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20Aug

Religious eCommerce Site DoloArts Sells Frames & Paintings Online

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The web has given a new facade of perspectives to various things. Take for example places of worship, which now use technology and live stream religious proceedings on the web. Now industry news site Pluggd.in is reporting about DoloArts, a Tirupati-based religious ecommerce site that sells digital photo frames, Tanjore paintings, paintings, drawings as well as religious diamond stones amongst other things.

Religious eCommerce Site Doloarts

According to the team at religious ecommerce site DoloArts, they specialize in connecting their users to the right kind of art. The elaborated, “Doloarts is specialized in finding the right art for users. We always endeavor to fathom the overall art direction to seek the most appropriate art pieces. We source our art work from our various lists of artists we represent from various art galleries.”

Religious ecommerce site DoloArts gets a lot of users from countries such as USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. The team at the ecommerce startup plans to focus on instant gallery quality and canvas printing feature. It is great to see niche sites in the Indian eCommerce industry. This surely means a lot of eCommerce jobs and also a huge increase in recruitment for eCommerce.

16Aug

Seed Funding from Blume Ventures, IQ for Mumbai Startup RedQuanta

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Compared to the dot-com boom (and bust) of the last decade, this one seems to be pretty nice for startups, especially in India as they are getting a lot of seed funding. Many venture capitalists and angel investors are showing confidence in startups in India. According to a post on WATblog, Mumbai-based RedQuanta, a mystery shopping audit company, has received seed funding from Blume Ventures, India Venture Partners, and India Quotient as well as a few angel investors.

Seed Funding RedQuanta

As of now, there is no information as to how much seed funding has RedQuanta received. But industry insiders have hypothesized that the funding could be in the range of a million dollars. Blume Ventures and India Quotient both are early stage investors, with the latter having being set up just a few weeks before. The mystery shopping company uses a unique and result-oriented approach.

RedQuanta was established a few months ago by Pankaj Guglani. He says, “Retail industry is witnessing a huge shift from unorganized to the organized sector. We are building our capabilities to tap this growth. The need is very evident to have robust systems for customer intelligence – systems that bring accurate predictability, access to real time information and provide actionable insights. In fact, RedQuanta is one of the first in the country to use location-aware mobile application for data gathering and for performing instant audits.”

He has previously worked with Zapak Digital Entertainment in the capacity of a Business Head. The Mumbai-based company has already managed to win nearly 50 clients. Well, the digital media industry sure is creating a lot of jobs and recruitment for digital agencies is on the rise too.

14Aug

MangoStreet.com, Indian eCommerce Site, Acquired by HushBabies

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HushBabies Indian eCommerce Indian eCommerce sites have been raking in a lot of money. There are hundreds of eCommerce sites in India and a lot of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers too have happened. Now SutraBlog (via IDR) has a post about the baby care products site HushBabies.com, which has acquired kids wear Indian eCommerce site MangoStreet.

The CEO of HushBabies.com is Sridhar Seshadri. Not only is he excited about acquiring Indian eCommerce site MangoStreet but also wants to have a stronghold on small town India. Seshadri elaborated, “E-commerce has picked up significantly. While our core business comes from key Indian cities, big growth is being seen in smaller towns and cities.”

The cofounders of Indian eCommerce site MangoStreet are Mohit and Rahul Yadav. They will now work at HushBabies.com as business leaders and will report to Sridhar Seshadri. The eCommerce space in India is pretty hot and not only is it creating secondary industries, it is also creating a lot of jobs. Thus recruitment for eCommerce companies is on the rise too.

08Aug

Giveter: An Online Gifting Recommendation Website

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When you think of ecommerce in India, the first thing that comes in mind are product websites. However, there are very few websites that enable a user to use filters and then give recommendations. Now ex-CTO of Zomato, Avinash S and ex-Schlumberger Business Consulting Mayank Bhangadia have come up with Giveter, which is a recommendation service for online gifting, SutraBlog reports (via Pluggd.in).

If you are wondering what this recommendation service for online gifting allows you to do, well, it lets users search for relevant gifts by offering a choice of filters for the recipient’s age, relationship, and occasion. In addition, Giveter has tied up with a lot of online website/brands/physical stores. One special thing about the site is an in-house gifting aggregation team, which chooses unique giftable products. Currently, there are several different categories and some 2500 gifting options.

For payments, users are redirected to the partner site. One more thing that Giveter features is the Zip-Gift concept that lets users send, receive, and share gifts on Facebook. The ecommerce vertical in India sure is picking up fast and there are a lot of jobs in ecommerce and recruitment for ecommerce companies is increasing too.

03Aug

Skift: New Online Travel Site by PaidContent’s Rafat Ali

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Skift Online Travel When it comes to finding travel information online, there are various sources offering reviews and insights. However, there is also a need for online sources that provide data on travel. Now SutraBlog is reporting about Skift, a new online travel site by digital entrepreneur Rafat Ali. Billed as a travel intelligence media company, it offers news, insights, tools, data, and services.

Jason Clampet, who has earlier worked at Frommers, is the other co-founder of Skift, along with Rafat Ali. The Skift blog has a post that elucidates their plans. An excerpt from it reads, “What you see now, Skift.com, is just the first phase of this: a B2B news and info site for the travel industry. Skift.com is our worldview on how broadly we look at travel, and it informs how we’re building the company.”

Skift is primarily targeted at professionals in travel industry and professional business travelers, enabling them to take smarter decisions on travel. Technology veterans like Vishal Gondal are backing the venture. There is a huge impetus to the digital industry in India, with lots of jobs being created. Recruitment for tech companies has gone up too.

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