Budget 2021: What will Sitharaman s budget have for start-ups?
The stakeholders are keenly eyeing the much-anticipated regulatory changes in incentivising the domestic and foreign investments, easing the compliance burden on startups, among other measures, during the Budget 2021
BusinessToday.In | January 27, 2021 | Updated 14:30 IST
Budget 2021: Although the government has given startups priority sector lending status, the sector seeks a regulatory system that focuses on tax parity concerns
Indian startups faced unprecedented challenges and uncertainties in the pandemic year. The major impediment for the sector came in the form of funds drying up, with around 40 per cent of the startups ceasing operations in May 2020, as per a Nasscom report.
This K-12 coding startup enrolled 2.5 lakh students in less than 10 months with affordable courses
Noida-based startup Tinker Coders, which offers affordable programming courses to K-12 students, is riding India’s coding boom and also going global.
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Tinker Coders’ website opens with an Elon Musk quote on how he learnt to code young and went on to sell his “first commercial programme” at 12.
While the use of celebrity techies like Musk and others for marketing
‘coding for kids’ platforms has been widely criticised of late, the Tesla founder now the world’s richest person is an easy bait for parents rushing to make their kids “future-ready” with new-age skills like coding.
Edtech startup TagHive is building interactive classroom solutions to make education accessible to all
South Korea-headquartered edtech startup TagHive offers AI-powered, personalised in-school and at-home learning solutions for students. Their product is being used in 450 schools in Korea, and is in pilots with 50 schools in India.
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Pankaj Agarwal has always believed education is a great leveller.
Hailing from a small town, he didn’t have access to the best schools. But his drive and determination to learn took him to IIT-Kanpur and then Harvard for an MBA. Since then, he has worked with the likes of Samsung Electronics in South Korea.
This coding startup founded by IIT-D grads has enrolled K-12 students from five countries in a year
Bengaluru-based startup Codeyoung is riding the boom in live coding for kids. In just a year, it has held 40,000 classes for K-12 students, and raised funds from US-based Guild Capital.
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coding classes to K-12 students, and is riding a surge in the coding space.
The co-founders zeroed in on this segment because they believed that “
coding is fun and no prerequisites” to learn it.
“It’s not like you have to learn Class 12 chemistry to qualify for coding classes. It’s for everyone, and it helps you in the real world,” Shailendra tells