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.@pricebaba raises a round of funding from 500-Startups and Pune’s @jimkarter

Mumbai based PriceBaba, a local price discovery engine has raised a second round of seed funding from Silicon Valley based 500-startups, and existing investors Karamveer Singh (also known online as @jimkarter) and Tirthesh Ganatra. Karamveer Singh had led PriceBaba’s first … Continue reading

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Venture Firm @HelionVC to invest 10-15% of $250 million in Pune

Livemint reports that Helion Venture Partners plans to invest about 10-15% of its $250 million fund in software firms in Pune, and the first such deal could happen by the end of this year. Excerpts: “So far, we have funded … Continue reading

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Startups Note: NSTEDB Seed Fund for funding from Rs 2L to 50L open

Venture Center, the entrepreneur development center that is housed in NCL has recently received approval under the scheme “Seed Support System for Start-ups in Incubators” of the National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology … Continue reading

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Tandem Entrepreneurs (a Mobile Accelerator) visiting Pune for 10 days

Sunil Bhargava writes in VentureWoods.org: I run Tandem Entrepreneurs, a mobile accelerator in San Francisco Bay Area. I am visiting India and will be in Pune from Tuesday 7th Feb for about 10 days. I would be happy to meet … Continue reading

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Round 3 of Venture Center Seed Fund now accepting funding applications

Pune-based Venture Center is an autonomous government body whose mission is to helps startups, entrepreneurs and inventors in various ways. One of their initiatives is a seed fund that invests anything from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 25 lakhs in … Continue reading

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JustMeans.com (developed entirely in Pune) acquired by 3BL media

http://JustMeans.com, a social network and portal in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and sustainable businesses, has announced that it was acquired by 3BL media. The combined company will now be one of the largest sources of news, press … Continue reading

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Fab.com (being developed in Pune) raises $1.3M from Ashton Kutcher

Fab.com is an online “deals” website specifically targeting ‘design’ items. Earlier used this company used to be Fabulis, a social network targeting gay men, but they completely changed their business in April this year. It appears that the pivot has … Continue reading

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Call for proposals: US-India Science & Technology Endowment

Kaushik Gala of Venture Center writes: The Governments of the United States of America and India have established the United States – India Science and Technology Endowment Board to manage a fund for joint research and development, innovation, entrepreneurial and … Continue reading

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