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How meat startups are leveraging technology to bring best quality produce

The trucks that move produce from farms to slaughter houses and retail stores have IoT-enabled trackers that track the produce and periodically send temperature data

Inflection Point Ventures bets big on analytics start-up Circus Social

The platform has rolled out an investment corpus of Rs 155 crore for 2021 across 60 plus start-ups

Sequoia Capital India closes $195-million seed fund to foster start-ups

69 startups in four cohorts have received a combined $172 million

Govt forms experts committee for Startup India Seed Fund Scheme

The government has constituted an experts advisory committee which will be responsible for the overall execution and monitoring of the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme

Sowkea Agro eyes to clock Rs 200 cr revenues; to strengthen retail sector

Sowkea Agro and Retail Concepts has planned to introduce retail sales of fresh coconut milk, cold-pressed juices, palm-nectar, as part of its vision of reaching a turnover of Rs 200 crore

Mobility start-up eBikeGO partners with ASSAR to promote electric bikes

eBikeGO said it has roped in reform-centric advance service firm ASSAR as its strategic partner, to promote and deploy over 10,000 electric bikes to various e-commerce and logistics companies.

DrinkPrime, 'pay-as-you-use water purifier' start-up, raises Rs 21 crore

DrinkPrime allows users to subscribe-to-use the company's water purifiers, rather than bearing upfront costs

Edtech start-up Masai School raises $2.5 mn in latest funding round

Unitus Ventures leads investment, other participants include India Quotient and AngelList India

Flipkart Leap: E-comm firm launches its first startup accelerator programme

Flipkart on Monday announced the launch of 'Flipkart Leap' -- the companys first startup accelerator programme. With the call-for-entries beginning today, 'Flipkart Leap' will identify B2C and B2B startups and help them scale through an intensive 16-week virtual programme, the company said in a statement. Throughout the programme, Flipkart's leadership from business, operations, product and technology will mentor the selected startups and share best practices, in addition to master class sessions hosted by industry experts, it said. The programme aims to provide tools, framework, knowledge and an ecosystem to help startups create "world- class value-driven" products by supporting them in building market-ready solutions, Flipkart said. Flipkart Leap has identified five themes to shortlist relevant high-potential startups -- Design & Make for India, Innovation in Digital Commerce, Technologies to Empower the Retail Ecosystem, Supply Chain Management & Logistics and

IIT Kanpur-backed start-up to double production of indigenous N95 face mask

Currently, Espin Nanotech is producing nearly 30,000 face masks a day from its production unit spread over 4,000 sq ft space inside the IIT Kanpur campus

IIT Madras-incubated start-up develops portable hospital for Covid cases

Hospital can be installed by four people in just two hours anywhere

Co-living start-up Zolostays raises $56 mn in latest funding round

The start-up will deploy the new funds to invest in technology, locking in more inventory and strengthening AI-driven operating platforms

Milkbasket raises $5.5 mn funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures

Existing investors Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Mayfield India, Unilever Ventures and BeeNext have also participated in the Series B round, a statement said

Bengaluru-based real estate start-up NoBroker raises $30 mn

Ranging from rental, sale, or resale, to post transaction services like loans, packers and movers, legal documentation, online rent payment, interiors, NoBroker offers a bouquet of real estate service

Stanza Living enters housing for working professionals, commits Rs 150 cr

The firm currently has a combined capacity of 10,000 beds spreading across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Coimbatore for this new segment

IFA Fund invests $6 mn in agritech start-up Ecozen's Series-A financing

This funding is on top of the investment received in July 2019 from Caspian and the Hivos-Triodos Fund

Scooter-sharing start-up Bounce's valuation may hit $500 mn on new funding

Bounce has already crossed 100,000 rides per day in Bengaluru; this puts it at par with global players such as scooter-rental companies Lime and Bird

Govt exam focussed Test-prep app GradeUp raises $7 mn from Times Internet

The start-up will use the funds to scale the offering and grow the newly-launched Live Classroom product

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to invest undisclosed sum in Kerala start-up

Recipient firm Sieve is a platform for freelancers and agencies to offer end-to-end business solutions for enterprises

This start-up is making accounting easier, helping small traders go digital

The mobile version is free for simple accountings, but premium subscribers pay according to tariff plans