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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.

Indian government set to ban cryptocurrencies bbc.com The latest draft of a government bill to be submitted in India aims to ban most cryptocurrencies.

Sequoia Capital India, 120 angel investors back former Google execs’ consumer finance startup Arbo Works – TechCrunch techcrunch.com A team of Google executives, many of whom worked with one another for years, left the company earlier this year to launch a startup. The fintech firm, Arbo Works, has raised a financing round led by Sequoia Capital India, the two said Thursday. Arbo Works, spearheaded by Caesar Sengupta, said on Th…

LinkedIn adds Hindi to reach 500 million people in India – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Less than 20% of India’s 1.3 billion people speak English. But LinkedIn, the largest professional social network globally, has so far catered only to this sliver of the population in the world’s second largest internet market. On Thursday, the Microsoft-owned service said it’s beginning to ch…

India’s Spinny valued at over $1.75 billion in $280 million funding – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Spinny, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates a platform to facilitate the purchase and sale of used cars, is the latest firm to become a unicorn in the world’s second-largest internet market. Spinny has raised more than $280 million in its Series E financing round, a source familiar with the matte…

Park+ Raises $25 Million Funding From Sequoia Capital India, Others moneycontrol.com Existing and new investors, including AdvantEdge, Fund II – A Series of Somani Investments LP and Motherson Lease Solution Limited, also participated in the series B round, a statement said.