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How StockGro Is Building An Intelligence Layer For India’s Next 100 Mn Investors

“Tried everything under the sun… but nothing worked. Good weeks were usually followed by disastrous ones,” wrote marginmemos, an anonymous…

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Gargi S

How Rubrik is Rewriting the Rules of Cyber Resilience

Opening a banking app, ordering food, or buying a pair of shoes online may not feel remarkable anymore, but what’s…

yesterday 10

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Fintech’s Second IPO Wave: This Time, It’s About Profits

Almost five years ago, Paytm became one of the first Indian startups, and among the first fintech companies, to make…

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Lokesh C

BharatGen CEO On Why Models Alone Can’t Help India Gain In The AI Race

With many homegrown foundation model initiatives competing for talent, compute and enterprise mindshare, the question of who will define the…

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Ankush Das

Fintech Startups To Watch: Startups That Caught Our Eye In July

The month so far has kept the Indian fintech sector busy, with the action shifting from the funding table to…

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Ankush Das

The AI Layer Powering India’s Farms

AI detects a farmer’s field has been irrigated and automatically shuts off the tubewell. A PepsiCo field agent, sitting hundreds…

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Meha A

Fashion Commerce Finds Its Plus-Size Fit

For years, extended-size fashion in India has been limited to a separate section, a handful of styles or basic XXL-and-above…

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Gargi S

Paytm Dreams The AI Dream

Diversification seems to be the common thread running through India’s fintech ecosystem right now. Last week, we took a closer…

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Debarghya S

Flipkart’s Digital Mall Now Has A Food Court

When Flipkart entered quick commerce last year, many were sceptical of the move, as the ecommerce giant was seen as…

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Akshit P

Can Parliamentary Panel’s Latest Recommendations Break Crypto Policy Deadlock?

For years, India’s approach towards cryptocurrencies has largely revolved around taxation, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and transaction...

25.07.2026 10

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Lokesh C

Inside The Leadership Behind ShareChat’s ₹1,000 Cr Turnaround

Google-backed social media startup ShareChat is planning for a $400 Mn IPO by next year. It crossed ₹1,000 Cr in…

24.07.2026 10

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Palak S

Inside Zomato’s Monetisation Stack: Where The Margins Come From In Food Delivery

Before 10-minute deliveries, dark stores and quick commerce wars, there were red-shirted Zomato riders racing across cities with pizzas, biryanis…

24.07.2026 10

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Ankush Das

Why The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Is A Wake-Up Call For Enterprises

A tequila bottle accidentally holds down the delete key, destroying a fictional startup’s servers during a live coding showdown. This…

24.07.2026 10

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Debarghya S

Vikram-1 Test Launch: Skyroot Enters Its Commercial Launch Era, Can It Take On SpaceX?

Last week, Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, carrying multiple…

23.07.2026 20

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Akshit P

Why India Is Betting On Chip Design Startups With ₹1.25 Lakh Cr ISM 2.0

More than four years after the launch of the Semicon India Programme, the Indian government is looking at a new…

22.07.2026 20

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Ankush Das

The AI Blueprint For Fashion Ecommerce

Fashion ecommerce is entering a new era. The first was about adding intelligence to the customer journey: better search, smarter…

22.07.2026 20

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Bismah M

Beyond Broking: How Zerodha Is Restacking Its Revenue Pyramid

Zerodha made a name for itself by letting investors easily invest in the stock market and mutual funds. But now…

22.07.2026 20

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Meha A

The End Of The ROAS Era In D2C?

For over a decade, the D2C playbook was built on a simple premise: buy attention on Meta and Google, acquire…

21.07.2026 20

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Shraddha G

NVIDIA Wants To Solve India’s GPU Compute Problem, But At What Cost?

Chip giant NVIDIA is all set to change the GPU game across its major markets, and India is no exception.…

20.07.2026 20

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Gargi S

Why Groww Wants To Be Everything At Once

As India’s largest stockbroker expands into wealth management, AI, global investing, lending and asset management, the next question is whether…

20.07.2026 20

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Gargi S

BigBasket’s Retreat

“I was in denial of the idea of quick commerce. Back then, if you had asked 100 people whether they…

19.07.2026 20

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Akshit P

Why RBI’s Data Governance Push Puts Fintech Partners In A Spot

The RBI’s proposed data governance framework could have significant implications for India’s fintech ecosystem, even though the regulatory...

17.07.2026 20

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Palak S

Decoding Meesho’s Zero-Commission Model & Seller-Centric Revenue Engine

“Meesho wala lag raha hai.” This is a common phrase uttered in Indian cities and metros, almost disparagingly. Meesho has…

17.07.2026 20

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Lokesh C

DPDP Is Coming Fast But Indian Startups Are Moving At Different Speeds

India’s data protection law is no longer a can that companies can kick down the road. With the Digital Personal…

17.07.2026 20

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Lokesh C

The Unit Economics Of India’s Voice AI Boom

India’s voice AI revolution has revolved around a few key pillars, such as speech recognition accuracy, multilingual capabilities, latency and…

15.07.2026 10

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Palak S

The Indian Kitchen’s New Obsessions

Every Indian kitchen has that one overly exploited cookware (pan or a wok) that has seen and endured it all:…

