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“Tried everything under the sun… but nothing worked. Good weeks were usually followed by disastrous ones,” wrote marginmemos, an anonymous…
Opening a banking app, ordering food, or buying a pair of shoes online may not feel remarkable anymore, but what’s…
Almost five years ago, Paytm became one of the first Indian startups, and among the first fintech companies, to make…
With many homegrown foundation model initiatives competing for talent, compute and enterprise mindshare, the question of who will define the…
The month so far has kept the Indian fintech sector busy, with the action shifting from the funding table to…
AI detects a farmer’s field has been irrigated and automatically shuts off the tubewell. A PepsiCo field agent, sitting hundreds…
For years, extended-size fashion in India has been limited to a separate section, a handful of styles or basic XXL-and-above…
Diversification seems to be the common thread running through India’s fintech ecosystem right now. Last week, we took a closer…
When Flipkart entered quick commerce last year, many were sceptical of the move, as the ecommerce giant was seen as…
For years, India’s approach towards cryptocurrencies has largely revolved around taxation, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and transaction...
Google-backed social media startup ShareChat is planning for a $400 Mn IPO by next year. It crossed ₹1,000 Cr in…
Before 10-minute deliveries, dark stores and quick commerce wars, there were red-shirted Zomato riders racing across cities with pizzas, biryanis…
A tequila bottle accidentally holds down the delete key, destroying a fictional startup’s servers during a live coding showdown. This…
Last week, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, carrying multiple…
More than four years after the launch of the Semicon India Programme, the Indian government is looking at a new…
Fashion ecommerce is entering a new era. The first was about adding intelligence to the customer journey: better search, smarter…
Zerodha made a name for itself by letting investors easily invest in the stock market and mutual funds. But now…
For over a decade, the D2C playbook was built on a simple premise: buy attention on Meta and Google, acquire…
Chip giant NVIDIA is all set to change the GPU game across its major markets, and India is no exception.…
As India’s largest stockbroker expands into wealth management, AI, global investing, lending and asset management, the next question is whether…
“I was in denial of the idea of quick commerce. Back then, if you had asked 100 people whether they…
The RBI’s proposed data governance framework could have significant implications for India’s fintech ecosystem, even though the regulatory...
“Meesho wala lag raha hai.” This is a common phrase uttered in Indian cities and metros, almost disparagingly. Meesho has…
India’s data protection law is no longer a can that companies can kick down the road. With the Digital Personal…
India’s voice AI revolution has revolved around a few key pillars, such as speech recognition accuracy, multilingual capabilities, latency and…
Every Indian kitchen has that one overly exploited cookware (pan or a wok) that has seen and endured it all:…
For Yotta Data Services, it’s a race against time to build one of India’s largest pools of AI computing power,…
After years of prioritising expansion over profitability, Cult.fit’s pre-IPO papers and draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) suggest that the fitness…
“Not using AI is like being left behind,” Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remark captures the urgency around artificial intelligence today…
Indian startup funding remained largely flat in the second week of July. Between July 4 and July 10, Indian startups…
For the everyday Indian, PhonePe is just a free UPI app. One rarely pays anything extra to PhonePe for splitting…
Accel partner Subrata Mitra has spent the better part of six decades on the difficult side of entrepreneurship — first…
When BluSmart’s cabs suddenly disappeared from the roads of Delhi NCR last year, the region’s ride-hailing market — after years…
The race to deploy AI is heating up, but organisations no longer want just deployment. They’re asking whether copilots, AI…
In June 2026, Manam Chocolate raised a $9 Mn Series A round. This marked a notable move in India’s consumer…
“FY26 was a good year for us. The effort was to make sure that we balance growth and profitability,” Saurabh…
The way India buys AI compute is being rewritten. The acute GPU shortage that dominated the early GenAI boom has…
OYO’s IPO became synonymous with highs and lows in India’s startup ecosystem. Every high point in the past four years…
“…the amount is not being demanded by the state as a charity. It is demanded in terms of promulgation of…
Can you really build a house on sand? Well, you can, but it is futile. And that is exactly what…
Social media feeds over the past week have been flooded with videos of people accessing the battery management systems (BMS)…
AI emerged as the defining theme of the Indian startup ecosystem in H1 2026. As conversations around the nascent technology…
Meta’s latest WhatsApp feature has landed in a classic catch-22 situation. The company wants to enhance user privacy on the…
Pune-based two-wheeler finance startup Bike Bazaar has stopped lending, halting all new disbursements beginning December 2025 owed to a sharp…
Earlier this week, Pune-based Fibe filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the market regulator SEBI. With this, Fibe…
In the 1990s, American hospitals began routing physician dictations to transcriptionists in Bangalore and Chennai. It was unglamorous work, but…
Despite persistent global macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, investor interest in the Indian startup ecosystem remained largely...
Everybody wants to own the media, and the country’s fastest-growing new-age consumer brands are no exception. Faced with rising customer…
When Delhivery acquired Ecom Express in 2025, the Indian logistics industry read it as a consolidation play — a larger…
As enterprises increasingly embed AI into customer support, software development, financial operations, healthcare systems and decision-making...