Early-stage venture capital fund Ideaspring Capital has invested $600,000 in Lavelle Networks, a Bengaluru-based startup in the software defined networking (SDN) space. The startup was also announced as part of Microsoft Accelerator's latest batch this week. Lavelle Networks, which offers an SDN platform to help enterprises securely connect multiple locations...

Fintech, AI and B2B seem to be the name of the game for 2017. Today, Microsoft announced its accelerator programme with 14 B2B startups. Apart from being in the B2B space, these 14 startups have another thing in common – they all have an artificial intelligence and machine learning startups...