News, Podcasts and more!
Welcome to the weekly edition of The Builders Club Startup Digest. In one shot, we take you through all the happenings in the startup ecosystem and the club activities.
Top 3 news from the startup ecosystem
There were a lot of activities in the Startup Ecosystem this week:
EarlySalary and a few others suspend a few services in the light of the new RBI Mandate. The notification that prohibits loading of PPI from credit lines broke the FinTech aspirations. As a result, OLA Money Postpaid was among the many other FinTechs that put a halt on some services temporarily.
The EV industry also took a hit as a Tata Nexon also caught fire in the first of its instances. Bhavish Aggarwal- CEO, OLA Electric also claimed that such an incident is a global phenomenon, as he justified the same.
The Ed Tech Industry continued its march towards the offline space with PhysicsWallah opening up its offline center, PW Vidyapeeth in Kota, Rajasthan. The center's goal is to help engineering and medical admission exam candidates by providing a learning atmosphere.
🚀🚀 Here is a thread that We had written this week about the rise of Alakh Pandey; who is taking the EdTech Ecosystem by storm. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Web3 News of the Week
Several activities took place in Web3 lately. With the intent to capture some of the Web3 news here we see,
📻 Soclly, a decentralised social network, has announced the release of a beta version for Web3 producers, influencers, and educators. It facilitates an ongoing engagement between Web3 producers and followers through this platform.
📻 Solana Mobile of the Blockchain platform Solana Labs, has launched a flagship Android mobile phone that will make crypto and non-fungible token (NFT) trading on smartphones simple.
📻 The Ethereum Foundation has announced that the Kiln, Rinkeby, and Ropsten testnets would be obsolete following Ethereum's move to a proof-of-stake network following the Merge.
Ongoings in The Builders Club
WE LAUNCHED THE CAMP!
The Second Cohort of The Builders Camp was launched. This is our effort in helping idea and early-stage founders to get their idea off the ground.
In 6 weeks, we take you from idea to launch and help you structure your thoughts in the right direction, and get you market-ready.
Refer someone, Apply if you have an idea and are looking to make your thoughts into reality.
Here is a testimonial of Silkesha Kadam, Cofounder, The Body Positivity Co. Listen to her story of finding her passion and a cofounder in the builders camp.
Upcoming Events
"Salt" app in #StartupShowcase
It is a one stop for all your financial needs, ranging from savings and investing to expenditure and subscriptions.
Salt is developing an application “Passbook”- a NLP based money journal to help you track expenses, save and invest better.
Come to the event and experience the product on your own, and give feedback to the team on the idea and product directly.
Attend to experience the Product and give feedback directly to the team.
Startup Showcase is a one of a kind event in which founders get real time feedback directly from their target audience, as well as get an opportunity to showcase their product in front of other founders and investors.
Podcast Release
Akash Gehani, CoFounder, InstaMojo
Akash Gehani is the COO and co-founder of Instamojo, India's largest on-demand payments platform. In the podcast he talks about the role of work-life balance in the life of an entrepreneur.
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We have multiple initiatives and events which we do regularly to help you accelerate your growth and move to the next stage of your startup life cycle.
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