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Founded: 2015 CEO: Gaurav Munjal (2015–) Headquarters location: Bengaluru Total funding: $39.4 M Founders: Roman Saini, Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh Unacademy is a learning platform that provides content for major competitive examinations and offers short lectures in the form of videos on different subjects which can be accessed for free. It allows aspiring students to better prepare for their competitive examinations and…

Parent organization: Mozilla Foundation CEO: Chris Beard (28 Jul 2014–) Founder: Mitchell Baker Founded: 3 August 2005, Mountain View, California, United States Funding Type: Angel Mozilla provides internet solutions. It offers Firefox, a web browser; Thunderbird 2, an email application; Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool that enables its users to manage a stream of messages coming from sources such as…

Co-Founders: Achal Garg, Jatin Sahgal, Neeraj Mehraniya, Saurabh Gupta and Mohit Headquarter: Delhi, India Established: January 3, 2017 The value of blood cannot be emphasized no matter how much one tries to do so in oral or written. In India, someone needs blood every two seconds. Unfortunately, many Indians die due to the unavailability of blood.…

Founder: Peter Beck Founded: June 2006 CEO: Peter Beck CFO: Adam Spice Headquarters: Long Beach, California, United States Rocket Lab delivers a range of complete rocket systems and technologies for fast and low-cost payload deployment. Rocket Lab’s orbital launch vehicle Electron is poised to change the space industry by providing dedicated low-cost, high-frequency launches for the emerging small satellite market.…

Headquarter- San Francisco, California, United States CEO– Francis Davidson Established in- 2012 Number of Employees- 501-1000 Hub Tags- Unicorn Sonder eases and owns hotel-style properties with spaces including a dining area, a living space, extra bedrooms, modern design, and a phone or text concierge service. Every rental comes with beds, linens, towels, amenities, and essentials…

Launched in: 2015 Founders: Tathagato Rai Dastidar, Rohit Kumar Pandey, Apurv Anand Location: Bengaluru Sector: Healthtech Total funding: $25.5 M Key investors: Accel Partners, IDG Ventures India, Endiya Partners, Pi Ventures, Axilor Ventures and more. SigTuple aims to create a data-driven, ML, and cloud-based solution for the detection of abnormalities and trends in medical data for the purpose of disease…

Founded Date: April 20, 2018 Founders: Yoshua Kishi Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care and Wellness Headquarters: San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Funding: $150.2K The company founder, Yoshua Kishi, has ADHD, and in the past, he was struggling with finding an outlet for his negative emotions. Professional help was often not available or…

Founding Date: 2016 Founders: Andrew Lockhart, Christopher Bockman Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States Fathom develops a coding automation platform designed to expedite medical coding practice. Fathom leverages AI to automatically review incoming charts as well as offers full-service coding services and real-time comprehensive audit, allowing medical operators to automate their coding and optimize their business.…

Founders- Ambarish Mitra, Jessica Butcher, Omar Tayeb, Steve Spencer Operating Status- Active Last Funding Type- Series E Headquarter- London, United Kingdom Blippar is a leading technology company specializing in Augmented Reality and Computer Vision (AI). Blippar’s vision is to enhance everyday life with Augmented Reality and give you more from the world you see –…

Launched in: 2012 Founders: Sagar Apte, R Rajendrakumar, Deepak Thomas, K. Vinu, Hrishikesh Nene Location: Pune Sector: Automobile maintenance Total funding: $843K Key investors: One97 Mobility Fund, Persistent Systems, Pose Ventures, Snow Leopard Ventures, Venture Factory, JioGenNext, and more CarlQ connects car owners with the service providers. It helps access the car status and detect any care required in real-time. It…

Launched in: 2012 Founders: Krishnan Raman, Derick Jose, Srikanth Muralidhara Location: Bengaluru Sector: Hardware & IoT Total funding: $10 Mn Key investors: Hitachi, Vertex Ventures, Lumis Partners, The Hive, Pi Ventures and more Flutura is a big data analytics solutions provider with a vision to transform operational outcomes by monetizing machine data. Flutura’s flagship software platform, Cerebra, provides diagnostics and prognostics…

Founded: 2012 CEO: Noah Kerner Headquarters location: Irvine, California, United States Chief legal officer: Ashley Good Founders: Jeffrey James Cruttenden, Walter Wemple Cruttenden III Acorns is a fintech company best known as a micro-investing platform that allows users to set up automated investments into a portfolio through Round-Ups: Acorns rounds up a debit or credit card purchase made on a linked…

Founded: 2015 Headquarters location: Bengaluru, India Founders: Thirukumaran Nagarajan, and Vasu Devan Ninjacart is a company that is aiming to disrupt the fresh produce supply chain. As Ninjacart undertakes the risk of picking up the fruits and vegetables from the farmers and delivering them to the small retail outlets, its revenue is largely dependent on the…

Headquarters location: Novi, Michigan, United States Parent organization: Bay Grove Capital, LLC Founded: 18 April 2012 Number of employees: 7,200 (2018) Key people: Greg Lehmkuhl, CEO, and president Lineage Logistics is the fastest-growing and most innovative company in the temperature-controlled logistics industry, which stores, transports, and delivers food eaten by every American. Lineage’s mission is to eliminate waste. To solve…

