Startup News, Views, Reviews and Funding in India

By Pranav Agarwal
There have been several startups in the past 3-4 years and it has become difficult for them as well as for the concerned industry to connect to them and to understand their innovative products. We have been following companies that help promote new technologies since we started.

Among the companies that help startups, [...]

We want to contribute to the growth of these mobile applications, which is why we’re happy to announce our beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Applications. And so saying Adsense has sort of opened gates for a mini revolution of sorts in the mobile applications field. It’s a revolution for not many reasons and it is mini for a whole lot more, nevertheless it is an important step.

A couple of months from now when you’re sitting at a corporate quiz, a question will appear on the screen which will ask you to connect the African animal more popularly known as an anteater and a exciting new web portal that uses the wisdom of the crowds.
The answer you should scream out should be [...]

Headstart one of the major startup events in the country is back as announced by us before. The second edition this year, Headstart Summer 2009 will take place on 20th June 2009 at Nehru Centre, Mumbai and would be focused specifically on angel investing. According to HeadStart, their research on 100+ startups confirm that there is a strong need of angel/seed stage investment in India and hence the primary agenda is on seed stage.

Social Networking sites are not only meant for youth. Now, senior citizens are also have the chance to build their network, share photos and make new friends.. A new social networking site – Verdurez.com has entered in the market targeting senior citizens aged 55 and above. The aim of the website is to add [...]

RedGage is a content archive where you can upload all of your photographs, bookmarked links, blogs, documents, videos, etc. and make money from your material. RedGage allows users to upload all of their content in one convenient place. With an element of social networking, RedGage allows users to showcase their material and generate more traffic. This is how Redgage.com describes their website and what it offers.

By Yash Gandhi

An IT firm called hexolabs has launched its new project called twitguru. The site aims to act as a platform to launch products or do prelaunch promotional activities(giving away gift coupons or festive discounts) for anything sellable. Its very simple, visit the site, bid a price for the product displayed, update your tweet [...]

For a lot of startups hiring can be tiresome job. Unlike big firms, you don’t often find people lining up at your door front for work, and even if by chance you do, one doesn’t find the perfect skills on display. The reason of course being good talent is costly, hard to find and in all probability are happy somewhere because they are good..on a general note. However, this doesn’t meant startups don’t have the right to have good talents on board, on the contrary most startups who go on to become successful do so because of a very strong initial team (beyond the co-founders).

ShopCorn has launched a unique concept of shopping online with friends and family using which people can chat,talk ( audio, video ) while shopping with their friends and family. This concept will help in improving online shopping experience where people can share the deals,offers and products. Here products can be reviewed and people can get an immediate feedback on the same.

Our mission is to connect companies and professionals for promoting and conducting business, and enhancing their success by allowing them to concentrate in growing their business - says WAPR.com, a new social network for professionals. Started by Kiran Teelgia of Core Software Pvt. Ltd. WAPR aims to add a bit business sense to networking on the web which he feels is missing in a lot of networks.

All these happen when people talk, and if your aim as a brand is to engage with a blog’s audience use the media asset/space you get on a blog to let people talk. Let them speak on what you want to know from them, or let them speak on what you want others to know about you, and make all this happen on that banner space you put just your logo on.

Social networking evolved as a buzzword in the internet space and people made large network of friends via Facebook, Orkut, etc and they started spending more and more time making friends and spending time with them , but for everything there is next step.

Now the time has come for networking with intelligence, Zahdoo is a [...]

Yesterday Google announced its move to launch a venture fund of its own named Google Ventures. By the looks of it Google ventures has a very broad investment philosophy. The google ventures site states and I quote “We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care. We [...]

In a bid to provide access to entrepreneurial, technology and financial resources to startups all at one go IDG Ventures India and Microsoft India have announced ‘Early Stage Funding Program’. As per this partnership startups registering for Microsoft BizSpark which have the opportunity to get funded for up to 25 crore rupees by IDG Ventures.

One [...]

Angelsoft, an Internet software company that provides the investment management platform has launched the software service that allows you to narrow down on potential angel investors based on location and expertise stage. The filters help startups adjust their sorting results by how much an investment firm usually invests, what terms they typically offer, as well as by company-based criteria such as industry, location and stage.