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PwC <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> on Tuesday announced to acquire <keyword id="14250220" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="venerate" source="Orion">Venerate</keyword> Solutions, a Salesforce consulting firm in the country, for an undisclosed sum. Venerate and its team of consultants and developers will integrate with PwC India's Salesforce practice post the acquisition, as PwC invests in the area of digital transformation and strategic alliances. "Venerate will augment our Salesforce consulting practice with significant end-to-end capabilities in the areas of platform engineering, and cloud and managed services, thereby bolstering our ambitions as a community of problem solvers," said <keyword id="225165" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sanjeev-krishan" source="Orion">Sanjeev Krishan</keyword>, Chairman, PwC in India. Founded in 2016 in Bengaluru, Venerate builds and deploys cutting-edge customised solutions on the Salesforce platform across multiple clouds including Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Vlocity Industry Cloud and various integration tools. These solutions help organisations reimagine the customer experience, seamlessly ramp up sales and support their growth journeys. <keyword id="257235" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="partho-bhattacharya" source="Orion">Partho Bhattacharya</keyword>, CEO, Venerate and <keyword id="2591864" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="biswanath-bhattacharya" source="Orion">Biswanath Bhattacharya</keyword>, Founder and Director, believe that "Venerate's strengths combined with PwC India's extensive reach will provide tremendous opportunities, both for clients and talent alike". "This acquisition marks the beginning of the inorganic growth aspirations of the advisory business in India. More such opportunities are being actively evaluated in the cyber, ESG, cloud and analytics domain," informed Arnab Basu, Leader- Advisory, PwC India. The transaction is expected to close in the coming few weeks, subject to approvals. ALSO SEE: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/youre-too-gay-for-this-ad-and-other-ways-indian-showbiz-ignores-lgbtq-artists/articleshow/92355377.cms">You’re too gay for this ad, and other ways Indian showbiz ignores LGBTQ+ artists</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/indias-tech-talent-pool-is-from-vizag-indore-and-warangal-thats-where-infosys-tcs-and-others-are-heading/articleshow/92351346.cms">India’s tech talent pool is from Vizag, Indore and Warangal — that’s where Infosys, TCS and others are heading</a>

