BLS International Services Limited, an acknowledged public company in the provision of Government to Citizen services and world's second largest company in visa processing services, has kick-started BLS Accelerator, a start-up accelerator program to help innovative business attain the right mentoring and scale. As a part of the program,
Not having the right team (or having a wrong one) is the third main reason to why startups fail, states an analysis from CB Insights. It’s preceded only by the lack of market for their product and cash for keeping the business afloat. What this means is that...
Indian women entrepreneur Chandra Vadhana, who hails from Kerala's Cochin area, has been shortlisted among the finalists of the sixth Empretec Women in Business Awards - 2018 by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a permanent organ of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The awards celebrate exceptional...
As an alternative for people having difficulty authenticating with Aadhaar's biometric authentication process, issuing body Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has finally announced that from 30th of September, the face recognition feature will be rolled out in phased manner, starting with telecom service providers. Introduced as an option to...
CHennai-based startup AirOK Technologies has launched India’s first indigenously developed smart air purifier ‘Vistar’ at Chennai on Saturday. Equipped with Wi-Fi and touch interface, the purifier has filter that is not only relatively more efficient but also last longer than other air purifiers. Founded in 2014 by IIT-Madras alumni Deekshith...
In a recently held Digital Success Summit 2018 in Kolkata, West Bengal, the state IT secretary Debasish Sen disclosed that the state government is working on an app-based technology, which will have voice-activated and artificial intelligence (AI) related commands, for unorganised sectors including rickshaw pullers, Puchka sellers, or Toto...
Bangalore-based home automation startup Silvan Innovation Labs has launched a revolutionary system - Silvan BOARD - which is based on IoT technology. This system retrofits into a conference room, communicates with existing, installed devices and provides a simple interface to set the room into different modes of operation. Conference rooms...
CHennai-based startup AirOK Technologies has launched India’s first indigenously developed smart air purifier ‘Vistar’ at Chennai on Saturday. Equipped with Wi-Fi and touch interface, the purifier has filter that is not only relatively more efficient but also last longer than other air purifiers. Founded in 2014 by IIT-Madras alumni Deekshith...
Sequoia Capital India (Sequoia India), the India unit of Silicon Valley's top venture capital fund Sequoia Capital, has announced later today that it has recently closed its sixth fund at US$695 million. Sequoia Capital India, which has made over 200 investments so far in companies across...
