Alma Connect, a portal that connects alumni, students & faculty, has raised $250,000 from CIIE – IIM Ahmedabad, IXORA Ventures, CountShop.com, Ixigo Co-founder Dharmendra Yashovardhan and other angel investors. This…
Bangalore-headquartered accelerator Kyron has announced the first batch of start-ups that include the following firms from India: Admirch Media Labs (Bangalore) – enables users to share content with people of…
Digital media network SVG Media has invested in NetworkPlay cofounder Rammohan Sundaram’s second entrepreneurial venture, PlatformPlay. The new company, PlatformPlay Media Ventures Pvt. Ltd., will act as an entry point…
New Delhi-based listed Info Edge (India) Ltd. has acquired Makesense Technologies Pvt. Ltd. for about Rs.8 crore. MakeSense has developed proprietary software for semantic search, which is expected to augment…
SEBI will prescribe requirements for angel investor pools by which they can be recognised as Category I AIF venture capital funds Venture Capital Funds have been allowed pass through status…
The funds provided to technology incubators located within academic institutions and approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology or Ministry of MSME will now qualify as CSR expenditure. The…
Gaurav Saraf of Epiphany Ventures has a post in StartupCentral guiding founders to solutions to getting around the current crunch for “Series A” (first round of VC investments). Venture Intelligence…
Sumanth Raghavendra, serial/parallel entrepreneur (currently founder of Q-Prize winner Deck App Technologies and Live Inbox and previously founder of Sabeer Bhatia- and SoftBank-funded InstaColl), has a great post on what…
New Delhi-based listed Network18 Group is to divest its premier local search businesses Infomedia Yellow Pages and AskMe to GETIT Infoservices Pvt. Ltd., a digital marketing company offering a platform…
Startup accelerator GSF has announced the launch of its fourth location and investment cycle in Chennai, starting April 2013. GSF will be selecting four most promising companies in Tamil Nadu…