What is Legal Tech?

Legal tech startups enable access to and delivery of legal services. The solutions may be designed for any stakeholder of the legal services ecosystem.  

How Indian Healthtech Startups are Innovating amidst the Covid-19 pandemic

Image by elenabsl on Shutterstock   The global Covid-19 crisis was not only unprecedented but it also put immense pressure on the already existing vulnerabilities and inherent gaps within the Indian healthcare ecosystem. The pandemic posed a challenge as well as an opportunity for India’s healthtech startups. The country witnessed the rise of healthtech startups in number… Continue reading How Indian Healthtech Startups are Innovating amidst the Covid-19 pandemic

Why are Legal Tech startups needed?

Technology can solve the massive inefficiencies in the legal service delivery system. It stands to improve citizens’ access to legal services as well as help otherstakeholders to deliver these services better, while reducing the immense burden on India’s judiciary.  

Market Gaps in Governance, Land Rights & Access to Justice

The issues around civic engagement and governance, land and property rights along with access to and delivery of justice are extremely crucial for any country. While estimating the scale of these problems in a country like India is challenging to compute, available statistics and data support the argument that there is a need for creative… Continue reading Market Gaps in Governance, Land Rights & Access to Justice

Why Startups need to solve for Governance, Land Rights and Access to Justice

Image by magic pictures on Shutterstock   Effective governance, sound public administration and inclusive growth are crucial to citizen well being. In India, these aspirations, however, are still a long way from reaching their desired mark despite multiple large-scale and grassroot interventions by governments, nonprofits and corporations over several decades. Governments at all levels – national, state… Continue reading Why Startups need to solve for Governance, Land Rights and Access to Justice

Understanding Telemedicine in India: The future of HealthTech

The Covid-19 pandemic brought to the forefront the need to strengthen healthcare infrastructure in India and bring a major shift in the traditional healthcare delivery models. During these testing times, telemedicine emerged as the major driver in revolutionizing the delivery of healthcare and offering viable alternatives to traditional models.   This report aims to accelerate… Continue reading Understanding Telemedicine in India: The future of HealthTech

Financial Lives of Urban Poor Households

Initiatives for financial inclusion and livelihoods have been designed primarily for the rural low-income households. Consider MGNREGA and NRLM as two such initiatives that stand out. Some of these initiatives have been now extended to cover the urban low-income households as well. However, urban households are not rural households located in cities. The economic, financial… Continue reading Financial Lives of Urban Poor Households

Switched-Reluctance Motors: Reimagining A Pillar Of Electrification

Photo by Evannovostro on Shutterstock   Application of electric motors is probably more prevalent in our lives than we would have wondered. The motor ecosystem is the lifeline of any mechanical device. Every machine and device, right from a fan to HVACs to industrial turbines to vehicles use electric motors. With rising CO2 levels and growing environmental… Continue reading Switched-Reluctance Motors: Reimagining A Pillar Of Electrification

Indian business incubation ecosystem: A multilevel analysis

This chapter lays out the historical, spatial, activity and policy landscape of incubation in India. The authors examine the temporal or evolutionary pattern of incubation in India. The chapter aims to build understanding of incubation in India and identify the opportunities for incubation in future.   This chapter was published as part of the book… Continue reading Indian business incubation ecosystem: A multilevel analysis

Bharat Startups: The Price Sensitive Customer

  The 25 Bharat startups that we studied cater to a particular target segment – the low and middle-income group. The low and middle-income customer is a distinct segment and servicing these customers comes with challenges. We also have less knowledge about the needs and requirements of individual customers. In the past decade, as India’s… Continue reading Bharat Startups: The Price Sensitive Customer

Bharat Startups: The Increasing Use of WhatsApp

  We at CIIE.CO looked at 25 Bharat startups as part of our Bharat Inclusion Initiative program. We found specific ways in which startups were building adoption to their respective platforms. One of these is the increasing use of WhatsApp to connect and engage with customers/users. While large businesses in India have already tapped WhatsApp… Continue reading Bharat Startups: The Increasing Use of WhatsApp

Bharat Startups: The Importance of Building in Local Languages

  We at CIIE.CO looked at 25 Bharat startups in 2020. Here, building tech in local languages appears to be a boosting factor in the adoption of the same. In India, about 10% of people are comfortable using English as a language, and startups in Fintech have also been able to service only 43% of… Continue reading Bharat Startups: The Importance of Building in Local Languages

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