PwC India acquires salesforce consulting firm, Venerate Solution

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Shireen Nagdive worked as a software engineer in India when she applied for a master's in the US.</li><li>She told Business Insider it was a big risk taking out a $59,000 loan for her studies.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 29-year-old Shireen Nagdive from Kalyan, India, about her experience moving to the US and working for Salesforce. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up in a very small town in India called Kalyan, near Mumbai. I've been interested in computers since I was a child and wanted to pursue a career in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/computer-science-job-market-was-tougher-than-i-expected-2023-12">computer science</a> since the eighth grade.I did my bachelor's degree in computer science at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indians-leaving-big-tech-to-launch-startups-back-home-2024-9">India</a> from 2012 to 2016. In the last year of my course, I got an offer as a software engineer for a multinational company in India.I'm the first woman in my family to graduate from college and work for a big corporation.<h2 id="a8a22fef-ba92-45d4-8510-b66557966d2f">I applied for a master's in the US</h2>I moved in with some roommates from work. They were all sitting the graduate record examination, which can help with admissions to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/graduate-school-masters-mba-college-regret-2024-7">business schools in the US</a>.I'd never heard of it. No one close to me had pursued a career outside our hometown, let alone in the US.At 23, I knew I wanted to spend my whole career in tech, and it seemed like a good time to study for a couple of years in the US. I wanted to deepen my understanding of computer science and work on more complex projects. I decided to do the exam and see what happened. Every day after my 9-to-5, I'd study for the exam.I sat the exam and got decent marks, so I applied for several master's degrees in computer science in the US in 2017. I had a rough idea of how expensive they were, but I didn't know how I'd pay for them. I got into the computer science master's program at Stony Brook College in New York to start in 2018.<h2 id="e52405e2-72cb-4d22-aabd-529d38764bc3">I took a big risk taking out a loan</h2>I'd funded my examination and college application fees through my job, but I had no idea how I would finance a master's degree in America.The course fees were $59,000. That is a lot of money, which my family didn't have.I'd have to take on a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/professor-student-loan-debt-suddenly-forgiven-2024-8">lot of debt</a>. One option was to take out a collateral loan on our family home. The bank would be able to take the property as collateral if I didn't make my payments. My dad and I discussed this, but we didn't want our only house to be an asset on the loan.I decided to take out a non-collateral loan to cover the fee cost, which has a higher interest rate.Relatives asked me why I was taking on so much debt for my education instead of buying a house in India, building my own company, or making an investment. My dad, who had paid for my bachelor's degree, was worried, but my mom encouraged him to trust me.I questioned whether it was worth it, but I wanted to invest in myself. I thought: "If I don't take this risk now, I will regret it for the rest of my life."To counteract my doubts, I developed a calculated risk framework. What would be the worst thing that could happen, and how I would resolve it?The worst-case scenario was that I didn't get a job in the US, and it would take me a lot longer to repay my debt, including more interest. My solution was to return to India, where I knew I could get work. It might take me a decade to repay my debt, but at least I'd have no regrets.<h2 id="2e018fd4-9e86-4790-b36d-30a1edca9c44">I focused on what I could control</h2>I'd never been to the US before, but my debts scared me more than moving to a new country. Stony Brook is in New York. I visualized skyscrapers like in movies, but the college was actually in Long Island. My room was cramped. I initially wondered why I had come, but I made friends and adjusted to the city.Two weeks after I started, my friend and I wanted to try out salsa classes. That day, I heard from my roommates that someone on the course had already landed an internship with Microsoft. I hadn't even started preparing to apply to internships. I ditched the salsa and told myself I'd focus solely on my applications to tech jobs and interview preparation.Landing an internship could help my résumé and could be converted into a full-time offer. I worked day and night at college and gave my 100%. Working so hard on application alongside my course and assignments was pretty stressful. All the computer science students worked and lived on the same campus – it felt competitive, but also motivating.I was often homesick and called my parents daily. I liked hearing about what they had for lunch and dinner, just the basic things.<h2 id="af48b5f8-1d58-4940-a393-2a3efa2f747a">I landed a job with Salesforce</h2>I got an internship with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ping-pong-work-flexible-2024-7">Salesforce</a> in the summer of 2019 while doing my master's. It was in Washington state. I got to work on a project. I realized it was a great place for engineering and innovation and I really liked the culture. It helped me figure out I wanted to work on the backend side of things, on large scale systems.My manager was a great mentor and when I finished the project, I was offered a full-time role on the technical team that aligned with my interests. It was based in the Bay Area.I felt so relieved, and happy that my hard work had finally paid off. Not only could I repay my debt, but I could contribute to a great tech product at Salesforce.<h2 id="8a98083b-2e92-4cf4-85d8-b5f826c379d4">I moved to Silicon Valley</h2>I moved to the Bay Area in February 2020. I realized how much <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-new-york-london-tech-where-to-live-2024-8">tech innovation is happening in the area</a> and how many opportunities there were to build relationships with people in the industry. But I was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/moved-to-us-from-india-big-tech-changed-me-2024-7">homesick</a> because I couldn't travel home to India during the pandemic.I managed to pay back my loan in 2020.I've been here for four years, with Salesforce sponsoring my visa. I'm enjoying life in the US and haven't got plans to return to India. I'll figure that out in a couple of years.I'm so grateful I get to work with smart engineers on my team on a daily basis. I've seen an improvement in my problem-solving and communication skills in engineering.Last year, I was able to bring my parents to the US for a holiday. It was a dream for me to show them around all the beautiful places in California. I've grown so much over the last few years both as a software engineer and as a person. Starting from scratch in a new country makes you tough. I'm so glad I invested in myself.For other students who don't have a family background where they know how to figure all this out, if I can achieve my <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-american-dream-gen-zers-flexibility-freedom-individualism-2023-5">American dream</a>, you can too.If you've taken a significant career risk and would like to share your story, email <a target="_blank" href="mailto:ehopkins@businessinsider.com">ehopkins@businessinsider.com</a>.

