Excl: Cloud telephony startup Knowlarity’s co-founder and COO Pallav Pandey quits

Gurgaon-based cloud telephony startup Knowlarity Communications’ co-founder and chief operating officer Pallav Pandey has left the company and will now look at starting another venture. Started in 2009 by IIT Kanpur batchmates Ambarish Gupta and Pandey, with initial funding from friends and family...

Team TC

Villgro Innovations invests in healthcare technology startup Windmill Health

Chennai based Villgro Innovations Foundation has invested an undisclosed amount in Windmill Health Technologies, a startup which creates low-cost technology innovations for healthcare sector. “We are looking forward to working with the entrepreneurs—a biodesign expert and a doctor—who are pass...

Sonam Gulati

Fashion e-store Seat14A, part of 500 Startups’ latest batch, goes live; what’s on offer?

Seat14A, a Delhi and US-based private label fashion e-store for men, has been officially launched in India. Part of 500 Startups’ latest batch of accelerator (more about the Indian startups chosen for the current batch here), the company’s business model is, however, different from the tradition...

Sainul K Abudheen

Social media analytics firm Simplify360 claims 100-plus clients; close to raising Series A funding

Bangalore-based startup InRev Systems Pvt Ltd, which offers SaaS-based social media analytics solutions via its platform Simplify360, has bagged more than 100 clients globally since it started operations in 2011. The company is also close to raising Series A funding from a prominent VC investor in I...

Sonam Gulati

CultureAlley secures seed money from Kae Capital, will rebrand to new platform called Readil

Jaipur-based Intap Labs Pvt Ltd that runs a cloud-based online language learning platform CultureAlley has raised a seed round from Mumbai-based early-stage VC fund Kae Capital. The money will be used for product development. Founded in November 2012, CultureAlley was started as a one-on-one teacher...

Sainul K Abudheen

Turnaround Innovision offers 360-degree product views, sees opportunities in e-commerce

Bangalore-based Turnaround Innovision Solutions Pvt Ltd, which offers 360-degree views of products, sees a big opportunity in e-commerce and e-tailing, besides online matrimony and marketplace platforms in India. Founded in September 2012 by Sreepriya Koppula (CEO), an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, Turn...

Sonam Gulati

Excl: ShoppingWish.in raises angel funding from Sandeep Johri, others

Pune-based Wishpoint Tech Pvt Ltd that runs a price comparison portal in India called ShoppingWish.in has disclosed that it raised angel funding from Sandeep Johri and others. Sushil Choudhari, co-founder, ShoppingWish confirmed the development but refused to disclose the amount or other investorsâ€...

Sainul K Abudheen

Ravi Gururaj of Citrix launches ‘concept lab’ Frictionless Ventures; to invest $50K-250K in each incubatee

Ravi Gururaj, co-founder of Harvard Business Angels (India chapter) and a top executive at software firm Citrix Systems, has launched a startup incubator called Frictionless Ventures. But unlike other incubators, this one is an idea experimentation lab. Based in Bangalore, this incubator picks up an...

Rashi Varshney

Aditi Technologies acquires cloud consulting startup Get Cloud Ready

Aditi Technologies, a Bangalore-headquartered cloud company which provides Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, has acquired Hyderabad-based cloud consulting startup Get Cloud Ready for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Aditi is looking to build up on its solutions for migrating and m...

Sonam Gulati

5 Indian companies make it to 6th accelerator batch of 500 Startups

Five Indian startups have made it to the final list of 28 incubatees, picked by Dave McClure’s accelerator and seed investment fund 500 Startups for its 6th accelerator batch. More than two-thirds of the incubatees are global firms as the startups have been selected from around 14 countries beside...