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Snabbit Says The Discount Game Is Almost Over; The Hard Part Comes Next

After quick commerce, if there is one industry that has been under the radar of investors for cash burn, it…

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Gargi s

Can Zivame Sway India’s $7 Bn Lingerie Market Once Again In The Era Of New-Age Brands?

In the early 2010s, lingerie shopping in India barely existed as a recognised, organised, and marketed product segment or a…

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Ankush Das

Sarvam AI’s Open Source Bet Faces Early Adoption Hurdles

When Sarvam AI announced that it was open-sourcing its Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B models, it framed the move as…

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Shraddha g

Talent Reboot: Building India’s Next-Gen AI Workforce

Despite having the world’s highest AI skill penetration rate, India continues to face a widening gap between what the economy…

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Bismah m

Beyond Adoption: AI-Driven Outcomes Become Internal Benchmark For Indian IT Giants

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is doubling down on AI which also includes how its own employees use this technology. In an…

11.03.2026 10

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Ankush Das

Inside slice’s Bet To Fix A Broken Bank

When slice completed its merger with the troubled North East Small Finance Bank (NESFB) on October 27, 2024, amid RBI’s…

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Meha a

Quick Commerce & India’s Micro Festival Boom

Sunday, March 8; It’s International Women’s Day and the Indian men’s team is about to play in the T20 World…

10.03.2026 10

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Shraddha g

The New Garage: OpenClaw And India’s DIY AI Agent Boom

A new class of AI users is emerging not inside corporate labs, but in home offices and weekend experiments. At…

09.03.2026 10

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Gargi s

Travel Platforms Stranded In The Fog Of War

Geopolitical tensions over the past year have increasingly become the new normal. From the Russia and Ukraine War to rising…

09.03.2026 8

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Debarghya s

New Ventures, Old Hands: India’s Startup Founders In Encore Mode

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” The famous quote by Richard Branson neatly captures a shift…

08.03.2026 10

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Debarghya s

From Investors To Operators: VCs Embrace The Build-It-Yourself Era

W Health Ventures’ managing partner Pankaj Jethwani is not content with just investing. The VC firm’s 2070 Health venture studio…

05.03.2026 10

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Ankush Das

Money Alone Won’t Fix India’s AI Talent Flight: Lightspeed’s Hemant Mohapatra

Lightspeed India partner Hemant Mohapatra isn’t sugarcoating India’s AI talent crisis. Despite the momentum building up for Make In India…

05.03.2026 10

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The New Media Stack & The AI Video Gold Rush

AI has made video creation faster, cheaper and more accessible than ever. But as traditional barriers of video creation fade,…

04.03.2026 10

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Gargi s

The Fintech Showdown Before PhonePe’s IPO

As PhonePe inches closer to one of the most highly anticipated IPOs in India this year, the spotlight on the…

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Shraddha g

The Cloud Beyond The Clouds: Startups Firm Up Orbital AI Data Centre Plans

As AI adoption accelerates, the bottleneck is no longer model innovation alone — it is infrastructure. Building terrestrial data centres…

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On OpenAI’s $110 Bn Stage, India’s Waiting In The Wings

The dust had barely settled on the India AI Impact Summit when OpenAI showed off its war chest this week.…

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From IPO Scepticism To Profit Signals: Coworking’s Big Reset

The post-listing financial performance of some of India’s leading coworking firms is beginning to address the concerns that investors had…

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Ankush Das

AI Tip Toes Into BFSI, Cautiously

After disrupting the consumer app landscape, artificial intelligence is now seeking to penetrate India’s banking and financial services industry...

25.02.2026 10

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Bismah M

A Decade And $1 Bn Later, Can Amazon Pay Turn Scale Into Fintech Dominance?

More than a decade after entering India as an ecommerce marketplace, Amazon is steadily stitching together a full-stack fintech play…

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Shraddha G

From LLMs To Verticalisation: India’s Sovereign AI Stack Takes Shape

Between 2023 and 2025, India climbed from seventh place to the top three globally in artificial intelligence competitiveness. And the…

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Gargi S

FirstCry’s Growing Pains

FirstCry went on a tumble soon after its Q3 results. Shares declined for four consecutive sessions, hitting a fresh 52-week…

23.02.2026 10

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Shraddha G

Fractal’s India Dilemma: The Missing Demand Engine In Enterprise AI

India’s artificial intelligence market is to reach a $126 Bn opportunity by 2030, with a potential GDP impact of $1.7…

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Debarghya S

Sarvam And The Sovereign AI Dream

In March 2024, the IndiaAI Mission was launched with an outlay of INR 10,372 Cr to build a domestic AI…

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Team Inc42

The Economics Of Retention: How MoEngage Built A Defensible Moat In A Crowded Market

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once said. The realisation reflects a…

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Bismah M

How Marico Turns D2C Founder DNA Into FMCG Scale

Marico kicked off 2026 with an acquisition spree. In a matter of weeks, the FMCG giant, known for household staples…

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India Accelerator’s Ashish Bhatia On Why Defence & Deeptech Are The New Alpha

Over the past decade, India’s startup ecosystem has evolved from being a capital-starved, metro-centric experiment to a far more inclusive…

