Startups

Fund Raise May Give New Flight to Udaan 

Fund Raise May Give New Flight to Udaan 

The B2B e-commerce space is going through a burgeoning phase of growth in India, with potential to change the business landscape in the country in the years to come.  According to Statista.com, in 2021, the market size of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce was worth 5.6 billion USD in India and the market size of B2B e-commerce…

The Challenges And Difficulties Of Being A Co-Founder With “Best Friends”

The Challenges And Difficulties Of Being A Co-Founder With “Best Friends”

While not all entrepreneurs need co-founders, many prominent and successful companies in the world have been founded by friends – Bill Gates and Paul Allen (Microsoft), Larry Page and Sergei Brin (Google), Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak (Apple), among others. Not surprisingly, many were long-time school friends, college friends or camaraderie. Others didn’t get along…

Zumutor Biologics Heralding New Paths in Cancer Research

Zumutor Biologics Heralding New Paths in Cancer Research

Biotechnology has emerged as one of the most promising areas of the fast-evolving knowledge economy. Zumutor Biologics Inc, a biotech start-up based in Boston, USA, with its R&D centre in Bengaluru, is making a positive impact in the long and arduous road of cancer research and is a start-up to watch out for.  Founded in…

Engineering the Future 

Engineering the Future 

In this digital age, many innovative players are carving a niche for themselves by making inroads in a fast-evolving and ever-expanding virtual space. One of them is the start-up player Valispace, which was founded by Marco Witzmann, Louise Lindblad and Simon Vanden Bussche, in 2016. The company is based in Bremen, Germany. They decided that…

Wizards of EdTech 

Wizards of EdTech 

Edtech as a sector holds great promise in the emerging knowledge economies of the world. According to a report by IBEF or India Brand Equity Foundation, the Indian edtech industry was valued at 750 million USD in 2020 and is expected to reach 4 billion USD by 2025 at a CAGR of 39.77 percent. This…

Grab the Success Story!

Grab the Success Story!

On the superpowered digital highway some amazing success stories are envisioned and created, whose impacts are found across the very real world. The superapp developed by Singapore-based Grab Holdings Inc. has gained phenomenal popularity within a decade. The superapp is named Grab, which is a leading superapp in South-east Asia, operating across the deliveries, mobility and digital…

Globalising Indian Fashion

Globalising Indian Fashion

Maverick fashion entrepreneur, and fashion designer Pernia Qureshi combined fashion and e-commerce when she launched the e-commerce portal named Pernia’s Pop-Up Shop in 2012. That entrepreneurship led her to fame. Through this portal fashion designers from India can access global clientele. Many designers find it challenging or rather impossible to reach their target customers across…

Sourcing Tech Manpower, Effectively and Quickly

Sourcing Tech Manpower, Effectively and Quickly

A Bangalore-based start-up named Supersourcing Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is easing the recruitment process for engineers through its remote hiring, which can not only be very much helpful for the engineers but also for many companies struggling to find the right engineering expertise to execute their time-bound projects. Since its launch in 2020, Supersourcing has emerged…

Affirming to Innovative Financial Solutions

Affirming to Innovative Financial Solutions

The Buy Now, Pay Later segment is booming across the world. According to a market research report by Pune-based Straits Research, the global market size of the buy now, pay later segment was worth 256.54 billion USD in 2022, and it is estimated to reach an expected value of 3892.19 billion USD in 2031, growing…

Enviable Growth for OnlyFans 

Enviable Growth for OnlyFans 

The meteoric rise of OnlyFans, which is owned by Fenix International Limited,  tells an unconventional, innovative and amazingly true start-up success story.  Founded by Timothy Stokely, OnlyFans, an Internet content subscription service based in London and a social media platform, which enables content creators to monetise their content and develop connections with their fans, has…