A weekly roundup of Startup news Emoji marketing startup Inmoji raises another $1.5M – Well, Inmoji, a startup that creates emoji-focused marketing campaigns, is announcing that it has raised an additional $1.5 million, bringing its total funding to $9 million. This comes a week after announcing a self-serve platform that […]
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A weekly roundup of Startup news Companies like Microsoft and Cisco are pumping millions of dollars into their startup accelerator programmes – One of the biggest concerns of large technology companies these days has to do with innovation. The industry catchphrase for this is: “Fear of being Uberised”—a term derived […]
Digital Startup News roundup 29 Jan 2017
The first thing that struck me after my recent move to Bangalore was the proliferation of startups. The tech entrepreneurs and startups continue to receive a lot of media attention: Business sections of newspapers devote considerable bandwidth to feature startups, especially those focused on digital technologies. While many startups benefit […]
Startups then and now: an ecosystem of nurturing Digital gold ...
Here is a roundup of startup news from the week past A visit to dynamic Startup Incubators in Bengaluru – The startup ecosystem in Bangalore (Bengaluru) – by some accounts the “Silicon Valley” of the east – is vibrant and has been nurturing tech startups that aspire to go global. […]
Digital Startup News roundup 15 Jan 2017
Happy New year 2017. Here is a roundup of startup news from the week past Story of a failed startup: Cyanogen – Cyanogen, the company, formed in 2013 with the aim of commercializing the already popular CyanogenMod announced that it will be shutting down. Cyanogen in a blog post […]
Digital Startup News roundup 1 Jan 2017
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! A weekly roundup of top news for Startups and Entrepreneurs How One Startup Broke Into Government – A partnership with a local startup helped San Leandro, Calif., make sense of new data sources. Snagging a government customer can be a daunting prospect for a startup company, […]
Digital Startup News roundup 25th Dec 2016
Traditional companies in banking and insurance can use data science to survive the era of internet giants and financial technology startups. Over the course of many centuries, the banking and insurance industries have developed processes, products and infrastructures that have shaped the economic structure of humankind. But now, they are […]
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A weekly roundup of top news for Startups and Entrepreneurs Aussie VR start-up Zero Latency takes its zombies global after raising $7 million – Melbourne-based Zero Latency, which has developed a unique way to allow groups of friends to roam freely together in virtual reality, has closed a $7 million […]
Digital Startup News 11th Dec 2016
A weekly roundup of top news for Startups and Entrepreneurs Banks reportedly seek to invest $59 million in blockchain startup R3 – Banks involved in the blockchain consortium R3 CEV have expressed interest in investing $59 million in the company’s first funding round, less than half its overall target, a […]
Digital Startup News 4th Dec 2016
On 30 November, the R3 blockchain consortium, a collective of roughly 70 banks and financial institutions dedicated to the development of distributed ledger technology, kept its promise to release the open-source Corda platform (link) into the wild. Image: google The technology is described by R3 as a financial-grade distributed ledger […]