Focusing on the Fintech Startups! Funding Round Recently, Fintech software startup Plaid Technologies Inc. raised $44 million. The funding round was led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. With the total funds of $60 million, the startup plans to boost its current technology being used for apps and websites that provides

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Has Good News CBDT has just announced that it will no longer impose tax on the investments that startups receive from angel investors. This was a long-awaited decision from which the Indian startups stand to gain a lot. It is a part of the

StoreKing Is Empowering the Rural Customers Everyday Bengaluru-based e-commerce startup, StoreKing, is leaving no stones unturned to reach the untapped rural customer base. With its increasing reach towards the interiors of India, it is assisting customers in taking advantage of online shopping. Philosophy Behind StoreKing’s Assisted E-Commerce Sridhar Gundaiah –

Own your Gun! About Zore Zore, a Jerusalem-based startup develops a smart gun lock that gives access to the weapon only to its owner. Jonathan Zimmerman is the CEO of Zore, who was in the Isreal Defense Forces and has encountered gun-related accidents. Zimmerman along with his friend CTO Yalon

ICEreality Is Taking Interior Designing To The Next Level The Future is Here Imagine a reality where you exactly know how your room will look like after installing furniture and other elements. Calgary, AB based company DIRTT Environmental Solutions have come up with ICEreality, a configuration and manufacturing software, to

Meet Olli: The First Auto-Driven Mini Bus Arizona based startup, Local Motors, recently unveiled world’s first self-driving mini bus Olli in the US. IBM is involved with providing technical support to Olli’s interface. The bus is doing its trial runs in Maryland right now and is expected to be tested

Growth & Development Beckons ClearTax Who raised how much funding? ClearTax, a tax filling platform, on Thursday announced about raising $12 Million in Series A funding from SAIF Partners. This announcement has come just weeks after they raised $2 Million in pre-Series A round funding from Silicon Valley-based founders fund

Funds for Expansion Alexander Brunst and Sebastian Kloss, co-founders of CaterWings have just raised $6.7 millions, thanks to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures, and Rocket Internet, for expanding their European operations. CaterWings is a startup, an online catering service giving its customers a new experience in B2B catering. Because ordering large meals

Welcome to Cognition, Perception and the Next Generation of Smart Computing! Chinese startup, Horizon Robotics has taken up the ambitious initiative to develop the next level of AI infrastructure for real time decision-making. These decisions will be based on cognitive and perceptive capabilities of the machine. How will they achieve

Is Microsoft breaking the corporate ethic? Microsoft’s Plan with Kind Recently, Microsoft is taking a lot of interest in working with startups. Now, Microsoft teams up with Kind, a California-based legal weed financing startup. Founded in 2013, Kind can also be categorized as a tech startup. David Dinenberg is the