Co-founder & CEO: Hal Watts Headquarter: London, UK Founded: 2013 Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time, turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high-quality, natural fibers instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House,…

Headquarter: Jacksonville, Florida, United States Founders: Alan Trager, Michael Rubin, Mitch Trager Founded: 1995 Fanatics utilizes a vertical manufacturing engine to design, manufacture, and distribute fan replica jerseys. Its innovative approach allows it to quickly deliver championship merchandise for all of the country’s major sports leagues, including the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL. The company continues to expand…

CEO: Gregg Renfrew Founder: Gregg Renfrew Founded: 2013, Santa Monica, California, United States Owner: Counter Brands, LLC Headquarters location: Santa Monica, California, United States Beautycounter is taking the lead in developing safer beauty products. While the European Union has banned 1,300 chemicals in personal care products, the United States has only partially banned 11. Beautycounter is trying to change the status…

Industry: Financial services Founded: 6th May 2013 Founders: David Velez, Edward Wible, Cristina Junqueira Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil Banking in Brazil is hard. Here’s how Nubank is changing- the fast-growing digital bank now offers ATM withdrawal, direct deposit, and more. Brazilians have traditionally been able to bank only with a handful of large institutions that…

Industry: Financial Technology, Financial Services Founded: May 2013 Key people: Zach Perret (CEO) William Hockey (President & CTO) Revenue: $200 Million(2019) Plaid is the technology platform providing the tools and access needed for the development of a fully modern, and digitally-enabled financial system. Plaid makes it easier and safer for developers — from the smallest…

Launched in: 2017 Founders: Akhil Aryan, Alexandre Collet Location: Mumbai Sector: Deeptech Key investors: Astarc Ventures, Aakrit Vaish ION Energy manufactures high-performing batteries for electric vehicles. It designs and engineers lithium-ion battery technologies bundled with proprietary software and a cloud analytics platform to improve battery performance. With a cutting-edge battery management system, advanced analytics software, and artificial intelligence-powered platform,…

Founded: 2014 Headquarter: Boston, MA Industry: Agriculture Founder: Noubar Afeyan and Geoffrey von Maltzahn Indigo Ag develops crops capable of surviving climate change. The company finds plants thriving where they shouldn’t, then test them for unique microbes that the company can use in natural seed coatings to cultivate additional hardy specimens. In 2018, Indigo’s resilient…

Launched in: 2016 Founders: V Raman Kumar Location: Mumbai Sector: Fintech Total funding: $3.8 Mn Key investors: Aeries Group, TSLC Pte, Florentree represented by Mathew Cyriac and others CASHe has developed a patented credit scoring system, called social loan quotient (SLQ), to provide short-term, unsecured loans to salaried individuals. The SLQ calculates the customer’s credit score from several data points obtained…

Phool (it means Flower), a biomaterial startup, has raised $1.4 million in a funding round led by IAN Fund and San Francisco-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. The startup works on a unique idea of turning wasted flowers from temples into incense sticks through a ‘flower cycling technology.’ The startup had also launched ‘Fleather’ – a vegan alternative…

Launched in: 2013 Founders: Vinay Nathan, Yogesh Kulkarni, Ranjit Nair Headquarter: Palo Alto, USA Sector: Hardware & IoT Total funding: $5.75 Mn Key investors: Lumis Partners, The Hive, Persistent Systems, Wipro Ventures, Infuse Ventures Altizon is an industrial internet-focussed startup. It helps enterprises use machine data to drive business decisions with a view to enabling digital transformation by accelerating smart…

Founded by: Yoni Assia, Ronen Assia, David Ring Headquarters: London, Limassol, Tel Aviv-Yafo CEO: Yoni Assia Founded: 2006, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel eToro is a social trading investment network that enables users to watch the financial trading activities of other users, copy them, and make their own trades. The company’s product, OpenBook and WebTrader, allows traders to learn from each other, share live trading information,…

Founder(s): Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas Founded: 2012 Headquarters: San Francisco, California, US Type of site: Collaborative software Airtable is a cloud-based project management system that as the company likes to say, “delivers the power of a database with the simplicity of a spreadsheet.” The company’s customers range widely from Atlantic Records to Netflix to WeWork. In 2018, the company added…

CEO: John Maraganore Founded: June 2002 Founders: Phillip Allen Sharp, Paul Schimmel Headquarter: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Last August, Cambridge, Massachusetts–based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals became the first company to bring an RNA interference (RNAi) treatment to market, winning FDA approval for its drug Onpattro. The drug treats peripheral nerve damage and other symptoms in people with the…

Founded: 2007 CEO: Fabien Beckers Headquarter: San Francisco, USA Early detection through a CT scan can be the difference between life and death for lung cancer patients, improving the five-year survival rate from 16% to 56%. Radiology specialists, however, are in short supply and often overworked, leading to waiting lists and errors. Last February, San…

Founder: Daniel Mattes Founded: 2010 CFO:  Ken Chow Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States Jumio is the service that allows you to upload a photo ID and snap a selfie to verify your identity for a bank, WeWork, or Airbnb account instantly. In 2018, the company launched a new AI lab. Researchers train algorithms to identify the…

Founded: 2015 Founder: Craig Stack Headquarter: San Diego, USA Truepic is the trust authority for visual media. Their mission is to speed up business, foster healthy civil societies, and push back against disinformation. They do this by bolstering the value of authentic photos and videos while leading the fight against deceptive ones. Truepic pioneered “controlled…

