Three just hatched startups beat 11 others to take home the winners’ prizes at the recently concluded Hyderabad Startup Weekend. Here’s a quick look: Parkemon, a company that offers a parking management solution using mobile technology, won the first prize of $200 credit to Amazon AWS and 25,000 credits to ZipDial. It allows users to [...]
The three-day startup workshop at Hyderabad Startup Weekend gave shape to 14 young companies. Take a closer look at the first seven: Nutreatz: Breakfast chain that aims to offer healthy, customized meals in the vicinity of parks and gyms. It proposes to offer both continental and ethnic cuisine at affordable prices. The company is already [...]
Startup Weekend’s Hyderabad edition concludes today. Here’s a peek into what went down during the first 24 hours of the event. The event is an initiative that seeks to educate entrepreneurs and build communities around the world. Since inception, the initiative has built a network of 25,000 alumni, 150 volunteer organizers and 60 trained facilitators [...]
Entrepreneurship, technology and innovation have never been as important in our world as they are today. With that, entrepreneurs and innovators need all the help they can get through mentors and meeting the right investors. At Startup Weekend we bring together aspiring entrepreneurs and provide a platform to give shape to their ideas. After Delhi [...]
Early stage or growth, raising capital has been tough for almost all companies since last October. Declining venture capital and private equity investment numbers over the last several months are evidence — see the latest Grant Thornton report here. For startups, especially, raising venture capital is a challenge even in fair weather. Each stage, from [...]
Content Syndicate Founder (s): Maddy Reddy HQ: Dubai, Hyderabad Sector: Media Content Syndicate started up in August 2006 and employs 17 people. The company syndicates content like press releases for public relations agencies, coffee table books, market research and exclusive stories for publishing firms (newspapers, magazines). AnaXee Technologies Founder (s): Govind Agrawal, P Kranthi Kiran, [...]
Accelerator to angel to VC flow still struggling to find equilibrium in India
I had fun moderating the panel on early stage financing at India Internet Day. VCCircle has an interesting article. The key issues are as under: 1. Too few deals are progressing from accelerators to angel, and from angel to Series A. Only five per cent of deals going from accelerators to Series A might not [...]
The early ecommerce marketplace pioneers: eBay class of 2000-2005
TechCrunch recently published an article I wrote about how the eBay class of 2000-2005 helped shape ecommerce in Silicon Valley and continues to innovate and move the sector forward. By understanding what shaped this class’ experience and examining where these alums are today, we identified the most important industry trends and start to see a [...]
The founder’s guide to surviving the Series A crunch
The Indian entrepreneurship and venture capital ecosystem is fast maturing. Today we have more early stage funds than ever. This fund availability will only improve, aside from the temporary blips caused due to macroeconomic ups and downs. We are in one such ‘crunch’ today, where even though seed and angel funds are writing cheques with [...]
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