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DrinkPrime, 'pay-as-you-use water purifier' start-up, raises Rs 21 crore

DrinkPrime allows users to subscribe-to-use the company's water purifiers, rather than bearing upfront costs

Edtech start-up Masai School raises $2.5 mn in latest funding round

Unitus Ventures leads investment, other participants include India Quotient and AngelList India

Flipkart Leap: E-comm firm launches its first startup accelerator programme

Flipkart on Monday announced the launch of 'Flipkart Leap' -- the companys first startup accelerator programme. With the call-for-entries beginning today, 'Flipkart Leap' will identify B2C and B2B startups and help them scale through an intensive 16-week virtual programme, the company said in a statement. Throughout the programme, Flipkart's leadership from business, operations, product and technology will mentor the selected startups and share best practices, in addition to master class sessions hosted by industry experts, it said. The programme aims to provide tools, framework, knowledge and an ecosystem to help startups create "world- class value-driven" products by supporting them in building market-ready solutions, Flipkart said. Flipkart Leap has identified five themes to shortlist relevant high-potential startups -- Design & Make for India, Innovation in Digital Commerce, Technologies to Empower the Retail Ecosystem, Supply Chain Management & Logistics and

IIT Kanpur-backed start-up to double production of indigenous N95 face mask

Currently, Espin Nanotech is producing nearly 30,000 face masks a day from its production unit spread over 4,000 sq ft space inside the IIT Kanpur campus

IIT Madras-incubated start-up develops portable hospital for Covid cases

Hospital can be installed by four people in just two hours anywhere

Co-living start-up Zolostays raises $56 mn in latest funding round

The start-up will deploy the new funds to invest in technology, locking in more inventory and strengthening AI-driven operating platforms

Milkbasket raises $5.5 mn funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures

Existing investors Blume Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Mayfield India, Unilever Ventures and BeeNext have also participated in the Series B round, a statement said

Bengaluru-based real estate start-up NoBroker raises $30 mn

Ranging from rental, sale, or resale, to post transaction services like loans, packers and movers, legal documentation, online rent payment, interiors, NoBroker offers a bouquet of real estate service

Stanza Living enters housing for working professionals, commits Rs 150 cr

The firm currently has a combined capacity of 10,000 beds spreading across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Coimbatore for this new segment

IFA Fund invests $6 mn in agritech start-up Ecozen's Series-A financing

This funding is on top of the investment received in July 2019 from Caspian and the Hivos-Triodos Fund

Scooter-sharing start-up Bounce's valuation may hit $500 mn on new funding

Bounce has already crossed 100,000 rides per day in Bengaluru; this puts it at par with global players such as scooter-rental companies Lime and Bird

Govt exam focussed Test-prep app GradeUp raises $7 mn from Times Internet

The start-up will use the funds to scale the offering and grow the newly-launched Live Classroom product

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to invest undisclosed sum in Kerala start-up

Recipient firm Sieve is a platform for freelancers and agencies to offer end-to-end business solutions for enterprises

This start-up is making accounting easier, helping small traders go digital

The mobile version is free for simple accountings, but premium subscribers pay according to tariff plans

With more than 7,000 start-ups, Delhi-NCR emerges as India's unicorn hub

NCR's start-up ecosystem has incredible momentum, says TiE Delhi-NCR and consulting firm Zinnov

Start-ups seek separate data policy, don't want to be part of e-commerce

Under the e-com policy, a number of proposals are around data protection and storing data onshore

How an Indian startup improved incomes and efficiency of truck drivers

The interface for drivers includes an audio option and notifications about every incentive they can get

Entrepreneur Sid Mookerji sets up food tech, retail accelerator in Mysuru

Said to be first of its kind accelerator programme in the country, Silicon Road aims to fast-track the growth of the startups in this segment with a tailored programme, mentoring and network

Abu Dhabi aims to lure start-ups with investment in new technology hub

The new initiative, named Hub 71, is linked to Ghadan will also involve the launch of a 500 million dirham fund to invest in start-ups

8 start-up firms turn into unicorns in 2018, more likely in 2019

Ranging from on-demand trucking company Rivigo to on-demand task management firm Dunzo, experts say India could easily generate another eight unicorns next year