CEO: John Riccitiello  Founded:2 August 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark Industry: Software & Tech Services Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States Video-game development company Unity Technologies is known for software that lets developers build 3D animations, in real-time, at a fraction of traditional costs. (Users pay Unity a flat subscription fee rather than a percentage of game revenues.)…

Founded: 2005 Founders: David Gorodyansky, Eugene Malobrodksy Products: Virtual private network Headquarter: Redwood City, California, USA‎ AnchorFree believes in placing consumers in control of their personal information online. The company’s mission is to enable secure access to the world’s information for an addressable market of 5 billion people who access the Web through computers or mobile devices. AnchorFree does…

Founded: February 2012 Revenue: 182.59 crores USD CEO: John Foley Subsidiaries: Neurotic Media, LLC, Tonic Fitness Technology Inc. Headquarters: New York, New York, United States Seven years after launching as a stationary bike company that allowed subscribers to live-stream digital cycling classes, Peloton has morphed into a $700-million-a-year-in-revenue fitness powerhouse that produces hundreds of hours of videos for a community…

Founder:  Rickard Öste Founded: 1994 Investor: Blackstone Group Headquarter: Malmö, Sweden A milk alternative made of pulverized oats. Founded in 1994, Swedish company Oatly was the first manufacturer to commercialize oat milk, but it was only after launching in the U.S. in 2016 that the product became a sensation, at one point last year selling for…

Industry: IoT Funding: $12M Investors: Symphony Holdings Headquarter: Singapore Booking anything is now easier than ever. Whether you want to book an event, a co-working space, a tenant space, or anything else, the tech startup ‘Smarten Spaces’ is the solution for you. The company understands the vital role smart technologies play in our routine activities. Walking to…

Industry: IoT Funding: $5M Investors: Blockchain Ventures Nodle, a low energy, low-cost global network for IoT connectivity, launches on 10th July 2017 to provide connectivity for low power, Delay Tolerant IoT devices, such as tracking devices, air sensors, smartwatches and fitness trackers. This “crowd-sourced” connectivity network will provide an alternative revenue source for device makers, network operators,…

Industry: Ecommerce Funding: $23.1M Investors: Andreessen Horowitz Headquarter: San Francisco, USA Why wait in line when you can simply order your food on your phone and pick your order when you get to the restaurant? It is even better than the ‘drive-in’ concept because you don’t have to wait for even a minute. Before Snackpass, the restaurant owners…

Industry: Health Care Funding: $11M Investors: Builders VC Headquarter: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States The NeuroFlow digital health application tracks assess and manage your mental wellbeing through an easy tool. The NeuroFlow tool supports your journey for holistic wellbeing. However, not everyone can sign up for the NeuroFlow application. Since it is a healthcare tool, you will need…

Industry: FinTech Funding: $1.6M Investors: Golden Angel Investors Headquarter: Oakland, California, USA CNote believes that financial products should not just serve a few wealthy individuals. That’s why CNote rewards money savers with financial plans that help them earn passive income, thereby helping  CNote users make as much as 2.5% profit on their earnings annually. It is certified…

Industry: Software and SaaS Funding: Bootstrapped Investors: N/A Headquarter: New York, USA Developing a website right from your mobile phone screen is as easy as it gets. Quuie is a software that helps users do just that. You don’t have to learn coding to get Quuie websites live. It just takes a few clicks and swipes on the smartphone…

Industry: Blockchain Funding: $38.9M Investors: Andreessen Horowitz Headquarter: Vancouver, Canada Remember Cryptokitties? The game that was an instant hit on the internet? Well, that was from DapperLabs. What is DapperLabs? It is a gaming company that develops games powered by cryptocurrency. It is developing games, but it also plays a vital role in making blockchain a reality. Currently,…

Industry: IoT Funding: $1.5M Investors: Surge Ahead Headquarter: Singapore Seekify is a great platform to deliver a wow customer experience to your clients. Users can integrate Seekify with different business software and aggregate all data together on a single platform. With this software, companies can set clear goals, KPIs, and provide data-driven insights using AI and Machine Language…

Industry: Software and SaaS Funding: Bootstrapped Investors: N/A Headquarter: Munich, Germany Creating a new playlist for your restaurant, office, gym, and events can be a difficult task. Soundsuit lets you creating one without any issues. The Soundsuit application asks you for your favorite music, your event’s theme, and gets the job done for you. With Soundsuit smart assistant, you…

Industry: FinTech Funding: $600K Investors: Fulgur Ventures Headquarter: London, England Hastee is an app that features employee benefits allowing employers to take a portion of their earned pay, on-demand. It promotes financial wellbeing and allows employees to have more liberty in using their salary as per their needs while earning investments on it. The Hastee app allows workers…

Industry: Travel Funding: $600K Investors: Crowdfunding Headquarter: San Diego, USA Are you finding it difficult to change your clothes in a public space? Well, there is an app to help you out. Thanks to Undress – the fashionable mobile changing room for women. Now, you can change your clothes easily and in a worry-free way. Go for the…

