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Start-ups play crucial role, giving growth impetus to economy: KPMG report

The report said the golden triangle of government, private sector and academia are important players who can provide the impetus needed to grow the start-up eco system

Seven new unicorns added in first eight months of 2019, 50 more waiting

Nasscom annual start-up report also says that more number or early and mid-stage firms are now raising funds as compared to earlier time

Facebook plans to tap start-ups, small and medium businesses in India

Facebook aimed to enable the growth of small and medium businesses and entrepreneurship in the country

Start-ups providing income-share agreements catching students' fancy

It is still a nascent market but a growing one, which has investors interested

Number of 'unicorn' start-ups in China exceeds that of US for first time

This makes China the country with the largest number of unicorns in the world

Mobile gaming firm Nazara Technologies acquires stake in Paper Boat Apps

This is the fifth acquisition by Westbridge Capital-backed firm

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