🌙 Celebrating Eid-al-Fitr with food

Start Your Day with YS Buzz: Your 8 AM Snapshot of Today's Top Startup News! 11 April 2024 [View in Browser]( Hello, The battle for iPhone manufacturing. Apple Inc is increasingly looking to diversify its supply chain beyond China—the largest iPhone-making hub in the world—with India emerging as its new hub. According to [Bloomberg News]( Apple assembled $14 billion worth of iPhones in India in fiscal 2024—as much as 14% or about 1 in 7 of its marquee devices. Foxconn assembled nearly 67% while Pegatron Corp made about 17% of the India-made iPhones. Wistron Corp's plant in Karnataka, which the Tata Group took over last year, made the remaining. In other news, Mumbai AI startup [Neysa]( raised $20 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners India, Nexus Venture Partners, Menlo Park, and California-based NTTVC. Also, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund bought a majority stake in digital infrastructure company [iBus Network and Infrastructure]( for $200 million to support its growth. Meanwhile, a new study has found that the highly adaptable [octopuses]( could lose vision and struggle to survive due to heat stress by the end of the century if ocean temperatures continue to rise at the projected rate. Lastly, why do we die? This [Nobel Award]( scientist explains. In today’s newsletter, we will talk about - Celebrating Eid-al-Fitr with food - Cornerstone Ventures launches fund - Traditional weaving with DIY kits Here’s your trivia for today: When was the wreck of the RMS Titanic discovered? --------------------------------------------------------------- Wine and Food Celebrating Eid-al-Fitr with food it’s the iftar (the fast-breaking evening meal) during Ramadan or the lavish spread whipped up to culminate the end of the fasting month, on Eid-al-Fitr (also known as Meethi Eid)—every Muslim household has its unique family recipe for celebration. As we celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, we take a look at some of the celebratory dishes that are part of Muslim households across India. Nosh on: - Every Eid has its own religious and cultural significance. Meethi Eid, as the name signifies, encourages Muslims to start the day with something sweet. - Chef and author Taiyaba Ali, who belongs to Lucknow, remembers her family starting their day with seviyan made in milk, a sweet dish starkly different from sheer khurma. - In South India, Muslims often indulge in jaalar vada (lattice patterned pancakes), and wattalapam, a coconut custard pudding. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Investor Cornerstone Ventures launches fund VC firm Cornerstone Ventures launched its second fund with a corpus of $200 million to invest in B2B enterprise-tech startups. The VC firm is looking to invest $5 million to $15 million in a mix of early-growth-stage and scaled startups from the fund. Key takeaways: - Cornerstone Ventures's second fund will focus on backing up-and-coming B2B tech prospects in finance, retail, healthcare, distribution and supply chain, consumer goods, and ecommerce sectors. - The VC firm's first fund, launched in mid-2019, invested $50 million across 21 companies, mostly focused on B2B enterprise SaaS. - Cornerstone Venture's portfolio companies include Dealhub, Gravitas.io, DBMaestro, and Squaretalk. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Women entrepreneur Traditional weaving with DIY kits Ramachandran started Raatai after she found that traditional handloom weaving had taken a hit in her village. Hailing from a weaver community, she discovered that the number of handlooms in her village had dwindled from 7,500 to 2,500. Raatai offers DIY handloom kits that can be used by children and adults. Saving crafts: - Raatai’s WeaveMate comes with a loom frame and a minimum quantity of naturally dyed yarn. It can be used to make small wallets, purses, wall hangings, and pouches. - Its WeaveAlly, another product, can be used to make handbags, stoles, and slightly bigger products. Its third offering, WeaveFit, is customisable and can be used to even weave dhotis and sarees. - The portable looms come with a user manual and a QR code that takes the user to a YouTube video on how to assemble and use the loom. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- From the CapTable Funding for Indian startups is back* Last month’s news that Tiger Global and SoftBank were considering investing in e-commerce platform Meesho was something of a watershed moment. The two investors, renowned for backing many of the country’s biggest startup successes, had refrained from investing in India for over 18 months. For beleaguered startups that had endured two years of a gruelling funding winter, it signalled that, perhaps, the worst was now behind them. Indeed, following these reports, the subsequent week saw a flurry of funding announcements, particularly for late-stage companies. From Purplle and HealthKart to Zepto and even Sachin Bansal's bootstrapped fintech Navi, the late-stage market suddenly appeared to be bustling with activity. "We are so back," exclaimed a venture capital investor who spoke to The CapTable around this time. While signs of recovery in funding are evident, initial discussions suggest that investment metrics such as revenue multiples are likely to differ significantly from the boom town witnessed in the pandemic era. Key Takeaways: - In March, India’s startup ecosystem saw 11 deals in the range of $20-50 million, two between $50-100 million, and three exceeding $100 million. - While big-ticket deals seem to have made a comeback, the exuberance of the pandemic era remains miles away. - Moreover, a significant portion of the funding is going towards secondaries, and investors seem to be backing only financially robust companies. - Importantly, investors remain cautious about the actual monetisable internet market in the country and are offering significantly lower revenue multiples than in 2021. [Continue Reading]( --------------------------------------------------------------- News & Updates - [Downgrade:]( Credit rating agency Fitch cut its outlook on China's sovereign credit rating to negative, citing risks to public finances as the economy faces increasing uncertainty in its shift to new growth models. The outlook downgrade follows a similar move by Moody's in December. - [Correction:]( Chipmaking giant Nvidia has entered “correction territory,” with its shares now down 10% from its most recent all-time closing high of more than $950 apiece. The company, which makes GPUs, has been a key beneficiary of the AI boom, which boosted demand for its chips. - [Warnings:]( The IMF said that aggressive use of industrial policy by the world’s most powerful economies risks becoming an expensive mistake that could trigger a tit-for-tat subsidy war. It added attempts to increase innovation only worked under certain limited conditions and were not a “magic cure” for slow growth. Did you know? When was the wreck of the RMS Titanic discovered? Answer: September 1, 1985. Robert Ballard led the American-French expedition that finally located the wreckage, some 13 nautical miles from the position given in the distress signals. The first items found were the ship’s giant boilers. 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