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22251. How this profit-making traditional financial services marketplace evolved into a phygital model
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- MyMoneyMantra, a financial services marketplace, now offers the best of both worlds, serving customers in physical and digital mediums through 'prudent use of technology'.
- MyMoneyMantra (MMM), a marketplace for loans, mortgages and credit cards, is a 30-year-old financial services company led by Founder Raj Khosla.
- It has gradually evolved into a phygital model, with a strong presence in the offline and online worlds.
22252. पराली की ईंटों से बना IIT हैदराबाद का गार्ड-रूम, गर्मी में भी रहता है ठंडा
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- 2015 में जब देश भर में बढ़ते प्रदूषण की बात हो रही थी, इसी समस्या का हल ढूंढ निकाला है IIT हैदराबाद ने। IIT हैदराबाद के डिज़ाइन विभाग के पीएचडी स्कॉलर प्रियब्रत राउतराय और उनके साथी, अविक रॉय ने मिलकर खेतों में फसल के बाद बचने वाली पराली का उपयोग करके ‘Bio Brick’ बनाई है, जिसे बिल्डिंग मटीरियल के तौर पर इस्तेमाल में लिया जा सकता है। सितंबर, 2021 में IIT हैदराबाद में Bio Brick से बने एक गार्ड-रूम का उद्घाटन किया गया है। यह भारत की पहली बिल्डिंग है, जो Bio Brick से बनी है। मूल रूप से ओडिशा से संबंध रखने वाले प्रियब्रत और अविक, दोनों ही आर्किटेक्ट हैं। प्रियब्रत फ़िलहाल पीएचडी कर रहे हैं तो अविक KIITS स्कूल ऑफ़ आर्किटेक्चर, भुवनेश्वर में शिक्षक हैं।
- अविक बताते हैं, “साल 2011 में, हमने साथ में मिलकर अपना Design firm, “R Square Dezign” शुरू किया। हमने कई डिजाइनिंग प्रोजेक्ट्स किए। लेकिन पिछले कुछ सालों में, जब दिल्ली में बढ़ रहे प्रदूषण पर चर्चा बढ़ी तो हमारा ध्यान इस ओर गया। एक तरफ पराली की समस्या थी और दूसरी तरफ कंस्ट्रक्शन इंडस्ट्री में बढ़ती ईंट की मांग। काफी समय तक विचार-विमर्श करके हमने इन दोनों परेशानियों का एक हल ढूंढ़ा और वही हल है Bio Brick।” देश में लगभग 140000 ईंटों की भट्ठियां हैं, लेकिन फिर भी निर्माण कार्यों के लिए ईंटों की आपूर्ति नहीं हो पाती है। साथ ही, ईंट बनाने के लिए मिट्टी की सबसे ऊपर परत का इस्तेमाल किया जा रहा है, जिसके कारण मिट्टी की गुणवत्ता घट रही है। ईंट की ये भट्ठियां न सिर्फ बहुत ज्यादा ऊर्जा लेती हैं, बल्कि इनसे होने वाला प्रदूषण भी काफी ज्यादा है।
- लगभग छह सालों की मेहनत के बाद आखिरकार वह अलग-अलग फसलों के अपशिष्ट से ईंट बनाने में कामयाब हो गए। उन्होंने अपनी ‘बायो ब्रिक’ को Rural Innovators Start-Up Conclave 2019 में प्रेजेंट किया। जहां उन्हें सस्टेनेबल हाउसिंग केटेगरी में Special Recognition Trophy मिली। इसके बाद, उन्होंने अपनी इस तकनीक के लिए पेटेंट फाइल किया और अप्रैल 2021 में उन्हें पेटेंट भी मिल गया।
- IIT हैदराबाद के BUILD (Bold Unique Idea Lead Development) प्रोग्राम के तहत उन्हें इस प्रोजेक्ट के लिए फंडिंग मिली। बायो ब्रिक से बने होने के कारण कमरे के अंदर का तापमान बाहर के तापमान से लगभग छह डिग्री कम रहता है। वहीं, चुने और सीमेंट को बाइंडर मटेरियल की तरह इस्तेमाल करने से यह आग प्रतिरोधी भी है। इसके अलावा, मिट्टी की ईंट से बायो ब्रिक का वजन पांच गुना कम होता है तो सीमेंट की ईंटों से आठ गुना कम होता है। सामान्य ईंट की तुलना में, अगर बायो ब्रिक को बड़े स्तर पर बनाया जाए तो एक ईंट की कीमत दो से तीन रुपए आएगी।
22253. Shopify for coaching: How Kunal Shah, Sequoia, and Blume-backed Classplus digitised 1 lakh tutors to serve 12M students
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- B2B edtech startup Classplus, which raised three rounds of funding in 2020, saw its tutor base grow 10X and topline surge 400 percent in the pandemic. Here’s how the ‘Shopify for coaching’ helps India’s private tutors stay relevant.
