The Tech Portal
Overview
The Tech Portal, published at thetechportal.com, is an English-language digital technology news portal from India that covers startups, funding, gadgets and the wider business of technology. It is published by Blue Box Media Private Limited, a fact stated in the footer disclosure carried on its articles, and it was founded by Deepanshu Khandelwal, who is identified on the site as the founder of The Tech Portal and now serves as a consulting editor for the platform. Listed in this directory from Jaipur, Rajasthan, the portal built its reputation during the formative years of India's startup ecosystem by reporting, quickly and in detail, on funding rounds, acquisitions, product launches and accelerator programmes that larger publications often covered late or not at all.
The publication's character is that of a trade journal for the Indian technology business. Its typical article announces a development — a startup raising capital, a company acquiring another, a global technology firm launching a product or programme in India — and then explains the companies involved, the money at stake, the investors participating and the market context that makes the development matter. For founders, investors, employees and observers of Indian technology, it has functioned as a running record of how the ecosystem was financed and built.
Founding and the Blue Box Media Years
The Tech Portal's archive reaches back at least to December 2014, when it was already publishing startup funding news in its established format, and its reporting through 2015 and 2016 is extensive. Those years coincide with the first great expansion of Indian consumer internet startups, and the portal's coverage grew with them. Its founder, Deepanshu Khandelwal, is described in his site biography as having advised and worked with numerous early and mid-stage startups in diversified roles — an operator's background that fits the publication's insider orientation towards the ecosystem it covers.
The publisher, Blue Box Media Private Limited, presents the portal's editorial independence as a matter of formal policy. The disclosure carried on its articles states that The Tech Portal is published by Blue Box Media and that its investors have no influence over its reporting, with a fuller ownership and funding disclosure maintained by the company. That separation between ownership and reporting is a standard the portal chose to state publicly on the articles themselves — a notable practice for a publication whose subject matter is, in large part, the movement of investment money.
Coverage of Indian Startup Funding
Funding news is the portal's defining beat. Its mid-2010s archive is a dense chronicle of the rounds that built India's startup economy: payments company Razorpay raising a Series A round led by Tiger Global with Matrix Partners participating, and later receiving an investment from Mastercard; real estate platform Square Yards raising capital from Reliance Capital's private equity arm; industrial supplies marketplace Industrybuying raising a Series B round from Kalaari Capital and SAIF Partners; and Jaipur-based jewellery retailer Voylla raising around 15 million dollars from Peepul Capital. Each report typically sets out the amount, the investors, the company's founding year and founders, its existing backers and its plans for the money.
Read together, these reports have a value beyond the individual announcements. They document, round by round, which sectors venture capital favoured at each moment — payments, marketplaces, health technology, education, logistics — and which firms were leading the investments. For researchers and journalists reconstructing the history of Indian startups, a contemporaneous archive of this kind is a primary source, precisely because it was written at the time rather than in retrospect.
Startups, Accelerators and Ecosystem News
Beyond funding rounds, The Tech Portal covered the infrastructure of the ecosystem itself. It reported on accelerator programmes such as Pitney Bowes' programme in India, which inducted startups working in customer information management, mobile, data analytics, location-based services, e-commerce and machine learning, and connected them with mentoring, cloud credits and market access. It covered acquisitions as consolidation signals, such as health platform Practo's purchases of appointment and hospital management companies, and product and platform developments from global firms operating in India, such as Google's Android Auto launch across India and other countries.
This ecosystem coverage extended to the technologies startups were building with. A 2015 report on CraftsVilla and Voonik introducing image-based search, for example, explained computer vision in some depth — the computing power recognition requires, and the platforms supplying it — alongside the funding histories of the companies involved. The portal's writers were expected to handle both the business facts and a working explanation of the underlying technology, and its bylines reflect that: one long-serving writer, reachable at a thetechportal.in address, is described as having written about technology for more than five years and covering gadgets, startups and, in the site's phrase, the good and the bad of tech.
Gadgets and Global Technology Coverage
Although Indian startups are its home ground, The Tech Portal has never limited itself to them. Its archive includes global consumer technology reporting from the same period: Microsoft releasing touch-enabled universal Office apps for Windows 10, Razer and Bosch joining an open platform initiative for virtual reality gaming, and Google's in-car platform expanding internationally. Gadgets, operating systems and global platform moves sit alongside the funding news, giving general technology readers a reason to follow the portal as well.
The combination is deliberate. The portal's description in this directory — an English digital technology news portal covering startups and gadgets from Jaipur — captures its dual identity accurately. The startup coverage supplies depth and specialisation; the gadget and global technology coverage supplies breadth, and keeps the publication relevant to readers who follow technology as consumers rather than as industry participants.
Reporting Style and Article Format
The Tech Portal's articles follow a recognisable, businesslike format. A headline states the development plainly — company, action, amount where money is involved. The opening paragraphs deliver the essential facts: what happened, who was involved, and how much was raised, spent or committed. Subsequent paragraphs add the company's history, its founders, previous funding, competitors and market, and quotations from founders or investors explaining the rationale. The result is an article that works both as news for the day and as a reference note a reader can return to when the company appears again.
That reference quality mattered in an ecosystem where the same startups recur constantly — raising successive rounds, acquiring rivals, or being acquired. A portal that had covered a company's seed round could place its Series B in context from its own archive, and readers following a sector could trace a company's financing life through a single publication's reporting.
Audience and Role in the Ecosystem
The portal's natural audience consists of startup founders and teams, venture capital and angel investors, technology professionals, students aiming to enter the industry, and journalists and analysts who track it. For that audience, speed and completeness in funding coverage were the product: knowing who raised what, from whom, and on what stated plans, is working information in the startup business, used in hiring, fundraising, competition and partnership decisions.
The Tech Portal also played a visibility role for early-stage companies. For a young startup outside the largest metros, a detailed report in a specialist portal was often its first substantive media coverage, and its founder quotations there became part of the public record investors and partners would find. The portal's Jaipur listing is itself a small statement about the ecosystem it covered: by the mid-2010s, Indian technology reporting no longer had to come only from Bengaluru, Mumbai or Delhi.
The Tech Portal as an Archive of a Decade
With its archive running continuously from at least late 2014 through its recent publishing, The Tech Portal now holds an incidental but valuable asset: contemporaneous documentation of Indian technology's expansion decade. Funding announcements that were routine at the time now read as milestones — early rounds for companies that became category leaders, accelerators that shaped cohorts of startups, and global launches that marked India's arrival as a major technology market. Its reports on companies founded in 2012 and 2013 raising their first institutional rounds are records of the ecosystem at its point of formation.
The publication's own disclosures form part of that record too. A portal that states its publisher's name and its investors' non-influence on reporting at the foot of its articles was modelling, for a young industry, a norm of transparency that the industry itself was still developing.
How to Read The Tech Portal
Readers can follow The Tech Portal at thetechportal.com, where its coverage of startups, gadgets and technology business news is published in English. Those researching a particular Indian startup will often find its earlier funding rounds documented in the portal's archive, complete with amounts, investors and founder statements from the time — a useful starting point for company histories. Readers interested in the people behind the publication can find its founder's biography and its ownership and funding disclosure linked from its articles.
Whether approached as a current news source on Indian technology or as an archive of how that industry was financed into existence, The Tech Portal remains a distinctive Jaipur-published voice: specialist, business-focused, and built around the conviction that the details of deals — the amounts, the investors, the plans — are the story of technology itself.
