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25-Year-Old Entrepreneur Uses Solar Dryers To Help Farmers Decrease Waste
According to Varun Raheja, Founder of Raheja Solar Food Processing Pvt Ltd, the global market for dried fruits and vegetables is presently worth $70 billion. In 2019, the 25-year-old Indore entrepreneur founded his own firm. Solar drying technology is one example of how freely accessible energy may be used to assist farmers. The company is supplying farmers with low-cost, do-it-yourself foldable solar dryers to make value-added items from… read-more
Tags: entrepreneur, Farmers, Waste management, solar dryers
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Softbank Founder Cautions Startups, Unicorns To Prepare For Challenging Fundraising Winter
Founder and CEO of Japanese investment firm Softbank, Masayoshi Son, cautioned unicorns and startups to brace themselves for a hard fundraising winter. Son stated that unicorn executives "still believe in their valuations and they wouldn't accept that they may have to see their valuations go lower than they think." The winter for publicly-traded firms is still… read-more
Tags: Softbank, Startups, unicorns, fundraising, japanese
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'Basys.ai,' Harvard-Based Healthtech Startup, To Enter Indian Market Using Patented AI Technology
Basys.ai, Harvard-based health-tech startup founded in 2020 by Amber Nigam and Jie Sun, claims its in-house technology would aid enhance doctors' clinical decision-making in controlling their patients' metabolic health. To deploy its platform, the business has begun conversations with healthcare providers in India through Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. Amber claims as… read-more
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Health technology, Startups, harvard, INDIAN MARKET
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Fintech Start-Up Caters Teen Audience For Finance Management
Muvin, teen-focussed pocket money, digital finance, and neo-banking apps have been in a rage, giving a new direction to the fintech sector in India. The startup by Vineet Gupta and Mukund Rao focuses on finances for teenage, instead of catering adult population. The company aims to make students financially savvy, teach them money management skills, and remove the complexities from “finance”. The company raised $3 million in pre-series… read-more
Tags: students, Start-up, Finances, Money Management, Muvin
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Kiko Live Platform Of Retailers To Soon Available On ONDC Network In India
Kiko Live, a platform for retailers in India has announced to be onboarded on ONDC and plans to be available on the ONDC platform by September 2022. Kiko Live, a platform for small neighbourhood retailers to be available on the ONDC network, provides potential business growth to millions of small retailers across India to be visible across the platform and to sell digitally, empowering small shop sellers.
Tags: Start-up, Kiko Live, Retailers In India, Online Platform, business
Courtesy: Press Trust of India
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Startups Climes, Lowsoot, WOCE To Help Companies, Individuals In Becoming Carbon Neutral
New-age firms have emerged all over the world to assist individuals (B2C) in calculating, tracking, and reducing their carbon footprint or emissions created during activities. The worldwide carbon footprint management market is expected to be worth $12.2 billion by 2025. Startups such as Climes, Lowsoot, and WOCE have created new products to assist businesses and individuals in becoming carbon neutral, a market poised for exponential… read-more
Tags: carbon management, Startups, Climes, Lowsoot, WOCE
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This Dutch Company Turns Mango Wastes Into Textile vegan Leather
A Dutch company named "Fruileather" is working towards a biodegradable environment, making waste mangoes into vegan leather. Hugo de Boon and Koen Meerkerk, the co-founders of Fruitleather, started the company with the concept of vegan leather production, in 2015 and now is able to manufacture 80-square-meters of leather per month with waste mangoes from Netherlands… read-more
Tags: biodegradable, Mangoes, Vegan Leather, dutch company, Fruitleather
Courtesy: Textile Today
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Startup Company Jify Attracts $10 Million Investment By Accel, Nexus
Employee financial benefit startup Jify has raised over $10 million investment, said the company on August 3. Accel and Nexus Ventures provide funding to the startup company of joint partners Anisha Dossa Aibara, Anusha Ramakrishnan and Aditya Mehta. Started in 2021, the company provides salary benefits like on-demand real time salary at zero cost. In addition, the company owners said, the investment will be used to strengthen production and… read-more
Tags: Investment, Jify, Startup India, Financial Benefits, investors
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'Cityflo' Provides Economical, Convenient Transportation Service, Making Travel To Work Relaxing
Jerin Venad, Ankit Agrawal, Rushabh Shah, and Sankalp Kelshikar founded "Cityflo" in May 2015, a Lightbox Ventures and India Quotient-backed mobility business that strives to provide economical and convenient bus transportation for office-going individuals in metropolitan cities. The Mumbai-based startup currently charges Rs 185 per journey, and Rs 148 with membership. The… read-more
Tags: Office, Startups, Cityflo, Mumbai, metropolitan cities
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Srikanth Founded Bbetter, Nutrition-Focused Startup, To Help People Manage Nutritional Deficiencies
Srikanth Ch was bedridden for two months due to disc-bulge, and started searching for natural supplements, he discovered most firms did not reveal lab-test results. In 2018, he decided to take action and co-founded "Bbetter" with his friends Varun and Rajesh Jampana. The nutrition-focused firm offers over 40 products that use metal-free herbs to assist individuals manage… read-more
Tags: Hyderabad, Nutraceutical, Startup, Bbetter, Health supplement
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