- Classplus had very humble beginnings three years ago. Founders Mukul Rustagi, an IIT Roorkee alumnus who traded derivatives on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Bhaswat Agarwal, who helped Microsoft Education design and sell learning products in India, had failed in their earlier ventures.
- Classplus built a mobile-based SaaS platform to help private tutors and coaching centres take their brick-and-mortar set-ups online, thus becoming one of the early movers in the country’s B2B edtech space.
22254. Press release: Partners Group to invest over USD 250 million to acquire equity stake in Ecom Express, a significant player in India's e-commerce ecosystem
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- Partners Group to invest over USD 250 million to acquire equity stake in Ecom Express, a significant player in India's e-commerce ecosystem
- Founded in 2012, Ecom provides logistics services in over 2,650 towns across 27,000+ pin codes in India, covering 95%+ of India's population.
- Its clients include India's largest e-commerce players, with the Company delivering almost 1 million shipments per day via 2,800 delivery centres.
22255. Fun and games: This startup enables corporates to inculcate teamwork through escape rooms
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- Founded in 2014 by Shikhir Bhutani, Sapna Bhutani, and Prateek Panjwani, Mystery Rooms uses challenges to engage employees and help them work on their team-building skills. The startup has scaled up the phygital platform and now operates in 21 cities.
- The three wanted to start something new in the field of entertainment and brought together experiences from their respective work streams to start Mystery Rooms, which provides a real-life escape experience set up within an office. The startup also has digital mystery games for corporates.
- In a mystery room, the players get to choose and take on challenges such as the Bomb Defusal Challenge, Prison Break scenario, or an Inferno situation. All these challenges are created by the startup to engage the team and help them work on their team-building skills to escape the room.
22256. AMP Capital, Sterlite Power tie up for energy transmission projects in India, to invest $300 million
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- Global investment manager AMP Capital(Sydney, Australia) and Sterlite Power have entered into a partnership to develop energy transmission projects in the country with a total equity investment of $300 million
- “Global investment manager AMP Capital has established a 50:50 partnership with Sterlite Power Transmission Ltd (Sterlite Power) for the development of energy transmission projects in India,” according to a joint statement by the two companies.
- the partnership has the potential to reach an overall investment size of $500 million.
22257. How proptech startup Frxnl makes it possible for the average Indian to invest in real estate
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- Fractional ownership is quickly becoming a new investor favourite, especially for costly investments such as real estate, in India.
- Founded by Amit Uppal and Rahul Raj Gogna in 2021, the startup allows people to invest nominal sums in real estate projects without having to grapple with the extensive paperwork and bureaucracy.
- Frxnl allows investors to make fractional investments in otherwise costly real estate projects. Frxnl makes it more affordable for middle-class retail investors to invest in real estate by offering opportunities starting from Rs 10 lakh.
22258. Why this second time entrepreneur and ex-Accel Partners investor started up in the insurance space
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- Nova Benefits is a B2B health insurance platform, which recently raised $1 million. The round was led by Better Capital, Multiply Ventures and Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal's, Titan Capital. The round also saw participation from Sumit Maniyar, CEO, Rupeek, and Ashish Goyal, Co-founder, EarlySalary.
- in October 2020, Saransh and his friend, Yash Gupta, founded Nova Benefits, an employee benefits platform centred around corporate health insurance. The startup recently raised $1 million in funding.
- Nova plans to use the funds to expand its tech and product capabilities. The new category of insurance products work synergistically with a company's health insurance policy, where the premiums are lower since the corporate health policy acts as the first offering.
22259. Fiat Chrysler to invest $250m in India to rev up SUV offerings
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- Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) s (Italy/US) aid it will invest $250m to grow its presence in India with the launch of four new sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) under its Jeep brand over the next two years.
- FCA will invest $250m to launch four SUVs under its Jeep brand, a sign that India’s auto sector is reviving.
- The company plans to locally manufacture a mid-sized SUV with three rows of seats, assemble the Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Cherokee vehicles in the country and launch a new version of its Jeep Compass SUV, FCA said in a statement.
22260. How this Bengaluru SaaS startup enhances employee engagement, business productivity with gamification
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- Founded in 2019, Bengaluru SaaS startup Unotag helps companies design gamified incentive programmes to motivate employees to improve their performance.
- To make work more fun and engaging for employees, Unotag — a gamification-based all-in-one toolkit — was launched in 2019.
- In fact, its proprietary AI platform — Mok — improves the productivity of sales teams and employees using behavioural economics and personalised nudges.