14.07.2026 10

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Shraddha G

How Yotta Is Building Its AI Infra Playbook To Serve Global Enterprises

For Yotta Data Services, it’s a race against time to build one of India’s largest pools of AI computing power,…

14.07.2026 10

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Anjali J

Inside The Numbers Lifting IPO-Bound Cult.fit

After years of prioritising expansion over profitability, Cult.fit’s pre-IPO papers and draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) suggest that the fitness…

13.07.2026 20

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Debarghya S

Unicorn Founders Go AI Native

“Not using AI is like being left behind,” Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remark captures the urgency around artificial intelligence today…

12.07.2026 10

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Team Inc42

From Elevate Education To Aukera — Indian Startups Raised $72 Mn This Week

Indian startup funding remained largely flat in the second week of July. Between July 4 and July 10, Indian startups…

11.07.2026 20

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Meha A

How PhonePe Makes Money: UPI, Loans, Merchants & More

For the everyday Indian, PhonePe is just a free UPI app. One rarely pays anything extra to PhonePe for splitting…

10.07.2026 20

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Nikhil S

Accel’s Subrata Mitra On Why AI Will Break More Founders, And How To Survive It

Accel partner Subrata Mitra has spent the better part of six decades on the difficult side of entrepreneurship — first…

09.07.2026 20

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Debarghya S

Can Green SM Succeed Where BluSmart Failed?

When BluSmart’s cabs suddenly disappeared from the roads of Delhi NCR last year, the region’s ride-hailing market — after years…

09.07.2026 10

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Ankush Das

The New Math Behind ROI In AI

The race to deploy AI is heating up, but organisations no longer want just deployment. They’re asking whether copilots, AI…

08.07.2026 20

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Meha A

Chocolate Finds Its D2C Sweet Spot

In June 2026, Manam Chocolate raised a $9 Mn Series A round. This marked a notable move in India’s consumer…

07.07.2026 20

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Team Inc42

NoBroker’s Future Is Beyond Home Listings, But Will Profits Follow?

“FY26 was a good year for us. The effort was to make sure that we balance growth and profitability,” Saurabh…

06.07.2026 20

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Shraddha G

Why India’s AI Boom Is Running On A Waiting List

The way India buys AI compute is being rewritten. The acute GPU shortage that dominated the early GenAI boom has…

06.07.2026 20

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Bismah M

OYO’s IPO Hinges On One Trade-Off: Profitability Vs Debt

OYO’s IPO became synonymous with highs and lows in India’s startup ecosystem. Every high point in the past four years…

06.07.2026 20

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Shrishti B

The Legal Battle That Could Reshape India’s Gig Economy

“…the amount is not being demanded by the state as a charity. It is demanded in terms of promulgation of…

05.07.2026 20

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Gargi S

Dream 11’s Wealthtech Fantasy Is Over

Can you really build a house on sand? Well, you can, but it is futile. And that is exactly what…

05.07.2026 30

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Anjali J

Remote EV Shutdowns Expose India’s Connected Device Security Gap

Social media feeds over the past week have been flooded with videos of people accessing the battery management systems (BMS)…

04.07.2026 20

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Anjali J

Indian AI Startup Funding Soars Over 4X YoY In H1 2026, But Is It Enough To Compete Globally?

AI emerged as the defining theme of the Indian startup ecosystem in H1 2026. As conversations around the nascent technology…

03.07.2026 20

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Lokesh C

WhatsApp Username Debate: Will Hiding Phone Numbers Reduce Or Fuel Frauds?

Meta’s latest WhatsApp feature has landed in a classic catch-22 situation. The company wants to enhance user privacy on the…

03.07.2026 20

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Lokesh C

How Bike Bazaar Ran Into A Credit Crisis

Pune-based two-wheeler finance startup Bike Bazaar has stopped lending, halting all new disbursements beginning December 2025 owed to a sharp…

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Debarghya S

Fibe IPO Pitch: More Than A Personal Loan Platform, But Will Investors Buy In?

Earlier this week, Pune-based Fibe filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the market regulator SEBI. With this, Fibe…

01.07.2026 20

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Gaurav B

India Trains The World’s Robots, But At What Cost?

In the 1990s, American hospitals began routing physician dictations to transcriptionists in Bangalore and Chennai. It was unglamorous work, but…

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Palak S

Indian Startup Funding Slips 9% To $5.2 Bn In H1 2026

Despite persistent global macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, investor interest in the Indian startup ecosystem remained largely...

30.06.2026 20

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Palak S

D2C’s New Media Playbook

Everybody wants to own the media, and the country’s fastest-growing new-age consumer brands are no exception. Faced with rising customer…

30.06.2026 30

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Bismah M

Flipkart, Amazon Flex Logistics Muscles; Will It Bring New Growth Levers?

When Delhivery acquired Ecom Express in 2025, the Indian logistics industry read it as a consolidation play — a larger…

30.06.2026 30

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Ankush Das

Why India Needs Its Own AI Safety Net

As enterprises increasingly embed AI into customer support, software development, financial operations, healthcare systems and decision-making...

29.06.2026 30

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Gargi S