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India's food-tech start-ups adding exciting new flavors to home-cooking

An entire section of working professionals, students and even senior citizens are dependent on home food service providers for their daily meals

Zomato to pay more to delivery partners, absorb fuel price rise impact

Swiggy also planning fuel-related incentives for riders

Edtech, logistics and gig-economy to drive jobs as startups step up hiring

Freshers hiring likely to double as compared to last year

Infra.market joins unicorn club with funding from Tiger Global, others

Infra.market is a construction materials focused online marketplace

Flipkart to deploy more than 25K EVs, partners with leading manufacturers

The Walmart-owned e-commerce firm has partnered with Hero Electric, Mahindra Electric and Piaggio, for specific vehicles to be deployed for its first and last-mile delivery fleet across the country

BharatPe gives 80x returns to investors as valuation tops $900 mn

The Delhi-based fintech company has already returned Rs 102 cr cash to its secondary investors as against the initial angel round of Rs 1.9 cr

Unicorns have created $106-bn value for startup ecosystem in 10 yrs: Report

Having created over 1.4 million jobs annually, Indian startups have taken eight years on an average to hit the unicorn milestone

India set to have 150 unicorns, $1 bn startup funding deals: Experts

Big tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft are also eyeing large strategic investments in Indian startups

Vedantu bets on inorganic growth, acquires doubt-solving app Instasolv

Company open to other such deals in future, says co-founder

Zomato's valuation crosses $5.4 billion, after raising $250 million

Ahead of its expected IPO, investors such as Kora, Tiger Global and Fidelity have made fresh investments in the Deepinder Goyal-led foodtech company

MediBuddy raises $20mn funding from India Life Sciences Fund III, others

The firm raised $20 million (about Rs 145 crore) earlier this month from India Life Sciences Fund III, LLC and others

Vedantu acquires doubt-solving platform Instasolv for an undisclosed amount

Earlier in 2020, Vedantu had invested $2 million as part of a pre-series A round funding in Instasolv

Sharp rise in Micro VC investments as 566 startups get $341 mn in 3 years

With the startup ecosystem blooming in India, the number of such funds rose from 29 in 2014 to 88 funds last year

Isro on a mission to give leg-up to start-ups in space sector

Isro has embarked on a mission to take startups in the space sector to a higher business orbit

Indian Bank signs MoU with IISc initiative to fund start-ups, MSMEs

State-owned Indian Bank on Friday said it has entered into an MOU with Society for Innovation and Development (SID), an initiative of Indian Institute of Science

35 Indian enterprises make it to the first Startup Bridge Canada programme

SBC will run a six-week Canada access market programme; 50 mentors from Canada onboarded for the programme

After losing to WhatsApp, Kavin Mittal's Hike aims to rival Facebook

Despite becoming a hit early on thanks to quirky stickers and a privacy feature that let teenagers hide chats from parents, Hike's messenger app overtime failed to challenge the popularity of WhatsApp

Small venture capital funds making a beeline for startups: Report

Investments into the startup ecosystem by micro venture capital funds (investments under 30 million) have jumped manifold to USD 341 million in the past three years

Logistics firm Shiprocket raises Rs 200 crore in series C funding round

Investors included Silicon Valley based venture capital firm Tribe Capital

Shiprocket raises $27 mn from Silicon Valley's Tribe Capital, March Capital

The e-commerce shipping firm processes more than 4 mn monthly shipments, enabling more than 100,000 sellers to sell directly to their consumers across India