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No crypto ban in India — SEBI will reportedly be pulled in to regulate the sector businessinsider.in The Indian government is not looking to ban cryptocurrencies, but to regulate them as ‘assets’. All Indian crypto exchanges will reportedly come under the purview of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Why are Indian startup founders fleeing to Dubai? restofworld.org “We are going back to the internet-boom era, where most of the tech founders or anybody who thought they could create a good product moved out.”

SoftBank biggest foreign investor in India, funding 10% of all unicorns: Masayoshi Son economictimes.indiatimes.com SoftBank is amongst the most bullish investors in Indian startups having backed large ventures including Paytm and Policybazaar, both of which listed on Indian bourses last month, as well as others such as Delhivery, Unacademy, Grofers, Oyo.

Parag Agrawal: Why Indian-born CEOs dominate Silicon Valley bbc.com Parag Agrawal, Twitter's new CEO, is the latest of several Indian-Americans leading global tech firms.

India's digital economy to see exponential growth to $800 bn by 2030: FM livemint.com Addressing the IIT Bombay Alumni Association virtually, Nirmala Sitharaman said India has over 6,300 fintechs

Velocity, a revenue-based financing platform in India, raises $20 million led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures has doubled down its bet on Velocity, which operates a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses in India, just months after it first backed the Bangalore-based startup. The one-and-half-year-old Velocity said on Wednesday it has …