Nohbo Raises $3M Series Seed Back to HomeMELBOURNE, FL, Nohbo today announced that it has raised $3M in a Series Seed funding round led by Material Impact.

Sustainable beauty & personal care technology company Nohbo today announced that it has raised $3M in a Series Seed funding round.

Nohbo is combating excess plastic bottle waste with the first-ever, single-use, dissolvable personal care drops for shampoos, conditioners, body washes and shaving creams.

For personal care products alone, the US market consumes nearly 1,200 football stadiums worth of shampoo bottle waste annually," said Ben Stern, Nohbo Founder & CEO.

Material Impact, the Boston-based VC that led the Seed round, sees the investment in Nohbo as core to its thesis of investing in world-changing products enabled by material science innovation. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585323007.4437625/Nohbo-Raises-$3M-Series-Seed?ref=audio_experience

It’s always a good idea to explore new resources to continually grow your knowledge, so I present you some of the SaaS growth books.

Growth Marketing Handbook- by Julian ShapiroGrowth MarketingThis advanced handbook explains how to acquire customers for your site/app, and how to entice them to purchase.

It is widely recommended within Silicon Valley because it actually teaches growth marketing to a professional level.

Also read:SaaS Marketing Essentials- by Ryan BattlesSaaS Marketing EssentialsSaaS Marketing Essentials by Ryan Battles is a great primer covering essential marketing strategies and tactics with concrete, actionable examples.

This is an entirely new kind of sales bible for CEOs, entrepreneurs and sales VPs to help you build a sales machine, and a sales culture that people love. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585321207.5917096/Best-Sales-and-Marketing-Books?ref=audio_experience

Meha has engineering and MBA degrees, but she has always been a writer at heart.

It was the perfect combination of utilising her research and analytical skills and her enthusiasm for writing that sparked her interest in writing about the Indian startup ecosystem – the latest tech and gadgets and the startups that create them.

She is always on the lookout for industry-specific stories in niche areas of interest such as ecommerce, fintech, greentech and more. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585319406.0154111/Mapping-The-Market:-India’s-Regional-OTT-Video-Streaming-Landscape?ref=audio_experience

Food delivery operations of Swiggy have been severely impacted in most cities, but the unicorn startup is looking to ramp up its grocery delivery business.

As of the now, the company operates its grocery delivery services in Bengaluru and Gurugram only.

“Grocery stores should remain open, the delivery fleet must operate without harassment, and supply chain of groceries from factories to shops must not get disrupted,” he added.

He noted that prior to the lockdown, Swiggy was delivering around 1.5 Mn food orders per day.

In some cities, many delivery-partners of Swiggy and Zomato were stopped and beaten by local police authorities. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585317605.3287497/StartupsVsCovid19:-Swiggy-Turns-To-Groceries-As-Food-Orders-Decline?ref=audio_experience

Shankar Krishnamoorthy is the co-founder and CEO of Synergita Software .

I am a co-founder and CEO of Synergita Software.

Gained good software development experience during the early phase of my career; built several software products for our customers at Aspire.

Tell us about SynergitaSynergita officeSynergita is an award winning, continuous employee performance and engagement software.

Do you think Employee Engagement & Performance software is a must for every organization? | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585315806.6516235/Shankar-Krishnamoorthy---Cofounder-&-CEO-of-Synergita-Software?ref=audio_experience

There are a growing number of symptom checker and screening tools that you can use at home if you suspect you might have contracted the new coronavirus that is causing the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Chatbot-based symptom checking software startup Clearstep has created its own COVID-19 screener, which goes more in-depth to combine symptom checking with screening for potential exposure to the virus.

The Clearstep team is also making sure to stay on top of new research as it emerges regarding the presentation and likelihood of symptoms in COVID-19 patients.

The team is “keeping a pulse in the literature” published in peer-reviewed sources and adapting its screener as it needs to, as well, Naved says.

“We were able to go from first conversation to contract signed to configured and implemented in total of nine days,” Naved says about their speed of response. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585314006.831456/Clearstep’s-COVID-19-chat-based-screener-goes-in-depth-to-preserve-healthcare-resources-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Despite the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) massive actions to spur the economy, India's gross domestic product (GDP) is likely to contract by 4.5 percent in the April-June 2020 quarter and will rise by only 2 percent in 2020-21 on the coronavirus impact, according to domestic rating agency Icra.

While announcing several measures in the policy review, the RBI refrained from giving its estimate on both growth and inflation, saying things are fluid and rapidly changing.

They said the estimate is guided by the rapidly growing uncertainties over the duration of the impact of coronavirus on economic activity in India and the rest of the world.

The RBI's policy measures got welcomed as a set of "comprehensive announcements" by the agency.

A slew of analysts have been downwardly revising their growth estimates following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in India and also a host of developed countries. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585312205.3904204/Coronavirus:-GDP-likely-to-grow-just-2-pc-in-2020-21,-says-Icra?ref=audio_experience

Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer .

As a dominant tech company, Microsoft tries to keep innovating and acquiring companies that allow it to enter new markets, quickly.

Microsoft Operating SystemsAs a newly formed company, Microsoft's first operating system product to be publicly released was a version of Unix called Xenix, released in 1980.

Microsoft's first wildly successful operating system was MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was written for IBM in 1981.

The Microsoft Windows operating system had a novel graphical user interface and a multitasking environment for IBM computers. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585310409.2677088/Evolution-of-Microsoft-and-its-Business-Model?ref=audio_experience

In some cases, for example, it has been difficult for e-commerce firms to get curfew passes for their delivery people.The 21-day lockdown began on Wednesday.

"It's worse than one can think," said one of the sources.A second source said only a "miniscule" number of Amazon warehouses were operational in the country, citing it as a key reason for disruptions.

Even when operations do begin to partially normalize amid the lockdown, it will only be in major cities, the source added.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The large-scale disruptions highlight the implementation woes faced in ensuring the supply of essential goods to 1.3 billion people during the nationwide shutdown.

India has reported 724 cases of infection so far, and 17 deaths. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585308604.8770227/Amazon,-Flipkart-operations-in-India-being-disrupted-amid-lockdown?ref=audio_experience

But beyond this, the real economic impact from the coronavirus pandemic will come in the weeks and months to come.

And later she announced a relief package of INR 170K Cr to help mitigate the negative impact on agriculture and farmers.

This may also impact productivity on the company as well as individual-level, which has an impact on layoffs as well.

On the entrepreneurs’ front, it is not uncommon for startups to choose layoffs as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

For instance, over Q3 and Q4 FY20, we have seen several rounds of layoffs from unicorns as well as growth-stage startups. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585306806.4069157/Layoffs-Come-As-Reality-Check-For-Hamstrung-Indian-Startups?ref=audio_experience