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Flipkart CFO Funds Cyber Security Startup, Lucideus
Startup values mentorship from investors more than their financial support Lucideus is a New Delhi-based cyber security startup. In recent times, this startup received funding from Flipkart CFO, Mr. Sanjay Baweja. However, the funding amount remains undisclosed. About Lucideus Co-founded in the year 2012 by Mr. Saket Modi, Lucideus provides

Oye Happy: Startup Specializes in Sending Letters to the Indian Army
Meant to Serve the Indian Army! Oye Happy: Full of Surprises! This new Hyderabad-based startup is making all of us proud. Oye Happy specializes in providing surprises. One of its services includes personally sending customized letters to the Indian soldiers at the Indo-Pak border on Independence Day by trekking the

First Mobile Banking Service For Small Businesses Raises $2M Of Seed Funding
Tide rising with the technology! About: Tide, which claims to be the world’s first mobile-first banking service for startups has raised around $2M seed from Passion Capital , LocalGlobe, Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman, William Reeve co-founder from Lovefilm, Greg Marsh, founder from One Fine Stay, Songkick’s co-founder Ian Hogarth, serial

Quikr Acquires Online Hiring Platform Hiree
A move to target the untargeted audience! Indian classified advertising platform, Quikr has made another acquisition. Of late, it has acquired a Bengaluru-based startup, Hiree. Started with the name myNoticePeriod.com, this Bengaluru-based startup changed its name to Hiree. Besides, this startup is focused on white collar jobs. In its recent

Strategize For Your Startup With These Lessons From Game Of Thrones
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t read the books or haven’t seen the previous seasons or the new season, continue reading at your own risk. There’s an ethos of startups out there in the market today, all of which have decided to be their own boss and are striving to get

Pokédex Offers More Battery and a Pokémon Library
Keep Playing! After last week’s news on Pokemon Go, here comes another product to keep you busy with Pokemon hunting. Pokédex is a specially designed product that offers more battery life to your gaming experience and while also providing a Pokemon library for users. What is Pokédex? Pokédex is the

Taiwan Welcomes SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot, Pepper
Pepper’s Global Adventure Begins Today Meet Pepper Pepper is your friendly robot; just like those you have often seen in sci-fi films. No, we are not referring to the evil Skynet. In fact, Pepper is a far cry from that. It seems kind and intelligent. SoftBank developed Pepper some time

Now Buy Furniture, Lightning, Décor And Tech As You Saw In Movies And TV Series
Home Décor Straight Out Of Big Screen What is new about this? Ever wanted décor and furniture just like what you saw on TV? Ireland based startup, Seen on Set, an exceptional online portal offers us to buy furniture, lighting, décor and tech as shown in movies and TV shows.

Modobag’s Rideable Luggage Helps Us To Catch Flight Easily
Last minute boarding? Tired of last minute boarding and missing flights? No more worries. A Chicago-based startup called Modobag has come up with the rideable suitcase. Now with this suitcase, you can travel through airport more rapidly and get to the boarding gate without any difficulty. Who came up with

U.S. Startup, Stripe, comes to India, Hires Ex-Amazon Executive
Bringing Its Payment Infrastructure To India A San-Francisco-based fintech startup, Stripe, is eyeing to enter the Indian market. And now it has just hired its first Indian employee- Anand Balaji- to oversee its initial foray into the Indian market. About Stripe Founded by two Irish siblings, Patrick and John Collison,