DataWeave raises seed funding from Blume Ventures, TLabs, 5ideas, Rajan Anandan & others

Bangalore-based startup DataWeave Software Pvt Ltd  has raised seed funding worth Rs 1.5 crore ($270,000) from Blume Ventures, TLabs (Times Internet), 5ideas Startup Superfuel, Meta Studio Advisors and a group of angel investors, namely Rajan Anandan, Pankaj Jain, Bharathram Thothadri, Krishna M...

Rashi Varshney

Google India MD Rajan Anandan named IAMAI chairman; Facebook’s Kirthiga Reddy appointed vice-chairman

Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has named Google India’s managing director Rajan Anandan as its new chairman while Kirthiga Reddy, head of office at Facebook India and director of online operations, will be the new vice-chairman. IAMAI is the industry body, representing the intere...

Sainul K Abudheen

Excl: DocSuggest Healthcare raises funding from Rajan Anandan, others

Hyderabad-based DocSuggest Healthcare Services Pvt. Ltd, which allows patients to book appointments with hospitals and doctors directly through web or phone, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Google India MD Rajan Anandan and Mumbai Angels member Taher Khorakiwala, a top executive of ...

Sonam Gulati

Blume Ventures-backed Aurality shuts podcasting app, plans to pivot

Mumbai-based startup Aurality Technologies Pvt Ltd,  backed by early-stage VC firms Blume Ventures and Srijan Capital, besides  Google India chief Rajan Anandan, US-based angel investor Vikas Taneja and Sunil Kalra of Indian Angel  Network, has discontinued its mobile application, Aurality. Aural...

Anand Rai

Rajan Anandan, Shailesh Rao, Pramod Bhasin, 500 Startups invest $600K in Sri Lanka’s 24/7 Techies

24/7 Techies, a Sri Lankan computer support startup that provides technical support on the cloud, has received $600,000 (Rs 3.26 crore) in seed funding from Dave McClure’s accelerator and seed investment fund 500 Startups while Rajan Anandan (MD at Google India), Shailesh Rao (VP, international re...

Nandana Das

Rajan Anandan-backed dating site StepOut hires former Games2win exec Raj Menon as COO

Rajan Anandan-backed dating site StepOut, earlier called Ignighter, has brought on board Raj Menon as Chief Operating Officer. Till recently, Menon was director, business, at Games2win. In fact he has been in the Games2win  group for 12 years in various capacities and was part of core team that inc...

Sainul K Abudheen

Google’s Rajan Anandan invests in Lankan travel startup Trekurious

Sri Lanka-based travel portal Trekurious.com has secured first round of funding from Blue Ocean Ventures, promoted by Google India MD Rajan Anandan, and the Lankan Angel Network. Founded by Rukmankan Sivaloganathan and Dilendra Wimalasekere, Trekurious.com provides travellers a unique experience of ...

Madhav A Chanchani

Excl: GTI Capital Group invests Rs 2.8Cr in Rajan Anandan-backed WebEngage

India-focused investment firm GTI Capital Group has invested $0.5 million (Rs 2.8 crore) in WebEngage, which offers online feedback and survey tools to e-commerce websites, a top executive with the investment firm told VCCircle. This is part of three investments by the investment firm this year acro...

Sonam Gulati

Big leap forward: Take a peek at top 5 Internet trends tracked by Rajan Anandan, Google India MD

If the words of one of the most influential digital media experts are to be believed, mobility will be the most compelling trend going forward, followed by other exciting ones like natural UI, video interface, social media and so on. According to Rajan Anandan, the managing director of Google India,...

Sainul K Abudheen

India 2nd after US in education-related online queries: Google study

India is second only to the US  in education-related online queries, a jump from the eighth place the country held in 2008, a Google study has revealed. The study titled ‘Students on the Web’ also noted that over 60 per cent Indian students with access to Internet use the medium as their first...