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22091. This 17-yr-old entrepreneur’s startup is helping blue and grey-collar workers upskill and find employment
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- Led by young entrepreneur Ahaan Aggarwal, Junoon is a startup that is leading from the front in tackling the pandemic led job losses of blue and grey collar workers.
- Realising the seriousness of this situation, 17-year-old Ahaan Aggarwal (Gurugram) conceptualised and developed Junoon — a platform to help struggling workers. Ahaan began working on the platform in April, alongside pursuing his IB and High School Diploma from the American Embassy School in New Delhi. In August 2020, Junoon, a simple, instruction-based online vocational training and job search platform focused on blue-collar and grey-collar jobs, was launched.
- “Junoon serves to help unskilled and semi-skilled workers review or acquire career-specific skills and become better qualified. Our long-term goal is to provide necessary opportunities to enable widespread economic independence,” Ahaan tells YourStory.
22092. Taxi, please! This Delhi startup provides an entire EV stack for corporate fleet
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- EV startup eee-Taxi presently operates 1,000 electric vehicles in Delhi and Hyderabad. It has been seed funded by Shell and expects to go pan-India by 2022.
- Helping these taxis go all-electric is eee-Taxi — a Delhi-based startup founded by Nishant Saini and Vipul Nanda in 2015.
- "Our seamless integration of the EV ecosystem links our vehicle diagnostics technology to show the status of charge of the vehicle. With the availability of information on charge time, the software helps companies plan their employee routes efficiently. Our tech team talks to our smart charging infrastructure provider, which shows the availability of chargers, and allows fleets to drop employees."
22093. Ex-Paytm execs' digital payments startup Junio aims to make kids financially smart
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- Led Shankar Nath and Ankit Gera’s startup Junio is a payments instrument for the under-18 group that draws from the concept of pocket money.
- Shankar and Ankit Gera, former Assistant Vice-President and head of growth at India’s most valuable unicorn, founded Junio, a payments instrument for children under 18 that works on the principle of pocket money.
- “A majority of purchases today happen online, so most children end up borrowing their parents’ credit card,” says Shankar. “But this also means limited control over where the card is being spent. This led us to start Junio.”
22094. [Startup Bharat] Jiyyo Mitra e-Clinic is helping patients in rural and semi-urban areas access better healthcare
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- Founded in 2017, Chandigarh-based startup Jiyyo Mitra e-Clinic is collaborating with the local healthcare workforce from rural and semi-urban facilities to help patients connect with specialised doctors across the country.
- According to a December 2020 report by the Telemedicine Society of India (TSI) and healthtech giant Practo, non-metro cities recorded a growth of 7X in online consultations between March and November 2020 compared to 2019. It also revealed that the metro to non-metro ratio for online consultations stood at 60:40 in 2020, as compared to 75:25 in 2019.
- Siddharth, Co-founder and CEO, tells YourStory, “Meghna and I came up with the idea of Jiyyo in the waiting room at PGI Chandigarh Hospital while our father was undergoing a medical procedure. We realised while many of us had to purchase the same medicines, we got them at different prices, and villagers are more susceptible to the downsides of such pricing vagaries.”
22095. [Funding alert] Home design startup Livspace raises $90M led by Kharis Capital, Venturi Partners
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- The startup said funds will be utilised to further develop the technology platform, expand to newer markets in Asia-Pacific and tier-II cities in India, and expand supply chain, private labels, and new offerings across Asia-Pacific.
- In India, Livspace is looking at entering dozens of new cities including Lucknow, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad, where homeowners are eagerly awaiting the launch of an organised, internet-fist brand for their home renovation needs.
- Livspace currently serves nine metro areas in India (Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Thane, and Pune) and expanded into APAC with its Singapore market entry in October 2019.
22096. This Bengaluru startup is providing continuum healthcare solutions to patients with chronic conditions
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- 1) Founded in 2015, Sukino Healthcare offers out-of-hospital recuperative, rehabilitative, and palliative care to patients with chronic conditions.
- 2) Having faced the issue personally, Rajinish launched continuum healthcare provider Sukino Healthcare in 2015. The Bengaluru-based startup offers out-of-hospital recuperative, rehabilitative, and palliative care to patients at any transitory stage of their illness for fast recovery. Rajinish is a chartered accountant with over two decades of industry experience. Prior to starting up, he was leading the startup partner evangelism for Microsoft.
- The startup’s pricing starts from Rs 1,000 per day for basic care at home and goes up to Rs 4,500 for comprehensive rehabilitative and palliative care at its continuum of care facility. The founder and CEO claims the startup is on its way to clocking in a revenue of $4
22097. [Startup Bharat] Lucknow-based Knocksense is bringing local news content sans divisive topics to Tier II/III cities
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- Founded in 2016 by Vibhore Mayank and Varul Mayank, mediatech startup Knocksense is a local news and recommendations platform that does not provide sensational news pieces.
- The mediatech startup provides content on a wide variety of city-centric topics, including local sports, local achievers, education, career, real estate, environment, health, lifestyle, nightlife, F&B, etc. However, Knocksense stays away from divisive subjects like politics, crime, and religion.
- “Knocksense aims at getting this unorganised ad market from offline to online, and also become the first digital alternative to brands, which currently advertise via hoardings, radio channels, newspapers, etc.,” he says.
22098. Despite Covid, Tamil Nadu records Rs. 25,000 crore in IT exports in last 6 months : STPI Director
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- “I am very glad to inform you that we have shown Rs. 25,000 crore exports in the last 2 quarters of this financial year which is actually more than last year’s exports during these two quarters,” said. Sanjay Tyagi, Director, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).
- “The government of Tamil Nadu has come up with Electronics Hardware Manufacturing Policy 2020 to increase the state's electronic output to $100 billion” said Sanjay Tyagi, Director, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).
- Highlighting the need for creating jobs in rural areas, he said, “The next round of innovation and creativity will come from Tier 2-3 towns or hinterlands of Tamil Nadu.”
22099. How social rewards startup Magicpin went from a slump to a GMV of over $1 billion
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- Gurugram-based startup Magicpin recovered from a downturn at the start of the lockdown by leveraging the business and consumer shift to online platforms.
- Magicpin has raised around $41.9 million since its inception in 2015, with support from investors such as Lightspeed and WaterBridge.
- “Shopping on Magicpin leads to savings and this has resonated very well with consumers, along with the discovery of retail stores nearby,” says Co-founder and CEO Anshoo Sharma
22100. Prince of Persia but Made in India: Ubisoft is rebooting the Sands of Time
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- When the French publisher Ubisoft, best known for its hit gaming franchises such as ‘Assassin’s Creed’ and ‘Far Cry’, decided to do the reboot of “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”, it chose its studios in Pune and Mumbai to oversee the development for a remake.
- This is the first time an international video game publisher of Ubisoft’s stature relied on the expertise of in-house studios in India to fully develop a AAA title, even though a remake, from the ground up.
- The announcement of “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake” could increase India’s representation in the global video games market – not as the lucrative market to sell consoles and PC games but in the area of the development of high-profile titles targeted at the western market. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will launch January 2021 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.