We bring to you the latest edition of Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week!

In one of the biggest funding rounds, Bengaluru-based online home furnishing startup HomeLane has raised $30 Mn in Series D funding.

Overall, nine startups raised around $83.5 Mn funding and two startup acquisition took place in the Indian startup ecosystem.

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Stay tuned for the next week edition of Funding Galore: Indian Startup Funding Of The Week! | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577505609.0760002/Funding-Galore:-Startup-Funding-Of-The-Week-[Dec-23-28]?ref=audio_experience

It often seems as though some people were born to thrive as entrepreneurs, but few are truly naturals when it comes to being successful in business.

In doing so, you can become more successful in a variety of ways that are key to the prosperity of your business.

Your competence when it comes to managing your organization, its money and the people who work for it will improve.

You can develop critical skills such as becoming a better communicator, fast learner and a sharper negotiator.

Then learn about 5 ways that you can develop your entrepreneurial skills. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577503810.965058/5-Ways-to-Develop-Your-Entrepreneurial-Skills?ref=audio_experience

The Venture Capital industry in India is on the surge, now more than ever, thanks to Indian startups finding their niche and subsequently their corresponding addressable markets.

These professionals are the go-to for any partner or investor in a venture capital or private equity organisation.

The candidate should have experience working at a tech startup, consulting, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity.

Ev2 VenturesInvestment AssociateExperience needed: 5-7 yearsEv2 Ventures is looking for an associate level investment professional with prior venture capital or investment banking experience.

For more information, click here. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577502006.3536255/[Jobs-Roundup]-Enter-the-VC-industry-with-these-investment-analyst-job-openings?ref=audio_experience

Posted by admin on 12/28/19 • Categorized as OthersOne of the biggest challenges that startups face is attracting customers early on.

Digital marketing is critical to success for any startup, as this is how you make people aware of your brand and start competing from day one.

This allows you to immediately reach their already established customer base and could help you to attract customers to your business from day one.

This post should give you a few ideas for ways in which you can attract customers to your business from the very start.

It is challenging, but if you can attract customers straight out of the gate, it can become much easier to attract more customers in time. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577500208.2535985/6-Strategies-For-Attracting-Customers-From-Day-One---Young-Upstarts?ref=audio_experience

In the earlier 420 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery.

world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.

With over 1,500 regional and international artists, the recent Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) brought a wealth of creativity and discourse to over 14 venues in Goa, as shown in this photo essay.

See our earlier interview with Smriti Rajgarhia, Director, Serendipity Arts Foundation; curator insights; and photo essays on the festival launch, innovation exhibits, social messages, artistic trends, and creative impacts.

“Without the arts, our race would have been just another species on the planet and not a civilisation,” said Sunil Kant Munjal, Founder Patron, Serendipity Arts Foundation. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577498406.0344527/Connection,-communication,-celebration-–-creativity-tips-from-Serendipity-Arts-Festival-2019?ref=audio_experience

Avnish Bajaj, Founder and Managing Director, Matrix India.

Recalling the journey, Avnish says things could’ve been different and they possibly could’ve been billionaires today.

The dotcom bubble burst and Avnish said it turned out to be an excruciatingly painful journey.

“Going back to the moral contract, it is the founder’s responsibility to take on the VC’s exit as his or her own responsibility.

The day you don’t feel that, you can choose to sell it,” Avnish says. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577496608.661885/[Matrix-Moments]-To-sell-or-not-is-the-big-question-for-startup-founders,-says-Avnish-Bajaj,-Matrix-India?ref=audio_experience

However, he noticed that too few banks/NBFCs were working on products addressing the consumer need for credit and wondered if this might be an interesting area to explore.

MoneyTap Credit Line is offered in partnership with leading banks and NBFCs.

Customers can apply for a credit line on MoneyTap’s free Android or iOS app and get an instant credit decision within minutes.

“We are a consumer lending company so our customers need to know about us.

Initially, it was difficult to explain the product - a credit line. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577494806.2816494/[The-Turning-Point]-How-this-VC-became-an-entrepreneur-to-offer-instant-credit-with-his-startup?ref=audio_experience

Tweet NEW YORK, NY, Elysium Health announced a $40 million in Series C equity and debt financing round.

Since its founding, Elysium Health has been recognized for its commitment to scientific rigor, and the funds will also further the company's mission to make the benefits of scientific research accessible directly to consumers.

"We consider ourselves privileged at Elysium to work with the world's best healthcare investors," said Elysium Health CEO Eric Marcotulli.

We are thrilled to invest in the Elysium Health team to further the work they are doing to change the way people support their lifelong health."

Working directly with the world's leading scientists and clinicians, Elysium Health™ is committed to translating critical advancements in scientific research into health solutions people can access today. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577493124.5198514/Elysium-Health-Raises-$40M-Series-C?ref=audio_experience

Yes, enterprise software costs more to sell and support and, sometimes, to market than consumer software.

Pricing in software is really in large part relative to what.

A few years ago, I was meeting a sales professional at Workday who had just closed a big deal with a Fortune 500 company.

But true enterprise customers will highly value it.

But true enterprise customers will highly value it. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577491212.064178/How-To-Drive-Up-Your-Average-Deal-Size.-And-Remember-—-Almost-All-Pricing-is-Relative.?ref=audio_experience

Salesforce turned 20 this year, and the most successful pure enterprise SaaS company ever showed no signs of slowing down.

Consider that the company finished the year on an $18 billion run rate, rushing toward its 2022 revenue goal of $20 billion.

Oh, and it also spent a tidy $15.7 billion to buy Tableau this year in the most high-profile and expensive acquisition it’s ever made.

Co-founder, chairman and CEO Marc Benioff published a book called Trailblazer about running a socially responsible company, and made the rounds promoting it.

In fact, he even stopped by TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco in September, telling the audience that capitalism as we know it is dead. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1577489409.995827/Revenue-train-kept-rolling-all-year-long-for-Salesforce-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience