Archive for the ‘funding’ tag.
Pune-based Innovize Tech Launches Productivity Measurement Software
Last week, Pune-based product startup Innovize Tech announced that it has received funding of $350k from the Indian Angel Network. (Note: Indian Angel Network had also invested in another Pune-based startup Druva.) Innovize Tech has built a software product, called Sapience, that helps companies measure the exact amount of time spent by employees in various [...]
POCC Meeting: How to pitch your startup – Samir Patel: Sat, 1st May
What: Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting on how to pitch your startup, by serial entrepreneur Samir Patel. When: Saturday, May 1, 5:30pm Where: e-Zest Office Terrace, 2nd Floor, Anand Nilay Business Center, Near Karve Statue, Karve Road, Kothrud. Map (thanks Hetal) Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required. Samir [...]
“World-class software products can come out of India” – Interview with CEO of Druva
We now have in our midst a startup success story that will hopefully inspire a 100 new software product startups in Pune. PuneTech and the Pune Open Coffee Club both started about 2 years ago, and the steadily increasing memberships and vitality of these communities points to a very strong startup community in Pune. However, [...]
Pune Incubator body ISBA launches Rs. 55cr venture capital fund
The VC Circle blog has just posted information about a new venture capital fund launched by a Pune based association – Indian STEP and Business Incubators Association (ISBA). ISBA is an association of startup/business incubators, incubatee startups, and other people interested in this ecosystem. The fund will focus on sector-agnostic investments in companies with no [...]
POCC MVP Startup Roadies: Meet Morpheus Venture Partners in Pune 21st Feb
What: POCC & MVP (Morpheus Venture Partners) bring Startup Roadies program to Pune When: Saturday, 21st Feb. Book a slot anytime between 10am to 7pm Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map. Registration and Fees: Send an e-mail to nandini [at] morpheusventure [dot] com with a short (less than [...]
Enrich your website (with content & money) – An interview with Hover.in
Hover.in is a Pune startup that provides a service for web publishers (i.e. website/blog owners) to automatically insert extra content into the webpages, in the form of a bubble that appears when the mouse is hovered over underlined words. The bubble can be informational (like a map appearing wherever a name of a place appears, [...]
How (and why) to bootstrap your own startup
I am liveblogging the Pune OpenCoffee Club saturday meetup, where we are discussing how to bootstrap your startup. We have invited three speakers who have experience with both bootstrapping a startup and VC funding: Anand Soman, Tarun Malaviya, and Shridhar Shukla. The following is a quick-n-dirty capture of some of the discussion that happened. This is not intended [...]
Technology overview – Druvaa Continuous Data Protection
Druvaa, a Pune-based product startup that makes data protection (i.e. backup and replication) software targeted towards the enterprise market, has been all over the Indian startup scene recently. It was one of the few Pune startups to be funded in recent times (Rs. 1 crore by Indian Angel Network). It was one of the three [...]
Tech Community Building: Startup Lunch, OpenCoffee Club and Bloggers Meet
Startup Lunch, Pune [A StartupLunch] is roughly the same as the SpeedDating concept. The startup founders are seated on one side and the candidates get to say hello and have a quick conversation to talk about what the background of the founder is, why he started the company and what sort of person he is [...]