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After 12,000 cups of coffee, start-ups await investors' call
Five years later, when the Irish organisers brought the event - Surge 2016 - to Bengaluru this week, there was hardly any pub-hopping by start-ups and investors
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Start-ups take to mergers to survive
The deal is among the latest signs that start-ups are consolidating in India amid slowing venture capital funding and growing competition
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Telangana govt sets up IT incubation centre in Warangal
With Hyderabad as a role model, other cities like Warangal, Karimnagar and Khammam are being developed as Tier-II IT hubs
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The Chennai Angels invests in Finance Buddha
Three year old start-up operates in hybrid marketplace model for financial services products
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StartUp India and Viacom18 join hands
Will launch outreach programme in year-long initiative to encourage young entrepreneurs, encompassing on-ground, digital and TV communication
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Wiwigo brings cab service for inter-city travel
The company has already raised first round of funding of $1 million in April 2015 and is ready to raise second round
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Indian Angel Networks invests in UK-based Ascema
Indian Angel Network (IAN) has made an undisclosed investment in UK-based Ascema, a disruptive technology solution for locating, securing and controlling the movement of sensitive data and intellectual property within cloud collaboration environments and email systems. Nitin Jain and Nitin Singhal have led this round of investment on behalf of IAN and joined the board of the company. This is IAN's fourth major investment in a UK based startup. Ascema has been developed by GeoLang Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of GeoLang Holdings Ltd, a business resilience and cyber security startup based in the UK. GeoLang was awarded the title of UK and Working with UK Government research funding and a global manufacturing partner, Ascema is designed to meet the needs of business users to prevent the loss of high value content. The company was founded byDebbie Garside and Lee Gillam to prevent high value data loss. Debbie Garside, CEO and co-founder at GeoLang said "we are also already seeing ...
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Start-ups to offer record salary increase in 2016, says survey
Overall, it has projected a 10.3% salary rise for India Inc in 2016 compared to 10.6% in 2015
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SmashUp to facilitate funding for 10 start-ups
Designed to enable start-ups to learn art of building successful ventures
