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Read more about Cuemath eyes 30 new markets in FY22; another funding round likely this year on Business Standard. Online math learning platform Cuemath looks to venture in 30 new markets, and is keen to go for another, bigger round of funding later this year to support its expansion according to its founder.

Fintech lender Aye Finance appoints Mayank Thatte as CFO SECTIONS Share Synopsis Mayank Thatte’s last assignment was as CFO at Electronica Finance, and he has over 19 years of experience working with leading organisations in the BFSI space - Tata Motors Finance, Tata Capital, ICICI Bank, among others. Agencies Aye Finance - a fintech lender servicing the credit needs of the micro-enterprise segment has brought on board Mayank Thatte as its chief financial officer. Thatte’s last assignmen...

Dcode Capital/Accel Partners Cybersecurity investing hit an all-time high in 2020 with over $7.8 billion of checks written. Investors are focusing on angel, seed, and early-stage rounds, aiming to get in on the ground floor. Insider asked five plugged-in investors about key trends and their top startups in the sector.  The cybersecurity market is booming like few other sectors of investing. Venture capitalists poured more than $7.8 billion into the cybersecurity i...

How Duolingo became fluent in monetization Duolingo EC-1 Part 3: Monetization As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed. Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. For years in order to work at Duolingo, you had to be comfortable with joining a company in Pittsburgh that was in no rush to make money. The...

With a growing portfolio of investments in emerging tech companies, Alphabet is benefiting from rising start-up valuations and a solid market for IPOs.

Amazon would be opening its first African office in South Africa with a real estate investment of over R4 billion.

Databricks, Snowflake. Snowflake and Databricks will increasingly battle for dominance of big data, analysts say. The two Silicon Valley companies take different approaches to both data and business strategy.  Snowflake has a frenemy relationship with Amazon Web Services, while Databricks builds careful alliances.  Snowflake and Databricks, two brawny young companies with very different approaches, are quickly defining the booming industry of big data – and ana...

Here comes another hot enterprise-stock offering. UiPath on Thursday disclosed that it has filed confidentially with the SEC for an initial public offering. That is all the company said, but the disclosure confirms speculation that the red-hot enterprise software company was getting close to reaching the public markets. UiPath is in a fast-growing sector called Robotic Process Automation, using artificial intelligence techniques to automate complex business processes. The company says on its we...