| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
| RISING BHARAT | News Count (102771) | |
21851. India’s quest for its own SpaceX hits a milestone
- The successful test of Skyroot’s rocket engine augurs well for Indian startups building small-satellite launch vehicles
- Skyroot’s test validated the use of new material and 3D-printed design to reduce the engine’s mass and time for development
- Bengaluru startup Pixxel aims to launch a constellation of Earth observation small satellites whose data can have multiple applications in agriculture and other sectors. Its first satellite was good to go on a Soyuz rocket this month, but the launch was put off to March next year because the main satellite riding on the Russian vehicle wasn’t ready.
21852. India's FreshToHome Among 3 Startups Picked To Boost UAE's Agritech Capabilities
- Hyderabad-As a part of the agreement, Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) will provide financial and non-financial incentives totaling to $41 million to Pure Harvest Smart Farms, FreshToHome and Nanorocks
- FreshToHome, an e-grocery platform which specialises in selling meat and fish, with the help of ADIO plans to scale its land and sea operational capabilities in UAE.
- The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) on Tuesday announced individual partnerships with agriculture startups such as Pure Harvest Smart Farms, FreshToHome and Nanorocks in a bid to boost the emirate’s agriculture technology capabilities across land, sea and space.
21853. [RAISE 2020] This startup helps Flipkart, Samsung, others gain actionable insights from customer voices
- Hyderabad-based Enixta Innovations enables ecommerce businesses like Flipkart and brands like Samsung to listen to customers’ voices in multiple formats from across the web. The startup uses AI, NLP, and ML to convert customers’ voices into actionable insights.
- Giri Devanathan was shopping on ecommerce stores, it was taking him a long time to research products and make a purchase decision.
- Realising this was a common problem, Giri thought of building a product to help customers make quicker and better purchase decisions. He built the alpha version of his first product, Buysmaart, during his stint with PayPal, having worked on it during non-business hours. Buysmaart was built to help online shoppers reduce their purchase decision cycles
21854. [Startup Bharat] How Patna-based Pooja Sansar is cashing in on the festive season with curated ritual kits
- Sanchie Shroff and Aaditya Anand, as they turned the stay-at-home situation into an entrepreneurial opportunity. The brother sister duo, along with their father Anand Prakash, launched Pooja Sansar in October this year.
- The Patna-based startup helps people get pooja, ceremony, and worship kits delivered at their doorstep.
- Pooja Sansar is an online marketplace that offers curated ritual kits for customers. The startup claims to have clocked revenue to the tune of Rs 1.5 lakh and has done more than 100 orders in less than 30 days.
21855. EV startup Calamus aims to create the next generation of personal mobility with e-bikes
- Launched by two Pune engineering graduates, EV startup Calamus has launched an e-bike that comes with GPS tracking, multiple anti-theft features, and integrated suppor.
- Nilesh R Bothra and Huzaifa Hararwala, roommates while at Sinhgad College of Engineering, were always keen on the idea of electric vehicles.
- Nilesh, a production engineer, considers the automotive world to be his Mecca while Huzaifa is a computer engineer with expertise in computer networking.
21856. [The Turning Point] How a pet dog helped these entrepreneurs to start healthtech startup Dozee
- In The contactless sensor placed under the mattress captures real-time body vitals without using any external wires.
- The sensor captures micro-vibrations produced by the body every time the heart pumps blood, during inhalation, exhalation, muscle twitches, tremors, and body movements.
- “I realised that while I had achieved good success in personal life, there was a lot to be done for the society. This was with the backdrop of me always being worried about the well-being of my parents,” says Mudit.
21857. This deep tech startup makes property renovation a breeze for professionals
- Deep tech startup ReNEWate uses AR and AI with native language support to bridge skill gap and power a new digital age for property improvement professionals
- The husband-wife duo and co-founders of ReNEWate, Supratik Ghatak and Debashree Ghatak, bring with them several decades of experience in both real estate and technology domains, having both national and international experience in architectural and interior design, project management, supply chain management, landscaping, building construction, material selection, cataloguing and application.
- The contractor digitisation app helps all property improvement professionals including carpenters, civil contractors, painters, interior designers, electrical contractors and others to improve the way they sell, report and get paid with the help of the smart tools in the ReNEWate app. This helps them save time and money.
21858. India gets first hydrogen mixing station in Indore; here’s how it will cut carbon emissions
- India has several plans in the pipeline to hit its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2070. Apart from its plans to instal a 500-gigawatt (GW) renewable energy capacity by 2030, the country is seeking to reduce the carbon footprint of natural gas by mixing it with hydrogen.
- Under the National Hydrogen Mission, the country will also scale up production of zero-emission green hydrogen, which will be used as an alternative fuel with no emissions in large parts of the existing infrastructure.
- "In line with the National Hydrogen Mission, GAIL has started hydrogen blending as a pilot project to establish the techno-commercial feasibility of blending hydrogen in City Gas Distribution (CGD) network. This project marks the stepping stone of India's journey towards hydrogen-based and carbon-neutral future," the company said
21859. Virescent Renewable Energy Trust raises Rs 650 crore via bonds
- KKR-backed Virescent Renewable Energy Trust ((VRET) has raised Rs 650 crore through domestic bond issue. “Virescent Renewable Energy Trust (VRET) raised Rs 650 crore through a domestic bond issuance across 7.33-year (Rs 150 crore) and 10-year (Rs 500 crore) tranches
- this transaction marks the largest single series issuance of Rs 500 crore in 10-year tenor by a renewable energy company.
- This bond issuance establishes a new yield curve for VRET, while also achieving significant elongation of average tenor as compared to the earlier Rs 1,000 crore bond issuance of VRET in November 2021 (4.8 years to 9.4 years).
21860. Bengaluru Airport third busiest airport, emerges as transfer hub for South India
- A Bengaluru International Airport Authority Limited (BIAL) release said Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (BLR Airport) is the third busiest Airport in India.
- BLR Airport serves 74 domestic destinations, the highest ever since airport opening date, as compared to 54 routes during pre-Covid and is also the highest amongst South Indian Airports.
- flights to non-metro routes have shown a considerable increase from 58 percent (pre-Covid) to 63 percent in Calendar Year (CY) 2021. Moreover, between Q1 and Q4 of 2021, traffic on non-metro routes increased by 27 percent, reinforcing strong demand on these city-pairs.
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