I moved to the US from India and took out a $59K loan to follow my dream of landing a job in Big Tech. My risk paid off. 

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="http://www.apimages.com/Search?query=APTOPIX+and+mediatype+%3D+photo+and+not+%22APTOPIX.JPG%22+and+not+mediatype+%3D+collection+&amp;ss=10&amp;st=kw&amp;entitysearch=&amp;toItem=18&amp;orderBy=Newsfeed">Reuters/Pablo Martinez Monsivais</a>Sculptures made entirely of Lego bricks, created by contemporary artist Nathan Sawaya, are seen at the White House in Washington.</div></div></div>Here is what you need to know.<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/india-rbi-rates-economy-idINKCN1240QR">India cut rates</a>. The Reserve Bank of India unexpectedly lowered its repo rate 25 basis points to 6.25% at Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel's first policy meeting. The Indian rupee is weaker by 0.1% at 66.5425 per dollar. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/rba-october-interest-rate-decision-2016-10">The Reserve Bank of Australia kept policy on hold</a>. Australia's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at 1.50%, as expected, while noting, "Part-time employment has been growing strongly, while growth in full-time employment has been subdued." The Australian dollar is little changed at .7670 against the US dollar. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-pound-hits-new-31-year-low-on-october-4-2016-10?r=UK&amp;IR=T">The British pound is the lowest it's been since 1985</a>. Sterling is down 0.7% at 1.2756 versus the dollar despite Britain's construction PMI surging back into expansionary territory with a print of 52.3, well ahead of the 49.0 that economists had been expecting.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-analysis-ownership-of-us-corporate-equity-market-2016-10">Goldman Sachs says big money investors are dumping stocks</a>. The investment bank says mutual funds could be net sellers of stocks for the first time in four years. "Low levels of equity fund cash and significant outflows from mutual funds drive our mutual fund net equity purchases forecast of -$25 billion in 2016," Goldman's chief US equity strategist, David Kostin, wrote in a client note on Friday.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/deutsche-bank-share-price-movement-on-tuesday-october-2016-10">Deutsche Bank has surrendered most of its gains</a>. Shares of the investment bank are up 0.6% in Germany after opening to a gain of about 3%. Tuesday's advance comes after German markets were closed on Monday for Reunification Day.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-brief-salesforcecom-to-acquire-krux-2016-10">Salesforce is buying Krux for about $700 million</a>. Salesforce has agreed to pay about $340 million in cash plus stock for Krux, a company that monitors traffic across multiple devices, TechCrunch reports.<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-04/manhattan-apartment-sales-plunge-20-as-homebuyers-get-pickier">Manhattan apartment sales tumbled</a>. Sales of existing condos and co-ops sank 20% year-over-year in the third quarter and the number of apartments listed for sale are up 53% compared to 2013, Bloomberg reports, citing data from Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.Stock markets around the world are higher. Japan's Nikkei (+0.8%) was out front in Asia and Britain's FTSE (+1.6%) leads the way in Europe. S&amp;P 500 futures are up 2.50 points at 2,155.75.Earnings reporting is light. Darden Restaurants reports ahead of the opening bell and Micron Technology releases its quarterly results after markets close.US economic data trickles out. US crude oil inventories will be released at 10:30 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is little changed at 1.62%.

