The Startup Journal

14/04/2021

Completed 7 years of the journey. Congrats to the team.

22/09/2020

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Over the last few years, India has emerged as the global startup hub, with startups mushrooming across tier-1, 2, and 3 cities. These startups are not

01/06/2020

MakeMyTrip fires 350 employees due to slowdown in business.

MakeMyTrip is going to lay off 350 employees as an impact of the COVID-19. The laid-off employees will be provided mediclaim coverage for individuals and their families till the end of the year. Le…

28/05/2020

AppTweak: A*O Tool Driven by Data Science goes Pan-Asia with brand new offices in Bangalore and Tokyo! Check out what CEO Oliver Verdin has to say about it.

India has emerged as the fastest-growing mobile app market in the world. Topping the growth numbers on both stores (Play Store & Apple Store) India’s thirst for content on finance, shoppi…

21/05/2020

Customers will need a government-approved ID proof to place the order.

Food delivery startup Swiggy and Zomato have started home delivering of alcohol in Jharkhand, starting from Ranchi. Alcohol delivery went live in both these apps today after obtaining necessary app…

20/05/2020

Ola to layoff 25% of its workforce.

Ola said today that it is laying off 1400 employees, nearly 25% of its total workforce. The news comes after the company saw its revenue come down by nearly 95% over the last two months because of …

18/05/2020

Swiggy lays off 1,100 employees across various grades and functions in the cities and head office.

Food tech unicorn Swiggy today said it would lay off around 1,100 of its employees across various grades and functions in the cities and head office over the next few days. The news comes just two …

14/05/2020

"Today will be your last working day with Uber."

Ride-hailing company Uber has fired nearly 3,700 employees (14 per cent of its workforce) via in a three-minute Zoom call last week. Uber’s head of Phoenix Center of Excellence Ruffin Chavele…

04/05/2020

Silver Lake invests Rs 5,655.75 crore in Jio Platforms.

Reliance Industries Limited and Jio Platforms Limited announced today that Silver Lake would invest Rs 5,655.75 crore into Jio Platforms. The Silver Lake deal values Jio Platforms at an equity val…

27/04/2020

Sequoia's Surge 3 has six Indian startups. Here's the list

Sequoia has unveiled the 15 startups that are selected for its third cohort of Surge. Surge is a Southeast Asia- and India-focused accelerator run by Sequoia India. The third cohort for Surge was k…

22/04/2020

Facebook invests Rs. 43,574 Crore in Jio Platforms

Read more: https://bit.ly/34Xp9lT

18/04/2020

The government on Saturday made its prior approval mandatory for foreign investments from countries that share a land border with India to curb "opportunistic takeovers" of domestic firms following the COVID-19 pandemic, a move which will restrict FDI from China.

Read details: https://bit.ly/2ypKE2R