Author: Gairika Mitra

Is Bootstrapping A Good Idea? Industry experts say that the Indian startup landscape has been growing tremendously in the past few years. Our country has been positioned the 3rd largest startup community after US and China. What is really overwhelming is the fact that creative and motivating people over the days have come up with unique ideas towards their journey of entrepreneurship. However, one of the most important things that startups consider is funding. We did already try acquainting you with some of the easiest hacks to secure funding, but a more important point is to gain clarity on whether…

Paytm Steals The Show Yet Again! According to digital payments major Paytm, they have registered over 70 crore transactions in June 2019. This was more than the total transactions done by all UPI based payment applications like that of Amazon Pay, Google Pay, Whatsapp Pay and PhonePe. Paytm says that the increased number of transactions are due to the flexibility it has offered to its large customer base to select their preferred payment methods like wallet, UPI, cards and net banking as compared to other players that are focussed on cash back peer to peer (P2P) transactions for growth. Talking…

Fintech Startup Fetches Funding From SAIF Partners CashFlo, India’s first integrated, multi-funder marketplace has raised $3.3 Mn in series A funding from SAIF Partners, and select angel investors that include Ashish Iyer (previously Sr. Partner at BCG) and Arpan Sheth (Partner at Bain & Co Managing Director, Bain & Co. ) among others. Targeting a $100+ billion untapped category in SME lending market that’s currently operating in a highly-traditional manner, Cashflo is on a mission to solve one of the biggest pain points of businesses in India and globally – that of access to affordable credit. Currently present in the top 7 metro cities in India, Cashflo…

Seed Funding: When Do You Need It? A lot of times, startups are in a fix as to whether or not they should raise funding, and if so, what kind of funding should they be opting for? In this section, we want to acquaint our readers with the pros and cons of seed funding. But first, let’s try to understand why is seed funding so very important. Importance of Seed Funding Well, seed funding is the early-stage investment that is required by a startup to get off the ground and gain some traction. This is considered a very important stage…

Talking of investments, a lot of us have varied opinions. While some might be in favour of mutual funds, there are others who rely more on ‘Fixed’ and ‘Recurring’ deposits. But, a major part of our financial plans are comprised by cryptocurrencies or discussions encircling around them. Over the days, people have expressed a lot of interest in the same. But do we actually know what cryptocurrency is? WHAT EXACTLY IS CRYPTOCURRENCY? As per the web and Wikipedia, cryptocurrency is a ‘digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial transactions, control…