Category: Early Stage

Hyderabad based FIXU receives $40, 000 investment from Facebook

Recently the famous social media sit Facebook had announced the FbStart program where it would invest in the winner startup and would also provide mentoring to the winner. It is no surprise that a city based startup, FIXU has been selected as one of those startups where Facebook will invest

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Exclusive Local Deals App, BlueBook, raises $500,000 in a Seed Round syndicated by Indian Angel Network and LetsVenture

Angel investors from  IAN and Let”s Venture platform, from India and around the world Help build Blue Books as a high growth venture with increased merchant and user base across 3 cities, leveraging technology for deep customer analytics, loyalty solutions for merchants and unique payment solution Online to Offline (O2O)

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A Marshmello helmet for the better environment.

Rekarmate is a Hyderabad-based environmental friendly startup. Taking inspiration from the Marshmello”s ( an electronic dance music producer, and DJ) “Give it back” initiative, Rekarmate  gave away  few Marshmello helmets made from recycled waste as a part of fundraising. Within 48hrs prior to the launch, they could reach close to

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How investment-ready are you?

While clearly an important caveat if and when a startup needs money, assuming there is a compelling case for investment, when is a startup ready for an investment. What are the parameters that investors look for, and that startups should prepare for? The most significant readiness factor is if the

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Is technology the best way to a quick startup success/exit? 

Great news this week about a 3-year old startup from Hyderabad, Tuplejump, being acquired by Apple. They were in the big data space building a product that allowed use of nosql databases. Deep tech mumbo jumbo. But, think about it. When starting up, how does one pick the idea to

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Startup events – a boon or a bane?

Startups are always looking for that little bit of support, feedback, advise, guidance, customer reference or investor connect all the time. And this is never easy to come by. Very elusive. And probably not always very effective! In recent months and years, there is a deluge of events. In varying

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