Startup Companies

Venture capital investors from Andreessen Horowitz to Accel Partners are already betting that the bitcoin industry will see its share of big winners. Perhaps no market attracted as much hoopla…

When I was first breaking into the digital marketing space, I did what many of us do and offered my services to companies pro-bono (yes, that’s the fancy term for interning). In that time, I…

Through the startups indexes I’ve been creating in the past month I’ve developed a database of over 1, companies with dozens of signals each. This list includes ALL the startups in my database…

Suksh Technology Pvt Ltd (STPL) is a group company incepted in April, 2008 and headquartered in Bangalore, the Indian startup hub. STPL is seed funded (~ 1.5 Million dollars) by one of the Director…

GrabCAD, Cambridge, 2011 session A free CAD model library and collaboration tools for mechanical engineers Funding: $13.5 million Employees: 45 Pictured: chief executive and cofounder Hardi Meybaum…

It was the first time in India for the young and dynamic COO of Startup Weekend, Adam Stelle. Not knowing what to expect, the first round in Bangalore had something very impressive up its sleeve…

YourStory’s inaugural Bootcamp was held in IIT Delhi last Saturday and it reaffirmed our belief in the Delhi NCR startup ecosystem. A rocking affair, the participants had unprecedented levels…

Disclaimer: This is not an exhaustive list, just put in some well known companies I could recall. If you exclude the GOI departments or PSU s, and looking only at private or joint sector ventures…

Some of the of the most successful companies in history started by doing what s working.Do what s working means supplying something (or a variation of something) that you know (or have some…

Will Schmidt for the Los Angeles Edition You may remember Hunter Gray and Michel Bayan from their work on Atlas, a real-time scheduling platform we covered a little over a year ago. To date…

With Cloud Sherpas having just been named the fastest growing privately-held company in Atlanta, I’ve received many questions recently about how we’ve reached such a fast pace of global growth…

Companies typically die around ~20 months after their last financing round and after having raised $1.3 million. Companies in the social industry saw the highest of number of startup failures…

It’s all too common for technology-focused entrepreneurs to forget that not every “startup” is a “tech company.” I know that when I personally hear the word “startup, ” I often wrongly assume…

Peerzada Abrar, ET Bureau (Chennai-based Nimble helps…) Making machines talk to each other is proving to be smart business for a Chennai-based technology venture that uses wireless communication…

You’ve heard the stories of the amazing perks now being offered to employees of tech companies, from massages to paid vacations to free lunches. Not to be outdone by its big-company rivals, Seattle…

STARTUP CAPITAL: PERSPECTIVES ON CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES New Entrepreneurship Forum series, a collaboration of Wharton & HBS Clubs of DC, features exciting startups &…

Help – you need somebody! As with any endeavor, a new business is bound to run into problems. Luckily, nothing is insurmountable if you look for help in the right places. From pinpointing exactly…

Image credit: Coravin This was what happened for OpenKit, a social-gaming platform company in San Francisco that only recently left beta. Last year, as part of a concerted effort to gauge developer…