India’s tech startup news: July 2021 headlines
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India’s tech and startup headlines in July 2021 covered items including: YouTube’s acquisition of Simsim video shopping app; the government’s fractious relationship with Twitter; Sequoia India’s 5th batch of tech startups; mobile and video-first teaching; fintech moves focusing on the unbanked and underserved population in India; the country’s many agri-tech programs; and many others.
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- India: Twitter India boss charged over map of the country lacking Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, which both India and Pakistan claim in full
- India: Sequoia Capital India’s Surge accelerator unveils 5th and largest cohort of 23 early-stage startups
- India: CoinDCX crypto assets exchange becomes official title Sponsor of cricket’s T20I Series between India and Sri Lanka, the first time a crypto firm lands top sponsor billing
- India: An intro to Marwari Catalyst Ventures, angel network launched in June 2019, evolving into an accelerator aiming to impact 1000 startups by the end of 2022
- ICYMI: India’s consumer digital economy expected to reach $800BN in value by 2030, with online retail’s annual gross merchandise value reaching $355BN
- Video: Unicorn Pitches India – nearly 3 hours of tech startup pitching and judging from Startup Network’s invited panel of VCs, tech specialists and entrepreneurs
- India: Hesa rural tech startup raises $2M with platform allowing local brands and businesses to act together to serve rural communities nationally
- Sequoia Capital India announces 5th cohort of rapid scale-up program for startups, and unveils the 11 Indian startups selected
- India: Jio Platforms announces collaboration with Holland’s NXP Semiconductors to develop, test and implement 5G RAN solutions
- India: Here’s a round-up of India’s tech, startup and funding news headlines, reports and downloads from the last month
- Download: The PE/VC Agenda – India Trend Book 2021, from EY and the India PE & VC Association (pdf)
- India: Fountain9 raises $1.9M seed funding with AI-driven predictive inventory planning, in part looking at impacting a global food waste problem of $260BN
- India: An overview of how insurance-tech startups are boosting insurance protection by making the buying and settlement process quick and hassle-free
- India: Twitter loses liability protection against user-generated content, and can now be held legally accountable for anything a user posts or shares using the platform
- India: Powerplay construction management app startup raises $5.2M, providing a one-stop communication platform for all stakeholders in a project
- India: Paytm expands its BNPL solution with addition of Postpaid Mini; PhonePe launches digital payment offering that replaces cash for delivery orders
- India: A brief look at Amazon Pay Later – 2M customers since launch last year, with over 10M transactions and claiming a near 100% payment success rate
- India: Vahaka secures $5M with online marketplace for small and mid-sized road transport businesses, and individual commercial vehicle owners
- India: Teachmint secures $20M with mobile and video-first teaching platform, built to help teachers digitize classrooms
- India: An intro to Slice, fintech focused on changing the country’s credit card industry
- India: AdmitKard gains $1.3M Pre-Series A with education-tech platform that simplifies student access to higher education overseas
- E-news: Startup News Asia Issue 006 – a brief look at recent tech, startup and funding headlines
- India: MediCircle Health launches rapid spectrometry-based test to detect COVID-19 which uses machine learning and artificial intelligence
- India: AWS launches AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp. a new programme to help early-stage tech startups build solutions for the public sector
- India: UrbanKisaan hydroponic cultivation startup gains backing from Germany’s BASF Venture Capital, with produce sales online, via app, bricks-and-mortar shops and locally
- India: Pankhuri secures $3.2M with social platform for women in India to network, learn and shop through live streaming, chat and cohort-based sessions
- India: IIT Madras and Sony India partner for national ‘SAMVEDAN 2021 – Sensing Solutions for Bharat’ hackathon seeking IoT solutions focusing on societal problems
- India: Pratilipi raises $48M Series D led by Krafton to further grown vernacular digital content including audiobooks, podcasts, comics, web series, movies and games
- India: Aquaconnect raises $4M pre-Series A to connect over 30K fish and shrimp farmers to farm management tools, financial services, and customers
- India: 75F secures $5M Series A with design and manufacture of IoT-based building management systems for data-driven building intelligence and energy optimization
- India: Tvasta unveils the country’s first 3d-printed house on IIT Madras campus, built in 5 days rather than conventional 4-5 month timeframe
- India: Credit Fair consumer lending fintech raises $15M with focus on unbanked and underserved segments of the country
- China’s Ant Group likely to sell 5% of 30.33% stake in India’s Paytm parent company, in bid to to comply with Securities and Exchange Board requirements
- India: MobiGarage backed in pre-series A funding with B2B used phones platform, processing 20K orders a month and growing at 3x annually
- India: Venture Catalysts incubator and accelerator acquires India operations of Z Nation Lab, a US-HQ’d seed and early-stage fund and accelerator
- India: Simsim video shopping app acquired by YouTube in video based e-commerce move
- A quick rundown of the investments and acquisitions Google has made in India so far, beyond YouTube’s recent acquisition of video shopping platform Simsim
- India: Credenc student loans firm gains $25M, using AI to track 15M data points when predicting future income of students applying for loans
- India: A brief intro to 4 of the startups on the People Matters TechHR India Startup Program 2021, from Hong Kong, Indonesia, India and Estonia
- India: BitClass education-tech acquires Chase digital learning platform, aiming for a one-stop solution for online learning across wide-ranging course content types
- India: A brief intro to 5 startups from Jaipur, working in social commerce, fantasy sports, retail tech and more
- India’s T-Hub and Australia’s La Trobe University launch Global Markets Accelerator Programme 2, unveiling 3 Australian growth-stage startups
- India: Hyreo HR-tech startup raises pre-series A funding, using AI to improve the hiring process from the candidate’s point of view via ‘candidate experience management’ via
- India: A brief look at 8 of the country’s digital schemes to aid startups, small businesses and farmers
- India: Another 5 of the startups taking part in the People Matters TechHR India 2021 program
- India’s agritech space: “India produces 25% of the world’s pulses and is the 2nd-largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton, groundnuts, as well as fruits and vegetables”
- India: Mailmodo no-code email marketing startup raises $2M to create app-like experiences using AMP – Accelerated Mobile Page – emails
- India: A look at Pepfuels, the country’s first location-based fuel delivery system using IoT and RFID devices
- India: A quick look at 12 early-stage startups from Chennai, working in education-tech, mobility, space technology, 3D printing and more
- Sequoia Capital India announces launch of Sequoia Spark, fellowship program for women founders in Southeast Asia and India
- India: Amazon-backed MyGlamm secures $71M with digital-first direct-to-consumer beauty products
- Australia strengthens cybersec partnerships with India and US Quad partners, with joint research around trusted autonomous systems for cybersecurity
- “China wants its online tutoring companies to go non-profit. This…could not only destroy its $100BN edtech market but also benefit countries like India…”
- India’s Pine Labs merchant commerce platform partners Malaysia’s Atome ‘buy now pay later’ platform to expand BNPL presence in Malaysia
- e-news, latest issue: Chennai’s startups, Australian prop-tech, China’s e-CNY, Singapore food-tech…
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