| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.10.2025 | Arattai's Unexpected Surge: Road Ahead for Zoho's Messaging App, Hard Lessons From Past Zoho's Arattai, touted as desi WhatsApp alternative, now has more than 1 million monthly active users. | Zoho finds itself under a rather unexpected spotlight for one of its products that does not appear to be fully baked, yet has gotten everyone talking about its potential as a WhatsApp alternative.
This came after Union Minister Dharmendra P... |
| 24.09.2025 | SignDesk Announces its Rebrand as Melento The company has said the new identity marks a deliberate shift, "moving beyond document workflows to orchestrating collaborative intelligence across ente... | SignDesk, a digital workflow automation company, recently announced its rebranding as Melento, marking its strategic shift toward an agentic AI-powered enterprise.
The company has said the new identity marks a deliberate shift, "moving... |
| 09.06.2025 | Bridging the AI Divide: The Indo-French Tech Revolution | In the heart of Bangalore, a new chapter in artificial intelligence (AI) is unfolding. The La French Tech India AI Summit 2025 has become a beacon of collaboration between India and France. This summit is not just an event; it’s a bridge co... |
| 07.06.2025 | La French Tech India Summit 2025 Drives Indo-French AI Partnership with 250+ Leaders as India-France Year of Innovation 2026 Approaches | Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The La French Tech India AI Summit 2025, held in Bangalore, brought together leaders from government, industry, startups, and academia across India and France to advance a shared approach to artificial intelligen... |
| 26.10.2024 | India’s Digital Public Infrastructure: A Blueprint for Global Transformation | In the heart of New Delhi, a pivotal roundtable unfolded. Leaders from various sectors gathered to discuss a pressing issue: Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). This event, organized by iSPIRT and Primus Partners, highlighted India’s role ... |
| 25.10.2024 | Scaling Digital Public Infrastructure: iSPIRT and Primus Partners Lead Roundtable on Global DPI Expansion | New Delhi, Delhi, India
India has been at forefront, especially in the wake of the G20 India Presidency, where countries unanimously agreed to a common definition of Digital Public Infrastructure. India’s becoming the voice of the global so... |
| 10.11.2017 | DATA STORY: The reason why most startups fail - and it isn't lack of funds | Representative image (Source: Reuters)
A major share of Indian startups have recently been tumbling into oblivion, and the home-grown larger ones like Ola, Paytm and Flipkart are facing tough competition from global players who have entered... |
| 26.03.2015 | Microsoft Ventures and iSPIRT Host SaaSx to Accelerate Indian SaaS Startups | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Cofounders of 100+ SaaS startups learn to grow business from co-founders of Freshdesk, Wingify, WebEngage and Kissflow
SaaS expert Aaron Ross shows how to create predictable revenue
‘Jump Start Guide for Desk Mark... |
| 16.03.2015 | What we can all learn from India’s huge startup growth story | As emerging economies around the world stumble along, one exception stands out — India, where growth is set to overtake China soon. Now a new report ranks Asia’s third largest economy as the fourth largest startup ecosystem in the world.
T... |
| 16.03.2015 | What we can all learn from India’s huge startup growth story | As emerging economies around the world stumble along, one exception stands out — India, where growth is set to overtake China soon. Now a new report ranks Asia’s third largest economy as the fourth largest startup ecosystem in the world.
Th... |
| 09.04.2014 | Indian Software Product Startups Pitch Ideas To Fortune 500 CIOs | After years of working with India’s over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office work, CIOs of Fortune 500 companies are now looking to tap into the country’s softwar... |
| 04.02.2014 | Can India Create A $100B Software Products Industry? | So far, India’s over $100 billion IT industry has been built mostly on software services and back office projects delivered by TCS, Infosys and Wipro for the likes of Citibank and GE, who have been outsourcing non-core work to save costs ov... |
| 02.12.2013 | As Facebook Eyes Up Little Eye Labs, Twitter Is Also Looking At A Startup In India | Reports of Facebook looking to acquire Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs highlight a growing interest from the Internet’s biggest firms in acquiring engineering and startup talent from India. But Facebook is not the only one.
Twitter has been... |
| - | An App Can’t Save The World | Image Credits
Pick a problem. Validate market. Build a prototype. Validate solution. Build a product. Grow.
