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Turning hobby into business: How this entrepreneur created India’s first cider brand

Opportunity India Desk Jul 30, 2021 - 7 min read

It all began in 2014 in Somerville, Massachusetts when Siddharth Sheth was living alone and was in need of a hobby, he found a calling with everything, food and drink. “I spent the weekends frequenting bars and taprooms in and around Boston, Cambridge & Somerville. As luck would have it, I started trying the ciders ...

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Media Processing Company Gumlet Raises $1.6 Mn Funding From Sequoia Capital India's Surge

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 2 min read

Gumlet, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup providing new-age media delivery infrastructure to automate the media publishing pipeline, on Tuesday announced $1.6 million in funding by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. Angel investors Aakrit Vaish, Miten Sampat, Swapan Rajdev, and Yash Kothari also participated in this round. Gumlet helps developers across the globe automatically resize and optimize ...

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MyGlamm Closes INR 530 Cr In Series C Funding

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 3 min read

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) beauty brand MyGlamm informed on Tuesday to have closed its Series C funding round at INR 530 crore, with a top-up of INR 355 crore to the existing INR 175 crore it had closed in March of this year. The INR 355 crore top-up has been led by marquee ...

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Chain vs Independent restaurants: who are in dire need of Govt intervention?

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 4 min read

Toward the beginning of the pandemic, restaurant owners, workers, and diners feared the worst; a permanent loss of their livelihoods and the very institution of ‘restaurant’ was filled with dilemmas. What has transpired since has indeed been a disaster. According to the industry experts, ...

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Scopes and Future of 3D Printing In India

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 5 min read

An impression taken on any surface is called printing. In older times, people used a stamp to create impressions and frames to print things on any surface. As time changed we started using a computer to create images and print them. One bad thing about printing is we cannot touch or feel the file printed. ...

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Immensitas Raises INR 6.30 Cr In Pre-Series A Round Led By Artha Venture Fund

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 2 min read

Immensitas Pvt. Ltd informed on Tuesday that it has raised INR 6.30 crore in Pre-Series A round led by Artha Venture Fund (AVF), India's first early-stage micro-VC fund. The round also saw participation from Ramakant Sharma’s LogX Ventures. The funds will be utilised by Immensitas’ offering Lemnisk, an enterprise customer ...

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Creator-led Merchandise Platform ReDesyn Raises $300,000 In Pre-Series A Led By Anthill Ventures

Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2021 - 3 min read

Mumbai-based creator-led merchandise platform, ReDesyn, announced on Tuesday to have raised $300,000 in a pre-Series A round from Anthill Ventures. Siliconroad VC, Letsventure, Paipal ventures, FAAD network, along with other angel investors also participated in the fundraising. ReDesyn is building a merchandise just-in-time platform for influencers, designers, creators, and brands ...

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Why Franchise Is the Best Option for Success Right Now

Opportunity India Desk Jul 28, 2021 - 4 min read

Everyone is a part of rat-race now. People are just doing what they think will give them success. Do you also think about your future and end with an idea of business; or you just think of doing something new and get success in no time. Unfortunately, miracles do not happen in real world. In ...

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How will Mentoring Develop You into a Better Entrepreneur?

Opportunity India Desk Jul 28, 2021 - 4 min read

Mentors can help identify ways to grow your business and probably help you avoid common pitfalls. Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of skipping this step because they think they already know everything they need to know. The truth is that only a few people are born with the right brains and personalities to be successful ...

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What’s happening with the food truck industry

Opportunity India Desk Jul 28, 2021 - 6 min read

A decade ago, when it comes to eating outside food, there was either the fine dining restaurant or the street side food which meant that either one goes for an expensive meal or get satisfied with the cheap. The growth of the food truck business phenomenon in India is a derivative of ...

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