online food delivery market should grow to $22 billion by 2025

Govt to earmark nearly Rs 1,000 crore to support fabless start-ups

Some of these companies are likely to scale up, become global chip design entities

Mohalla Tech, Gupshup become latest entrants to the unicorn club

Six firms, including these two, have been added to the club just this week

Zoko raises $1.4 mn from Y Combinator, Binny Bansal's family office, others

Tech platform Zoko said it has raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and marquee angel investors like Ryan Hoover and Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal's family office

Zomato to Nykaa: India's unicorns face the m-cap test as IPOs loom

Investors have been tripping over one another to fund a host of Indian startups. Will the stock markets show the same enthusiasm when some of them launch IPOs this year?

Two VC firms form SPAC in US, will seek Indian startups planning IPOs

VC investors Ravi Adusumalli and Shashin Shah will lead the SPAC

Group representing startups seeks govt intervention in Google Play ops, ads

Aatmnirbhar Digital India Foundation (ADIF) said bidding of company-specific keywords such as "matrimony" or "Map My India" has resulted in competitors capitalising on the brand value of companies

Explained: How open-source software is powering India's startup ecosystem

Using open-source software gives startups the access to a powerful community and better tools

A peek into start-up incubation drive of India's next-rung campuses

Many enterprises with formidable products have come from the country's deeper regions and have received parenting at lesser-known institutes

Top headlines: 10 Indian startups may get $10 bn in IPO, IBC set to resume

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Too young to vote, these teens have set up app-less, contactless Kirana biz

Now with the number of Covid cases declining, Relan and team may look at other startup ideas