Startup News, Views, Reviews and Funding in India

This saturday we bring to you a startup which is founded by an ex Yahoo employee which looks at building a community around brands and products and is an impressive attempt to say the least.

One sentence description: A Collaborative community around products, services and brands
About Startup: BrandAdda is kind of in the same space as [...]

We did a WATShow to Raman Roy the founding member of Indian Angel Network (previously band of angels) at the recently concluded Nasscom summit and questioned him about angel funding, business plans, what’s critical for a startup and so on.
Check out the WATShow below.

Also check out other videos at WATShow.com .. We [...]

This Saturday we have become a little health conscious. I vow to join a gym and also get is shape but before I do that we have a Saturday Startup review to finish and well what you know here is a startup that would help me in my endeavour to get in shape.

One sentence description: [...]

Accel which was earlier Erasmic Ventures in India has closed a $60M Venture Fund to invest in seed and early stage opportunities in India.

The fund is looking at sectors as divers as  Technology, Technology-enabled Services, Internet, Mobile, Media, Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Services, and other high-growth sectors of the Indian economy
Seed and early stage [...]

This is the second startup we are reviewing in the day and its probably the most interesting ones that we’ve reviewed till date. Reason? Well thats because a lot of times entrepreneurs have turned VC but rarely does a VC turn into an entrepreneur! Yes MentorSquare is a startup that comes from the Mentor Partners [...]

Well this saturday we have two startups to review. Both from the web space but looking at very diverse audiences. So we have divided our reviews in two parts. Lets look at the first startup.

One Sentence Description: Vertical Search Engine focussed on Matrimony
About the startup: This a pune based startup and is owned by a [...]

Its taken a long time coming.. Considering that rediff has been around since almost the birth of the internet in India and mobile users have been growing phenomenally since the last couple of years a mobile application by rediff should have been launched atleast a year ago!
But as they say better late than never and [...]

Myntra.com an online marketplace for on demand consumer products like t-shirts, mugs, greeting cards, calendars, keychains and diaries has received an A series round of funding from three venture firms in NEA-IndoUS, IDG Ventures and Accel Partners. The funding shall be utilized for geography expansion (they have recently opened a noida office) and product portfolio [...]

Today we have 3 startups for review and though they are all online startups they are targetting diverse audiences via the online medium. Lets have a look at them and check out WAT’s Hot and WAT’s Not!

One sentence description: An Indian travel search engine
About Startup: Nearhop is a travel search cum travel planner engine which [...]

There are events happening across India this november and here is a list for you to check out:
5th-7th November - TIE-ISB Connect, ISB, Hyderabad: Tie-isb connect is an annual networking event for entrepreneurs and investors organized by the TiE, Hyderabad Chapter and the Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED), ISB. The event is a must [...]

Vivek Pahwa of Desimatini fame whom we have interviewed earlier on WATBlog is getting aggressive with his new set of sites that he launched a few months back. Not only that he has renamed his company from Pahwa KBS to Accentium and also roped in 3 other co-founders who are post graduates from ISB (Indian [...]

We had ealier spoken to Tim Draper of DFJ on his thoughts about the slowdown. We felt that we also needed to take a closer to home point of view of Venture Capitalists who have been working with entrepreneurs and business models in India for sometime now.

We caught up with Sateesh Andra of Draper Fisher [...]

We met Tim Draper the Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson who was in Mumbai recently. We spoke to him on various issues right from the current economic slowdown to how he viewed the Indian market, his advice to entrepreneurs and Why was he in India?.. and more..
Tim on Global Economic Slowdown
Entrepreneurs Perspective
Tim [...]

As mentioned in the ealier post WATBlog was at the 4th edition of the Barcamp Mumbai which was being held at the IIT Mumbai SJMSOM Institute of Management. Now for those who dont know the concept of barcamp is an international one and it basically is an ad-hoc get together of techie and tech/startup enthusiasts [...]

Its a saturday and though there is no Startup Saturday happening in Mumbai today but that doesn’t stop us from covering an interesting bangalore based startup. The startup we are taking about is Snappyfingers.com
which is a Question and Answer search engine.

About SnappyFIngers
Snappyfingers crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in [...]