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Silicon Valley Bank fallout: Paying staff first challenge for start-ups

Y Combinator says over 100,000 jobs within its community at risk

Fallout from SVB collapse spreads around world from London to Singapore

Founders are warning that the bank's failure could wipe out startups around the world without government intervention

Inker Robotics secures $1.2 million funding under Kerala StartUp Mission

Kerala-based Inker Robotics, under the Kerala StartUp Mission, which deals with research and delivery in robotics and futuristic technology education, has secured a USD 1.2 million funding. The company has secured USD 1.2 million in a pre-series fundraising round headed by AHK Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Inker Robotics, which aims to create an impact on the next generation by empowering them with education in emerging technologies, expects the funding to enable them to further enhance its training delivery platform to develop more engaging content in robotics and emerging technology education. "We believe that our platform with its immersive and engaging approach is an effective way to teach futuristic technology skills to the young generation. We are thrilled to have the support of our investors as we work to empower the next generation with the skills they need to make them future ready," Rahul Balachandran, the founder and MD of Inker Robotics said in a ...

Silicon Valley Bank jitters likely to be felt among Indian start-ups

The data from Tracxn also shows SVB has not made much investment after 2011

Silicon Valley Bank rocks California as founders join Napa vintners in fear

From wealthy founders to Napa vineyard owners, clients were scrambling to secure funds or find out basic information about what would happen to their deposits

SVB crisis sends jitters through startup world: Here's what we know

Santa Clara-based SVB Financial Group announced that it sold $21 billion of securities from its portfolio. SVB Financial Group also said it was holding a $2.25 billion share sale to shore up finances

Why is everyone talking about SVB? Here's all that you need to know

Events snowballed after Silicon Valley Bank announced a share sale to shore up its finances, following a significant loss on its portfolio

'Shockingly low' number of startups in Asia led by women, says JPMorgan

Women remain heavily under-represented at the top echelons in high-growth private businesses in the region, with only 848 of nearly 15,000 firms across the region led or founded by a woman

Google-backed startup unveils multilingual voice search technology

Slang Labs was co-founded in 2017 by founders who had earlier co-founded Little Eye Labs, the first and only Indian company to be acquired by Meta (Facebook)

Indian startups must tap $430 bn digital market in Southeast Asia: Report

The population of over 650 million and 70 million SMEs in Southeast Asia are rapidly becoming more affluent and digitally savvy, creating a high demand for innovative products and services

Small wonder: Startup cracks MF code with help from small banks

Fisdom among few fintechs to generate revenue through MF distribution

Google's non-compliance will hit us hard, lament leading Indian startups

Leading startups gathered under one roof to brainstorm on implications of Google's User Choice Billing system, saying Google's non-compliance with CCI orders will only harm the startup ecosystem

Great strides made but much room for improvement, say women entrepreneurs

Aside from factors such as social stigma, gender biases, insufficient capacity building and access to actionable knowledge, a pressing challenge for women entrepreneurs is access to capital, especiall

How Google sunsetting Optimize is an opportunity for Indian tech startups

With Google announcing the sunset clause, several players are gearing up to take its market share

Fibe crosses Rs 10,000 cr in loan disbursals, aims to double AUM every year

Launches upgraded app with conversational user interface as firm turns seven

Start-ups, news publishers likely to join digital competition law panel

"The whole idea behind the law is to protect the startups and small businesses from abuse of dominance of the big tech"

Unicorn club: From 1mg to InMobi, here're 100-plus start-ups in India

Bengaluru-based neo-bank platform 'Open' became India's 100th unicorn in May 2022

Scrut Automation raises $7.5 mn in funding round led by MassMutual Ventures

IT startup Scrut Automation, which specialises in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) automation, has raised USD 7.5 million in a funding round led by MassMutual Ventures, a top company official said on Tuesday. Scrut Automation CEO and Co-Founder Aayush Ghosh Choudhury told PTI that the fresh round of funding took place at 4 times higher valuation compared to the last funding round a year ago when the company raised USD 3 million. Existing investors Lightspeed and Endiya Partners participated in the funding round to raise their stake in the company, Choudhury said. "We still have 40 per cent of the amount in the bank that we raised in last round. The fresh round of funding is more of strategic in nature," he said. The company will utilise the fund in product development as the company aspires to increase client base by 30-40 times by end of this year. "We at present have around 50 logos. Now we are looking to increase logos to 1,500- 2,000 by end of 2023," Choudhury said. The

Secure Blink bags seed funding from US-based venture capital firm

Secure Blink offersThreatspy, the SaaS platform which empowers developers and security engineers to secure their web applications and APIs proactively

Aero India 2023: Rajnath Singh lauds 'new energy' of defence start-ups

Innovation aided by Make in India that prioritised local procurement, says tech firm Zeus Numerix