Category: startups
Hottest Areas for VC Funding in 2008
In a survey conducted by VentureWoods, Mobile Data Services emerged as the Hottest area for VCs looking to fund startups in India this year. Here is the break-up of Hot Favorites in percentage according to the poll, Mobile Data Services – 13% Online Education – 12% E-commerce/M-Commerce – 12% Online…
Internships – Finally for the deserving Indian Students
The Indian student had been long deprived of internships while he is still in college. Not any more. With a vibrant job market, companies are willing to hire pre-final and final-year graduate students as interns during summer or even during college days if they are local and can manage their…
RupeeMail – Get Paid to Read E-mails
Anil Lakhwara and his team have setup Rupeemail, an e-mail service, filled with advertisements. You basically get paid to read your e-mails. You earn money by opening and reading the contents of RupeeMail. Senders are known and verified who are paying you to read their e-mails. The money will be…
SeventyMM Movie Downloads + Tier-II City Plans
NetFlix clone in India SeventyMM, plans to expand into Tier-II cities and also offer Movie Downloads. Unclear if Movie Download is for the Indian or the Overseas market to compete with Rajashri and BigFlicks. Mr. Sarkar of SeventyMM said, In terms of growth rates among various entertainment segments, home video…
Info Edge to Network Indian Students
Info Edge India, promoter company of India’s famous job site Naukri is planning to setup an online social network for the Indian students. All the current sites are focused on everything apart from Education and Studies. Hopefully, this new network will complement the existing ones as they plan to launch…
Deploy your own Social Network on KickApps
You feel that you have a great Web 2.0 Idea but no money or Web Development experience ? Don’t worry, now you can just deploy any Web 2.0 Applications such as Blog, Photos , Networking Tools, Video, Audio, etc using KickApps. KickApps, a NY based company is precisely providing all…
Orkut Leads + FaceBook Grows + Campus18 Debuts
Orkut from Google is the leader in the Indian social networking space with 7.2 Million unique visitors in June and Facebook attracted 785,000 unique visitors according to comScore. Web18, has also thrown its hat in the social networking space by unveiling Campus18 to compete with Reliance ADAG’s BigAdda. Web18 is…
Minekey raises $3 Million from NEA IndoUS Ventures
Minekey – Blog recommendation Widget company has raised first round of funding of $3 Million from NEA Indo US Ventures. Minekey is a Valley based company with development centre at New Delhi and R&D centre located at IIT Kharagpur. The company is founded by Delip Andra, who founded Euclid and…