As one of the most cosmopolitan cities in America, renowned for its steep streets and rich culture, San Francisco is a place you can easily stay in style.

As you’ll be in San Francisco on business, it’s expected that when you land you’ll most likely have missed phone calls and emails to reply to.

In San Francisco, you have many options to choose from for upmarket accommodation.

There are a plethora of upscale and Michelin star restaurants and bistros in San Francisco.

Union Square in central San Francisco hosts an entire range of luxury clothing stores, from Brooks Brothers to Caroline Herrera. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574181007.9812734/How-To-Stay-In-San-Francisco-In-Style-On-Your-Business-Trip?ref=audio_experience

The recent funding of Perfios has also given an exit to a few of its angel investors from the fintech company.

Additionally, the company provides services such as banks statement analysis, e-verification, financial analysis, fraud check, among other financial services.

Earlier, the startup has raised $6.1 Mn funding during its series A funding from Bessemer Venture Partners in April 2017.

However, so far digital lending startups have made a good start in India, and have earned plenty of investor attention in the past four years.

According to the Global Fintech Report Q1 2019, over 1 Mn borrowers and 2 Mn lenders have transacted with lending platforms, with the overall exposure remaining at INR 350 Cr ( $48.8 Mn). | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574179205.2247658/Perfios-Bags-$50-Mn-Funding-To-Strengthen-International-Operations?ref=audio_experience

AccessOne, a Charlotte, NC-based provider of patient financing solutions for consumers to manage their healthcare costs, closed a $225m financing with PNC Bank.

The deal aims to allow the company to expand adoption of its platform nationwide.

Led by Mark Spinner, CEO, AccessOne partners with hospitals, health systems and employers to provide patients financing solutions to their patients.

According to a written note, AccessOne has enabled over one million consumers to afford out-of-pocket medical expenses for health systems nationwide.

FinSMEs19/11/2019 | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574177411.2953086/AccessOne-Receives-$225M-Credit-Facility-from-PNC-Bank?ref=audio_experience

Global tech giant Facebook, in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), will be working together to promote digital literacy to ensure women’s and children’s safety online.

It was attended by 100 organisations working for women and children’s safety in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and India.

Facebook also announced the start of the Ideal Internet Consortium, which will recommend strategies to civil society, industry and the government to ensure children’s safety online.

In addition to this, Facebook also announced its global digital literacy program “We Think Digital” campaign, under which it will collaborate with agencies from both government and civil society.

In October 2019, Facebook also launched the second edition of its Facebook’s Going Online as Leaders (GOAL) programme to boost digital literacy among tribal women in India. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574175604.6650736/Facebook-Launches-Digital-Literacy-Campaign-To-Keep-Women,-Children-Safe-Online?ref=audio_experience

Hotstar, India’s largest OTT platform, may bring Disney’s video-on-demand streaming service, Disney+ to India post the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament.

The whole catalogue of Disney+ will be available on Hotstar in the second half of 2020, according to the OTT platform.

While responding to customers on Twitter, Hotstar India made the announcement via Twitter saying: “Hi, We are working on bringing Disney to India.

Only last week, Disney launched Disney+ services in the US, Canada and the Netherlands and despite facing many glitches and outages on the first day of its launch, it became a success, thanks to millions of signups.

The leading OTT platform in India, Hotstar’s user base will definitely be a key factor in Disney choosing to bring Disney+ content to its doors. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574173804.6085074/India’s-Largest-OTT-Platform-Hotstar-To-Bring-Disney+-Content-To-India?ref=audio_experience

Padmaja Ruparel, the founding partner of IAN Fund, said that they are excited to support FSM’s ambitious plans in providing quality music education.

“With the increasing demand for Indians to learn music, the music education is on the rise, and FSM’s aspiration in catering to those growing customers is promising,” she added.

For this, the company is looking forward to leverage cutting edge technology to offer superior customer experience and quality music education in the country.

The company aims to make quality music education accessible to every individual — young and old.

The company believes that it has been instrumental in introducing quality music education across the country, and FSM taking pride in its work has provided music education to schools and households. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574172005.955618/Furtados-School-of-Music-Raises-INR-20-Cr-From-IAN-Fund-&-Others-To-Expand-Service?ref=audio_experience

What business broadband packages does bOnline offer?

bOnline offers three different broadband packages, with the only difference being the speed of the service and the monthly cost.

Unlimited Business BroadbandThis is bOnline’s base package and pretty much does exactly what it says, offering unlimited business broadband for £19.95 per month.

Unlimited Business Fibre 38This package uses fibre optic cables for broadband speeds of up to 38mbps (depending on location), and costs £27.95 a month.

Unlimited Business Fibre 76This is bOnline’s top package, with broadband speeds of up to 76mbps (depending on location) and a cost of £29.95 a month. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574170205.268261/bOnline-Business-Broadband-Review?ref=audio_experience

One site that we surely need to consider is Quora, Founded in 2010 Quora is a social question or answer community.

Quora ProfileBe Active and Build your followingsAll this helps you get found on Quora and may make it easier for people to seek you out when they’re looking for Quora users to answer their questions.

Start a Quora blog to re-purpose your contentOne neat way to get involved on Quora besides the standard question-and-answer format is to start blogging.

See how they’re included in the Quora answer stream here.

Run Quora AdsIf your potential customers are available and engage on Quora, then you should try Quora Ads as well. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574168407.4573011/The-Ultimate-Guide-On-Using-Quora-For-Marketing?ref=audio_experience

EasyRewardz, the Gurugram-headquartered customer engagement and rewards platform startup has raised its Series B round of funding from Flipkart.

According to the company, the fresh round of funding will be used to drive new product development and accelerate global expansion.

EasyRewardz had earlier raised Series A round of funding of $2 million in November 2017 led by Trans-Continental Venture Fund (TCVF).

On the other hand, the investment by Flipkart into EasyRewardz is part of its strategy to invest in startups.

Some of the key startup investments made by Flipkart, in the past, include Myntra and PhonePe, which were full-sized acquisitions. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574166605.9159095/[Funding-alert]-EasyRewardz-raises-Series-B-round-from-Flipkart?ref=audio_experience

PUNE: NetApp, a data management and hybrid cloud services provider, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Ravi Chhabria as the Managing Director of the NetApp Global Centre of Excellence (GCoE) in India.Chhabria has been with the company for 14 years.

Anil Valluri continues in his role as President for India & SAARC for the NetApp sales entity.“India is a crucial centre for NetApp in terms of delivering growth and value to the company.

We are committed to our vision of innovating relentlessly to drive breakthroughs in data management.

The NetApp India GCoE is a key player in the company strategy,” said Chhabria.Chhabria has nearly three decades work experience, and earlier worked at Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics , among other firms in the areas of product engineering, product management and general management.At NetApp, he helped strengthen the NetApp Excellerator , the company’s flagship startup accelerator program.

He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University, a master’s in computer science from Penn State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University - California. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1574164805.8893921/NetApp-India-Global-Centre-of-Excellence-gets-new-MD?ref=audio_experience