News Corp VCCircle honours promising stars from Startup, PE & VC Ecosystem
New Delhi: News Corp VCCircle, India’s leading publisher of alternative investment, deals and startup news, data and information has announced the winners of the 6th News Corp VCCircle Awards held in Mumbai. The awards, which are the pre-eminent honors for disruptive and fast-growth business in the startup, private equity and venture capital ecosystem, had prominent […]
Read More →IIM Bangalore-Goldman Sachs Women Startup programme select 15 women entrepreneurs-in-the-making
Bengaluru: The NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank and active investor in India, selected 15 women entrepreneurs-in-the-making and their ideas for incubation over the next year as the final phase of its Women Startup Programme, India’s first customized […]
Read More →Vivek Chaand Sehgal of Motherson Sumi Systems awarded as the EY Entrepreneur of The Year India 2016
New Delhi: Vivek Chaand Sehgal of the Motherson Sumi Systems Limited (MSSL), the flagship company of Samvardhana Motherson Group (SMG), was named the EY Entrepreneur of The Year (EOY) India 2016. Samvardhana Motherson Group, with MSSL, has presence in more than 26 countries across six continents and is amongst the top auto-component suppliers across the […]
Read More →Paul Writer in Association with Oracle India launches India’s First CX Portal on Customer Experience
Bangalore: Paul Writer in association with Oracle India launched an exclusive site focused on Customer Experience (CX) and dedicated to customer experience, sales, digital and marketing professionals. Companies today are challenged by the new environment of rapidly rising customer expectations and disruptive innovations like social, mobile and cloud technologies. How can data and technology help […]
Read More →Social Impact summit was organized by XSEED of XIMB
Bhubaneswar: A Glocal (Global+Local) Social Impact summit, as a part of “Thinking Social”, a series of “Tata Social Enterprise Challenge” by Tata Trust and IIM, Calcutta, was organized by XSEED, The Entrepreneurship Cell of XIMB, GSIS, a PNV foundation, and eKutir initiative and MyCityLinks at Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University Bhubaneswar on 18 February […]
Read More →Idein Ventures hires co-founder of India’s first car rental company as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Mumbai: Idein Ventures, a seed-stage VC fund with offices in the United Arab Emirates, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, has recruited David Back, co-founded of the first company in India to offer ‘self-drive’ car rentals Zoomcar, to advise the UAE-India Venture Capital Fund and its portfolio companies. David will provide advice to Idein and to its portfolio […]
Read More →The President meets Ashoka Fellows
New Delhi: A group of Social Innovators from the Ashoka Innovators for the Public (ASHOKA) including newly inducted 2016 Ashoka Fellows called on the President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee yesterday (February 11, 2017) at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President said that India is a diverse country and this diversity is its strength and needs to […]
Read More →Axis Bank launches crowd-sourcing competition and invites Ideas on ‘Future of Jobs in India’
Mumbai: Axis Bank, the country’s third largest private sector bank, launched the largest crowd-sourcing competition, ‘Future of Jobs in India’, seeking ideas from young minds. The competition, under the aegis of ‘Axis Moves’, is open to all Indian citizens in the age group of 18 to 30 years. Participants, in teams of 2, can select […]
Read More →Four-member team of IIM Bangalore’s EPGP students wins first prize at IIM Lucknow’s entrepreneurship summit
Bengaluru: A four-member team of Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP) students, from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, has emerged as the winner at IIM Lucknow’s entrepreneurship summit ‘Ventura’. The team from IIM Bangalore beat 165 participating teams from 36 B-schools including IIMs, IITs and ISB, to win the finals of the competition, held from […]
Read More →SPJIMR’s Business Academia Conclave discusses how India can become the innovation capital of the World
Mumbai: SBAC 2017, SPJIMR’s annual Business Academia Conclave this year, brought together four leading CEOs, over 50 CXOs, faculty members, students and staff for an exchange of ideas around the theme of innovation. SPJIMR Dean Dr. Ranjan Banerjee, “We have identified two words that we want to own: ‘innovation’ and ‘social sensitivity’. The catalyst will […]
Read More →S P Jain School of Global Management launches professional postgraduate program in Fintech
