
Project Florence: Communicate with Plants
Plants can speak now! Speaking trees! Seriously? Speaking trees! Doesn’t it sound like a myth or fable? In movies too, you must have seen trees talking to the protagonist. However, speaking trees are soon going to be a reality. UK-based designer and researcher Helena Stenier have introduced Project Florence via

MadRat Games secures funding of $2.5 Million from Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata to pour money in MadRat’s pocket! About funding MadRat Games , an ingenious startup that provides wearable gaming platform, SuperSuit for Kids and families has raised funding from Ratan Tata. Ola’s founder Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, Flipkart’s founder Binny Bansal, and Girish Mathrubootham of Freshdesk participated in

India to be backed by $3 billion Investment from Amazon
Amazon’s love for India! The Good News Recently, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announces that its online retail company will fund $3 billion to India as it competes with Snapdeal and Flipkart. The good news was declared in the presence of PM Narendra Modi at the US-India Business Council’s 41st Annual

P2P marketplace startup Listup raises $500K in Seed Funding
The hunt for Bhangarwalla comes to an end! Listup, a Mumbai-based startup has recently raised $500K (INR 3.3 Cr) in its seed funding round, which was led by Kae Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. With this round of funding, Sasha Mirchandani (CEO, Kae Capital) will soon be joining the

Cookifi Aims Expansion
The Cook Hiring Startup Receives Seed Funding From TracxnSyndicate Cookifi, the Bengaluru-based chef and cook hiring startup, has impressed some of India’s most renowned investors. In a major step toward its expansion plan, the company recently secured an undisclosed sum of seed capital from TracxnSyndicate, an Angel Network which helps

Photon: A Budding Robot for kids
Not just a toy, but a companion! About Photon Kids learn best at play. Toys are excellent tools to teach kids about different things. However, toys have their own limitation. For instance, toys that can help kids to identify alphabets at the age of 3 to 4 become useless

FIXO: Multi-Face Clock with Smart Features
A computer disguised in clock! Evolving technology gives a new life to many regular things that you use in your routine. For example, a clock that was just meant to show time. And, now the development is turning it into a smart clock. Internet connectivity, smart apps and sensors

Introducing money-back policy, US startup Opendoor woos homebuyers
Don’t like the house? Return it within 30 days. Founded in the year 2014, a San Francisco startup, Opendoor, has brought some really exciting news, so exciting that it is difficult to digest. Two years ago, it was established with a mission to simplify real estate. Predominantly, Opendoor intended to

Helpshift Raises funding of $23M from Microsoft & Salesforce
Well done, Helpshift! About Helpshift In today’s time, everything is digitalized from buying groceries to booking plane ticket. Founded in the year 2011 by Abinash Tripathy and Baishampayan Ghose in US, Helpshift develops a digitalized customer care tool. Helpshift offers an SDK to software companies for building a chat link

Digital gifting startup Bouxtie to come in India
Welcome, Bouxtie! About Bouxtie Founded in the year 2013 by Renato Libric in San Francisco, Bouxtie is a user-friendly app that sends thoughtful video and customized gift cards instantly on social media using a smartphone. The user can forward the gift voucher. It works on real-time payment. The app