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FMCG major <keyword id="6356830" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="nestle-india" source="Orion">Nestle India</keyword> is increasing the number of its women employees as part of its gender diversity efforts. Presently, around 23 per cent of <keyword id="75190" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="nestle" source="Orion">Nestle</keyword> <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>'s workforce are women, its Chairman and Managing Director <keyword id="2691730" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="suresh-narayanan" source="Orion">Suresh Narayanan</keyword> said on Monday. "We moved a fair degree on this. When I came to Nestle India in 2015, at that time we were at about 15-16 per cent. We have moved now to 23 per cent," Narayanan told reporters at a virtual media roundtable. Nestle India, which currently operates eight plants in the country and will soon commission the ninth, employs over 7,700 people. "That is not the end, we would like to do much better than this. And in fact last year in 2020, 42 per cent of all the recruitment that we did within the company were women candidates and it is a trend that is continuing this year as well," Narayanan added. At Nestle's new plant in Sanand, Gujarat, which will manufacture its range of popular instant noodles <keyword id="6369404" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="maggi" source="Orion">Maggi</keyword>, 62 per cent of the employees would be female. "One of the epitomes of diversity for the company would be getting commissioned in the next few weeks. Our factory in Sanand is almost near completion. 62 per cent of the Sanand factory workforce would be women," he said. Nestle is investing around Rs 700 crore in the Sanand plant. Besides, Narayanan said Nestle India has invested about Rs 300 crore so far on augmenting capacity of its existing plants. This is part of its earlier announced plans to invest Rs 2,600 crore in the next three-four years. Nestle India has also submitted proposals for the government's Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for the food processing sector. However, he did not divulge any details. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/salesforce-ventures-backs-indian-payments-giant-razorpay-as-it-looks-to-expand-further-outside-india/articleshow/86388953.cms">Salesforce Ventures backs Indian payments giant RazorPay as it looks to expand further outside India</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-sends-legal-notice-to-lawyer-who-alleged-nord-2-explosion-asks-him-to-remove-tweets-and-offer-an-apology/articleshow/86388611.cms">OnePlus sends legal notice to lawyer who alleged Nord 2 explosion — asks him to remove tweets and offer an apology</a>

Maggi maker Nestle says more than 60% of its employees at its new plant in Gujarat would be women

Brisbane, India on Tuesday became the first team to beat Australia at The Gabba in over 32 years when they defeated the hosts by three wickets in the fourth and final Test and clinched the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1. Chasing 328, India achieved the target in 97 overs with <keyword id="3142448" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rishabh-Pant">Rishabh Pant</keyword> remaining unbeaten on 89. Shubman Gill and <keyword id="75027" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Cheteshwar-Pujara">Cheteshwar Pujara</keyword> also scored 91 and 56 runs respectively. <keyword id="41288" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Indies">West Indies</keyword> were the last one to beat Australia at what is considered a fortress for the Australian team. In all, Australia had won 40 out of the 62 games they played at the venue prior to this match, losing just eight. Four of those losses have come against England while three came against West Indies, the last of which was in 1988. One came against <keyword id="22501" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="New-Zealand">New Zealand</keyword>. India have played seven matches, losing five, drawing one and winning the one in the ongoing series. This is also the first time Australia have not won at The Gabba since 2012. Back in November 2012, they had drawn against South Africa. Following that draw, they beat England (twice), India, New Zealand, <keyword id="3001" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword> (twice) and Sri Lanka. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/budget/news/indian-government-budget-dilemma-curb-the-sale-of-cigarettes-or-let-the-over-12-billion-tobacco-industry-provide-the-much-needed-cash/articleshow/80340422.cms">Indian government’s budget dilemma – curb the sale of cigarettes or let the over $12 billion tobacco industry provide the much needed cash</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/zoom-dropbox-backer-salesforce-ventures-makes-its-first-investment-in-india-in-hr-tech-startup-darwinbox-which-claims-to-have-grown-by-200-during-lockdown/articleshow/80341562.cms">Zoom, Dropbox backer Salesforce Ventures makes its first investment in India in HR tech startup Darwinbox, which claims to have grown by 200% during lockdown</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/home-first-finance-company-hffc-is-set-to-launch-its-1153-crore-ipo-on-january-21/articleshow/80341439.cms?upcache=2">Warburg Pincus-backed Home First Finance Company to launch ₹1,153 crore IPO on January 21</a>

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It’s not one or two, but half a dozen! That’s the number of startups, <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword> based IT <keyword id="6556311" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Major">major</keyword>, <keyword id="6354512" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Infosys">Infosys</keyword> is looking to <keyword id="47916" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="invest">invest</keyword> on. Keeping a budget of $250 million (Rs 1,580 crore), Infosys is evaluating the start up firms. 
 
