Google has announced the roll out of Railwire Wi-Fi at Udhagamandalam [Ooty] bringing in high-speed Internet to 100 of the busiest railway stations across India. Over 10 million people who pass through these stations every day now have an access to fast Internet speed to stream [or offline] an HD video, research their destination or download a new book or game for the journey ahead. With over 5 million monthly users, the Google Railtel Wifi is helping millions of Indians discover the benefits of Internet with 15000 first time users connecting to the network everyday.

Excited about the roll-out of high-speed Railwire Wi-Fi at the 100th station in India, Gulzar Azad, Country Head – Connectivity, Google India said

We are really excited about reaching this milestone and it is an incredible feeling to look back and see how far we’ve come since we announced that we were partnering with Indian Railways and RailTel to provide Wi-Fi at 400 railway stations throughout the country. But what has really inspired us are the stories of how people are using this high-speed access to the full and open Internet. They’re using Railwire Wi-Fi to be more productive with their time and to get things done more efficiently.

The high-speed, quality Wi-Fi also enables the travellers to connect with their loved ones more regularly especially with video calling apps. Google is committed to launch high-speed Wifi across 400 stations in India in partnership with Railtel. Launched in January this year, Google will continue to deploy the high speed Wi-Fi in the next 300 stations. In addition to this, Google has also introduced Google Station, which gives partners an easy set of tools to roll-out Wi-Fi hotspots in public places.

Innoplexus, a Germany and India based DaaS [Data as a Service] startup has announced the closing of their Pre-Series A funding from HCS, a Germany-based Venture Capital Fund. With the capital raised, Innoplexus plans to file more patent applications, further develop their trademark platform, iPlexus, and invest in marketing.

Innoplexus helps Life Sciences companies generate actionable insights across pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory and commercial stages of a drug. It’s unique Data as a Service [DaaS] engine with real-time data and insights along with an ecosystem of Continuous Analytics as a Service [CAaaS] applications help enterprises make better data-driven decisions.

Hans-Christian Semmler, managing shareholder of HCS, will join as Chairman of the supervisory board of Innoplexus. He started his career in investment banking eventually serving as the CFO of VosslohAG and then as the CEO of Haupt Pharma AG.

Speaking on the recent development Dr. Gunjan Bhardwaj, Co-Founder & CEO of Innoplexus said

We envision to fundamentally transform the Data as a Service landscape for Life Sciences by leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to generate insights from the public as well as enterprise data.

Gaurav Tripathi, Co-Founder and India CEO, further added saying

We are working in cutting edge technology areas of Information Retrieval, Network Analysis, Computer Vision and Ontologies and are one of the rare startups with a strong focus on creating proprietary Intellectual Property.

Within their investment strategy, HCS Beteiligungsgesellschaft GmbH strongly focuses on organisations that are distinguished by their technological expertise and their market potential. Innoplexus clients are Fortune 500 companies including some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. The startup employs more than 100 highly qualified data Science and software development experts in India and Germany.

About Innoplexus

Innoplexus is a consulting-led technology and product development company focused on big data and analytics. Headquartered in Germany, with over 100 employees working from Pune, Innoplexus services large global pharma & life sciences companies, many of them Fortune 500 companies. They help companies move to continuous decision making by generating insights from structured and unstructured private and public data. Established as a bootstrapped startup in 2011 with no external investments or funding and with a vision to be the dominant player in data and analytics for Life Sciences, Innoplexus has been profitable from day one. For more information, please visit Innoplexus

Mobile and Internet have become important inseparable companions of our lives. Food, taxi, finance products,etc. are now accessible at the click of a button, thanks to the rising internet penetration and affordability of smartphones. However, apps that each one of us would wish to stay away from are the On-Demand health apps since you would never want that you or any our loved one’s have to visit a doctor 🙂 However, no matter how much we take preventive actions, somethings cannot be avoided especially diseases spread by the mosquito mayhem!

Mosquito bites can result in serious infections coupled with diseases like malaria, dengue, chikungunya,etc. hence, it is very important to keep yourself as well as kids are protected from them. This is the primary reason why there are mosquito repellent solutions and hence mosquito repellent companies have come up with tailor-made mosquito repellent for babies.

As per this report, 85% Indians are aware that Dengue can be life threatening. 90% Indians are unaware that the mosquitoes that bite primarily during the day cause Dengue. Only 8% Indians use repellents during the daytime when the Dengue mosquitoes are the most active. Armed with this insight, Good knight has embarked on a journey to raise awareness of the Dengue mosquitoes prevalent during the daytime which will help the people to take necessary precautions in the day time as well thus, protecting themselves and their families from Dengue.

