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Meera Srikant has been working with publishers and publications since 1993, writing and editing articles, features and stories across topics. She also blogs and writes poems, novels and short stories during leisure. Writing for The Smart CEO since 2010, she is also a classical dancer.

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Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

LINKING THE LAST MILE

Jun 20, 2016

LINKING THE LAST MILE

Porter, which was recently funded by Sequoia Capital, uses technology to improve the efficiency of the LCVs, plans to expand to other tier I and II cities in the next two to…  

Meera Srikant Featured in #Growth Enterprise

GOING LOCAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

Jun 20, 2016

GOING LOCAL IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

Through its glocal approach, HCG, aims to cut the cost of cancer treatment by nearly 67 per cent. At present, the chain of hospitals has on board a team of 170 doctors…  

Meera Srikant Featured in #Growth Enterprise

Scaling up journey of Dr. Lal PathLabs

May 20, 2016

Scaling up journey of Dr. Lal PathLabs

How the diagnostics firm clocked revenues of Rs. 662 crore in FY 2015 from Rs. 43 crore in 2005 The healthcare industry in India is currently valued at Rs. 4,20,000…  

Meera Srikant Featured in #The Magazine

Credible Marketplace for Second Hand Bikes

Apr 04, 2016

Credible Marketplace for Second Hand Bikes

Backed by Fidelity Growth Partners and a stream of notable angel investors including K. Ganesh, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal and Amit Agarwal, CredR aims to bring the credibility and trust factor into selling second-hand bikes by having every bike

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Building tech-enabled safety mechanisms for Indian society

Apr 04, 2016

Building tech-enabled safety mechanisms for Indian society

Unitus Seed Fund-backed Betterplace is building a technology platform that links various government databases to conduct background verification on prospective employees in both B2B (drivers, deliver boys etc.) and B2C (tenants, maids etc.) settings

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

How Blackbuck is building a logistics company with an eye on social impact

Feb 05, 2016

How Blackbuck is building a logistics company with an eye on social impact

Backed by Accel Partners, Tiger Global & other investors, Blackbuck’s vision is to reinvent the freight-booking logistics sector, with a focus on uplifting the truck driver in the process

Meera Srikant Featured in #The Magazine #THE SMART CEO ON CAMPUS

Highlights from NIT Trichy’s Youth Business Summit

Feb 05, 2016

Highlights from NIT Trichy’s Youth Business Summit

Kumud Srinivasan, President, Intel India and Chairperson, NIT Trichy, delivered the opening keynote at the conference, which aimed to give its students a first-hand perspective of business and entrepreneurship

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Cleaning up the mess

Feb 05, 2016

Cleaning up the mess

Operating in an extremely unorganised sector, Matrix Partners-backed Housejoy aims to revolutionise the home maintenance and repair industry through service aggregation. From the current level of 4,000 orders a day it seeks to complete 1,00,000 jobs

Meera Srikant Featured in #Then & Now

All in the game

Dec 12, 2015

All in the game

By consolidating its business verticals, SportzVillage, has a renewed focus on sports education and fitness. Through EduSports, the company works with 400 schools in 100 cities impacting over 3.5 lakh students; while SportzConsult specializes in organizing sports-related events

Meera Srikant Featured in #Starting Up

Infusing home décor with tech

Dec 12, 2015

Livspace has created a technology-based home décor solutions platform, to help consumers design their homes, source the right products, and most importantly, carry out the execution