As per a news report by The Economic Times, India's second-largest software exporter is also finalising an agreement to sign up for software products think-tank iSpirt's mergers and acquisitions program to connect with early-stage product companies, sources informed the ET. 
 At a time when <keyword id="6360722" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ratan-tata">Ratan Tata</keyword> and Amabnis are looking up to the startup ventures, increase in non -traditional technology solutions to solve new-age business problems are making IT companies look for an option for a viable collaboration 
 The ET news report reads, Infosys is keen on investing on startups that have a profile similar to that of enterprise software maker <keyword id="2211555" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="SirionLabs">SirionLabs</keyword>, a technology developing firm. Analytics and artificial intelligence are the key focus areas for Infosys. 
 
 
"The discussions are still at a very early stage," the sources informed the financial daily. "Most of the startups that companies like Infosys are looking to tap are incorporated in India, with their founders based out of the Silicon Valley." 
 <keyword id="2825391" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yusuf-Bashir">Yusuf Bashir</keyword>, newly-appointed <keyword id="6411847" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="head">head</keyword> of Infosys's $500-million startup fund, visited Bengaluru in April to meet members of iSpirt's M&amp;A team and evaluate how to best tap into India's software product ecosystem. iSpirt executives also met Kaustav Mitra, vice-president, innovation ecosystems at Infosys. Like Bashir, Mitra too was a former colleague of Infosys <keyword id="24211" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="chief-executive">chief executive</keyword> <keyword id="6369763" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vishal-Sikka">Vishal Sikka</keyword> at <keyword id="6358384" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="SAP">SAP</keyword>. 
 iSpirt's M&amp;A connect program has a curated list of nearly 100 early-stage software companies under a business exchange program that typically connects large enterprises such as <keyword id="10875" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IBM">IBM</keyword> and SAP with early-stage startups that are building disruptive software solutions. Companies like IBM, SAP, <keyword id="28115" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Intel">Intel</keyword>, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Flipkart and <keyword id="155484" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Salesforce">Salesforce</keyword> are members. 
 
According to the ET, Infosys expanded the size and scope of its startup fund by five times to $500 million in January. Later, Sikka pledged to invest $250 million in Indian startups in the first such commitment by a cash-rich software services company. 
 
