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Govt proposes setting up a tech startups incubation program – Budget 2015

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley proposed the setting up of a "techno-money related incubation and help program" called the Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU), amid his financial plan presentation today. He specified that Rs 1000 crore will be at first put aside for this. From the monetary allowance discourse: "The legislature is making a mechanism known as Self Employment and Talent Utilization ( SETU ) to be techno-money related incubation and help program to help all parts of new company and other self employment exercises especially in the innovation driven ranges. I am setting aside Rs 1,000 crore at first for this reason." The goal for this he said was to address "concerns, for example, more liberal arrangement of raising global capital, incubation offices in our focuses of incredibleness, funding for seed capital and the simplicity of working together need to be addressed to make a lakh occupations and many billions of dollars in quality."

Snapdeal Founders Invest in Online Apparel Startup Bewakoof

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Mumbai-based online apparel startup, Bewakoof has raised an undisclosed amount from Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal. Alongside Snapdeal founders, Former IDFC Securities Managing Director and co-Head of Research, Nikhil Vora has likewise put resources into individual capacity. The organization was selling its product all alone's store and on marketplaces, however now it has chosen to change to a terminus model. The startup has possessed the capacity to generate an annual sales run-rate of INR 20 crore and targets to achieve the USD 100 million in the next 5-7 years. Its revenue has grown 3 times in the past 6 months and in excess of 50 percent of its sales originates from mobile. Prabhkiran Singh, fellow benefactor of Bewakoof.com said, "We switched on the grounds that this is the place the future is. India will skirt the composed retail revolution and the online retail will rise to be a bigger business. We accept that 30-40 major online fashion brands with U

Aditya Birla Group Plans to Enter into the Indian E-commerce Space

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After Ratan Tata's late ventures in e-commerce, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the USD 40 billion Aditya Birla group, is looking to enter into Indian e-commerce market with plans to either procure e-retailers or to launch another remain solitary e-commerce venture. As Bloomberg reported , He declined to uncover more insights about his e-commerce plans be that as it may, the group is taking a gander at numerous business verticals rather than concentrates on a particular one. "There's a considerable measure of ground for new ventures in e-commerce," he said. "I am not saying that we can take an Amazon head-on. However there are a ton of green spaces." Birla joins the association of disconnected from the net business tycoons like Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani, who are discovering the online pastures green. Birla is additionally searching for speculators in his current blocks and-mortar retail businesses, which incorporate the "More" chain of supe

Japanese Corporation Softbank Invests USD 627M in Snapdeal

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Keeping in mind the end goal to fortify its vicinity in India, Japanese telecom and internet enterprise, Softbank has invested USD 627 million in Snapdeal. Softbank had likewise as of late invested USD 210 million in Indian cab administration aggregator, Olacabs. As a component of the arrangement, Nikesh Arora, Vice Chairman of Softbank Corp. also CEO of SIMI will join the board of Snapdeal. Prior, Snapdeal had secured USD 100 million in May 2014 and got an undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata in August in the not so distant future. The most recent round brings the aggregate capital raised by the company near USD 1 billion. The raised stores is required to be utilized to extend the company business in the nation, both naturally and through acquisitions. Snapdeal was established in 2010 and as of now claims to have more than 25 million enrolled clients and around 50,000 business sellers with a grouping of 5 million+ products over 500+ differing classifications from different territoria