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Regina is a reporter for BW Businessworld. In her previous assignments, she has worked with Independent television Network as a news anchor and reporter in Sri Lanka
2030 is a new company similar to an accelerator and a radical movement headed by Harvard and Stanford alumnus David Siegel, the world's first web designer. David is also a world renowned business blockchain expert, investor, prolific author, and startup coach working mostly out of Silicon Valley and Zurich. 2030 is actually more than a company or a movement. It also wants to release its own currency too.
Read MoreContrary to headlines, the size of the fund is not 200 crores, but 195 crores. Investors in the fund include founders of MakeMyTrip and Naukri.com. “…Investors are moving from market share led thesis to intellectual property (IP) … led thesis.”
Read MoreFunding is supposed to be harder to come by in 2017. So here are a few tricks from an FBI hostage situation negotiator on how to get what you want. Because sometimes they are both life and death situations, aren’t they?
Read MoreCocoon Venture’s managing director and cofounder is Nebu K Abraham. Their corpus size is 15-20 million dollars until 2018 and is actively looking to utilize it. The VC is excited about India’s potential as a big and certainly more approachable ecosystem compared to fund-drenched Silicon Valley. From Cocoon’s first exhibition in India attracting startups, here’s its advice to the entrepreneurs of India.
Read MoreThe Arab world is slowly but surely rising its head in the startup ecosystem. And India seems a hot target for them. Cocoon Venture’s managing director and cofounder is Nebu K Abraham. Their corpus size is 15-20 million dollars until 2018 and is actively looking to utilize it. Their first international exhibition was held in Bangalore and had the support of NASSCOM 10k startups.
Read MoreThe company made big claims like it was going to put a “bullet through Google’s head”. Cyanogen is a startup that wanted to beat out Google by building a far superior Android OS. Media outlets got wind of it shutting down its rather popular Android fork called CyanogenMod on the 30th of December, 2016, thus ending its aspirations to be a scion of Android OS developing.
Read MoreThe most active VC looks like a toss-up between Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital, with the latter inching forward; SAIF is somewhere near second runner up for the title with Blume and IAN rounding up the notable active VCs in India for 2016.
Read More“Global spending on cybersecurity products and services for defending against cybercrime is projected to exceed $1 trillion cumulatively over the next five years, from 2017 to 2021.” The Israeli startups are rushing to Silicon Valley in search of funds for their cutting edge digital defense ideas. And the VCs are waiting with arms wide open.
Read MoreIn a time when venture capital, risk capital and angel investment capital abounds, it’s hard to keep track of all the interesting facts out there. Let us help with you that.
Read MoreTiE was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals hailing from the Indus region.
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