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Funding for Healthtech companies falls 55% to $1.4 bn in 2022: Tracxn

Drop is mostly due to a 75% dip in late-stage investments, from $2.4 billion in 2021 to $606 million in 2022

80% of early-stage start-ups looking to expand workforce in 2023: Report

These enterprises, the study by Ficci and Randstad says, are well capitalised and have raised series A and B funding rounds

MeitY Startup Hub, Google to support 100 Indian early to mid-stage startups

About 50 per cent of the cohort comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, including Varanasi, Ernakulam, Surat, Dehradun, Allahabad, and many others

Finance Bill 2023: Angel tax another hiccup for start-ups amid funding woes

Angel tax another hiccup for Indian startups amid the funding winter

Finance Bill: No respite for startups as Angel Tax effective from Apr 2024

Previously, many stakeholders had suggested the exclusion of investments from foreign companies in startups from the Angel Tax regime

Rs 700 cr corpus available to fund startups, no limit to fund innovation

State-owned research and development organisation C-DOT has a corpus of over Rs 700 crore for funding startups, but the government has kept no limit to fund innovation, a top official of the entity said on Thursday. Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of Regional Innovation Forum, C-DOT chief executive officer and chairman C-DOT Project Board RajKumar Upadhyay said that a number of delegations of ministers from neighbouring countries at the forum have expressed interest in technological collaboration with India, which will help in expansion of indigenous innovation beyond the country's boundary. "We have various schemes of government to fund innovation. Some of these schemes are available through C-DoT. Through them we have a corpus of Rs 700 crore to fund startups, but there is no limit of fund if we find right innovation," Upadhyay said. The delegation of communications ministers from Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal , Iran, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh visited the C-DoT campus. The campus now a

Amazon's accelerator programme to support 50 Indian D2C startups

Amazon Global Selling Propel Startup Accelerator (Propel S3) is a key part of the e-commerce giant's commitment to enabling $20 billion in e-commerce exports from India by 2025

Mozilla introduces new startup 'Mozilla.ai' to build open, trustworthy AI

Later this year, the company mentioned that it will announce additional initiatives, partners, and events in which people can participate

Indian space startup Pixxel bags US contract for hyperspectral imagery

Bengaluru-based space startup Pixxel has bagged a five-year contract for supplying technical hyperspectral imagery to United States' National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO). The Virginia-based NRO also awarded six study contracts for commercial hyperspectral imagery to five other companies -- BlackSky Technology, HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Planet, and Xplore. "The entire team here at Pixxel is excited to begin this journey with the NRO. We are fully committed to this fantastic opportunity to offer our imaging capabilities to the organisation, its partners, and the US geospatial intelligence community," Chief Executive Officer, Pixxel Space Technologies, Awais Ahmed, told PTI. He said Pixxel will provide technical hyperspectral imagery (HSI) remote sensing capabilities through modelling and simulation and data evaluation using its currently on-orbit pathfinder systems and future constellations. Ahmed said Pixxel will demonstrate its capabilities through end-to-end tasking, ...

No thaw seen in start-up funding winter despite 231 deals this year

India-focused VCs sitting on dry powder worth $12.88 bn, highest in 7 yrs

ESOPs: Market regulator Sebi could tweak regulations for start-ups

Sebi does not want founders to own stock options if they have rights akin to those enjoyed by promoters, the sources with direct knowledge of the matter said

Startup20 Engagement Group's second meeting on March 18-19 in Sikkim

The Finance Task Force of the Startup20 Engagement Group, which will meet this weekend in Sikkim, will aim to increase access to capital for startups by providing financing and investment platforms, according to an official statement. It further said the task force will also harmonise tax and legal regulations to encourage public investment in startup funding and interact with the foreign investor ecosystem of G20 nations. It will create pitching, capacity building and networking opportunities for startups with the global investor community through a best practices document on startup investments, the statement added. The second meeting of the Startup20 Engagement Group, newly formed under India's G20 Presidency, will take place in Gangtok, Sikkim on March 18 and 19, 2023. The Sikkim Sabha will forward the agenda finalised during the inception meeting held in Hyderabad on January 28-29, 2023, with the support of all attendee delegates. During the inception meeting, the objectives,

Rockstud Capital launches Rs 300 cr fund for upcoming Indian start-ups

It will invest in 25 start-ups focused on digitalisation, sustainability, financial inclusion

Indian startups able to withdraw up to $300mn from SVB: Report

The collapse of SVB in the US had left the Indian startup ecosystem worried. More than 1,000 Indian startups were likely to have exposure to the SVB

SVB resolution reassuring, will bring relief to startups: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Amid US administration's move to protect depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said that the SVB resolution is "reassuring" and will bring relief to startups. The Biden administration has announced that depositors of the failed Silicon Valley Bank will have access to their money from Monday. "SVB resolution is reassuring. (It) will bring relief to startups," Vaishnaw told PTI. US President Joe Biden on Monday sought to reassure Americans that they can have confidence that the US banking system is "safe" and vowed stricter bank regulation after a string of bank failures raised concerns about the nation's financial stability. Federal regulators have stepped to back all Silicon Valley Bank deposits. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, last week, left many startups, tech companies, entrepreneurs and VC funds nervous and jittery. California-based Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the United States, was closed on Friday by the Calif

SVB fallout: Present imperfect, future tense for Indian start-ups

Though many of them expect limited near-term impact, lack of SVB-like support system may pinch them later

SVB fallout: Fintech, venture capital companies come to the rescue

Razorpay is offering domestic start-up clients to move their money into their Indian current accounts as FDI through the firm's partner banks

MoS IT Chandrasekhar to meet start-ups to assess SVB collapse impact

Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will meet representatives of start-ups this week to assess the impact of their exposure to Silicon Valley Bank which was deeply entrenched in the tech startup ecosystem. According to various industry players and experts, most Indian software-as-a-services startups with a presence in the US and firms linked to incubator Y Combinator are among entities that will feel the heat of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse but the impact is likely to be short-term. "The SVB_Financial closure is certainly disrupting startups across the world. Startups are an imp part of NewIndia Economy. I will meet wth Indian Startups this week to understand impact on thm n how @narendramodi govt can help durng this crisis," Chandrasekhar tweeted on Sunday. SVB was deeply entrenched in the tech startup ecosystem and the default bank for many high-flying startups; its abrupt fall marked one of the largest bank failures since the 2008 global financial ..

Goyal to chair meeting of national startup advisory council on Saturday

Goyal to chair meeting of national startup advisory council on Saturday

Women-led startups raise $4.3 bn in 2022, outperform those led by men

The number of active investors funding women-led startups has also risen steadily since 2010, with a sharp YoY jump of 42% in 2021