Flipkart launches a Hotel-booking service - Indian Startup News 137
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This week in Indian Startup News:  1. “Unacademy One” launched by Unacademy 2. Flipkart launched a new hotel booking service- Flipkart Hotels 3. Bengaluru is flooded 4. Tata 1mg becomes a unicorn 5. Ola Electric’s EV registrations have fallen.  00:00 Introduction 00:10 Flipkart launches Flipkart Hotels 02:14 Unacademy launches Unacademy One 04:21 Bird’s eye Segment 05:50 Quick Updates 07:05 BWM Update  Unacademy launched Unacademy One - a collection of 50 youtube channels: Indian Ed-tech giant Unacademy launched “Unacademy One” which is a collection of 50 youtube channels. Unacademy has always used YouTube to drive traffic for its paid learning products, but this is the first time that Unacademy has expanded the content universe under its own branding.  Funding this week: This week at least 16 Indian Startups raised more than $1 Million, in total raising over $195 Mn.    Rupeek - $16 Mn Gromo - $11 Mn Tata 1Mg - $40 Mn SenseHawk - $32 Mn iBus Networks - $15.65 Mn  Flipkart has announced the launch of a hotel-booking feature on its main app - Flipkart Hotels. Flipkart Hotels is an extension to Flipkart’s travel supply chain which already includes companies like Flipkart flights which is a flight booking service launched in 2018. The company has also set up a dedicated customer care centre to support customers with user-related queries arising from the hotel booking service.  1mg: now called Tata 1mg  is an online Pharmacy Company that provides health care products, lab test bookings, delivery of medicines, tele-consultation and more. The Startup has raised a total of 40 million dollars from Tata Digital at a valuation of 1.09 billion dollars.   After all the burning incidents and controversies, the demand for Ola Electric’s EV’s have gotten down- The overall Ev two-wheeler market is seeing a steady growth of 13% month on month and yet Ola Electric’s struggle continues.  India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru, is drowning. The rains and water logging affected the lives of normal people and operations of many startups as employees struggled to reach office timely.
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