Start-up Founders In India

Microsoft and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday announced a new partnership to help support space technology startups in the country. As part of the new collaboration, space tech start-ups identified by ISRO will be onboarded onto the 'Microsoft for Start-ups Founders Hub platform', which supports start-ups at every stage of...

Fareye CEO and co-founder Kushal Nahata said that the company has doubled its team size in the US and Europe

Even more than three years after demonetisation and all-out efforts to make most transactions through electronic, cash is still king, as it thrives in a digital India, said fintech start-up Paytm founder Vijay Sekhar Sharma.

Mr Tata, who also invests in start-ups, also said old-age businesses will recede and the young founders of innovative companies are the future leaders of the Indian industry.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and vice-chairman of Naukri.com, is among the recipients of the Padma Shri awards, India's fourth highest civilian honour, that were announced by the government on Saturday.

As part of these transactions, current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia India are selling portions of their holdings in Oyo

Formed in 2013, Oyo Rooms is already worth an estimated $5 billion after receiving funding from international venture capitalists. The app-based company, Oyo Rooms, has quickly become India's largest hotel firm by number of rooms and one of the biggest in China as it pursues an aggressive expansion abroad.

Sreejith Moolayil, founder of Pune-based start-up True Elements raised Rs 1.5 crore for his venture from an angel investor in the year 2015. That would have been good news, except two years later, he received an order from the Income Tax department to pay Rs 40 lakh of that amount to the taxman as Angel Tax.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by a Bhopal court following a suit filed by a city-based start-up alleging "harassment". Additional sessions judge Parth Shankar Mishra has issued an order which says that Mr Zuckerberg has to appear in court on June 20.

The arrest of Stayzilla founder Yogendra Vasupal for non-payment of dues to Jigsaw Advertising and Solutions, a vendor, had stirred a hornet's nest in the entire start-up ecosystem, after both the parties traded allegations against each other.

Stayzilla co-founder Yogendra Vasupal, popularly known as Yogi, has been granted bail today in Chennai, nearly a month after he was arrested in a manner which provoked protest by India's biggest tech bosses. They had written an open letter to the government, declaring that the treatment of Mr Vasupal, who is 34, makes "India look like the worst pla...

Cash and productivity concerns could impact hiring, especially when funds are tight and most entrepreneurs favour running a tight ship.

India's biggest tech titans have written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh against the manner in which the owner of Chennai-based start-up Stayzilla has been arrested and treated. "What Yogi and his family are going through now make India look like the worst place, a nightmarish choice to become an entrepreneur," says the letter, signed by 73 tech bos...

At least 5 women have accused The Viral Fever founder Arunabh Kumar of sexual harassment; some say the 34-year-old molested them. However, no police complaint has been filed so far against the IIT graduate, who founded The Viral Fever or TVF in 2011; the company runs a YouTube Channel, produces popular web series Permanent Roommates, Pitchers and a...

In December last year, Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma had sold 1 per cent of his holding in One97 Communications, the parent firm of the digital payments firm, to raise about Rs 325 crore.

Microsoft and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday announced a new partnership to help support space technology startups in the country. As part of the new collaboration, space tech start-ups identified by ISRO will be onboarded onto the 'Microsoft for Start-ups Founders Hub platform', which supports start-ups at every stage of...

Fareye CEO and co-founder Kushal Nahata said that the company has doubled its team size in the US and Europe

Even more than three years after demonetisation and all-out efforts to make most transactions through electronic, cash is still king, as it thrives in a digital India, said fintech start-up Paytm founder Vijay Sekhar Sharma.

Mr Tata, who also invests in start-ups, also said old-age businesses will recede and the young founders of innovative companies are the future leaders of the Indian industry.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and vice-chairman of Naukri.com, is among the recipients of the Padma Shri awards, India's fourth highest civilian honour, that were announced by the government on Saturday.

As part of these transactions, current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia India are selling portions of their holdings in Oyo

Formed in 2013, Oyo Rooms is already worth an estimated $5 billion after receiving funding from international venture capitalists. The app-based company, Oyo Rooms, has quickly become India's largest hotel firm by number of rooms and one of the biggest in China as it pursues an aggressive expansion abroad.

Sreejith Moolayil, founder of Pune-based start-up True Elements raised Rs 1.5 crore for his venture from an angel investor in the year 2015. That would have been good news, except two years later, he received an order from the Income Tax department to pay Rs 40 lakh of that amount to the taxman as Angel Tax.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by a Bhopal court following a suit filed by a city-based start-up alleging "harassment". Additional sessions judge Parth Shankar Mishra has issued an order which says that Mr Zuckerberg has to appear in court on June 20.

The arrest of Stayzilla founder Yogendra Vasupal for non-payment of dues to Jigsaw Advertising and Solutions, a vendor, had stirred a hornet's nest in the entire start-up ecosystem, after both the parties traded allegations against each other.

Stayzilla co-founder Yogendra Vasupal, popularly known as Yogi, has been granted bail today in Chennai, nearly a month after he was arrested in a manner which provoked protest by India's biggest tech bosses. They had written an open letter to the government, declaring that the treatment of Mr Vasupal, who is 34, makes "India look like the worst pla...

Cash and productivity concerns could impact hiring, especially when funds are tight and most entrepreneurs favour running a tight ship.

India's biggest tech titans have written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh against the manner in which the owner of Chennai-based start-up Stayzilla has been arrested and treated. "What Yogi and his family are going through now make India look like the worst place, a nightmarish choice to become an entrepreneur," says the letter, signed by 73 tech bos...

At least 5 women have accused The Viral Fever founder Arunabh Kumar of sexual harassment; some say the 34-year-old molested them. However, no police complaint has been filed so far against the IIT graduate, who founded The Viral Fever or TVF in 2011; the company runs a YouTube Channel, produces popular web series Permanent Roommates, Pitchers and a...

In December last year, Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma had sold 1 per cent of his holding in One97 Communications, the parent firm of the digital payments firm, to raise about Rs 325 crore.