Team Indus wins $1 million for Lunar X landing prize Bangalore based startup Team Indus has won $1 million as a prize for completing an intermediate milestone, in a competition to become the first private enterprise to land a robot on the moon. The startup has been selected to compete for two milestone prizes, the landing prize and the imaging prize of which it won $1 million for landing. The startup is one of the many teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, that requires landing a robot on the moon and travel 500 meters on the surface and send data back to earth. Currently, Team Indus is one of the five teams that has developed such a robot. For each Milestone Prize category, teams carried out a number of hardware tests representative of their planned lunar mission, while sharing extensive design information and analysis with the judging panel. Corporate360 raises $200,000 from unnamed investors SaaS company Corporate360 Pte has raised $200,000 in angel funding from unnamed investors in Japan and Singapore, reports Techcircle. The startup will use the funds for launching new marketing data products and expanding its data science and sales teams. Founded in 2014 by Varun Chandran, the India and Singapore based startup recently opened an office in a rural area of South Kerala. It currently offers IT sales intelligence data services to various enterprises in the form of four products namely, Tech SalesCloud, DataFactory, Peep and SataStudio. As of now, Corporate360 claims to have…
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