Six startups to receive equity-free seed funding from Google Six Indian startups will be given $50,000 in equity-free seed funding under Google's Launchpad Accelerator programme at Silicon Valley in California, starting June 2016, according to the company website. These include Taskbob - a home services startup and Programming Hub - programming language tutorial app from Mumbai, PlaySimple Games - mobile social games building firm and ShareChat - social networking chat platform from Bangalore, and RedCarpet - online credit firm and MagicPin - online promotions platform from Delhi. The six-month-long mentorship programme will also include a two-week all-expenses paid training at the Google headquarters, six months of ongoing mentorship and access to Google’s full suite of Launchpad initiatives, and connections and product credits including Google Cloud and other products. This will be the second batch of Indian startups, joining 18 other new companies from Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico. The Launchpad Accelerator programme kicked off on January 18th, 2016 in Silicon Valley with its first batch of companies, specifically targeting those with a product already in place and primed to scale. According to Google, they are currently looking at technical startups from Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico only but will soon be expanding to more countries. *** Unacademy raises $500K in seed funding led by Blume Ventures Education technology platform Unacademy has raised $500,000(about Rs 3.3 crore) in seed capital, through a funding round led by Blume Ventures, along with angel investors including Rajan Anandan (Google), Sumit Jain (CommonFloor), Aprameya Radhakrishna (Taxi4Sure), Sujeet Kumar (earlier Flipkart), Phanindra Sama (RedBus) among others. According to inc42, the funds will be used for…
