1337 Ventures which is an early stage investor, and accelerator has now expanded itself to the Indonesian market. It has launched a five day boot camp program ‘Alpha Startups Indonesia 2016’. This is happening in partnership with Baidu Indonesia, Convergence Ventures, and Gobi Partners. About Alpha Startups Alpha Startups, as

Krishna Kumar, the founder of the educational startup Simplilearn set out on it merely to ward off boredom. He did not expect what started out as a blog in 2009 to turn out into something so much bigger. Six years have passed since the commencement of Simplilearn, and today it

Lab Sensor Solutions, a startup based out of San Francisco raised a fund less than one million from the Launchpad Digital Health. However, the company did not disclose the exact amount to the media. The company had initially raised a fund of 425000 dollars from acquaintances. About Lab Sensor Solutions

The four-month old Pocketin has raised a seed round funding of $150,000 from the Hong Kong based Swastika Company Ltd. The startup aims to consolidate the eating-out space in Delhi. Pocketin offers an online platform for the foodies to discover, compare and choose where they want to eat, based on

New York-based peer to peer insurance start-upLemonade has hired behavioural economist expert Dan Ariely as the chief behavioural officer to resist the business battle faced by the growing insurance industry in the states. Ariely will help design Lemonade’s upcoming peer to peer offering. He has joined the board with many

Mario Schlosser, CEO of Oscar Health Insurance Corp. has come up with a strategy that would help his startup shoot up into the ranks of the health insurance giants. He plans to build his firm into a million-customer player in the field of health insurance. The strategy involves the usage

Indian Angel Network (IAN) is funding an undisclosed amount for the Goa-based startup Roadhouse Hostels as stated by the chief financial officer of Naukri Internet Services, Ambarish Raghuvanshi and Vikas Kathulia who are leading the Indian Angel Network. Roadhouse has already launched their two hostels at Goa and Jaipur and

HR startup company Zenefits has recently enforced new rules following the crude behavior of its employees. The incident involved the inappropriate conduct of the said employees after getting drunk in the office. Incoming CEO of Zenefits, David Sacks has banned alcohol, smoking and sex on the office premises. The startup

China-based white phone startup Xiaomi who found great markets in the Asian as well as Latin American markets is trying to widen their business to the western hemisphere specially in the states. Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s global vice president expressed his urgency in launching the phones in the western markets as

Globally recognised coffee and beverage conglomerate Starbucks has offered to pay for the tuition of its employees for the entire of the four years of an undergraduate bachelors program. This is a plan eligible for anybody who works with them 20 hours in a week. Starbucks is quoted as saying