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Thursday, the customer management and messaging startup Yalochat announced $15 million in fresh funding led by <keyword id="3371559" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="B-Capital">B Capital</keyword> Group, which was cofounded by Facebook cofounder <keyword id="299675" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Eduardo-Saverin">Eduardo Saverin</keyword>.</li><li>Yalochat is taking on the likes of Salesforce and ServiceNow by helping companies manage customers through messaging apps like <keyword id="790242" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="WhatsApp">WhatsApp</keyword>.</li><li>Yalochat focuses on emerging markets like Latin America and Asia, and it plans to use its funding for global expansion.</li></ul>The Mexican startup Yalochat just scored a new round of funding for its mission to take on companies like ServiceNow and Salesforce with a completely different way of managing customers. Yalochat builds a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps businesses use chat apps like WhatsApp to manage sales operations and customer service, and it focuses on emerging markets like Latin America and Asia. On Thursday, it announced a $15 million funding round led by B Capital Group — which was cofounded by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin — with participation from Sierra Ventures. This is B Capital's first investment in Latin America, where Saverin is from. Yalochat has raised a total of $25 million, but declined to share its valuation. Founder and CEO Javier Mata came up with the idea because of how incredibly popular WhatsApp and similar messaging apps are in Latin America and Asia: Why not help companies use those apps to facilitate interactions with their customers? Yalochat has won over customers like Coca-Cola, Amazon, Pepsi, Domino's, and Walmart, and can help all these large companies sell products to mom-and-pop shops that may not have established websites or apps."We believe that is a simpler model," Mata told Business Insider."It has worked very well for companies that worked with us to run the most critical operations on messaging apps," <h2>Taking on Salesforce and ServiceNow</h2>Mata says while customer relationship management has long been led by companies like ServiceNow and Salesforce, their software is built with salespeople in mind, instead of the customers that those salespeople are actually selling to. By building on top of messaging apps, Yalochat is meeting "As we build this company, we see that this is a new way of operating on top of messaging," Mata said. "We take the user perspective and not the technology perspective as one of the key things that allowed us to go further than our competitors. We managed to understand that ultimately it needed to be easy for users to use in order for this to work out."Yalochat saw a 650% increase in messages on its app during the coronavirus crisis, and Mata theorized that Yalochat's usage continued to grow because it became clear to companies that they needed to make their business digital in order to stay running. And with Yalochat, they don't need to download a brand new app, but can simply use the messaging apps they already have. "Now that the dust has settled, you can see what types of companies are growing," Mata said. "That ultimately allowed us to get the funding."<h2>'Everyone thought we were crazy'</h2>Yalochat originally launched in Mexico City, and eventually expanded to other markets worldwide. Mata says in the beginning, "everyone thought we were crazy" to launch in emerging markets, as most major <keyword id="286636" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Enterprise-Software">enterprise software</keyword> companies come out of the US or Europe.However, he says ultimately, it paid off. With the funding, Yalochat plans to expand globally and make its platform available to more non-developers. Today, Yalochat has offices across North America, Latin America, India, and more.Mata says to raise funding, Yalochat mapped out the types of investors it wanted and connected with investors in its network. He was especially looking for investors that believe successful companies can be built out of anywhere. "They believe not all companies need to come out of Silicon Valley to be successful," Mata said. "We want to inspire companies in Latin America and India that companies can be built out of these markets and impact the lives of many people around the world."Got a tip? Contact this reporter via email at <a href="mailto:rmchan@businessinsider.com">rmchan@businessinsider.com</a>, Signal at 646.376.6106, Telegram at @rosaliechan, or Twitter DM at <a href="https://twitter.com/rosaliechan17">@rosaliechan17</a>. (PR pitches by email only, please.) Other types of secure messaging available upon request.

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New Delhi, Experienced speedster <keyword id="11685" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ishant-Sharma">Ishant Sharma</keyword>, who missed the just concluded Australia tour due to an injury, was on Tuesday included in an 18-member Indian squad named for the first two Test matches against <keyword id="6355981" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="england">England</keyword>, starting on February 5 in Chennai. Both matches will be played in Chennai. Squad: <keyword id="6354486" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="virat-kohli">Virat Kohli</keyword> (captain), <keyword id="13937" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rohit-Sharma">Rohit Sharma</keyword>, Shubman Gill, <keyword id="433888" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mayank-Agarwal">Mayank Agarwal</keyword>, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, <keyword id="3142448" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rishabh-Pant">Rishabh Pant</keyword>, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul, <keyword id="1627109" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jasprit-Bumrah">Jasprit Bumrah</keyword>, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Standbyes: KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Abhimanya Easwaran, Shahbaz Nadeem, Rahul Chahar Net bowlers: Ankit Rajpoot, Avesh Khan, <keyword id="1465956" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sandeep-Warrier">Sandeep Warrier</keyword>, K Gowtham, Saurabh Kumar SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/zoom-dropbox-backer-salesforce-ventures-makes-its-first-investment-in-india-in-hr-tech-startup-darwinbox-which-claims-to-have-grown-by-200-during-lockdown/articleshow/80341562.cms">Zoom, Dropbox backer Salesforce Ventures makes its first investment in India in HR tech startup Darwinbox, which claims to have grown by 200% during lockdown</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/home-first-finance-company-hffc-is-set-to-launch-its-1153-crore-ipo-on-january-21/articleshow/80341439.cms?upcache=2">Warburg Pincus-backed Home First Finance Company to launch ₹1,153 crore IPO on January 21</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/top-ten-likely-global-risks-in-2021-according-to-the-world-economic-forum/slidelist/80346013.cms">From climate action failure to monopoly in the tech world — the world needs to wake up to these global risks in 2021, says the World Economic Forum</a>

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