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International Bestselling Author and Celebrity Success Coach Nidhika Bahl, and Serial Entrepreneur Savneet Kaur Bhasin are all set to launch the Second Edition of ‘Thought Leaders Summit & Awards’ popularly known as ‘TLSA’ on 9th February 2020. This is a platform that is meant to bring together Experts, Stakeholders, Influencers, Innovators, Visionaries and Thought Leaders from the fields of Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Sales, Coaching, Training, Health & Wellness, Healing and Facilitation; and engage them in meaningful discussion on issues and challenges faced by the common man. As we look forward to…

Business Models for Media Companies Are you an aspiring tech entrepreneur who wants to understand the business model of digital media companies? Are you running a media business but want to know more ways to generate revenue? Do you want to know how do these media companies make money? Well, if these questions piques your interest then you have come to the right place. We try to get these complex questions answered in this detailed article here.   Let’s have a look! There are 6 main types of business models to generate revenue…

          Let’s read who got funded in September 2019: Cars24: Cars24 has raised $52 million as part of Series D round. Dubai-based cargo company KCK FZE has invested around $25 million and Kingsway FCI invested $10 million in the Series D round. CashFlo: Multi funder marketplace provider CashFlo has raised a Series A funding round worth $3.3 million which was led by SAIF Partners. NEWJ: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through its subsidiary Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited (RIIHL), has invested $0.7 million in New Emerging World of…

Rivigo – a Gurugram-based logistics startup has joined the unicorn club with its latest round of funding. The company raised  $65 million from existing investors Warburg Pincus and SAIF Partners. It has raised a total of  $180 million to date.    Rivigo co-founder Gazal Kalra says, “Becoming a unicorn was never the objective. We want to make the truck driving profession humane. We were not obsessed with valuation; our single most focus is sending the truck driver back home the same day. If that metric works, it means the driver is happy,…

Highest Earning Rappers (2019) Jay-Z  Shawn Corey Carter, stage name is Jay-Z, an American rapper, songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, and record executive who is being considered among the best rappers of all time till date, he is regarded as one of the world’s most significant cultural and music icons and has been a global personality in popular culture for over two decades. Jay-Z began his musical career after founding the record label Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995, and subsequently released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in 1996. He was born on 4 December 1969 at…

Scrub Daddy is one of the most successful products (Pitch) from Shark Tank. It is a cleaning tools company which is best known for a sponge that it manufactures in the shape of a smiley face called ‘scrub daddy’. The USP of the product is that it is made of a polymer which changes texture – soft in hot water, hard in cold water. As of 2019, Scrub Daddy had the highest revenue of any product successfully pitched on the ABC reality show Shark Tank.    About the Founder, Its…

The Mumbai based company Linkus Infratech will have ex-servicemen monitor emergencies on its app.  Bhonga, a hyper-local connectivity app which connects users within a kilometre of radius; has now employed ex-servicemen to take care of emergencies on its platform. It is like on the fly connectivity where citizens can get help in case of emergency and can share resources and information. Any user can send a message that is delivered to other users within the one-kilometre radius; the app only shares location coordinates for security and anonymity reasons. It also…

Paytm Mall gets $160M from eBay, now valued at $2.9B  As part of this deal, eBay’s global inventory is being made available to over 130 million active users on Paytm Mall and Paytm’s app ecosystem.  Paytm Mall has secured $160 million from the US-based online marketplace eBay, according to data sourced from the Registrar of Companies.    Earlier this month, eBay had announced that it has picked up 5.5% stake in the Noida-based firm but had not disclosed the investment amount. At the time, sources close to the transaction had…

Propelld raises Rs 15 crore from Stellaris Venture Partners and India Quotient  Propelld is a lending platform that offers loans to students pursuing vocational training in areas ranging from machine learning to hospitality management  Propelld, a fintech startup that enables students to get education loans, has raised Rs 15 crore from Stellaris Venture Partners and India Quotient. Existing investor India Angel Network also participated in the funding round.    Other investors including Raghunandan G, the founder of TaxiForSure, and Ramakant Sharma, the founder of Livspace, participated as part of the…