When it comes to medicines, we never experiment since it is a very serious matter and this is where brand trust & brand recall plays a crucial role. Good Knight is the undisputed champion in providing best electronic mosquito repellents in the indoor & outdoor mosquito repellent segment. Since e-commerce has become an important enabler in life, customers can now buy safe mosquito repellent online. Lets have a look at some of the game changing products from Good Knight catering to various customer segments particularly the kids!

Good Knight Fabric Roll-on – 100% Natural Mosquito Repellent

Parents want their kids to be free from germs since they are the source of any kind of infections. Good Knight has a child-safe outdoor mosquito repellent that is 100% natural and gives a protection of upto 8 Hours. You need to just apply 4 dots on clothes to ensure that your loving kids are protected from mosquito bites. Good knight Fabric Roll-on consists of pure citronella and eucalyptus oil for mosquitoes which makes them child safe.

Good Knight Fabric Roll-on – 100% Natural Mosquito Repellent

Parents want their kids to be free from germs since they are the source of any kind of infections. Good Knight has a child-safe outdoor mosquito repellent that is 100% natural and gives a protection of upto 8 Hours. You need to just apply 4 dots on clothes to ensure that your loving kids are protected from mosquito bites. Good knight Fabric Roll-on consists of pure citronella and eucalyptus oil for mosquitoes which makes them child safe.

Good Knight Patches for Babies – Baby Safe Mosquito Repellent

In order to protect your little-ones, Good Knight has come up with baby safe mosquito repellent also known as Patches. The patches are 100% natural since they are made up of 100% natural oils. The patches provide 8 hours of protection from all kinds of mosquitoes including those that spread dreadful diseases like dengue, malaria & chikungunya. The patches are child-safe and can be stuck on prams, strollers and other places.

So, what are you waiting for ? Protect your child from the mosquito menace by using innovative child-safe products from Good Knight so that your kids enjoy a Good Night Sleep 🙂

Starting today, Google will make information about thousands of public toilets in India’s National Capital Region and Madhya Pradesh available on Google Maps. Working closely with the Ministry of Urban Development, Google is adding the location, address and opening hours of over four thousand communal and public restrooms to Maps, aiming to provide easy access to information to people in India and help improve sanitation.

With over four thousand listings covering Delhi NCR including Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad, Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh-Indians and visitors alike will now be able to easily find the nearest public toilet on Google Maps-both on the mobile app as well as on desktop. This service will be accessible to users both in English and Hindi language.

Sanket Gupta, Product Manager, Google Maps, said

When you search for “public toilet” on Google Maps in an area where the service is available, you will see a list of restrooms near you, including the respective address and opening hours. For instance, if you are traveling on the national highway 8 in Gurugram, locating a public toilet can be challenging and most often the only option is going to nearby restaurants and cafes. Having this information handy can make things much easier.

Improving sanitation is an important cornerstone of the government’s Swachh Bharat campaign for a clean India. This includes making information about existing sanitation facilities easily accessible to people. The Ministry of Urban Development plans to continue to provide information about public restrooms for more cities.

Google is beginning to roll out these new local listings on Google Maps today, and they will be available to users both on desktop and Google Maps for Mobile [Android and iOS].

Following the digital India dream of Government of India, BSNL has offered free E-Mail Address service in 8 Indian Languages to its broadband users by launching a DataMail service. Now BSNL broadband users will be able to open an email ID in DataMail service in their own language.

Anupam Shrivastav, Managing Director, BSNL said

Providing the linguistic email address is one of its kind initiative in the world to achieve our Prime Ministers Vision of Digital India. It’s now possible in every part of India to have an email address in their own language and communicate in preferred language.

Few months back, Government of India had launched Dot Bharat domain in Indian languages to increase the reach of internet users by providing domain names in their own language so as to cover over 70% of the country’s population living in the rural and remote areas. BSNL is also known for its network in the rural and remote India especially in 2G and 3G data. Launching free linguistic Email address service for its millions of customers is another strong step on fulfilling the dream of digital India taken by the Govt. of India Enterprise, BSNL.

Dr. Ajay Data, Founder & CEO of Data XGen said

Our fully ‘Made in India’ software product enabling DataMail service is a revolution in the world as many countries are waiting to inject the linguistic email address to empower the non-English speakers of the world. We are happy to contribute to the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s Digital India dream by partnering with BSNL, country’s strongest network telecom company having rural and remote connect.

As per Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicators Report (April-June, 2016) released by TRAI, total internet subscribers in India is about 350.48 million which is just about 30 percent of the country’s population. So, about 70 percent of population is not having access to the internet and most of these belong to rural India.

On the other side, Indian languages account for less than 0.1 per cent content on world wide web. Also, over 89 per cent population is non-English speaking and unable to read and communicate via email as the language utilized to communicate is English.

