The founders of five startups presented their ideas at the event that aims to provide a platform to social entrepreneurs to develop their ideas and bring them to fruition. Green Talks is a nonprofit open platform that unites the global network of social enterprises that are bringing about broad transformation to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The latest edition of The Economist talks about how banks across the globe are tightening their monetary policies to control inflation and how the history of the post pandemic era will be majorly defined by how rising prices weighed heavily on the minds and wallets of the public. Like its Western and European counterparts, India too is reeling under high inflation.

InQubeta is an Ethereumbased platform that matches AI startups with legitimate investors. With decentralization, InQubeta makes crowdfunding not just faster but also more transparent. Its ongoing cryptocurrency ICO has raised over $6.7 million in presale funding so far. Market experts are now keen to know if it has the potential to outperform top names like Monero (XMR) and Ethereum (ETH).

Gujarat Sports Startup Conclave came to a spectacular end in Ahmedabad with sportsed platform CoLLearn walking away with top honours and 10 lacs in prize money as a massive 26lac was given as overall awards to the awards winners on Monday.

With the recent boom of startup companies and their market values, their top management and founders have been taking home hefty annual salary packages. As 2023 comes to an end, companies have released their financial reports, revealing the salaries of their founders. Zerodha founders Nithin and Nikhil Kamath were the highest paid startup founders of 2023.

This week as many as 19 Indian startups secured a total funding of approximately $548 million. This comprised seven growth stage deals and 10 early stage funding deals. Notably, details of two startups funding were undisclosed. Comparatively, in the previous week, a total of 20 startups raised funding, amounting around $130 million, with the funding amounts for two deals remaining undisclosed.

Genrobotics, a Kerala based startup acclaimed for leveraging technology for social change, has been adjudged among top three Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups of India at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit 2023 organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in New Delhi.

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor at IIT Madras and President of IITM Research Park, IITM Incubation Cell, and RTBI, on Saturday, December 16, emphasised the need for providing the right guidance to young graduates in India to unlock their potential and drive innovation in the startup ecosystem.

The Hemant Soren government on Thursday notified its new startup policy aiming to create a startup ecosystem and establish at least 1,000 companies in the mineral rich state by 2028 The policy will replace the state s old policy of 2016 and is being implemented with immediate effect for five years, a gazette notification signed by the special secretary to CM, Vipra Bhal, read

Stuck on starting line, startup policy in a fix The Chandigarh Startup Policy, which has been in the works for over five years, is still awaiting final approval. The selection and disbursement of the policy corpus of Rs 10 crore to startups is currently a contentious issue.

Collaborations with global startups in related sectors are also happening. RIC2D showcased its projects, emphasising their commercialisation potential through partnerships with Grapheal and NanoGrafen during the Graphene Flagship Week in September this year.

Bhatia said he will also launch a seed funding platform, which will enable young entrepreneurs raise funds for their innovative ideas and create startups.

IIT Madras Centre for Research on Startups and Risk Financing s ( CREST ) has launched Indian startup ecosystem and investors platform at the international confluence conference The platform contains comprehensive information on about 1,96,000 startups, 10,800 angel investors, 4,800 VCs, 965 incubators, 102 government schemes for startups, and 560 institutions for loan funding, making it the most comprehensive platform for startups and investors

India has the third largest startup ecosystem in the world and Kerala has immensely contributed with the number of startups in it, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday at an event here. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Fatima Mata National College here, Sitharaman said Kerala has also contributed immensely towards India s fintech industry too.