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		<title>Peel-Works Raises Sub $1 Million Angel Round from IAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delhi-based Indian Angel Network (IAN) has announced an angel investment of Rs 3.25 crore ($600,000-plus) in Mumbai-based Peel-Works, a cloud-enabled sales force transformation and BPO startup. The investment will be used to expand the company&#8217;s product offerings, create technology differentiators and human capital. The company will host productized sales force consulting and transformation solutions on the cloud and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TLabs to Launch Accelerator Programme with Five Startups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLabs, the startup accelerator launched by Times Internet Group, media group Bennett, Coleman &#38; Co&#8217;s Internet business arm, is ready to roll out the first batch of incubatees in its 13-week programme. Though the incubator had originally targeted ten startups teams, it will kick off the programme with five teams. Batch I gets into session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pepperfry Off to a Crackling Start. Now Comes the Tough Part</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Pepperfry, the country’s newest ecommerce startup, opened for business on January 3, founders Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah never anticipated that the day would end the next morning at 6.00 am. “We were giving away 200 Pepper Points to customers who signed up that day and by 7.30 pm we had 700 transactions,” says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequoia Invests $3.9 Million in Mobile Recharge Service Freecharge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freecharge, an online service that enables mobile phone users to recharge their accounts in exchange for discount coupons, has raised $3.9 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, reports Mint. The investment follows a seed round that the company had raised last year from Sequoia, says the report. Freecharge is owned by Mumbai-based Accelyst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FoodKhoj Plans a SaaS Edge, Looks to Raise Seed Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangalore-based FoodKhoj, a site that enables users to order food online and have it delivered from restaurants of their choice, is moving into the next level of growth with a SaaS-based model that will enable restaurant owners to set up and run their own food ordering portals. The company is in the market to raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meena Ganesh, Accel Invest $5 Million in Jewellery Ecommerce Startup BlueStone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serial entrepreneur Meena Ganesh and Accel Partners have teamed up to make a $5 million Series A round investment in BlueStone, an online jewellery and accessories store, said a press release. This is the first of a slew of ecommerce investments that will be formally announced by Bangalore-based serial entrepreneur couple Meena Ganesh and Krishnan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakopedia Wins Startup Weekend Bangalore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two days of intense brainstorming, 12 startup teams, cobbled together at the second edition of Startup Weekend Bangalore, put forward their best ideas to a panel of judges on the evening of January 22. The panel included Accel Partners&#8217; Shekhar Kirani, Microsoft&#8217;s K Rajinish Menon, Jumpstartup&#8217;s Sanjay Anandaram and Indian Angel Network&#8217;s Amitabh Shrivastava. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos: Startup Weekend Bangalore</title>
		<link>http://startupcentral.in/2012/01/photos-startup-weekend-bangalore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startup Weekend Bangalore&#8217;s second edition concluded on Sunday, January 22. A total of 12 teams brainstormed over 54 hours (mostly without sleep) to shape business ideas that ranged from bill payments to an online platform for recycling to gourmet food delivery. Here are some moods from the weekend. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SONG Advisors Invests in Be Well Hospitals and SV Agri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyderabad-based SONG Advisors has made two fresh investments &#8212; secondary healthcare hospital Be Well Hospitals and potato supply chain management company SV Agri Processing, reports VCCircle. Both investments appear to be Series A round deals but the amounts invested have not been disclosed. The Be Well Hospitals investment was made in December last year and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plug-and-Play Doesn&#8217;t Work in Low-Cost Healthcare: Veerendra Hiremath</title>
		<link>http://startupcentral.in/2012/01/plug-and-play-doesnt-work-in-low-cost-healthcare-veerandra-hiremath/</link>
		<comments>http://startupcentral.in/2012/01/plug-and-play-doesnt-work-in-low-cost-healthcare-veerandra-hiremath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaatsalya Healthcare, the Bangalore-based startup that pioneered affordable and quality hospitals for small towns and semi-urban consumers, has a new mission in 2012. It wants to set up a residential training school for nursing and paramedical staff, at an initial investment of $1.5 million. This will help the company address the talent shortage problem that [...]]]></description>
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