Industry: Transport and Travel Funding: $80M Investors: Dash ventures Headquarter: Egypt Taking you from point A to point B in the city is now easier than ever. No need to wait at the bus stop all day just to get that bus. Find out when it is arriving, where it will stop, and get to that place…

Industry: Health Care Funding: $1M Investors: N/A Headquarter: Brazil Lenscope makes lens replacement easier. With Lenscope, you can order lenses online and get them delivered right at your doorstep. They also offers optical glasses for anyone who would like to make one. They can order the glasses online and get the delivery at home. Lenscope also repair glasses.…

Industry: IoT Funding: $2.5M Investors: IANFund Headquarter: Gurugram, India Zypp is an electric scooter sharing app that is helping many people across India. Users can unlock Zypp for Rs. 5/- only, with a charging fee of Re.1/minute. It has over 500K users in India alone, and the number is going up fast. The interesting thing about Zypp…

Industry: Health Care Funding: $15.1M Investors: RTP Global Headquarter: Singapore Zenyum aims to help individuals bring back their confident smiles. The startup offers 3D-printed invisible braces to patients. You can easily get the braces sent right at your home. The 3D-printer braces are customized to suit your face orientation. Zenyum is a product developed by experienced entrepreneurs and…

Industry: Blockchain Funding: $17.4M Investors: Bitcoin.com Headquarter: Slovenia Eligma is the new revolution in the blockchain and bitcoin sector. Have you ever thought about how you can use a cryptocurrency that isn’t driven by public demand? That’s where Eligma comes in. It is setting new standards for bitcoin in particular and blockchain in general. It is also the…

Industry: Software and SaaS Funding: €2M Investors: Cherry Ventures Headquarter: Finland Alexa and Siri are two great voice assistants of our time. What if you want to add the same feature of voice assistance to your mobile app? That’s where Speechly comes in. It lets you leverage app APIs to create engaging experiences for customers with applications…

Industry: Health Care Funding: $31.3M Investors: GV Headquarter: New York, United States Kindbody is an end-to-end fertility care solution. It provides female care services from standard gynaecological care to conception, nutrition and mental wellness and more. Kindbody has revolutionized the field of medical science, helping users get expert treatment with complete ease. It offers services like intrauterine…

Industry: AI Funding: $10.5M Investors: Flying Fish Partners Customer support just got easier with Streem. Customers tend to get disgruntled when they don’t get the support they expect from the company. Introducing Streem, a revolution in customer support that helps your customers pinpoint the problem through the lens of their smartphone, and your team can…

Industry: Transport and Travel Funding: $8.4M Investors: Deciens Capital Traveling and cash both go hand-in-hand. Now, imagine, what if you are traveling outside your country and you run out of cash? That’s where Chipper Cash service comes in handy. It helps users make instant cross-border mobile money transfers as easy as sending a text message. For now, the service…

Industry: Food and Beverages Funding: $1.6M Investors: Golden Angel Investors Meatable is an organic meat production company that produces and sells lab-grown meat in the market.  The founders of the company hold the point of view that current meat production cannot meet future demands, and it is way too ‘cruel’ to kill animals for food. Meatable picks…

Industry: Mobile Apps Funding: $46.9M Investors: Insight Partners Headquarter: Boston, United States HqO is an app that helps landlords carve places that their tenants love. It is an onsite retail and services app that helps landlords know in real-time about the features that are not available at the premises. As a result, they can take quick action and…

Industry: FinTech Funding: $78.8M Investors: Stripes Headquarter: San Francisco, California, United States Securitize is a  blockchain-enabled company that facilitates the capital markets by allowing traders to trade in private companies using trusted global solutions. The platform is secure and offers a high-quality experience for investors. It is integrated with multiple US-based marketplaces, so traders can trade without any fear…

Industry: Travel Funding: Undisclosed Investors: N/A Traveling? Want to store your luggage at a secure site? That’s what Luggage hero – the latest addition to the list of startup companies – does. It is a simple platform that lets you safely store your luggage at a storage point with a small charge. You can easily take a…

Industry: Food and Beverages Funding: $89M Investors: VentureSouq Kitopi stands for Kitchen. Operation. Innovation. It is a state-of-the-art kitchen network that prepares and delivers food to other retail outlets. It is a managed cloud kitchen network, where a restaurant can place orders and get it delivered in quick time. It helps restaurants, food brands, eateries to focus on…

Industry: FinTech Funding: $600K Investors: Fulgur Ventures Do you love trading in cryptocurrency? With Button Wallet, you can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrency with a  telegram app. It is a perfect app for people who trade cryptocurrency on the go. With the app, instead of using a third-party platform to trade currencies, they can do it with the…

Industry: EdTech Funding: Undisclosed Investors: JioGenNext NutSpace aims to get children future-ready with 21st Century skills. It uses a Proprietary Inventive Thinking™ Methodology that teaches children “how to learn”. NutSpace also runs an in-classroom program that offers experiential learning to develop independent thinking skills among children. NutSpace provides content that is meticulously curated to help children improve their…

Industry: FinTech Funding: Bootstrapped Investors: N/A NuovoPay is a startup that aims to safeguard device leasing and support Haas (hardware as a service). Several finance companies and mobile phone carriers have not jumped on the bandwagon of device leasing to make mobile devices available to individuals without a credit score. This is an essential part of mobility,…

