Meet Anders Boelskifte Mogensen, the co-founder and CEO of Gaest, Northern Europe’s largest online marketplace for listing, discovering and booking meeting spaces. Before Gaest, Anders co-founded a management consultancy that specialized in the business travel and hospitality industry. Anders is also the co-founder of the luxury Nordic boutique hotel Nordic Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria as well as an Executive Board…
What do you want to do next? It’s a generic question. Managers ask it all the time—or at least the good ones do. And they’re usually not expecting a unique answer. People want more responsibility. More opportunities. To try a different office, or a different team, a different department. But what if you want something radically different? What if you…
At a time when American and Chinese investors are seeking supremacy over its booming startup ecosystem, India’s richest religious community has forayed into the sector, funding and nurturing entrepreneurship. The Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO), a network of influential industrialists, entrepreneurs, and professionals from the Jain community, hosted an Investor Pitch Day in Mumbai earlier this month. The idea was…
The auto industry is undergoing a massive shift as it ushers in the technologies behind electric and autonomous vehicles and onboard tech designed to improve or enhance the driving experience. But to fully understand how those changes are manifesting, and how they could evolve in the future, we have to first understand the startups and entrepreneurs driving those changes. The…
Advances in technology have given way to a proliferation of new startups. So, when it comes time to begin looking for those elusive investor meetings, you’re competing against more startups to secure time with investors. This competitive buyer’s market also holds the potential to drive down valuations, and even what once was considered the typical funding round. So in a…
Founders’ Co-op, a Seattle-based seed-stage venture firm, is looking to close its fourth and newest fund with $25 million, according to an SEC filing that shows the outfit has raised at least $10.7 million toward that end. The firm — now a fixture on Seattle’s venture scene — was created 10 years ago and closed its last fund in 2015…
Zoomcar, a leading self-drive mobility platform offering car and cycle sharing services, has announced that it has closed $40 million in a Series-C investment round. Mahindra & Mahindra led the new round. Zoomcar also saw participation from a variety of existing investors. Zoomcar said the capital raised would be used to accelerate its marketplace supply growth, improving its lead within…
S anjiv Bajaj, Managing Director, Bajaj Finserv, won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 award for solutions in lending, life and general insurance and wealth advisory, EY said in a press release here on Thursday. The consulting firm also named nine other category winners for the Entrepreneur of the Year Program. E Sreedharan, widely acknowledged for his invaluable contributions…
Everyone makes mistakes along the path of entrepreneurship. These mistakes help you learn how to do things better the next time you are faced with a challenge and give you the motivation to continually move your business forward. While most mistakes that you make as an entrepreneur will teach you a thing or two about the way to run your…
Indonesia’s hyperlocal transport startup Go-Jek is planning to launch its bike-taxi service in India in the second half of 2018, people aware of the development said. They said the company is evaluating some southern cities and the Gurugram-NCR region and it may launch a pilot in one of these cities at the end of the year. “The understanding is that…