19.02.2026 10

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How Indian Consumer Brands Are Rethinking Growth In An Omnichannel, Data-Driven Era

Growth is no longer all about acquisitions, as India’s $2.4 Tn consumer economy evolves rapidly to become the world’s second-largest…

19.02.2026 10

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Palak S

When Home-Cooked Isn’t Enough: Smylo’s Quest To Feed India’s 4 Mn Pet Cats

Most Indian pets are usually fed home-cooked food. While several pet food brands have tried to promote packaged food as…

18.02.2026 10

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Anne F

India’s AI Decade Begins, But Mind The Gap

There’s a strange dissonance when one talks about India and AI. This month, the Indian IT services industry was hit…

18.02.2026 10

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Ankush Das

Decoding Shadowfax’s 5X Profit Surge

India’s logistics market is quietly fragmenting. Ever since the ecommerce boom of 2015-2016, scale in delivery was built around one…

17.02.2026 10

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Ankush Das

Inside Axis Bank’s Six-Point GenAI Strategy

If data is the new gold, then banks must glow. Sitting on a repository of huge volumes of data, the…

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Mila Beauté’s CEO Sachin Chadha On Building An ‘Elevated Mass’ Colour Cosmetics Brand

Have you ever stood at a beauty counter, staring blankly at what seemed a hundred shades of the same foundation,…

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Gargi S

Shadowfax Makes Quick Commerce Its ‘Prime’ Focus

India’s logistics market is quietly fragmenting. Ever since the ecommerce boom of 2015-2016, scale in delivery was built around one…

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Team Inc42

Addverb’s Humanoid Bet: How This Noida Robotics Startup Is Building Physical AI

They say the day is not far when most of India’s manufacturing industry would be run through so-called ‘dark factories’…

15.02.2026 10

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Team Inc42

Quick Commerce Turns On The Ad Tap

While the last few years were about getting consumers hooked on 10-minute deliveries, India’s quick commerce industry has moved beyond…

15.02.2026 10

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Team Inc42

Why Zerodha Is Betting On Retirement Savings — And Backing PensionBox

In a move that signals its growing ambitions beyond retail broking, Zerodha has invested approximately $2 million in PensionBox, a…

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Team Inc42

Ola Electric’s Cash Clock Is Ticking

Once, Ola Electric was more than just a company. Cofounder and chief executive Bhavish Aggarwal promised not just electric scooters,…

15.02.2026 5

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Bismah M

Decoding Lenskart’s 70X Profit Surge: Just A Matter Of Volume?

Ever since its inception two decades ago, Lenskart has remained a capex-heavy business — building manufacturing capacity, developing proprietary...

13.02.2026 5

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Debarghya Sil

Why Pre-IPO And Growth Stage Deals Are Not Just About Exits For Playbook Partners

Growth stage investments-focussed VC fund Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio vice president Vikas Choudhury, has already made two investments…

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Bismah Malik

Playbook Partner’s Vikas Choudhury On Why Pre-IPO Bets Shouldn’t Be About Exits

Growth stage investments-focussed VC fund Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio vice president Vikas Choudhury, has already made two investments…

12.02.2026 5

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Bismah Malik

How TestMu Is Fixing Software Testing Bottlenecks In The AI Coding Boom

The software testing industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation, driven by the rapid rise of generative and agentic artificial intelligence.…

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Shraddha Goled

From Months To Hours: How L&T Is Rewiring Infrastructure With AI

AI is being democratised at full throttle – much in sync with the government’s target of a $1 Tn digital…

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Ankush Das

Decoding Lenskart’s 70X Profit Surge In Q3 FY26

Ever since its inception two decades ago, Lenskart has remained a capex-heavy business — building manufacturing capacity, developing proprietary...

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Debarghya Sil

Software Enters The Autopilot Era

Welcome to The AI Shift by Inc42, our all-new newsletter that delves deep into the world of artificial intelligence, LLMs,…

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Ankush Das

IndiaAI Mission Chief Decodes Tech Strategy For A Billion Users

From being the world’s back office to becoming a front-runner in the global economy, India’s technology story has been shaped…

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After The Exits: How Power, Carry And Legacy Collided At Peak XV Partners

Ashish Agrawal was the centre of attention at an industry event hosted by Peak XV in December 2025. Fresh off…

09.02.2026 4

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Bismah Malik

Why PhysicsWallah Is Going Back To School

Is India’s test prep market hitting a ceiling in terms of growth? That’s the soft signal from PhysicsWallah after its…

09.02.2026 6

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Gargi Sarkar

India’s Neocloud Players Ride The Sovereign AI Wave

US-based CoreWeave started publicly trading on the American stock exchange Nasdaq last year in March. By raising $1.5 billion in…

08.02.2026 4

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Shraddha Goled

Gig Economy’s Uneasy Unit Economics And The High Cost Of Home Delivery

India’s consumer services giants are enduring a winter of discontent. From ride-hailing drivers to quick commerce riders, gig workers are…

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Debarghya Sil

The Hiring Reset: AI Has Raised The Skill Bar In India

India’s education and skilling ecosystem is at an inflexion point. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply embedded in how companies…

07.02.2026 5

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Meha Agarwal