Category: Technology

Technopark-based Zafin Technologies acquires Canadian fintech firm

Trivandrum Life

Thiruvananthapuram, January 27, 2022: Technopark based IT firm Zafin Technologies, the world’s leading SaaS cloud-native product and pricing platform for banks and credit unions, announced it has acquired FINCAD, a global leader in pricing and risk analytics of financial derivatives and fixed income products. By acquiring Canada based FINCAD, Zafin expands its product portfolio and analytics capabilities to become one of Canada’s largest B2B fintech companies with significant global presence including more than 450 institutional clients, over 60 ecosystem partners, and more than 500 employees spread out across 13 global…

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Anand Mahindra invests in Trivandrum-based startup

Jisha Surya

TrivandrumLife>> It began with a tweet of businessman Anand Mahindra in June last year. Fed up with reports of deaths of sanitation workers during cleaning of septic tanks, Mahindra wondered what was preventing widespread adoption of scavenging machine ‘Bandicoot’ developed by a group of young students. “If funding is needed to produce in scale, count me in,” he had tweeted. Following this tweet, chief executive officer of Genrobotics Vimal Govind M K didn’t think twice before sending a mail to Mahindra. Now, Bandicoot has won Rs 2.5 crore investment from…

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Startup Mission invites startups for virtual expo of products for industry

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KSUM invites startups for virtual expo of products for industry  TrivandrumLife>> Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) has invited startups to showcase their innovative products and services developed for industry through a virtual exhibition to be held from October 19 to 21. The expo will be conducted as part of the third edition of the ‘Big Demo Day’ series of KSUM. Startups from healthcare, consumer technology, Internet of things (IoT) and robotics sectors can participate in the ensuing edition of the event. The virtual expo is aimed at presenting a slew of…

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Blockchain Academy launches online course

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Kerala Blockchain Accademy

Offering a unique digital learning experience in a new-age technology, Kerala Blockchain Academy (KBA) under the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala (IIITM-K) has launched an online course to impart blockchain knowledge — a ‘break the chain’ initiative to fend off coronavirus. The course,CBA Online Programme, will benefit students, developers, entrepreneurs, business analysts and others keen to explore and leverage the enormous global potential of blockchain technology with applications in a diverse range of sectors such as banking, healthcare, governance, insurance, education, smartcity, and supply chain. “The mission is…

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ICFOSS invites applications for online courses

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ICFOSS Trivandrum

TrivandrumLife.com>> International Centre for Free and Open Source Software ICFOSS), Kerala’s Free and Open Source software promotion agency,  has invited applications for online Certificate Courses, commencing on May 21. The courses will be in Python Programming Language and Machine Learning. The syllabi of these courses, to be conducted in interactive mode through Moodle, have been designed to suit teachers as well as students. The duration of the courses will be three hours each for seven days. While the Python Language Programming course will be held from 10 am to 1…

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