Why do startups need funding?
India has the third-largest number of startups, yet many shut down in the pandemic for lack of funds. Here is why startups need funding: they creat…
Shweta Sharma writes about India's startup ecosystem for The Company Check. She follows incubators and accelerators, unicorns and the sectors producing them, government programmes such as Startup India, and the founders building new companies. Her pieces combine reporting with the incorporation, funding and financial records available on the platform. 36 articles.
India has the third-largest number of startups, yet many shut down in the pandemic for lack of funds. Here is why startups need funding: they creat…
Byju's is acquiring Whitehat Jr for $300 million in an all-cash deal. The coding platform for children aged 6 to 18 fits the NEP 2020 push for codi…
Five Indian startups raised funding in the first week of August 2020: Drink Prime ($2.9 million), Wobot ($2.5 million), Infeedo ($700,000), Bolo In…
The preventive healthcare and Indian healthtech market has been predicted to reach a market size of $170 billion by 2025, primarily powered by fitn…
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to help uplift India’s e-commerce market almost threefold to around $85 billion by 2024.
With the third-largest startup ecosystem globally, it’s no surprise that 3 Indian startups are part of the 50 global future unicorns list by CB Ins…
Started by Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, Abhijit Kane in Bengaluru, Postman is the newest addition to India’s unicorn club.
History was created on May 30, 2020, when NASA astronauts were launched into orbit by the first commercially built rocket and spacecraft by SpaceX.…
The manufacturing sector will have to use the latest technologies such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain post the lockdown.
Ravi Shankar Prasad announced on Twitter that India has now become the second-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world.
Indian startups and corporates are bringing healthcare online. Here is how Practo, LiveHealth, Ask Apollo, Lybrate and 1mg connect patients with do…
India's startup boom has slowed to a crawl. Risk-averse investors, a shortage of skilled talent, the economic slowdown and too few good incubators…