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Fabogo rides on Dubai success to spread wings

The start-up claims about 330,000 customers come on its website every month

Investors stay bullish on fintech bandwagon

Our cash-driven economy has responded well and multiple, new, frontiers have opened for investors

Unicorn India Ventures invests in AI-led analytics start-up Boxx.ai

Boxx.ai was launched in July 2016 by IIT alumni Ajay Kashyap, Prakhar Raj and Shitiz Bansal

Consumer brands focused Fireside Ventures announces first close of Rs 180cr

Premji Invest, WestBridge capital and Mariwala family office anchor the fund

Rahul Chandra launches $100-mn early-stage fund

The company will invest in financial technology and value chain innovation in core sectors

A few clicks that can detect breast cancer

Niramai offers thermo analytics-based cancer screening solution that helps detect breast cancer early

Flipkart funding lifts mood but start-ups are still hazy on outlook

Consumer tech firms in India still have a lot to prove, managing partner at firm Iron Pillar, said

Our Delhivery investment reflects changes in the segment: Neeraj Bharadwaj

Buyout fund Carlyle has invested $100 million in logistics firm Delhivery

Sidbi's VC investment panel commits Rs 300 crore in 9 funds

Sidbi has doubled its fund of funds operations in FY17 to Rs 1,112 crore, supporting 30 funds

Investors hang up boots to don entrepreneurship mantle

Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new

Playing for consolidation & disruptions

PEs will do bigger deals and more buyouts while VCs will only back viable & disruptive start-ups

2016 For Start-ups: Of correction & consolidation

Valuations had run ahead of fundamentals and investors slowed down from mid-2015

VCs go back to basics, start-ups told to improve unit economics

Much of 2016 was spent on cleaning up portfolios and asking start-ups to improve fundamentals

Private equity exits cross $10 billion in 2016: Bain & Co

This, even as PE investments fell 30% to $16 bn in 2016 till date; healthcare, mfg lead exit brigade

Global PE firm Advent acquires minority stake in ASK Group

ASK claims to be India's largest equity portfolio management service provider

VCs share deals to improve success rate

''By sharing deals, we are sharing the outcome," says Shekhar Kirani, partner, Accel

Venture capital shift from growth to early-stage funding

It is moving from growth stage to early-stage; from consumer to enterprise (b2b), to those offering SAAS

Start-up funding eases, but crunch is not over

Winter is here but the freeze in funding could be easing for start-ups

Flipkart backer Accel raises $450 mn for its fifth fund

New fund will start making investments from 2017 and is 40% larger than the fourth fund raised by Accel in March 2015

We now expect to distribute more than we invest every year: Shailendra Singh, Sequoia Capital India Advisors

Singh says the start-up ecosystem in India looks much healthier today than it did same time last year