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What NVidia is up to – NVidia Tech Week Open House in Pune
(This report of an demo/event organized by NVidia in February 2012 was written by Abhijit Athavale, and was originally published on PuneChips.com, a PuneTech sister organization that focuses on semiconductor, eda, embedded design and VLSI technology in Pune. It is reproduced here for the benefit for PuneTech readers.) I was invited to visit the Nvidia [...]
Pune based RainingClouds (AppSurfer) get 1cr Angel Funding
Pune based software startup RainingClouds Technologies has just raised Rs. 1cr in angel funding from Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of One97 Communications. RainingClouds makes AppSurfer, which allows people to access any android app from any browser. The funding happened as part of the Finale of the Super Angels show of ET Now. (We’ll update this [...]
Event Report: “Innovate or Die” – Suhas Kelkar, CTO-APAC, BMC Software
(This is a live blog of Suhas Kelkar’s talk at the SEAP Breakfast Meet. Suhas talked about his experience of building an incubator at BMC Software.) Background Suhas joined BMC Pune and was given the job of creating an innovation incubator within the company. This was the second attempt at creating an incubator in BMC. [...]
ACM Compute 2012 academic conference in Pune – 23/24 Jan
ACM Pune, the local chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) one of the top associations of computer science academics and professionals, is holding Compute 2012, the first edition of its annual conference, on 23 and 24 January 2012. The theme for this conference is Intelligent and Scalable Computing Systems. Prof. R. K. Shyamsunder, [...]
Fab.com (co-founded & developed in Pune) raises $40 million
Fab.com, an online ‘deals’ website specifically targeting ‘design’ items, and co-founded by True Sparrow Systems, has just closed a $40 million round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fab.com started off as Fabulis, a social network for the gay community, but pivoted to a daily design deals site. This is the second Pune-startup by Jason [...]
Pune’s InnovizeTech receives Rs. 4.5cr funding from Seed Enterprises
Pune based startup, InnovizeTech software, which makes productivity measurement software, has just announced that it has closed a Series-A investment of Rs. 4.5 crores from Seed Enterprise. Seed Enterprise is a newly established fund focusing on software products in emerging markets. It has been started by Mitesh Bohra, Avinash Sethi, and Siddharth Sethi (previously co-founders [...]
Profile: Renu Electronics & Ajay Bhagwat
(This article is a based on a broad and free-wheeling interview of Ajay Bhagwat, founder of Renu Electronics, by Navin Kabra and Amit Paranjape) To a large extent, the computer technology in India is synonymous with software technology. So, when we found that Renu Electronics manufactures all its own hardware for all the products it [...]
2 Cleantech Companies With Pune Links Make Us Proud
(This is an email that Anil Paranjape sent to the PuneStartups. It is reproduced here with permission.) Two emerging cleantech companies with very strong links to Pune have made us proud recently. Pune based ‘First Energy’, one of the pioneers in the clean burning stoves business, was recently chosen as one of the ‘Technology Pioneers [...]
PuneConnect 2011 – Event Overview and Results
PuneConnect 2011, held on 5th November, was the event where Pune’s top tech communities (SEAP and PuneTech) and startup communities (POCC and TiEPune) came together to organize an event to let Pune’s startups mix with Pune’s established companies. 12 Pune technology startups were chosen from about 30 applicants to showcase their products at PuneConnect 2011. [...]
Early-stage investment up to Rs. 25L available from Venture Center, Pune
The Venture Center, a Pune-based Government of India Initiative that helps technology innovators and startups, has instituted a Rs. 1 crore seed fund that they plan on investing in early stage technology startups (or even innovators with just a science & technology idea). Investment proposals are being accepted upto 30 November 2011. Here are more [...]
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Global Mining Giant to invest $80 million on mining tech innovation center in Pune
Rio Tinto, one of the biggest mining companies in the world, announced the opening of an innovation center at iGate Patni in Pune, which will work towards developing next-generation technologies for mining. Rio Tinto expects to invest about $80 million on this initiative over the next five years. Just to be clear, we are talking [...]
QuickOffice Launches ‘Connect’ – Frontend Developed in Pune
QuickOffice, the mobile office/documents software company, has recently launched Connect by QuickOffice, which is an ambitious platform which allows users to synchronize their documents across all their devices (multiple mobiles), clouds (Dropbox, Google Docs, Microsoft SkyDrive), and computers (office computer, laptop, home desktop). QuickOffice has an offshore development center in Pune (in Pune-based Synerzip), and [...]
SEAP Book Club Event Report: MindSet presented by Gireendra Kasmalkar
(This is a live-blog of the SEAP Book Club meeting that happened on 4th Feb at Sungard Aundh. Gireendra Kasmalkar, MD & CEO of SQS India, talked about a book called “Mindset – The Psychology of Success.” The contents of this post are not directly related to technology, however, it is published on PuneTech since [...]
SEAP Book Club Meet: “Mindset – The New Psychology of Success” – Gireendra Kasmalkar
Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP) has a Book Club that meets on the first Saturday of every month, where one of the senior executives from the Software Industry in Pune gives a presentation based on a popular book. This month, Gireendra Kasmalkar, Managing Director and CEO, SQS India, will talk about “Mindset – The [...]
Call for Speakers: GNUnify – India’s Biggest Open Source Conference
(Sorry about the late notice. This CFP for GNUnify is open until Wednesday Feb 1st, so please hurry and register as a speaker.) GNUnify, organized by Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG) and SICSR is one of the biggest free and open source conferences in India. It will be held on 10th and 11th Feb in [...]
TechM presents i5 Talks: On Innovative Tech Ideas to better Society – 31 Jan
i5 Talks is a quarterly technology talk show organized by Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam that showcases innovative ideas which incite, ignite and inspire people to create a better society by using technology. The idea is to create something similar to TED, but specific to India and Technology. And this is not restricted just to [...]
ACM India Annual Event – at Pune, 25 Jan
This year, The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) (one of the top associations of computer science academics and professionals), will hold its annual India event on 25th January, in Pune with the help of ACM Pune, the local chapter. The event will be at the ‘O’ Hotel, Koregaon Park, Pune, from 9:30am to 5:30pm. This [...]
Call for Speakers: JSFoo JavaScript Conference Pune
HasGeek, the folks who brought us high quality tech conferences like DocType Html5 and DroidCon, are organizing [JSFoo] a JavaScript conference in Pune on 21st January. Considering that JavaScript is one of the most important programming languages in the world today, anyone who is interested in technology should consider attending this conference, and if you [...]
JSFoo/HasGeek’s JavaScript HackNight Pune – Jan 14
No matter what programming language and platform you work on today, it is almost certain that at least one of the user interfaces to your software product/service is written using JavaScript. JavaScript is easily the language that is available on far, far more computing devices in the world than any other language, considering it is [...]
SEAP Book Club Meet: The Steve Jobs Way with Suhas Kelkar
Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP) has a Book Club that meets on the first Saturday of every month, where one of the senior executives from the Software Industry in Pune gives a presentation based on a popular book. This month, Suhas Kelkar, CTO Asia-Pacific, and Senior Director (Incubation Team) at BMC Software, will talk [...]