Mumbai: Rapid technology transformation, automation and the rise of Fintech also calls for long-term skill management programs to ensure future employability of the population. It is estimated that nearly 30 to 50 percent of jobs will be automated within the next few years and people will need completely different skillsets to remain masters (rather than […]
Read More →Top Ten global universities that breed the founders of unicorn start-ups: IITs at fourth
London/Mumbai: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India’s premier technology institutes, has brought many laurels by enlisting their names in global start-up map. Now, IITs added a new feature in their cap as they achieved fourth rank in the global list of universities that have produced the most unicorn start-up founders. The most popular universities that […]
Read More →New Delhi-based online school aggregator platform SchoolForSure.com successfully raises funding
New Delhi: New Delhi based online school admissions platform SchoolForSure.com has announced that the company has raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding from private investors amongst which is Rohit Chadda, co-founder Foodpanda and founder, PayLo. The Ed-tech startup will use the proceeds to expand its team and enter new geographies. SchoolForSure.com which operates a […]
Read More →XLRI presents 9th National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship during 27-29 Jan 2017
Jamshedpur: XLRI- Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur hosts the 9th National Conference on ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ on 27 to 29 January, 2017. Around 150-170 social entrepreneurs, development sector professionals, policy makers, academics and management students are expected to assemble. The theme of this year conference is “Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Planet” at the 3-day conference to […]
Read More →Global Entrepreneurship Summit “Xavion 2017” held at XIMB
Bhubaneswar: “Xavion 2017”, the Annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by X-SEED, the Idea and Initiative cell of XIMB, XUB concluded successfully. The event, from 20 January to 22 January aimed strengthening the entrepreneurship skills of people. The first day of the event started with a panel discussion on “Social Entrepreneurship with esteemed speakers like Mr […]
Read More →Key perspectives on innovation dominate the Wharton India Economic Forum 2017
Mumbai: The two-day 21st Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) 2017 summit concluded successfully. The WIFE 2017 saw some trend setting perspectives on innovation in the Indian business environment led by influential business tycoons, such as Mr Adi Godrej, Mr Adil Zainulbhai, Prof. Kartik Hosanagar, Ms Shaheen Mistri, Mr Sandeep Singhal, Mr Zorawar Kalra, Mr Kunal […]
Read More →Commerce and Industry Minister meets incubators and accelerators of startup ecosystem
New Delhi: The Commerce and Industry Minister, Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman, held a meeting with various incubators and accelerators to receive feedback, understand their concerns and address key challenges faced by them in the startup ecosystem. This is in line with her previous initiative to reach out to various stakeholders of the ecosystem. In the meeting, […]
Read More →First ever China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship international contest launched in India
Bengaluru: Both China and India are considered as the hubs of start-up movement in Asia. To attract the best ideas and talent in innovation and entrepreneurship, both countries are making efforts to collaborate in the start-up ecosystem. Now, the City Government of Shenzhen, China has introduced the first ever China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International […]
Read More →More start-ups co-founded by SPJIMR Alumni receive funding
Mumbai: Two start-ups co-founded by SPJIMR alumni have successfully raised around Rs 450 million in funding, strengthening the Institute’s support and efforts for promoting entrepreneurship among alumni and participants of its various management programmes. These start-ups are TYGR, a game-changing transport and logistics app platform, and Bezahlt, an invoice financing venture in Europe. The institute […]
Read More →Pragun Jindal Khaitan, MD of JAL, bets big on Artificial Intelligence (AI) based startup
Mumbai: Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest buzzword in the start-up space in India. The AI-based start-up movement in India is at ascent stage. Now, Pragun Jindal Khaitan, MD of Jindal Aluminium Ltd (JAL), the largest aluminium extruder in India, has spelt out plans to invest in Artificial intelligence (AI) focused start-ups. Following the growing […]
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