Industry: Food and Beverages Funding: $1.7M Investors: The Broe Group Getting beer in the US is no more difficult. With TapRm, a new e-commerce store, you can get your beer delivered right at your doorstep. As of now, the service of TapRM is only available in New York. The company has received approximately $1.7 million in funds for…

Industry: Blockchain Funding: $35M Investors: Javelin Ventures The Mythical Games studio is setting new benchmarks for the gaming industry with its blockchain-based games. The company aims to bring game developers and content creators closer to the games they love. With a team of veteran game and platform experts, it is developing world-class products that help consumers adopt the…

Industry: Ecommerce Funding: $87M Investors: DBL Partners Wheels is a shared electric mobility platform that’s designed to promote smart city projects around the world. Wheels lets you rent wheels (motor pods) for a day, a month, or even a year. They will take care of the maintenance and all other expenses related to it. If the motor pod…

Industry: Fashion Funding: $1.8M Investors: Crowdfunding The ERA Prometheus tourbillon watch is a game-changer in the world of luxury watches. It has raised nearly $1.1 million on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. People only bought a Tourbillon because of the delicacy watchmaking involved. Thanks to ERA Prometheus, now people have multiple options available to buy luxury watches. Using…

Industry: EdTech Funding: AED10M Investors: Al Arabi Investments Coded Minds is a technology-education startup that aims to revolutionize the paradigm of tech education. Coded Minds focuses on methods. It starts with the problem and inculcates a practical, hands-on project-based curriculum. It provides education to students of all ages in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific, South Asia,…

Launched in: 2015 Location: Bengaluru Sector: Consumers services Total funding: $39 Mn Key investors: Bertelsmann India Investments, Vertex Ventures, Mayfield, 3one4 Capital, Sistema, InnoVen Capital, and more Technology-powered meat, fish, and seafood products delivery startup Licious is built on the farm-to-fork business model. It owns the entire back-end cold chain, enabling it to control and maintain the quality…

Industry: Food and Beverages Funding: $1.7M Investors: The Broe Group Cooking a meal is a tedious process; even top chefs will endorse this. Couple this with the management of resources. It is a wholesome exercise. There is one app that’s changing the trend. Choco is an app that makes ordering and communication with your suppliers faster, simpler,…

Industry: AI Funding: Undisclosed Investors: High Tech Grunderfords Eyeware Tech is a revolutionary startup in the camera tracking and recognition industry. It monitors a person’s gaze and ascertains the motive. The software is developed to cater to real-world issues such as security, buyer choice, human intentions, etc.  It uses patent-pending computer vision algorithms to increase human-machine engagement.…

Industry: IoT Funding: $5.4M Investors: TiVenture With Infraspeak, any user in an organization can directly report a technical failure to the relevant technicians quickly. The tool identifies and notifies the failures in an electrical system concerning type, location, equipment, or priority. They can mark these failures as ‘solved’ or otherwise assign them to the relevant person working…

Industry: Ecommerce Funding: £80M Investors: DMG Ventures Shopping for cars online? Sounds skeptical, right? Wrong! Buying a car is now as easy as it gets right at your home. UK based startup, Cazoo has made buying used cars simple. It is an inspection-cum-car selling store. It has a comprehensive 150+ point checklist that every car has to…

Industry: AI Funding: $34.1M Investors: Scale Ventures Operating a call center? Need a coach for your sales and support team? Observe.AI is your go-to platform. It is an AI-powered voice assistant that can turn your contact centers into profit generation machines. How it does that? Well, Observe.AI uses multiple technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and a…

Industry: Mobile Apps Funding: $464.6K Investors: Antler Now calling your local plumber, electrician, maid, or carpenter is as simple as clicking a button – thanks to Porch – a new startup.  It provides a mobile platform that users can use to call home repair services. The best part? All of these are freelancers. This means you can get…

Industry: FinTech Funding: $78.8M Investors: Stripes Radpay is an online payment solution that helps customers pay faster for their purchases, resulting in reduced cart abandonments. It is one of the top blockchain startups that connects blockchain with PCI-compliant card payment and banking infrastructure. It ensures secure transactions for merchants through a combination of mobile apps, browser plugins,…

Industry: Fashion Funding: $1.5M Investors: Ludlow Ventures Consider Wardrobe as your fashion closet. The e-commerce app lets people borrow luxury clothes, sell used luxury clothes, and share ideas on designing custom clothes. Wardrobe is eco -friendly, convenient, and affordable. Adarsh Alphons founded wardrobe after an epiphany about just how many clothes in his own house went mostly unused.…

Industry: EdTech Funding: $78.8M Investors: Stripes Wouldn’t it be better if instead of getting salary transferred to your bank account – which usually takes days – you get salary instantly in your company’s ID card? You can use this card at ATMs, at service stations, at restaurants, and even at local banks. It makes life a lot…

Virtual laboratories allow STEM students to experiment in million-dollar labs at a fraction of a wet lab cost. Saving costs is one core benefit of using online resources for teaching. A virtual lab simulation includes true-to-life missions for students to complete, highlighting the connection between science and the real world. This makes virtual labs all…

Industry: Travel Funding: $1.9M Investors: Lightspeed Ventures Are you planning to travel abroad? With new startup Airalo, getting an eSIM is more affordable than ever. The Airalo SIM lets you travel to multiple destinations of your choice. It covers over 100 destinations. You can get the eSIMs at an affordable price from around the world. Airalo SIM cards…

