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Women entrepreneurs constituted 14 per cent of the total entrepreneurial workforce in India, according to a report by NASSCOM

Shanti Mohan, founder of LetsVenture, believes that if women can manage household finance, they can make business investments as well

Rehan Yar Khan, managing partner at Orios Venture Partners, talks about Unicorns going for IPOs, prospects for new start-ups and the overall scenario

Even as technologies such as augmented, virtual and mixed reality becoming the new buzzwords in the start-up ecosystem, India hasn't seen a steady adoption of these among the masses. Tesseract wants that to change.

Archit Vijoy, associate at DSG Consumer Partners, talks about the mindset of investors

Restaurants that are smart are playing with pricing and customers are only focused on getting a discount but aren't focusing enough on the rapid price inflation

Healthtech firm ekincare provides an integrated platform wherein healthcare consultancies and checkups are available in a corporate setting

With a big chunk of management graduates in India deemed unemployable, Sunstone Eduversity seeks to make higher education accountable with a pay-after-placement model and working closely with recruiters.

Getting the timing right and whether the founders are clear about what they want for their start-ups are some of the things that Dhianu Das looks at before investing.

While investors have always been known to guide entrepreneurs, some money managers have learnt valuable lessons such as the ability to keep going and finding answers when there are none from start-up founders that they have worked with

Having already invested in the likes of Swiggy and Byju's, the Chinese tech company is betting big on Indian start-ups.

While investors are gradually becoming more open to spending in the Indian EV space, they still seem to be playing safe, said Nilesh Bothra, CEO of Calamus Electric Cycles.

The nation which already houses several unicorns saw seven additions this year, according to the 2019 edition of a report by NASSCOM and Zinnov

The Singapore-headquartered company was founded in 2011 and is waiting in the wings to become a Unicorn

Noida-based edtech exam preparation platform Gradeup raised $7 million in a round of funding led by the digital products company

The most important bit was having fun which taught me that to be an entrepreneur, one needs to stay excited irrespective of the outcome

As an early-stage venture capital firm, Kalaari invests in new trends that they think would bring change and cause disruption across sectors

Pune-based ElasticRun raised $40 million in a fresh round of funding led by Prosus Ventures and other existing investors

Better.com is a 360-degree digital mortgage company that recently raised $160 million in funding

Infusion of new funds from Microsoft would help the Bengaluru-based ride-hailing company battle bigger rival Uber.

Launched three years ago, Bengaluru-based Arzooo is hoping to take the number of retailers it works with to 5,000 within a year, which would take the total value of transactions on its platform to more than INR 3,500 crore.