It all sounds rather straightforward when written down. Almost as if failures shouldn’t happen. The devil, as in most cases, lies in... |
| - | Banking With The Brightest: The Rising Courtship Between Banks And Startups | Image Credits
“In union, there is strength.” – Aesop
At the launch of its recent offering, SmartUp, Smita Bhagat, Branch Banking Head (North) and Co-head, ecommerce, HDFC Bank, told fledgling startups, “We help you grow your business and as... |
| - | iSPIRT Launches “Policy Hack” Initiative To Demystify Government Initiatives For Startups | Software product think tank iSPIRT has taken a step towards to demystify recent government initiatives for startups through the launch of its “Policy Hack” initiative. Mr. Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Finance, Government of India, la... |
| - | Meet The 20 Startups That Made It To The InTech50 2015’s Fourth & Fifth Batch | InTech50 2015, the flagship event of iSPIRT and Terenne Global has announced the fourth and fifth batch of the final shortlisted startups.
The 10 startups that made it to the fourth batch are :
Accelpro Technology – The startup provides fas... |
| - | Meet The 8 Startups Selected For The Autumn Cohort Of YES FINTECH Accelerator | YES BANK, in partnership with LetsTalkPayments and PricewaterhouseCoopers, has launched the second cohort of its fintech startup accelerator, YES FINTECH.
The 15-week innovation programme will witness eight startups, chosen from over 500 ap... |
| - | How We Are Solving The Innovator’s Dilemma At Innofest | Deadline to apply for iKen is 18th October, Apply Now!
A few years ago I quit my first job armed with only a Patent and a dream to build a high-tech company. I quickly realized in the world of Entrepreneurship and Investors Patents alone ar... |
| - | Indian Startup Hubs: Pune Startup Ecosystem Builders That You Should Know About | As a part of the series Indian Startup Hubs, we have brought to the fore the aspiring and the dark horse startups looking to make it big, ones that have struck top dollar and witnessed mega buck exits.
This time we thought of shedding light... |
| - | Meet The 30 FinTech Startups Shortlisted By HDFC Bank For Digital Innovation Summit | In order to create a platform for encouraging innovation in the FinTech space, HDFC is organising a Digital Innovation Summit on March 3-4, 2016. About 30 Fintech startups have been shortlisted to showcase their ideas from the 105 applicant... |
| - | Indian Startup Hubs: Delhi Ecosystem Builders That You Should Know About
Incubators | After discussing about the Delhi & NCR based growth stage startups and the startups that have crossed their Series B crunch, this time we bring to you the list of people & organisations that are building the startup ecosystem in the... |
| - | Sharad Sharma Apologises For Trolling Aadhaar Critics; Unmasking iSPIRT’s Controversial Trolling Program | Image Credits
Last weekend I was at Aditi Mittal’s standup comedy show in Mumbai where she made a cheeky remark that stayed with me – “Do you guys know what India’s soft power is today? It is trolling!”
While she was poking fun at the Snapc... |
| - | With An Aim To Aid Tech Startups, Yes Bank Launches YES:Head-STARTUP | Yes Bank has launched a banking proposition for tech-enabled startups, called YES:Head-STARTUP.
According to an official statement, the programme will offer startups a customised current account, digital cash management solutions, trade-for... |
| - | YES Bank Invites Applications For Business Accelerator Programme YES FINTECH | YES Bank has announced the launch of a business accelerator programme – YES FINTECH (YFA) for fintech startups. The initiative is in association with T-Hub and Anthill Ventures, with LetsTalkPayments (LTP).
With the YES FINTECH platform, YE... |
| - | Building A Responsive Hardware Innovation Framework At Innofest | Image CreditsWhat are we attempting?
There are many stakeholders working to make Indian innovation a consistent reality. Many of these stakeholders would agree that hardware product innovation is an essential priority. Yet, few agree on the... |
| - | Innovator To Entrepreneur: Journey From Being Tesla To Being Elon Musk | Image Credits: Wikipedia/Bloomberg
History and common lore are full of stories of brilliant minds that did not make too much money. Over the centuries, conditions have improved a lot and we have many successful stories of inventors turned b... |
