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Bengaluru Based Startup HackerEarth Raised $ 4.5 Million In ‘Series-A’ Funding

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Bengaluru-based startup technology company HackerEarth recently raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. Founded by Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash in 2012, HackerEarth is a competitive programming platform which supports over 32 programming languages.

Going deeper into the details, the current funding of $4.5 million has been led by strategic investor DHI Group Inc., which operates career based website Dice.com, followed by BEENEXT, Singapore-based early stage venture fund, Startup platform BEENOS and also from online marketing firm Digital Garage and BizReach.

Prime Venture Partners, HackerEarth’s current investor also participated in this funding round, which raised as much as $5 million till date. The funds raised till now will be used to strengthen its product team and expand its business internationally.

Sachin Gupta, CEO, and Co-Founder of HackerEarth said in an interview: “We see good potential in this space and want to invest in growing this business. This is in line with our efforts to build a large developer community across the globe and help companies do better talent management.”

There also news that HackerEarth has spread its presence overseas like in African and South American markets like in Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Venezuela. This firm basically focusses on evolving their SaaS product called Sprint.

The founders of HackerEarth, Sachin and Vivek said that their goal is to assess the talent of developers under objective parameters of quality (of code) and the problems they crack over time.

He also recalls saying: “Our anecdote to start up was in college, when we saw the best guy in our batch not getting placed. We realized that the way engineers or developers were evaluated is very subjective and riddled with biases. But the thing about developers is that their skill is so objective, and it wasn’t being objectively assessed.”

HackerEarth was founded in November 2012 and this startup secured $ 500,000 from startup incubator AngelPrime and GSF Accelerator in 2014. Basically, this organization helps recruiters in finding the right candidate for technical jobs and also in assessing candidates.

HackerEarth has two products:

1) Recruit, which is a candidate assessment platform that allows recruiters to create programming tests and evaluate candidates.
More than 500 companies including Amazon, Walmart, and Cognizant have used it for technical assessment. The annual subscription fee ranges from $5,000 -$30,000.

2) Sprint: An innovation management platform for businesses. This offers end to end management capabilities for hackathons. The annual subscription fee for Sprint will be $ 30,000-$ 50,000.

The company makes a revenue of about $ 350,000 in a month, which is expected to shoot up at least 75%in the next 12 months. With more than 700 customers, the company expects to double up its customer count by next year.

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Carl Pei’s Nothing Invites Retail Investors 

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February 17, 2021
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Carl Pei said the time came for him to leave OnePlus and focus on other interests, following which he resigned from OnePlus in October 2020.  Since then, Pei had been working on his new startup in the audio hardware sector.  Carl Pei unveiled the name of his startup which is now called as Nothing, on January 27th, 2021.  Since the unveiling of Nothing, Pei’s startup has attracted a lot of attention from Silicon Valley and venture capitalists.  

Carl Pei now seems to be emulating his success formula at OnePlus with his new startup Nothing.  OnePlus is highly customer centric, because as a company they take in inputs from their consumers and adapt them to their products.  Pei seems to be using the same strategy with Nothing, as he invited retail investors to invest in his new startup.  Normally a startup raises Series A funding to begin product development and then goes on to Series B and so on.  For a normal retail investor to invest in a stock, they could only do it at the time of an Initial Public Offering (IPO) at the time of which the company would be valued highly.  However, Carl Pei is letting in investors from the beginning.  

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This lets the investors be a part of the product development process and makes Nothing more personalised.  Moreover the investors would also act as promoters for the products.  Currently, there are $ 1.5 million worth of shares available.  Users can invest a minimum of € 50 and a maximum of € 20,000.  However, the demand to invest is off the charts and was unexpected as Carl Pei confirmed there was an interest worth of $ 10 million from 8,700 users.

Nothing’s first wireless earphones will be unveiled in the summer of 2021.  Nothing aims to build an ecosystem of listening devices which talk to each other.  Initial investors of Nothing include the likes of Tony Fadell (Principal at Future Shape and the Inventor of the iPod,) Casey Neistat (YouTuber,) Kevin Lin (Co founder of Twitch,) Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit,) Liam Casey (Founder and CEO, PCH,) Paddy Cosgrave (Founder of Web Summit,) Kunal Shah (CEO of CRED) and Josh Buckley (CEO of Product Hunt.)  Alphabet’s investment arm Google Ventures was the latest investor in Nothing as they invested $ 15 million.

 

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Startup India Seed Fund To Be Disbursed From April 1st

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January 30, 2021
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There is no doubt India has a strong foothold in the startup ecosystem.  India currently ranks third in the world for the number of startups, next only to the United States of America and China.  This was possible due to the Indian Government’s initiatives to develop the startup ecosystem and also due to a strong presence of unicorn startups like PayTM, Zomato, Unacademy and many more.

The Government of India announced it would begin to disburse INR 945 crores seed capital from April 1st, 2021 under the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme in a  bid to boost the startup ecosystem in India.  These funds would be distributed through select incubator partners all over the country.  This scheme will be implemented by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT.) 

In a gazette notification, DPIIT announced that Startup India Seed Fund Scheme will provide financial assistance to startups that have been recognised by the DPIIT and incorporated not more than two years ago at the time of application.

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The Startup India Seed Fund Scheme will have a common central application on the Startup India portal for startups on an ongoing basis.  An Experts Advisory Committee (EAC) will be formulated to oversee and monitor the overall execution of the scheme.  The EAC will evaluate and select the incubators for allotment of the seed funds and place measures for the efficient disbursement of funds.

The government also mentioned preference will be given to startups working in the areas of agriculture, education, food processing, healthcare, social impact, waste management, water management, financial inclusion, biotechnology, energy, mobility, defence, space, railways, textiles and oil and gas.

 

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CRED’s Kunal Shah Invests In One Plus Founder Carl Pei’s Startup

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January 22, 2021
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Carl Pei is one of the most well known names in the startup circles considering he gave the world one its best smartphone brands OnePlus.  Since the debut of OnePlus One. The smartphone maker earned the moniker ‘flagship killer’ and has grown in leaps and bounds.  Today OnePlus boasts on an impressive product line up apart from its smartphones and is one of the leading electronic brands in the world.  In October 2020, Carl Pei said the time came for him to leave OnePlus and focus on other interests.  Since then, Pei had been working on his new startup in the audio hardware sector.

The name of Carl Pei’s new startup will be unveiled on January 27th, 2021 but in the past three months the unnamed startup received almost $ 7 million in seed funding.  The investors include Tony Fadell (Principal at Future Shape & Inventor of the iPod,) Casey Neistat (YouTuber,) Kevin Lin (Co-founder of Twitch,) Steve Huffman (CEO of Reddit,) Liam Casey (Founder and CEO, PCH,) Paddy Cosgrave (Founder of Web Summit) and Josh Buckley (CEO of Product Hunt.)

The latest to invest in Carl Pei’s startup is Indian based CRED founder Kunal Shah who invested an undisclosed amount.  Shah is not new to being an angel investor as he already has a portfolio of investing in almost 80 startups.  “Carl is working on a new consumer electronics company that I am sure will be a disruptor in the tech industry. I am excited to be part of this journey (sic,)” the CRED founder said in a statement.

While Pei’s startup is headquartered in London, more details will be known on January 27th, 2021.

 

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