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With the advent of new age startups who are focusing on core innovation, we thought it was befitting to have a sound panel discussion on “Indian Science & Engineering: A new age dawns” on the occasion of our annual flagship event – “Blume Day…

The Next Billion Users or NBUs has been a hot topic in the Indian startup ecosystem. Given the many questions milling around this topic, and with a view to clarify this concept, we hosted a panel discussion on this topic on ‘Blume Day’ – our annual flagship…

At our recent Blume Day, we had a fascinating panel discussion attempting answers to the question of whether global consumer internet winners will emerge out of India? If so, when? If you scrolled through the list of apps on your phone, it would be really hard to find…

The Blume Day tee shirt tradition is well and alive. Celebrating our 8th Blume Day and the 5th year of tees now, the message is not simply a catch phrase every year but one that underlines a strong belief at the Blume partnership level. The hand that we are playing reads I N…

Mobility in India has come a long way since Blume’s maiden investments in ride-hailing aggregator TaxiForSure and intracity logistics provider Roadrunnr (later Runnr). The former was acquired by Ola in 2015 and the latter now functions as the core food-delivery arm of…

The 8th Blume Day held on 28th Feb, 2019, saw a fascinating discussion amongst the panel comprising Blume’s fintech portfolio. The panel comprised Puneet Gupta of Kaleidofin, Sampad Swain of Instamojo, Rajan Bajaj of Slicepay and Dhirendra Mahyavanshi of Turtlemint, and…

AI (Artificial Intelligence) & Machine Learning (ML) have certainly been a booming topic of discussion amongst the startup ecosystem across the world. In most ecosystems and in almost every new age startup, AI / ML have almost become a hygiene parameter. With this…

“Justdial for millennials” is how Suchita Salwan, the co-founder of Little Black Book (LBB) described her initial vision behind the venture. Just like LBB, most mature marketplace startups have not just diversified their product offerings but also evolved their…

Approaching end of 2018, Blume launched a series of thematic events called ‘Chai & Chatter’, where founders, investors, and the startup ecosystem can come together to discuss and exchange notes on topical sectors, once a month. Our first Chai & Chatter…

Ethereal Machines is part of the broad of tools and machinery market. This, being ancillary to the manufacturing industry, is a very large market across the world. Just 3D printing machinery and supplies have an immense impact on manufacturing across the world and the market…