Since inception two decades ago, US-based venture capital firm General Catalyst has pumped in over USD 14 billion in more than 1,000 startups globally. In recent years, it has seen some notable IPOs, including AirBnB, Vroom, Cazoo, Deliveroo and more. The fund, which invests across stages - seed to growth and beyond, recently closed its eleventh fund with a corpus of USD 4.6 billion. Its largest fundraise till date. It is out of this fund that General Catalyst seeks to actively invest in Indian startups.

Online travel company EaseMyTrip is the latest to be targeted by online trolls in what appeared to be a concerted attack. Multiple twitter accounts commented on the company's posts on the social media channel, alleging that the travel portal 'stole money' from them. The posts were picked up by Testbook’s Ravisutanjani Kumar. As per Kumar, multiple new accounts seem to have been created in June 2022, mostly using names of women. Kumar alleged that an EaseMyTrip competitor was defaming the travel company.

“We are hoping that it will be a great strategic investor. What we are thinking is this is a 20-30 year business build out. It is not a 5-6 year thing. So we are in it for the long haul,” said Shetty, the CEO of BankBazaar.com, which is backed by WSV, Experian, Eight Roads, Sequoia India, Walden International and Amazon.

For years, as a second home, the Silicon Valley has been fostering some of India's brightest minds, their technological talents and their world-changing ideas. Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Jayashree Ullal and Anjali Sud are among the growing list of Indian-origin CEOs of America's global corporate giants.