The most spoken languages in India in 2016, according to our analysis based on secondary data, are approximately Hindi [544.39 million], Bengali [107.60 million], Telugu [95.40 million], Marathi [92.74 million], Tamil [78.41 million], Urdu [66.47 million], Gujarati [59.44 million], Kannada [48.96 million], Punjabi [37.55 million], Assamese [16.98 million]. The total of population using these key languages comes about 1147.95 million that is a larger share of current population in India.

Steps to use this Service

  1. BSNL broadband customers can use DataMail app which is free to be downloaded from any Android or iOS system through their respective play store.
  2. User will have to select the language in which they want his/her email address.
  3. Insert the mobile number
  4. Select the checkbox ‘I am a BSNL broadband Customer’
  5. Insert BSNL broadband number with STD code
  6. You will receive an OTP on your registered mobile number
  7. Type the desired Email address in your own language
  8. Start using and share with your friends!

What is DataMail

DataMail is Made in India – World’s first email service supporting Internationalized email  supporting email IDs in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi, Telegu, Bengali, Marathi.

The services are FREE for everyone through the simple Mobile app download on iOS and Android phone and anyone can go on their play store and download DATAMAIL and gets their first email address in their preferred language.

About Data XGen Technologies

Data XGen Technologies is one of the largest Complete Enterprise Solution company catering to the needs of unified communication. Having 13 years of experience, the organisation was initiated as an Email Management solution company which provides Email platforms for its users. The vision of Data XGen Technologies is to continue to innovate and be a global leader in the email market-place by being a premium next-generation email platform and to serve the entire spectrum of organizations – from small businesses, to enterprise, to multi-million user data centers – on the same scalable, secure and affordable platform. For more information, please visit Data XGen

 

ah! Ventures, one of the key players in the Indian start-up space, is taking a big stride forward in the Indian alternative investment universe by playing a key supporting partner role to India’s largest gathering of alternative investment professionals, limited partners, alternative investment funds and private wealth professionals at the upcoming fourth Annual Alternative Investments Summit India (AISI2017), scheduled in Mumbai on January 18th.

AISI2017 is being organized by the Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) and Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF). IAAIF is the newly formed representative and advocacy body for the Indian Alternative Investment Funds.

The summit, the most prestigious event in the domain of alternative investments, celebrates the immense growth of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). A landmark in this field of investment was achieved when the net worth of the total commitments of AIFs reached INR 50,441 crores on June 30, 2016. Imminent speakers will discuss vital opinions and build business models and open scope for forging business ties.

Promise of a Dynamic Flow of Events

Akin to the success of the preceding summits in the years 2013 to 2015, this summit promises to bring more to the table. The CEO of the Association of International Wealth Management of India, Aditya Gadge has said

India has seen a spectacular growth in the alternative investment market. Numerous HNI Investors have been putting money into Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) for the past 3 years. Starting from global expertise to a perfect platform for brainstorming innovative investment ideas, the summit promises to bring a lot to the table. This is the first year ah! Ventures is participating in this Summit and as one of the major stakeholders in the Indian alternative investment space is expected to add a lot of value to the content and proceedings. CLUB ah! comprises over 200 potential investors with investment power ranging from US$ 100,000 to USD 1 million each.

Benchmark Success for Alternate Investments

On a global scale, enormous scope is present for the increment of assets. By 2020, a spectacular increase from USD 10 trillion to USD 18.1 trillion has been estimated. 235 AIFs already boast of SEBI accreditation and is being endorsed by over 20 distinguished financial institutions. Although competition in this arena is expected to get tougher, there are plentiful opportunities for new market leaders.

80% of CLUB ah! members are the next-generation professionals open to innovations and new investment challenges.

Harshad Lahoti, Founder & CEO of ah! Ventures commented

There are a uncountable number of young professionals looking to establish successful entrepreneurship, and the alternate investment platform will help them more than they can imagine. Clients seeking a network of investors need not look any further.

The Royal Platter of Keynote Speakers

The summit will be opened with a few words by Aditya Gadge. He said

I encourage all those interested in any form of investment or trading to participate. This boom cannot be grasped without understanding the finance behind it.

Some of the keynote speakers among many, who will grace the event are Hemant G Contractor, Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority (PFRDA); Srinivas Jain, Executive Director and Chairman of SBI Funds Management; Sarath K. Reddy, Managing Director and CIO of Unifi Capital and Nalin Moniz, Founder and Director of Forefront Capital (Edelweiss Group). ah! Ventures hopes to revolutionize the domain of alternative funding with the support of imminent financial institutions.

Various aspects of alternative investments, including a detailed comparison with traditional investment schemes, will be elaborated. Categories 1, 2 and 3 AIFs will be discussed by figures of authority affiliated to renowned investment planning firms such as Unifi Capital, IIFL Asset Management, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Premji Invest, ICICI Prudential, IFMR Capital, etc.

Abhijeet Kumar, co-founder of ah! Ventures, says

To be a part of such an educative event increases the success rate of any form of investment, not just the alternate ones. We are excited to be partnering such an event.

