By Sarah Stone A Wilson College of Textiles student is one of this year’s winners of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2023. Ritika Shamdasani shares the honor with her older sister, Niki. The two are co-founders of Sani, a South Asian-inspired formal wear and loungewear brand. “One of our goals for Sani has …
Bombay : Veteran angel and venture capitalist Kanwal Rekhi has justified recent layoffs by Indian startups, calling them the need of the hour. In an interview, on the sidelines of a TiE event in Mumbai, Rekhi, Managing Partner, SVQuad and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners, insists that layoffs of employees at startups …
Bombay : Veteran angel and venture capitalist Kanwal Rekhi has justified recent layoffs by Indian startups, calling them the need of the hour. In an interview, on the sidelines of a TiE event in Mumbai, Rekhi, Managing Partner, SVQuad and Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inventus Capital Partners, insists that layoffs of employees at startups …
Small and medium-sized businesses are critical to US supply chains, but they lag behind in productivity and technology adoption. If government and industry could help these smaller supply chain companies upgrade their technology, it would make supply chains much more resilient by enabling data sharing and collaboration. Troy, COO of an overhead crane service company, …
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KC Stock has left its mark on Southwest Florida, not just as a builder and developer, but as a man of principle and kindness. Stock, 84, founder of Naples-based Stock Development, died on November 28. He is remembered as a true entrepreneur and a strong but gentle man who loved business and life. Voted “least …
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Hello. It’s Tuesday. Technology is booming in Brooklyn. We’ll be looking at two big cash injections for entrepreneurs and technology there. We will also meet a prosecutor who has previously faced Donald Trump and is joining the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Brooklyn, which has outpaced the rest of the city in creating tech jobs and …
Hello. It’s Tuesday. Technology is booming in Brooklyn. We’ll be looking at two big cash injections for entrepreneurs and technology there. We will also meet a prosecutor who has previously faced Donald Trump and is joining the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Brooklyn, which has outpaced the rest of the city in creating tech jobs and …
Managing partners of Pier 70 Ventures, clockwise from top left: R. Miller Adams, Robert (Bob) Balk, Shaun Hawkins and Preetha Ram. (Photos from Pier 70 Ventures) A new healthcare-focused venture capital firm, Pier 70 Ventures, is growing on Seattle’s waterfront. Its managing partners have deep expertise in fostering startups and focus on funding diverse teams …
Accelerators are one of the first steps in the journey of many startups. There are now hundreds of these cohort-based programs — which typically offer mentorship and support over a few weeks or months, plus potentially a cash injection — around the world. Without doubt the most famous accelerator in the world, the American Y …
Indian startups raised $1.27 billion in funding in November – the highest in a month since June, when a funding slowdown became palpable and began to hit India’s funding market. The rise in funding last month was primarily driven by early and growth-stage funding rounds that crossed the $1 billion mark in revenue after more …
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