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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
India’s leading angel investment platforms are going all out to lure people from smaller cities to startup investing, despite the attendant risks and regulatory issues involved.
In the advertisement, the trophy label reads “1000% returns”. And the trophy itself appears in almost every frame. Now, when was the last time any investment gave you 1,000% returns?
The ad is a 30-second tale of a made-up, brilliant founder and her online learning startup. In just two years since its inception, the startup has successfully listed on the public markets and yielded multifold returns for its investors. And so can you, dear viewer. That is if you invest through the angel investing platform Inflection Point Ventures. The investors in the ad are also not the C-suite men you’d …
India is ramping up focus on defence drones, and the decade-old startup wants public money to seize the opportunity. But the track record of listed peers offers a cautionary tale.
The nearly two-decade-old investment platform will not make any angel or pre-seed investments anymore. Its closure tells the larger story of the state of angel investing in India.
Accusations are flying between a co-founder of innerwear brand Almo and its top investor over possible corporate governance lapses and a conflict of interest, even as the startup struggles to survive.
