Mumbai, Sep 6: Mumbai-based m.Paani and Gurugram-based Aye Finance have been listed in 10 companies selected globally by Google for its flagship development acceleration programme "Launchpad Studio".
The "Launchpad Studio" programme brings top machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based startups from across the world and experts from Silicon Valley under the guidance of Google researchers, engineers, product managers and trusted experts.
m.Paani is India's first neighbourhood loyalty platform that focuses on empowering India's local retailers and users using ML and AI.
The start-up rewards consumers with "m.Paani points" when they shop from local retail partners across categories and help retailers grow their businesses by digitising, optimising and maximising their relationships with existing and new customers, it said in a statement on Thursday.
"We are incredibly excited to be a part of the Google Studio programme, especially as the youngest company," said Akanksha Hazari Ericson, CEO and Founder, m.Paani.
Aye Finance is a non-banking finance company (NBFC) that provides business loans to the small and micro enterprises and builds solutions, automation and processes that address the challenges that have hindered the classical financial industry.
The "Launchpad Studio" programme commenced from September 6 at Google's headquarters in San Francisco and will last for a period of four months.
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Jabalpur (PTI): Residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district set ablaze a liquor shop after the body of an 8-year-old girl was found in a lake, a police official has said.
Irate villagers, including the mother of the victim, alleged she was raped, murdered and her body thrown into the lake by a person or group of persons who had liquor at the vend, which was set on fire on Tuesday night, the official said.
"The girl's body was found on Tuesday night. A short post-mortem suggests she was physically assaulted," Jabalpur (Rural) Additional Superintendent of Police Sonali Dubey told PTI over the phone.
"The situation is under control. Police have been deployed in the village to maintain law and order. Her short post-mortem was conducted on Thursday. We are awaiting the detailed autopsy report. We are investigating whether a single person or a group committed the crime and whether she was murdered and the body thrown into the lake," Dubey said.
Some suspects have been picked up and are being questioned, the Additional SP said.
Meanwhile, MP Congress chief Jitu Patwari claimed that crime has been at a 30-year high under Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
"The people of Jabalpur must teach the BJP a lesson for such a state of affairs. CM Yadav must speak on this incident," Patwari said.