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45-odd Indian start-ups hold promise of entering unicorn club this year

SOONICORN STATUS: By 2025, India expects to add 95 new tech unicorns

Bengaluru outstrips Chinese cities in tech VC funding in 2021: Report

Global tech VC investment into startups hit a record level of $675 billion in 2021, doubling the previous all-time high of $340.6 billion in 2020

Indian startups raised $42 bn in 2021, up from $11.5 bn in 2020: Report

Indian startups have raised $42 billion in 2021, up from $11.5 billion in the previous year, a report by Orios Venture Partners said

ORAI raises Rs 6.5 crore in pre-series A funding round led by IPV

ORAI is a platform that offers customers end to end platform + solution + service.

Startups can help India's rural economy go digital: Piyush Goyal

Goyal called upon startups to help micro-entrepreneurs in rural areas leverage technology to grow their businesses and encourage farmers, artisans to use digital platforms to sell their products

Earned wage access platform Refyne raises $82 mn in Series B funding round

A study reported that 81 per cent of employees face a liquidity crunch between pay cycles. Refyne aims to address that problem.

Is 'community buying' in social commerce key to reaching 'Bharat'?

What is the 'community buying' model? Does social commerce hold the key to expanding online shopping in the grocery, apparel and consumer electronics retail in the country? Let's find out

Beverages start-up Lahori gets $15 mn from Belgian fund Verlinvest

The non-alcoholic beverage industry is expected to exceed $18 billion by 2026

DFAN, SCV form partnership to invest Rs 100 crore in tech startups

This partnership is aimed to strengthen the startup ecosystem by actively investing in startups along with providing active mentorships, advisory and business development

Google For Startups announces its next cohort with 20 Indian startups

Tech giant Google announced the sixth batch of the Google for Startups Accelerator India -- with 20 startups -- to help them focus on their key business and technology problems

Uber rival Bolt raises $711 million at valuation of over $8 billion

Bolt, a rival of Uber's ride-sharing and food delivery business, last raised funding in August at a valuation of more than 4 billion euros.

Let's target to create 75 more unicorns by 2022-end: Piyush Goyal

The minister called upon stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem to strive to take India to the top 25 in the Global Innovation Index

Zluri raises $10mn in series A funding round led by MassMutual Ventures

Zluri had earlier raised $2 million from Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital, in its seed round in January 2021.

B2B payments app Rupifi raises $25 mn from Bessemer, Tiger Global, others

The latest funding is Rupifi's second investment round within nine months, since the pre-series-A round in March 2021

Innoviti raises Rs 80 cr in first close of its Series D fund round

Innoviti is looking at raising Rs 400 crore in primary funding in Series D to fuel its growth with a plan for a listing in the next two to three years.

Record number of unicorns in 2021 as race for such valuation takes longer

Karnataka has emerged the biggest source of start-ups in India

India's technology start-ups set to continue IPO rush into 2022

Delhivery, Snapdeal, PharmEasy, OYO and Ola are among those slated to list in the bourses in the coming year

India emerged as second biggest startup hub in world, says PM Modi

Modi on Tuesday said that India has emerged as the second biggest startup hub in the world, and this has been achieved majorly with the help of students from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)

Unicorns turn into strategic investors; Zomato grabs a big pie

Byju's, Flipkart, PharmEasy and CRED, among others, have taken the acquisition route to grow

A selection of the five best books in a year of start-ups and unicorns

Looking back at 2021, we take note of the top start-up-related books published this year that shed new light on this space