Bengaluru: Salesken.ai, a start-up that provides artificial intelligence-based tools to improve sales, has raised $8 million in a Series A round from Sequoia India. The round also saw existing investors such as Unitus Venture and Michael and Susan Dell Foundation making a partial exit. Founded in 2019 by Sreeraman Vaidyanathan and Surga Thilakan, Salesken’s proprietary technology uses machine learning and data science tools to learn successful sales tactics and help teams with real-time intelligence to land more deals. The Bengaluru-based company said the new funds would be used for further development…
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This Social Commerce Start-Up Is Creating a New Way To Shop For Bharat !!
Jaipur: The spectacular entry of Reliance Jio and the subsequent disruption in Internet data usage led to the creation of unimaginable possibilities. Millions of people were going to be able to access the Internet for the first time, and most of them were going to be mobile-first as well. About 4 years later, the expected disruption has happened, and while content platforms such as TikTok have probably been the biggest gainers so far, online commerce is not too far behind. There’s the likes of Facebook-backed Meesho and Mumbai-based Shop101, which…
Read MoreThis Indian Start-Up Wants To Bring More Customers To the Digital Payments Landscape !!
Bengaluru: Akash Sinha has always had the proverbial entrepreneurial itch. From trying to build a social network for workplaces to running a portal that would match entrance exam scores with the qualifying institutions during his undergraduation, he has dabbled a fair bit into starting up to know how it works. “It’s always been about looking at the problems in the market and trying to solve them; that’s what you do as an entrepreneur,” he says. Sinha is now the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cashfree, a payments and banking…
Read MoreIndia Needs to Get Over ‘National Security’ Myth, Revamp Remote Sensing Policies !!
In the challenging time of a COVID-19 outbreak, satellite monitoring has been playing a pivotal role in curbing the spread of the infection, mainly by helping identifying risk zones and facilitating quick response. However, there remains a huge potential to use Earth-observation (EO) data to shed new light on societal and economic changes currently taking place. The spate of reforms announced by the Indian government designed to create and nurture private enterprises in the field of space exploration, satellite communications regulations and remote-sensing has not only inspired hope for countless space…
Read MoreWhy India Needs a Different Way to Support Climate Research and Education !!
New Delhi: Climate science has been an accidental tourist at the debate dominating human discourse in the last two decades. Developing countries like India are being forced to strike a fine, but often impossible, balance between pushing aggressively for economic development and mitigating the unavoidable environmental damage that comes with such development (because of, among other reasons, reliance on dirty energy, unmanaged land use and natural resource exploitation). Economic development however also facilitates higher investments in the human and computational resources required to advance weather and climate predictions as well…
Read MoreIIT Guwahati Students Develop Drone to Sanitise Large Areas !!
New Delhi: A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, has developed a drone with an automated sprayer to sanitise large areas including roads, parks, and footpaths. The student group, which has a start-up called “Racerfly”, has approached the Assam and Uttarakhand governments with their sprayer system which they claim can accomplish the task in less than 15 minutes which would otherwise take a person 1.5 days of work. According to Anant Mittal, a Civil engineering student at IIT Guwahati, the sprayer system can be deployed and…
Read MoreAICRA and IASC-SSC will jointly do Assessments of 3.5 Lakhs Industry Workers on Qualification Packs (QP) as per approved NOS !!
New Delhi: AICRA and IASC-SSC, an autonomous body of Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, Government of India agreed to work in collaboration with each other to conduct livelihood program by skilling the unemployed youths and up- skilling the un- organised sector technicians in Industries. The thrust of the agreement is to promote and conduct up-skilling projects for MSME sector on Industry 4.0 outcome-based training Assessment and Certification on Qualification packs (QP) as per approved National Occupational Standards (NOS). Initially 17 QPs will be rolled out under various skill development projects…
Read MoreYoung Scientists Are Among India’s Unsung Heroes !!
Bengaluru: PhD students in India are often ridiculed for their choices, sometimes by their own families and at others by trolls who think of them as ‘parasites’. While the former manifest as casual remarks or snide comments at social gatherings, the latter resort to name-calling on social media. Although research scholars in humanities have been the favourite targets of trolls, those in the sciences have not been exempt. These scholars, however, constitute a majority of the workforce running research and development in the fight against COVID-19. Collectively, their work covers…
Read MoreSpotted in New Gravitational Wave Discovery: A Stranger in the Stellar Graveyard !!
As most of India slept in anticipation of a national holiday and the usual Independence Day celebrations the following morning, three gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy observed one of the strangest signals to date. The twin Advanced LIGO detectors in the US and the Virgo detector in Italy are the most precise measuring devices ever built. They can sense extremely tiny disturbances in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, created when massive bodies like two black holes or neutron stars rapidly spiral in and merge. Since…
Read MoreWhat India Needs to Do to Build a Robust AI Ecosystem in the Country !!
The Government of India approved the Rs 3,660 crore national mission on cyber-physical system technologies: artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), machine learning (ML), deep learning, big data analytics, robotics, quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum encryption, data science and predictive analytics. Earlier the same year, NITI Aayog had published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence discourse paper, which recommended setting up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research, Analytics and knowledge Assimilation (AIRAWAT) platform. Meanwhile, the government had also constituted four committees on AI in four well-considered areas. These committees have…
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