Medicines for dogs from Elanco (above) and Bayer (below) are available in an animal shelter on the treatment table of a veterinarian.Frank Rumpenhorst | picture alliance | Getty ImagesCompany: Elanco Animal Health Inc. (ELAN)Business: Elanco is an…
Fintech start-up Payoneer partners with Mastercard ahead of…
PayoneerDigital payments company Payoneer is partnering with Mastercard to offer small businesses a digital payments card.The Payoneer Digital Purchasing Mastercard will allow the company's customers to make global purchases, connect to mobile wallets and digitally…
Walmart poaches Goldman Sachs bankers for a new…
Walmart Inc. has lured a pair of senior Goldman Sachs bankers to help lead a new fintech startup as the retail giant muscles into the banking business. Omer Ismail, the head of Goldman’s consumer bank,…
Iron Pillar leads $5 million funding round in…
Mumbai: Venture growth investor Iron Pillar, which backs global companies that build products out of India, has led a $ 5 million funding round in cloud-based artificial intelligence company Ushur. This is an extension of…
View: FM sets out big ideas to bring…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has offered several positive announcements for the startup ecosystem, like the extension of the capital gains exemption, social security benefits for gig workers and the introduction of oneperson companies, which are…
ETtech Evening Briefing, 29 Jan. 2021: Economic Survey…
Good evening, ETtech reader. In today’s edition, we’re covering what India’s Economic Survey 2020-21 has to say about the country’s startup ecosystem and how the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have made India one of…
Silicon Valley start-up Plaid plans European hiring spree…
Zach Perret, CEO and co-founder of Plaid, speaks during the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Jan. 31, 2020.George Frey | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLONDON — Financial technology start-up Plaid…
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-backed game startup kicks off India’s tech…
By Saritha RaiNazara Technologies Ltd. , the cricket games developer backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, became the first Indian gaming technology company to seek a market debut as mobile entertainment takes off across the world’s…
EdTech startup Kyt raises $5 million led by…
Edtech platform Kyt has raised $ 5 million in a Series A funding round led by Alpha Wave Incubation along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, January Capital, Titan Capital, and other angel investors.…