Sweetgreen is the first-ever unicorn salad start-up, luring lunchtime lines across the country with its millennial- and Gen Z-friendly $12 salads. Now, the brand that brought the farm-to-table trend to fast-casual dining wants to be “the Starbucks of salads.” The brand was founded in 2007 after then-Georgetown students Jonathan Neman, Nicolas Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru…

Industry: Ecommerce Funding: $25.5M Investors: Trip Advisor Eatigo claims to be the number one restaurant reservation platform in Asia. It is backed by Trip Advisor and offers dining deals and restaurant reservations in Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. What makes it the NEXT BIG THING in the food industry is the quality of service…

Industry- IoT The agricultural business is becoming more complex due to legal requirements and product certifications. xFarm is a startup that aims to transform agricultural processes by leveraging digital technology. It provides innovative tools to support farmers and the food supply chain, stakeholders. The main focus of the organization revolves around convenience, intuitiveness, and adaptability…

Breathing is everything. We breathe almost 1 billion times during our lifetime. And while most of us take breathing for granted, for 1 out of every 10 people breathing can be a struggle. NuvoAir is your go-to platform for respiratory health tracking, improvement, and cure. The startup offers devices to track and monitor the respiratory…

Why wait in line when you can order your food on your phone and pick your order when you get to the restaurant? It is even better than the ‘drive-in’ concept because you don’t have to wait for even a minute. Before Snackpass, the restaurant owners were worried about the customers not collecting their orders.…

PUNE, Maha–(Unboxing Startups) Verishop is a lifestyle e-commerce store for your daily fashion needs. What makes Verishop stand out from the rest is the quality of the products it offers. The brand features only premium products from top brands. Verishop aims to be a go-to lifestyle shopping destination for customers who are looking for high-quality…

Spacemaker is a great startup that aims to develop sustainable infrastructure that can help companies grow while decreasing environmental pollution. It is one of the millennium development goals of the United Nations. Infrastructure designers can get the services of Spacemaker to provide the smartest ways to maximize the value of their real-estate structure. They will…

The momentum of investments flowing into Indian startups from the US is likely to remain strong under the leadership of president-elect Joe Biden, several investors and industry watchers expect and confess in the media on Saturday. These expectations come at a time when deep-pocketed technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Walmart and Facebook, and several…

Drivezy offers peer-to-peer bike and car-sharing services in India. Drivezy’s vehicle sharing marketplace is a strategic and efficient alternative to outright vehicle purchases for consumers. Drivezy’s marketplace allows individual vehicle owners to list their idle cars, motorcycles, and scooters and turn them into profit-generating assets by renting the vehicles to customers at a fraction of…

Lucyd Lyte aims to be a revolution in smart eyewear by being the first Bluetooth frame that can be worn all day, every day, by prescription glasses wearers. Lucyd’s mission of providing natural, useful technology upgrades to ergonomic eyewear. Lucyd Lyte is a new entry into the world of wearables, as a smart glass that…

Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste. Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology to reduce food waste. As a major producer and consumer of agricultural products, China faces a serious food waste problem as it turns towards sustainable urbanization and industrialization. The…

Forget credit scores: Petal determines whether you’re eligible for a credit card using factors like your income and bank statements. Geared toward younger people who haven’t yet established a solid line of credit, the company doesn’t charge fees–including for missed payments–and offers cash-back rewards. Instead of focusing on credit scores, Petal looks at an applicant’s financial behavior.…

Millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum will likely play a key role in the 5G offerings from wireless operators around the globe. In the U.S., Verizon is one of the biggest proponents of the mmWave spectrum. The company has already deployed its nonstandardized fixed 5G service, called 5G Home, in four markets in the U.S. and is…

U.S. retailers throw out $18 billion worth of spoiled food every year, which is bad for both the bottom line and the environment. San Francisco startup Afresh creates software that uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to help stores optimize their fresh food inventories and cut back on waste. Founded in 2016, the company says it…

When it comes to climate change, cement production is a major culprit, accounting for about 7 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. New Jersey-based Solidia uses a patented process to address this problem, replacing limestone with a synthetic material that requires lower temperatures and less energy than traditional methods. The cement absorbs CO2 as it hardens, all of which amounts…

Fetch has created both a picking robot and a freight one. While the “Fetch” can grab items off shelves, a warehouse doesn’t need to go all-in on robots to take advantage of their efficiency. The new “Freight” robot acts more like a trained dog, steadfastly sticking to either a human or another robot’s side. A…

New York City-based Better.com is trying to upend the antiquated mortgage application process by bringing it online. The company doesn’t charge fees or commissions and instead makes its money only via interest. And whereas traditional mortgage applications can take weeks, getting pre-approved on Better.com takes just a few minutes thanks to a largely automated process. The company, which lent…

Indian aerospace startup Skyroot Aerospace recently unveiled its Dhawan-1 Rocket Engine on the 100th birthday anniversary of Indian rocket scientist for which it’s named – Dr.Satish Dhawan. According to the company, the Dhawan-1 is notable in that it’s completely 3D printed, runs solely on cryogenic propellants, and was manufactured in India. The Dhawan-1 will power…

