Telemedicine startup Viveo Health has raised €2 million to provide medical help via video bridge, and act as a form of ‘social distancing’.

In summary, the service will help control the spread of the coronavirus in the waiting rooms of healthcare institutions.

Viveo Health, founded in 2018, began to reduce obstacles on the way to a quick diagnosis and services.

In this round, a major shareholder in Tallink, Ain Hanschmidt, and a major shareholder of Graanul Invest, Anders Anderson, also joined Viveo Health.

Viveo Health combines its telemedicine service with insurance by the company, with very experienced management. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584435606.471774/Tallinn-based-healthtech-Viveo-raises-€2-million-to-help-with-Coronavirus-‘social-distancing’?ref=audio_experience

Welcome to a new episode of NextBigWhat Radio!

In this episode, you will hear Pallav Nadhani, founder of FusionCharts, one of India’s longest running SaaS platforms.

and counts some of the top companies in the world, such as Facebook, Apple and Microsoft amongs its clientele.

Don’t miss this if you want to know how a tiny charting startup scaled into one of the top visualization solutions providers in the world!

Get NextBigWhat Podcast: We bring you actionable perspectives. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584433806.9222429/Defying-Startup-Gyan:-Pallav-Nadhani-On-Fusioncharts-Journey?ref=audio_experience

Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, is officially launching business bank accounts today, after an extensive trial period over the last 12 months that saw early access given to 2,500 business customers.

Perhaps surprisingly, right out of the gate Monzo is offering two versions of its business bank account — which is aimed at sold traders and SMEs — a free account and a premium paid-for account, confirming our scoop from last week.

The free Monzo business account is called “Business Lite” and has a feature-set similar to Monzo’s consumer account, in addition to providing web access not just mobile app-based banking.

The paid business account is called “Business Pro” and costs £5 per month.

[It’s a feature] people have really, really loved from our feedback and surveys”. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584432007.6667514/Monzo-launches-free-and-paid-for-business-bank-accounts-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

In terms of travel within the company, however, things are very much not normal.

Running a business travel startup in a time when business travel is shutting down would be enough to send most founders into a terminal meltdown.

Mobile World Conference was cancelled last night due to coronavirus causing travel fears, but Barcelona's startup ecosystem won’t take no for an answer.

Invest in productA travel company CEO telling business leaders in major territories to avoid travel is a sign of exceptional times, and TravelPerk is now trying to act fast to improve its service appropriately.

With Barcelona, where the company’s HQ is based, on enforced lockdown for the next two weeks, Meir worries about how employees might adapt. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584430307.536656/Corona-files:-TravelPerk-advises-against-travel?ref=audio_experience

Corporate India is expecting a 0.5 percent hit on economic growth in FY2020-21 if the coronavirus pandemic lasts longer, pushing up fiscal deficit and creating more bad loans for the bank, says an industry survey.

Care Ratings conducted a survey on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy among over 150 CEOs, CFOs, investors, analysts, and other stakeholders from manufacturing, financial services, infra, realty and services between March 5 and 12.

According to the survey, the economic impact will be significant and long term if the virus continues for longer.

They also fear a widening of the fiscal deficit if the government announces fiscal measures to support the economy, with 70 percent expecting widening of the fiscal deficit to the tune of 0.25 percent in FY21.

While the hospitality, tourism and aviation will be hit hard, pharma and healthcare will benefit from pandemic. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584428404.9439037/India-Inc-fears-coronavirus-will-pull-down-GDP-by-at-least-50-bps?ref=audio_experience

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has set up a $50 Mn fund for blockchain technology in India.

The ‘Blockchain for India’ fund plans to invest an average ticket size of $100K to $5 Mn per startup through cryptocurrency — Binance Coin, Binance USD and WRX coins.

Besides the capital, the cryptocurrency exchange platform will also provide proper mentoring to the startups, from the leaders within Binance’s network — Binance Chain, Binance Cloud, Binance DEX, Binance Launchpad, Binance Research, Binance Academy, and Binance X. Binance Group’s acquired companies, Mumbai-based WazirX, Hong Kong-based DappReview, and San Francisco-based Trust Wallet will also join in as mentors.

The announcement comes a few weeks after the Supreme Court of India lifted the banking ban on cryptocurrency trading in India.

Besides this, Binance X has invited Indian blockchain startups for a fellowship programme. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584426604.4008298/Cryptocurrency-Exchange-Binance-Announces-$50-Mn-Blockchain-Fund-For-India?ref=audio_experience

Amazon FBA is a life-saving solution for online sellers: Just for a minuscule fee, Amazon does all the hard work for you.

Here are my recommended tools for Amazon FBA – premium and free.

In a nutshell, Helium 10 is a suite of a bunch of different tools:It has a Product Research tool, Keyword Research Tool, a Keyword Tracking tool, and Refund Genie.

Refund GenieThe one reason it might be worth paying that $97 a month – month after month is because of the refund genie.

When someone returns an item of yours, Amazon supposed to give you some of your money back when they lose inventory on Amazon in the Amazon warehouse. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584424806.964644/Best-Tools-For-Amazon-FBA-In-2020?ref=audio_experience

However, carrying and maintaining a power bank comes with its own hassles.

“Most of the shared power bank services are designed in a way that if the power bank is not returned, 150 RMB gets deducted from the wallet,” says Lodha.The startup instead deploys a network of internet- connected vending machines to dispense power banks.

The nearest power bank terminal can be located through the Plugo appOn the other hand, Plugo power banks have a firmware in-built which stores the identity and parameters of the power bank.

When a user returns the power bank, the communication between the dispenser and the power bank sends the information to our server and the app that the user session is closed.

The power bank demand will exist for the next three years and gradually the market may evolve. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584423005.874914/Running-low-on-battery?-This-power-bank-rental-lets-you-charge-on-the-move?ref=audio_experience

FusionCharts is used by more than 800K developers from 28K companiesKolkata-headquartered bootstrapped data visualisation platform FusionCharts, which provides JavaScript charting tools and components, has been acquired by US-based business software firm Idera Inc.

FusionCharts helps developers convert data into engaging visualizations with minimal effort and learning required,” Blumenthal added.

Founded in 2002 by Pallav Nadhani, FusionCharts is a data visualisation library that helps web and mobile developers generate charts, gauges and maps used to power the dashboards.

Besides this, its products also offer extensive documentation, consistent APO and cross-browser support to make data visualisation easy for any project.

Idera intended to leverage Webyog’s tools to expand and boost its product portfolio to include solutions that support open source databases like MySQL. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584421205.9765244/Idera-Acquires-Bootstrapped-Data-Visualisation-Platform-FusionCharts?ref=audio_experience

iStockIn 2016, Seattle-based startup Turi Inc. was helping almost 100 customers create and manage software that uses machine learning, a powerful type of artificial intelligence.

Last year saw a record 231 acquisitions of AI startups, up from 42 in 2014, according to data from CB Insights.

Giants such as Google and Facebook have massive data sets that are crucial for training AI models, for instance.“It's easy to get funding for an AI startup, or at least it was.

“Startups don't typically have that much cash,” so the Apple sale was a good outcome for Turi, she added.One new reason AI startups look to be acquired by a big patron is the cost of computing power.

As AI models get more complex, startups are paying a lot for cloud computing services to train and run those models. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1584419506.2882693/Big-tech-swallows-most-of-the-hot-AI-startups?ref=audio_experience