Omnivore – A VC Supporting Rural, Food and Agriculture Ecosystem

Joining hands with Mark Kahn, Jinesh co-founded Omnivore in 2010. Previously, he was Vice President and CFO at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India’s leading venture capital funds. Jinesh has worked in corporate finance roles for Datamatics (leading Treasury/M&A), Patni Computers (initiating the IPO process), and HCL Technologies (founding the BPO business) earlier in his career. He is also a member of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Agriculture & Food Processing Committee. Jinesh is a Chartered Accountant with a B.Com from R A Poddar College and an MMS (Finance)…

Savex Technologies adds airSlate’s signNow to its growing list of Technology Partners

India, November 26, 2020: Savex Technologies Private Limited, the 3rd largest information and communication technology distributor in India, announces it has added airSlate’s e-signature solution, signNow, to its growing list of strategic value-added solutions. The two companies have officially signed a distribution agreement to offer enterprises and service providers in India a best-in-class e-signature solution. signNow is dedicated to empowering organizations to drive productivity, sign and manage digital documents anytime, anywhere, and go paperless. As signNow expands globally, they have identified India as one of its key geographies — announcing…

23rd Edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit 2020 takes off virtually

Inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India- Shri. Narendra Modi “Next is Now” to be the theme of the 23rd edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit Bengaluru, November 19, 2020: The opening ceremony of the 23rd edition of Bengaluru Tech Summit was conducted at a hybrid event in the city today. Organized by the Department of Electronics, IT, Bt and S&T of the Government of Karnataka, the Summit was virtually inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi. With the theme of ‘NEXT IS NOW’, the three…

How to make Early Customers to Fund your Startup?

When beginning a new business, every business face two main problems – selecting the right product people would pay for and how to fund their business. While tough to manage, the best start-up founders have been able to face both the above-mentioned challenges by making their early customers notify them what exactly are their preferences and expectations from them, while simultaneously paying them (the early customers) for getting the business off the ground between consulting and initial versions of the product. Here are some tested tips that can enable your…

Women Entrepreneurship and Its Contribution to the Business Ecosystem

It is more difficult for Indian females with entrepreneurial ambitions to succeed. There has been quite a parallel rise in the number of startups and new businesses that are started by men, as the Indian Economy grows simultaneously over the last decade. India has a total amount of 58.5 million entrepreneurs out of which 8.05 million are women entrepreneurs. This adds about only 14% of women entrepreneurs in the Indian business setting. Road to Entrepreneurship is less Travelled It is often very difficult for many women entrepreneurs to succeed that…

7 Must-have Cybersecurity Layers for Small Businesses

There could be many things more threatening than just email hacking for small businesses. The worst could be someone having unauthorized access to your credit card ordering limitless pizzas, making racist comments from your account, or even making bomb threat calls. There are many lives that have become very unfortunate and have suffered the damages of a cybercrime. It has been proven that there are different cybersecurity layers in existence and if these are hacked, businesses could go bankrupt. Hence, small business managers must know about these layers to protect…

COVID push: Indian small-town retailers going digital with business activity back to normal levels – reveals Ok Credit data

16 out of 36 States and UTs witnessing business activity levels higher than pre-Covid times; Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu & Delhi are trending at 90-95% of their pre-Covid activity levels Businesses in tier 2 and tier 3 cities witnessing faster recovery than tier 1 cities OkCredit witnessed double-digit recovery in business from medical and kirana stores in September 2020 More than 5.5 million small business owners across 2800 cities and nearby rural areas today deal in over 100 types of businesses using OkCredit to track their account receivables…

Survival Story of Prosmit

We had a candid interview with Mr. Amish Shah, Business Chief/ Director of Prosmit. Being an MBA from Gujarat University, he holds more than 15+ years of marketing experience across national & international markets. Amish prefers to describe himself as a Marketeer at Heart, Salesman by Head, and Entrepreneur in Genes. He is a self-learned Digital Marketer who got in-roads into Digital Marketing when Facebook was just born or Youtube was not acquired by Google. After having more than a decade-plus journey in Digital Marketing, he’s today one of the…