Singapore-based startup EcoWorth Tech has developed a technology for the sustainable treatment of wastewater. It provides a breakthrough solution for removing and recuperating organic contaminants from Industrial and Oil & Gas wastewater. The technology integrates seamlessly into the latest water remediation processes in a highly cost-efficient manner. Additionally, EcoWorth Tech uses biomass waste to produce…

StanPlus focuses on supporting the patient in emergency and non-emergency situations, helping them reach the hospital, care center, or home. They operate across all segments, from simple vehicles for patients with limited mobility to fully equipped Advanced Life Support (ASL) vehicles to handle all types of emergencies and medical air transportation. With a fleet of…

We all know all cars generally run on fuel, and with the rise of continuous demand, fuel is dangerous. Therefore, Sea6 Energy has a unique idea: grow algae on seawater and use the resulting algal biomass to produce biomass. Their plans presently include making renewable chemicals and food additives using algae. Sea6 also created novel…

The startup operates a flexible salary platform, which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, helping middle and lower-income people with any daily expenses or emergencies. If you don’t have money, the Bengaluru startup says that the credit card…

If you want to sell your household scrap, what you generally do? The majority of the audiences will say they wait for the “Kabadiwala” scrap collector to come. The traditional setup of a collector roaming in the streets and shouting for junk is well-known and understood. Also, it has remained the same for so many…

Lechal is the world's first company to launch a haptic footwear; the startup has received 10,000 orders in the first three months after the official launch.

Aloe vera, a natural moisturizer and herbal panacea for diseases, can also generate electricity and power batteries.

Priothera announced it has closed $35.4 million in Series A funding led by Fountain Healthcare Partners

Fintech startup Lydia goes to work with monetary API startup Tink for its open banking options in its app. Lydia began as a peer-to-peer fee app and now has 4 million customers in Europe. Lydia’s vision has evolved to become a financial super app that lets you control your bank accounts and access various financial services. In France, you can…

Lalamove,  an on-demand logistics service active in China, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, has officially entered the U.S. seven years after launch. As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps millions of Americans home, Hong Kong-based Lalamove believes it can seize the growing demand for delivery services in the country. It makes its debut in the Dallas Fort-Worth area, a major hub for…

Seattle startup Picnic raised an additional $3 million from existing investors as it gears up for a commercial rollout of its pizza-making robot.

Seattle-based biotech company HDT Bio enabling global access to immunotherapies for oncology and infectious disease, closed its seed financing round, totalling ~$3M.

Cardiac Dimensions in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatments for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in patients with heart failure, closed a $17.5m Series C financing.

The startup also announced the funding that it had landed a $1 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to help fight COVID-19 with information and knowledge derived from fragmented public sources

According to intelligence platform VentureCap Insights, Neuron is valued at $47.2 million, after raising US$18.4 million via the issue of new shares between late February and early March.

XtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

Established in 2009, Immusoft develops immune cell technology that uses blood cells from a patient to create therapeutic proteins targeted to treat diseases.

The global machine learning market is expected to grow from $1.41 Billion in 2017 to $8.81 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.1%

SpotOn Transact, a software and payments company for small and medium-sized businesses, secured $60 million in Series C funding just six months after announcing its $50 million Series B investment.

Now Papa has raised $18 million for its Series B round led by Comcast Ventures.

The remote-controlled drone can lift a load of up to 200 kilograms (440 lb) and has a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles), making it ideal for jobs such as delivering medicines to a hospital or dropping off components at a factory.

Oracle and Walmart said they were together investing to acquire 20% of the newly formed TikTok Global business.

The startup recently signed a partnership with SUSE, the world’s largest independent open-source software company.

Mobile car repair startup Wrench is diving deeper into services that go beyond vehicle maintenance

Indian companies can spend less both in terms of manufacturing and operating costs as compared to US companies, the country has an enormous talent pool of engineers, and the VC ecosystem is warming up.

Over 14 startups have raised funding since March 2020, as online education sees a massive boom in India.

Pune-based energy distribution company Repos Energy has registered over 150 fuel startups in less than a month.

General Motors announced its second major electric vehicle partnership in less than a week on Tuesday, this time a $2 billion deal with startup Nikola. GM will take an 11% ownership stake in the Phoenix company and will engineer and build Nikola’s Badger hydrogen fuel cell and electric pickup truck. The Badger is expected to…

Proxgy is a visual commerce product that lets users experience almost everything just by sitting on their sofa.

Cricket commentator and expert Harsha Bhogle has invested an undisclosed amount in gaming startup Fantasy Akhada, and will be the brand’s face for the next two years, the company said on Friday.

SoftBank Group is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok’s India assets and has been actively looking for local partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cred, a digital community of creditworthy individuals, merchants and institutions, on Wednesday announced that it has become the official partner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020.

PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real-world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business. Founded in 2016 by a former international development worker and Crohn’s Disease patient, Noga Leviner, PicnicHealth’s initial…

Consumer electronics startup boAt, through its parent company, Imagine Marketing Pvt Ltd, has raised ₹25 Cr in debt from venture debt and specialty lending firm InnoVen Capital. Founded by Aman Gupta, a chartered accountant, and Sameer Mehta, a former executive director at Kores (India) Ltd in 2016, boAt has over the years expanded its product…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan’s philanthropic organisation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has invested in education technology startup Eruditus, its second capital infusion into an Indian firm. People close to the development told ET that the funding is part of Eruditus’ ongoing Series D round that will see the company raising around $100…

Phool.co, an IIT Kanpur backed biomaterial startup, has raised about ₹10 crores in a pre-series A funding round led by Ian Fund and San Francisco-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. Founded by engineering graduates Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar in July 2017, Phool.co is a startup focused on the circular economy which converts the floral waste…

StemoniX will receive about 78% of Cancer Genetics' 2.31 million outstanding shares, making it the majority owner of the company. At Cancer Genetics's press timeshare price of around $7, the transaction will be worth $12.6 million to StemoniX.

The latest round brings its total funding to date to $ 13 million, with the support of previous investors Eniac, Famiglia, SignalFire, Congruent, AME and Joe.

MindTree has decided to start it's own $120 Mn fund to invest in tech startups.

Commenting on the app launch, Atul Kapoor, Founder, sense.bio said, "Now since the unlock is happening across the nation and people are resuming work now it's the time to take extra safety measures with protecting themselves and boosting their immunity. We have made sure of the quality of products and are made in India."

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India said it has joined hands with the startup hub and incubation center at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) to spearhead innovations in the mobility space.

  Bengaluru-based startup Pixxel is getting ready to launch its first Earth-imaging satellite later this year, with a scheduled mission aboard a Soyuz rocket. The roughly one-and-a-half-year-old company is moving quickly, and today it’s announcing a $5 million seed funding round to help it accelerate even more. Indian venture capital firms, Lightspeed India Partners, Blume…

Subscription-based water purifier startup DrinkPrime on Tuesday raised ₹21 crores ($3 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Omidyar Network India and Sequoia Surge. The money will help the startup strengthen its team and invest in its growth plans to reach 1 million households in the next 3 years. “We are currently operating in Bangalore and…

In a bid to support India’s growing startup ecosystem, Ritesh Agarwal, founder, and CEO of Oyo Rooms will work as an advisor and mentor with Mumbai-based incubator Venture Catalysts (VCats). Agarwal will work with Dr. Apoorv Sharma, founder of VCats to promote entrepreneurship across the country’s tier 1, 2, and 3 cities and help India…

The fresh capital will be used to expand the company’s presence in towns and improve its collection efficiency and lending cycle management, Eduvanz said in a statement.

Coda is one of the newer entrants in the workplace productivity known as “the future of work,” which includes companies ranging from video-conferencing platform Skype to Microsoft’s Office 365.

The Submarine optical fibre cable project came into being when PM Modi began the development of the 2,312-Kilometers long submarine optical fibre cable project connecting Chennai - Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Through this, its customers and AIA Vitality members can gain access to personal health coaching services based on their specific needs via Holmusk's network of nutritionists and dietitians.

The amount would make Byju’s India’s second-most valuable startup after Alibaba Group Holding-backed financial payments brand, Paytm.

Emphasizing on increasing private investment in agriculture, Tomar said his vision is to attract the youth to agriculture and rejuvenate the sector. He also stressed the need to make agriculture competitive, provide handholding to agriculture-based activities, and adopt new technology at the earliest to boost productivity.

In a statement, Apple said that its Siri does not contain features included in the Xiao-i patent, which the iPhone maker argues relates to games and instant messaging.

"A deal could be completed by Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, and the talks involve representatives from Microsoft, Bytedance, and the White House. Talks are fluid, and a deal may not come together," The Wall Street Journal reported.

We are going to talk about a New York startup Air.Co and they make Vodka.They extract CO2 from the air and mix it with water to make a vodka.

FSD Pharma has instigated the process of liquidating all FV Pharma assets, including the sale of the Company’s cannabis production facility in Cobourg, Ontario.

Google released a model card toolkit, a set of toolset designed to facilitate AI model transparency reporting for developers, regulators, and downstream users.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office.”

In more than 200 pages of court filings former employee Parmar included clippings of some posts showcased on the UC News app that he alleged were false.

EDF said the Abu Dhabi solar photovoltaic plant would have a capacity of 2 GW, which would make it the largest single-project solar plant in the world, generating the equivalent electricity to power more than 160,000 households each year.

Both companies aim to combine 5G with edge computing to create a “cognitive automation” Artificial Intelligence framework. The platform will recognize natural language and allow autonomous decision making in various scenarios.

A report from Business Insider had stated that Microsoft is slashing around 1,000 jobs across its businesses this week.

“I am excited to continue serving the company as we navigate through the COVID-19 situation, execute the strategy that we first envisioned at the time of the merger, and drive towards the achievement of our Vision 22 goals,” said Mr. Bruehlman.

“Today marks the next big step as Walmart India’s pioneering cash-and-carry legacy meets Flipkart’s culture of innovation in the launch of Flipkart Wholesale. By leveraging each other’s strengths and unique expertise, this combined team will break new ground in their shared mission to help Indian businesses grow and succeed. We look forward to a bright future for Flipkart Wholesale,” said Judith McKenna, President, and CEO of Walmart International.

“We want to Imagine Meats to be the choice for anybody seeking the taste of meat, without the guilt of environmental and public health impacts – just as it will be for our own family,” said Genelia Deshmukh, founder of Imagine Meats.