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Crisis At Kult: Unpaid Employees, Missing Funds, And Blurred Chain Of Command

It was May 2025 when we last came across Kult, and the company’s narrative of starting afresh after leaving hundreds…

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Why MakeMyTrip Became A Short-Seller Target

A short-seller report sent MakeMyTrip’s stock to its lowest point in a year. The question at the centre of the…

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IPL 2026: The AI-Led Second-Screen Economy Takes Off

As India gears up for yet another high-octane season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), all eyes will be on…

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The Making Of A $500Mn SaaS Powerhouse: Inside Wingify’s Merger With AB Tasty

India’s $14 Bn software-as-a-service (SaaS) market received a dramatic thrust in the last decade with the emergence of unicorns like…

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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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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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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’…

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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…

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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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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026

Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…

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The Biggest Takeaways From Union Budget 2026 For Indian Tech & Startups

The Union Budget 2026 introduces a series of transformative measures aimed at positioning India as a global hub for manufacturing,…

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Budget 2026: What Indian Startup Ecosystem Wants From FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Indian founders and investors will be closely watching as finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman steps into the Parliament today to present…

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Blinkit’s New Year Blues

Blinkit entered 2026 with a gig worker problem on its delivery platter. On New Year’s Eve, hundreds of Blinkit’s delivery…

04.01.2026 10

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2025’s Mega Deal Paradox: Volume Tanks, But Ticket Size Soars

Mega funding ($100 Mn and above) trends in 2025 unravelled a tale of contradictions. While Indian startups witnessed a dramatic…

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Sanchar Saathi: Surveillance In The Garb Of Safety?

Earlier this week, the Indian government dropped a bombshell on smartphone makers and millions of citizens. Every new phone sold…

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Zoho’s New Avatar

Dear Reader, Zoho is having its moment. From IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw endorsing the SaaS giant’s software stack for official…

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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2025

At the start of 2025, markets were brimming with confidence and optimism about the IPOs of new-age tech companies, as…

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India’s Unicorn Club: Here’s The Comprehensive List Of 100+ Unicorns In India

In 2013, venture capitalist Aileen Lee introduced the term ‘unicorn’ to describe the rarity of startups achieving a valuation of…

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IndiQube’s Meghna Agarwal On Scaling 100+ Properties And The Future Of Workspaces

India has solidified its position as the third-largest startup ecosystem globally, with over 160,000 startups and a combined ecosystem worth…

07.03.2025 10

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Budget 2025: What Indian Startups Want From FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Caught in a whirlwind of capital drought, mass layoffs and shutdowns in 2022 and 2023, the Indian startup ecosystem emerged…

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119 D2C Brands That Are Disrupting India’s Consumer Market

The rise of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands in India in the past decade has transformed how consumers shop and engage with…

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National Startup Day 2025: A Time To Recalibrate For The IPO Age

Three years after the first National Startup Day in 2022, there’s a totally different mood in the air. Back in…

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EVs In India In 2025: On The Cusp Of An Inflection Point

From Ola’s Roadster and Honda’s Activa EV in the two-wheeler (E2W) segment to Mahindra’s BE 6, XEV 9E, Tata’s Curvv…

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