Delegate registrations are now open on Alternate Investment Summit

About ah! Ventures

ah! Ventures brings the power of funding an idea within reachable limits. Renowned as one of the best private equity clubs, CLUB ah! has been the hand behind many successful global investments. CLUB ah! has provided detailed analysis on consumption and investing models in the Private Equity space. In association with ah! Ventures, one can hope to be a part of the best ideas and create an enviable investment portfolio. For more information, please visit 

Mumbai-based entrepreneur & founder of SutraHR, Waqar Azmi, recently launched MumbaiCoworking in Andheri West, Mumbai. This marks the formal start of SutraHR in the business of co-working in India. ‘MumbaiCoworking’ has currently established 60 work seats in the office. The company also announced that it would be expanding its business very soon.

It’s a known fact that finding a cheap place to rent out an office or a house in Mumbai is not easy, especially for budding startups. Imagine, operating from coffee shops or cafes in the city, which itself would not be an affordable affair. This has apparently increased the demand for co-working spaces in the city. Waqar Azmi understood this need, as he himself runs a startup called SutraHR. The company majorly targets startups, SMEs, freelancers, independent consultants, etc.

Snippets of MumbaiCoworking

MumbaiCoworking is location friendly, based in Andheri, in the heart of Western suburbs. It is just 2 minutes away from the nearest bus stop, 10 minutes from D.N Nagar metro station and 12 minutes from the nearest railway station. The company aims to establish its presence as a leading provider of shared office spaces in Mumbai.

Waqar Azmi, owner of MumbaiCoworking said

SutraHR started out of a garage like office with limited office amenities. We ended up spending more than usual for setting up meetings in cafes, low quality internet service and running around for menial things. We therefore will offer every basic thing that is needed for our coworkers. All they need is to just step in a quirky office and we will take care of the rest.

‘MumbaiCoworking’ offers its clients daily cleaning services, high-speed internet, unlimited access to snacks and beverages, a quirky and colourful office, and other amenities.

The rental cost ranges from Rs. 500 a day to 7,000 a month. Their budget friendly prices start as low as Rs. 5,000 for a floating seat and go up to Rs. 7,000 for a fixed seat inclusive of access to meeting rooms. Members can also avail discounts when they book bulk seats or take up the entire 8/14/16 seater rooms. ‘MumbaiCoworking’ also offers meeting/conference rooms separately on a half and full day basis for Rs. 3,500 and Rs. 5,000 respectively. You can also get a daily pass at just Rs. 500.

It is also well suited for the digital nomads or travelers who are in the city for business meetings or people from other cities who are in the initial stage of setting up an office in Mumbai.

About MumbaiCoworking

MumbaiCoworking is a shared office space located in the western suburbs of Mumbai. The office offers a quirky rental space for startups, SMEs and anyone looking at an affordable space.It is conveniently located 2 minutes from the nearest bus stop and is at close proximity from the metro and railway station. The company aims to establish its presence as the leading provider of shared office spaces in Mumbai. For more information, please visit MumbaiCoworking

DigitalOcean, a cloud platform focused on simplifying the complexities of infrastructure for software developers and businesses and Hasura, a technology platform that helps developers build apps faster are collaborating with IITM Shaastra 2017 to find and foster the next generation of great Indian start-ups.

At the Shaastra Launchfest Hackathon, 20 student teams will get 48 hours to hack out the MVP of their dream startup and demo it to VCs, tech CEOs and CTOs. Hasura and DigitalOcean will offer the participating teams a giant leap into launching their startup through cash prizes, free credits, technical mentorship, and help in gaining the network and exposure that can aid these projects. Chosen teams will also be provided the unique opportunity to be Hasura Summer Fellows, getting a chance to work in the Hasura office in Bengaluru with engineers helping them architect their apps.

Speaking about the Hackathon, Prabhakar Jayakumar, Country Manager, DigitalOcean said

India will soon have the largest number of software developers in the world and student entrepreneurs are likely to play a key role in building next generation technology businesses. We are glad to support initiatives like these that help identify budding student entrepreneurs.

College life represents an enormous opportunity. It is a time when potential entrepreneurs have time, access to resources (labs, equipment, books) and exposure to students pursuing a diverse variety of degrees. However, this potential is frequently left untapped. While the ecosystem around student startups is starting to develop in India, with most of the premier institutes boasting of entrepreneurship cells and incubators, there is still much to be done.

Rajoshi Ghosh, Co-founder of Hasura – a technology platform that helps developers build apps faster said

The need to address this gap is what motivated Hasura and DigitalOcean to lend a helping hand by setting up a platform that can support enterprising students.

Registrations for the event are now open at shaastra.org, and teams have until the 24th of December to submit their ideas. The event is scheduled for the 1st and 2nd of January at the IIT Madras campus.