Uber Eats has shut down its presence in India and Zomato will now serve its usersThe week started with one of the biggest acquisitions in the Indian startup ecosystem, as Zomato acquired Uber Eats’ India business.

However, Uber Eats will continue to remain a separate brand.

According to some investors, Zomato would gain access to the southern India market, which is a good space for Uber Eats.

Related Article: Zomato Acquires Uber Eats Food Delivery Business In IndiaUber’s India food delivery business saw a decline which is said to have negatively impacted the global numbers.

In a recent analysis, Inc42 had noted that Uber Eats had multiple reasons to be the distant third player in the food delivery space. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579743012.6627882/Zomato-Swiggy-Duopoly?-The-Fallout-From-The-Uber-Eats-Acquisition?ref=audio_experience

That is what prompted me to start this company,” Bhanu tells YourStory.

Additionally, a large undisclosed US tech company became its “channel partner” and white-labelled RateGain’s product under its own brand name.

The company currently sells software in nearly 150 countries, and in the Founder’s own words, aims to become the “Zoho for hospitality and travel”.

According to Bhanu, these have a huge appetite for travel tech services.

Indian travellers are estimated to spend $136 billion by 2021, with $42 billion in incremental spending on travel tech services, according to a Google-BCG report. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579741204.9384754/This-South-Delhi-techie's-‘Zoho-for-hospitality-and-travel’-startup-is-gunning-for-unicorn-status?ref=audio_experience

Donald Hicks and Toby Brzoznowski, the co-founders of LLamasoft, were working at a simulation software company before starting their venture.

The modelThe software startup charges an annual subscription fee to its customers to use the application, for which the pricing used is case-dependent.

Where most technology providers focus on helping companies run their supply-chain, LLamasoft focusses on helping companies adopt and evolve their supply-chain based on changing market conditions or industry trends."

Toby says the company enables decisions, cutting across functions such as optimising supply-chain networks, flow path optimisation, or cost-to-serve based optimisation.

Using these three technology components, LLamasoft provides pre-packaged applications like supply-chain guru and demand guru, which are built for specific business use-cases and personas. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579739406.5411909/With-a-tech-engine-built-on-data-analytics-and-AI,-Michigan-based-LLamasoft-simplifies-supply-chain-management-for-enterprises?ref=audio_experience

What makes for a robust and growing startup ecosystem within Latin America as opposed to its individual countries?

De la Pradilla co-founded his own businesses and worked within a Spanish equity firm prior to joining Polymath.

“Despite recent complex macropolitical events,” explained de la Pradilla, “Latin America is reaching a phase of considerable entrepreneurship.

Colombia catches onThis Andean-Caribbean country has always hosted a budding startup ecosystem.

For de la Pradilla what’s set to change is a higher degree of analysis and vigorous revision on behalf of VCs to assure long term rentability. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579737611.0929086/Latam’s-startup-ecosystem.-How-we-got-here-and-what’s-to-come?ref=audio_experience

Stronger Brand Awareness on Social Media PlatformsIs 2020, and if you don’t have a social media presence, then your business might as well be inexistent.

The same idea can also be used to put in place a live video chat option for customer support.

Besides the added visual connection, live video chat would also allow for the customer’s concerns to be addressed faster.

At the same time, live video chat is more convenient for customers as opposed to using text-based live chat.

At the same time, when you embrace live video chat in place of text-based chat support, you can handle more calls in less time. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579735806.4129698/The-Startup-Magazine-5-Ways-Video-Can-Help-Skyrocket-Your-Business-In-2020?ref=audio_experience

Immuneering Corporation, a Cambridge, MA-based developer of new medicines by leveraging bioinformatics, closed its Series A round at a total of $20m.

Led by Ben Zeskind, Ph.D., MBA, co-founder and chief executive officer, Immuneering leverages bioinformatics to develop new medicines unlikely to be found by traditional drug discovery methods.

Its current pipeline of drug candidates is focused on treating aspects of disease that have eluded conventional approaches, including cancer cachexia and metastasis.

Utilizing its proprietary Disease Cancelling Technology, the company engineers medicines that reverse a disease signal across many relevant genes.

Concurrent with its internal programs, the company provides computational biology services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579734008.3405395/Immuneering-Raises-$20M-in-Series-A-Funding?ref=audio_experience

Vapor IO, the Austin, Texas-based creator of a nationwide platform for edge colocation and networking services, received additional investment from Berkshire Partners and Crown Castle.

The latest tranche of funding will accelerate the company’s build-out of its Kinetic Edge platform.

The Kinetic Edge uses custom data centers, dedicated fiber, and networking services to deliver a complete solution for infrastructure edge computing.

They plan to deliver its Kinetic Edge platform to the top 36 U.S. metropolitan markets by the end of 2021.

Vapor IO also announced a nationwide partnership with Cloudflare. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579732206.3743505/Vapor-IO-Raises-$90M-in-Series-C-Funding?ref=audio_experience

Your business success depends on keeping your employees happy and motivated.

This one practice is a huge part of your effort to keep employees happy and motivated.

Encourage Breaks To Keep Employees Happy and MotivatedBurnout is very real.

Happy Employees Prioritize Work/Life BalanceYour employees are key to your business success.

Today’s employers must be concerned with keeping employees happy and motivated. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579730405.909986/6-Ways-To-Keep-Your-Employees-Happy-and-Motivated-–-Business?ref=audio_experience

Devopsdays is coming to Mexico for the first time and is set to take place in this tapatío city.

Save the date for February 20 and 21, because many pros related to DevOps, as well as marketing masters and management leaders will gather.

She’s also an advocate of work ethics, a topic that’s growing in importance in the IT industry.

Consequently, holding an international event such as DevOps is a symptom of the growing relevance of this part of Mexico in the field of IT.

Related articles: Tech and startups in Mexico! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579728622.5024855/At-last!-Devopsdays-is-coming-to-Guadalajara,-Mexico?ref=audio_experience

Double-clicking down to the business environment, cloud computing permits a company to operate in an elastic fashion.

Granted, laptops and PCs can also use virtual desktop environments, but even these use cases have savings opportunities built-in.

The “any device” factor plays a major role in the evolution of DaaS; users only need an online connection to access their desktops and relevant apps.

Ultimately, workspace virtualization solutions aid in the speedy and quick transition of the standard desktop computing environment.

DaaS solutions clearly offer a unique value proposition by providing the most agile virtual desktop environments. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579726806.418922/Desktop-as-a-Service:-Work-from-anywhere,-on-any-device?ref=audio_experience