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Accel Partners, Helion back online taxi booking site TaxiForSure

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Snigdha Sengupta | 1 Comments

Venture capitalists have lately acquired a taste for taxi or car rental startups. Serenditpity Infolabs, a Bangalore-based startup that runs online taxi booking site TaxiForSure, has raised an undisclosed amount in venture capital from Accel Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Blume Ventures, said a press release. Details on the stage of funding has not been disclosed either. TaxiForSure is the…

Photos: Startup Weekend Bangalore

Posted on January 23, 2012 by StartupCentral | 0 Comments

Startup Weekend Bangalore’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. Images:…

Startup Weekend Bangalore: Bootcamp, Mentors, Prizes

Posted on January 19, 2012 by StartupCentral | 0 Comments

With barely 24 hours to go before Startup Weekend Bangalore gets underway, here’s an update on what participants can look forward to during the weekend. Boot Camp First up is Boot Camp, a feature that is being introduced by Startup Weekend for the first time in India. The camp kicks off on Friday evening at 3.00 pm and is being…

Startup Weekend Bangalore Aims for 12 Startups in 54 Hours

Posted on January 12, 2012 by StartupCentral | 1 Comments

Startup Weekend Bangalore, a 54-hour startup networking event where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs brainstorm on business ideas, returns for its second edition on Janury 20 through 22. Around 100 entrepreneurs are expected to participate in the event, which takes place at the Microsoft premises at Lavelle Road. The organizers expect around 200 entrepreneurs to attend the weekend event and between…

L-pad Startup Garage in Mumbai, Bangalore

Posted on May 28, 2011 by StartupCentral

Virtual incubator L-pad, which concluded its first Startup Garage event in Pune early this month, is now bringing the initiative to Mumbai and Bangalore. The event brings together founders and potential founders of startup companies for ideas brainstorming sessions spread over three days. The objective at the end is to come up with prototypes of the ideas presented. Experts from…

Indus Khaitan wants Indian entrepreneurs to think big

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Snigdha Sengupta

Last month, Indus Khaitan stepped down from startup accelerator Morpheus Venture Partners to go back to his entrepreneurial roots. He’s signed up as part of the founding team of Sunnyvale-based enterprise mobility startup Bitzer Mobile. The company provides interactive, multi-platform, secure, manageable and native mobile applications for accessing enterprise data. Khaitan, a self-confessed techie, founded Silicon Valley-based Tejit, a discovery…

Proto.in, HeadStart 2009: You can attend both!

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Snigdha Sengupta

Now why do perfectly nice people have to get cocky and spoil it all? The organizers of Proto.in, which hosts its next edition on January 23 and 24 in Bangalore, have come up with a feature called PitchCamp! — “Learn the inside scoop on how VCs (venture capitalists), corporate partners and journalists think.” writes Proto.in curator Vijay Anand. Impressed that…

Headstart Kicks Off With IBM Case Study

Posted on January 18, 2008 by StartupCentral

Headstart-Compute 2008 has just begun with a bang. It is looking all set for an exciting three days ahead. It started off with an introduction to ACM Bangalore by Muralikrishna Gandhi, chairperson, ACM Bangalore and an enthusiastic introduction to Kickstart and setting the perspective straight for Headstart. As a startup, you should be looking forward to Startup Saturday coming up…

Bangalore Has an OpenCoffee Club

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Snigdha Sengupta

So there’s a Bangalore Open CoffeeClub as well. It debuted on August 19 at BrewHaHa, the coffee shop that’s more than a coffee shop at Koramangala. Again, OpenCoffee Club or OCC is a global unconference movement that originated in London. It was founded by entrepreneur and early-stage investor Saul Klein who among many things has been vice president, ecommerce, at…