Falguni Nayar, former MD and CEO of Kotak Investment Bank, has launched e-commerce portal, Nykaa.com. The venture, which went live in late 2012, offers wellness and beauty products. It is…
Gurgaon-based start-up Bright Lifecare Pvt Ltd, which runs the online health store Healthkart.com, is about to close a Series B funding round of up to $14 million led by Intel…
Multilateral funding agency ADB has made an investment of $2 million (about Rs.1.08 crore) in Bangalore-based Simpa Networks, which offers a prepaid payment platform to enable affordable clean energy solutions…
The Karnataka government has proposed to set up a venture capital fund with a corpus of Rs.50 crore targeting the pharmaceutical sector. The proposed Pharma VC Fund will have 26%…
Sequoia Capital is set to invest another Rs.120 crore in cookware and kitchen appliances company Stovekraft. Sequoia will raise its holding in the company to about 40%, up from the…
TLabs, a Times Internet Ltd. initiative that aims at nurturing and supporting the ideas and projects of Internet and mobile entrepreneurs, has launched Batch 3 with seven startups. These include:…
Nadir Godrej, managing director of Godrej Industries, has invested in LocalCircles, a community-based local social network. The Delhi-based start-up enables citizens to connect with local communities, including neighbours, colleagues and…
The Indian Angel Network (IAN) has invested in Nagpur-based RankJunction, a ranking platform for competitive exams. IAN members Jay Chopde and Ravi Kiran led this round of investment and will…
Mumbai-based SkoolShop.com, a portal that brings together products related to school and education, operating on both B2B and B2C models, has received an investment from Blume Ventures and angel investors…
From the profile in The Smart CEO: Today, Manipal Health Enterprise’s network encompasses 10 corporate hospitals with 1,600 beds and five teaching hospitals with 3,300 beds, across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,…