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Funding Updates : Ojas Invests In TeliBrahma, Helion Ventures Invests in9.9 Mediaworx
Ojas Ventures, along with Inventus Capital has announced a funding of $2 million for TeliBrahma. TeliBrahma provides Bluetooth advertising solutions for mobile devices.
Joining the board of TeliBrahma will be Samir Kumar of Inventus and Pavan Krishnamurthy of Ojas.
TeliBrahma operates in the emerging mobile-advertising market. Though its offering is different from others, as it doesn’t uses [...]
Venture Hacks Launches Recommended – Entrepreneur Recommendation Feature
Venture Hacks, a blog on entrepreneurship has launched what it calls the Recommended feature. Well as the name goes, the service helps the new entrepreneurs seek recommendations from people that ether know them or have used their service. Founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, Venture Hacks plans to make the process of reference checking smoother by presenting a Twitter-like system where you can make a profile and others can follow you. There can be recommendations from people who know you.
Funding Updates : Matrix Partners invest in Kijiji; Consim (formerly BharatMatrimony) raises funds from Mayfield Fund, Yahoo and Canaan Partners; Tyfone gets funded by Ojas Venture Partners
Matrix Partners invest in Kijiji
Matrix Partners India has invested in Indian mobile classified startup Kijiji.com. Kijiji India, lauanched in 2005, is an online website that caters to a local community in a particular city. It offers services “to buy or sell a used car, look for an apartment on rent, buy or sell a house, [...]
Events Update : TiE TiEGER ‘08 Event and Zapak Gaming Summit
TiE – IIM Event
TIE-Kolkata,IIM-Calcutta,Seedfund,IISc Bangalore,NEN & IIT-Kharagur. Are jointly organizing TiEGER ’08, an International Event on Entrepreneurial Awareness and Celebration of Entreprenuership in Eastern India.
The event goes step ahead of the traditional, academic business plan competitions, in that it provides a fund to the winning team and also provides them with mentoring for setting up [...]
A Monday Morning Special for all Would-Be Entrepreneurs out there!
Suffering from Monday Morning blues? Dreaming of starting something of your own?
WATConsult (Our Web 2.0 Consulting arm) got covered in the Economic Times recently and I thought why not share some start-up gyaan.
Here are a few must-read articles for all you budding and would-be entrepreneurs out there…
First things first – How to build [...]
Proto.in – “a movement towards India – a WATblog exclusive
Come January, be ready to be part of PROTO – an event that "hopes to bridge the gaps behind the entrepreneurs, VCs and the Technologists, in helping them to connect, share their passions, resonate with the ideas and get feedbacks on the next big thing to come". In our attempt to understand more about the [...]