Page 46 - Start- Ups

This hearing-impaired entrepreneur is on a mission to empower gig economy

Sanjay Nediyara went through a great deal of hardship before setting up Sieve, a platform for freelancers to work as a team despite separated by locations

Rolls-Royce selects 3 start-ups for Start-up Accelerator Programme in India

Each of the three gets an equity-free grant of £10,000 each and goes through a six-month co-innovation programme that will include mentoring and technical support from Rolls-Royce

NEP must partner with ed-tech start-ups to achieve desired outcomes: IAMAI

Role of ed-tech start-ups not clearly spelt out in National Education Policy draft, the association says

Still start-up season: Funding continues in face of economic slowdown

Even at early stage, start-ups are raising more money faster owing to the rise of a lot of specialised early-stage VCs and emergence of seed-stage programmes

Handle income tax related issues of startups with utmost care: CBDT

On August 30, the CBDT had notified creation of a five-member special cell to address grievances of startups with relation to angel tax and other tax-related issues

How fast is India's start-up universe expanding? Explained in 7 charts

Over the years, start-ups are struggling more to garner funds as they pass the elementary stages of growth

How CleverTap's in-app solution is bringing product, marketing teams closer

The company currently offers a mobile marketing platform to app developers, with marketing automation across a wide variety of interactive media

Learning from start-up failure

In Sidharth Rao's How I Almost Blew It, besides the stories of the entrepreneurs, what keeps the reader engaged is the writer's observations on the start-up world

How this Indian start-up is bringing fitness closer to the masses

The unorganised nature of the fitness sector augurs well for fit-tech start-up Fitternity's growth

Start-ups seek separate data policy, don't want to be part of e-commerce

Under the e-com policy, a number of proposals are around data protection and storing data onshore

Meet Rene, the smart assistant to help you with cumbersome data processes

Resonance's forte is the proprietary AI tech for deep mining of internal and external sources of structured and unstructured data

Start-ups welcome end of 'angel tax', hope relief for already served notice

Sitharaman also said a dedicated cell will be set up under a member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes for addressing issues faced by start-ups

AI start-up H2O.ai raises $72.5 million from Goldman Sachs, Ping An

The start-up, co-founded by Hyderabad-born Sri Satish Ambati in 2012, has raised a total funding of $147 million with this round

Now, start-ups can issue shares with differential voting rights

Such shares have rights disproportionate to their economic ownership

How online classified platform Quikr turned around by buying 16 start-ups

Brings in greater synergies across its verticals as it continues to cut losses, improve top line

Removing angel tax notices will help start-ups in growth: Experts

The government's recent decision to give relief to start-ups on assessment of angel tax notices would provide a safeguard to them and promote their growth, according to experts. Seeking to calm the nerves of start-ups worried about angel tax, the government last week assured that explanation given by them to a tax notice in a limited scrutiny case would be summarily accepted without any questions asked by the taxman. The Central Board for Direct Taxes' (CBDT) circular with this effect "brings in more safeguard by requiring assessing officers to procure his or her supervisor's consent before starting on any inquiry under the angel tax provision against a start-up company which has not got DPIIT approval," S. Vasudevan, Partner, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan said. However, he added that the circular does not specify any minimum rank of the consenting superior officer. "Also, lack of guidelines as to how the assessing officer or his supervisory officer selects cases for scrutiny may ...

CCD crisis: Without failure, you can't have big success, says Vinod Khosla

He says that there are a lot of start-ups in India now than five years ago

Ex-McKinsey consultant turns failed restaurant into $535 million start-up

Mumbai-based Rebel Foods recently closed a $125 million funding round and is expanding quickly

CESC Ventures plans to invest in more start-ups, put in Rs 300 crore

CESC Ventures has also been on an acquisition mode and is leading futuristic businesses like FMCG for the group.

Focusing on needs of consumer, India's unicorns are like workhorses

India's four largest unicorns are in online payments, e-commerce, ride-hailing and education