Interview with HDFC Securities’ first CDO; Groww buys a mutual funds biz; Meme coins

May 10, 2021 to May 13, 2021 [Techcircle]( [linkedin]( [facebook]( [Watch: HDFC Securities’ first CDO lays out the digitisation roadmap for the brokerage firm]( On April 1, online brokerage HDFC Securities appointed Gagan Singla as its first chief digital officer. Previously associated with IIFL as chief strategy officer, Singla has also...... [Pandemic accelerated AI rollout, increased focus on security in India: IBM]( [Groww acquires mutual funds business of Indiabulls Housing Finance]( [Don’t take meme cryptocurrency dogecoin seriously? Joke’s on you]( [CarTrade turns public entity ahead of proposed IPO]( Technology - [What incoming CEO Raghuram means for VMware in the multi-cloud computing era]( - [Persistent Systems joins IBM’s cloud partner ecosystem]( - [Insider Raghu Raghuram is new VMWare chief; COO Poonen quits]( - [More corporates join pandemic relief outpour in India]( - [Opportunistic targeting, attacks on manufacturing industry up 300%: NTT]( - [Spun off IBM entities get CCI nod to run managed infrastructure services in India]( - [Blackstone seeks Mphasis deal approval from antitrust body]( Startups - [Ziffy Homes website suspended amid shutdown speculation]( - [Consumer electronics industry veteran Rajeev Karwal succumbs to Covid]( - [CarDekho ropes in Mayank Jain as CEO for new auto business]( - [Cryptocurrency exchange Bitex launches Ethereum -based utility token]( - [Eroute Technologies gets RBI’s nod to issue prepaid payments solutions]( - [In Brief: Ezetap’s kirana digitisation initiative, PES university’s deeptech fund]( - [SirionLabs appoints Rajeev Kumar as chief revenue officer]( - [HCL, IKEA Foundation and Twitter pledge support to help India fight Covid-19]( - [Cure.fit rebrands itself to flagship vertical Cult.fit]( - [Google pilots hospital bed, oxygen availability feature on Maps]( - [Ola to deliver free oxygen concentrators, Razorpay raises Covid relief fund]( - [In Brief: DRDO develops tech to detect Covid-19 via X rays; Clubhouse beta on android]( - [BharatPe raises debt capital from Northern Arc]( Money - [SoftBank moves InMobi to Vision Fund 2 portfolio, ups Fund 2 target to $30 bn]( - [Myelin Foundry, ElecTorq, Upswing raise early-stage capital]( - [Matrix Partners, Elevation Capital infuse seed capital in SaaS startup SuperOps.ai]( - [Cron AI, Locobuzz, Enthu.ai, Geekster, Pixuate, Ingenium secure early-stage funds]( - [Falcon Edge arm leads $28 mn round in social commerce platform DealShare]( - [Miles Software’s Milan Ganatra picks up stake in Nazara subsidiary]( - [RuleZero, Rubix Data Sciences, Eekifoods raise funds; ANS Commerce acquihires Asterro]( - [Fuel delivery startup FuelBuddy buys YC backed peer MyPetrolPump]( Others - [Yotta Infrastructure appoints new executive vice president]( - [Infosys strikes digital transformation deal with Britvic]( - [How stakeholder engagement can help provide intelligent automation success]( - [Centre okays Telangana’s drone trials for vaccine delivery]( [KEEP READING]( [vccircle]( Tel: +91- 011-49711180, +91- 011-68132900, Email: subscription@vccircle.com [linkedin]( [facebook]( VCCircle.com | Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt Ltd, 17, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase III, Delhi, DL 110091 India [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Our Privacy Policy]( | [Constant Contact Data Notice]( Sent by newsletter@vccircle.net powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try email marketing for free today!](