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Why Is Flipkart Joining India’s Food Delivery Renaissance?

Walmart-owned Flipkart is close to a full food delivery launch in Bengaluru and is currently eyeing a timeline of August…

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Palak S

Physics Wallah’s Full-Stack Bet: Looking Into The Revenue Engine

For a generation of Indian students preparing for competitive exams, “Hello bacchon…” became more than a classroom greeting. It became…

yesterday 10

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Debarghya S

Zetwerk’s IPO Test: Can Revenue Growth Outrun Its Cash Flow Pressure?

Bengaluru-based Zetwerk is entering the public markets with a business that looks quite different from the business for which it…

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Three Sixty’s Vikash Gupta On Turning India’s Leather Legacy Into A Global Luxury Brand

A premium leather bar cabinet in an urban Indian home is more than just a piece of furniture. It reflects…

yesterday 10

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Shraddha G

India’s Microdrama Boom Is Here, But Can The Unit Economics Work?

With short-form content everywhere, a three-hour movie now feels like a commitment. That is where microdramas have entered the picture. …

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Ankush Das

India’s Data Centre Boom Has A Security Blind Spot

Data centres have evolved from specialised computing facilities into critical infrastructure powering the modern digital economy. As India rapidly...

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Gargi S

The Enterprise Fight Against Runaway AI Costs

As enterprises increasingly turn to AI to get work done, three new weapons are emerging in their fight to control…

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Meha A

Festive Ecommerce: The Battle Beyond The Checkout

In last week’s edition of The Checkout, we explored how efficient dark store management will be central to quick commerce…

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Bismah M

Amazon, Flipkart & Meesho’s AI Focus Shifts To Seller-Side Stacks

For much of the past two years, the AI race in Indian ecommerce revolved around the consumer. That meant the…

18.08.2026 10

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Gargi S

Lenskart’s Scale Meets Profits

Lenskart’s recent results for the first quarter (Q1) of the financial year 2026-27 (FY27) suggest the company is entering a…

17.08.2026 10

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Team Inc42

Can Astrotalk Chart A Future Beyond Astrology?

Astrotalk pulled off something unique this week. It became India’s 133rd unicorn but in the process, it didn’t raise any…

16.08.2026 7

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Palak S

Why Infra.Market Is Using Shalimar Paints To Reach The IPO Milestone

The Infra.Market IPO was never easy to follow. It all started with RDC Concrete. In 2021, Infra.market acquired RDC Concrete…

14.08.2026 10

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Meha A

Can Zepto’s Revenue Engine Outrun Quick Commerce Costs?

In 2021, when much of India was still getting used to ordering groceries online, two teenage Stanford dropouts, Aadit Palicha…

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Debarghya S

Can Razorpay Turn ChatGPT Into India’s Next Commerce Channel?

ChatGPT is beginning to emerge as more than a search assistant for ecommerce. For a growing number of brands and…

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Shraddha G

How $303 Mn Bluetile Acquisition Complicates Nazara’s Growth Story

At a time when founder Nitish Mittersain is set to step down as the CEO on September 1, 2026, Nazara…

13.08.2026 20

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Gargi S

Inside L&T Vyoma’s Plan To Build India’s AI Infrastructure Giant

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is consolidating its data centre, cloud and AI infrastructure businesses under newly incorporated subsidiary Vyoma.AI as…

13.08.2026 20

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Gargi S

Snapchat Has Gen Z’s Attention In India; It’s Time To Monetise Now?

India’s festive shopping journey is becoming less linear with every season, and Snapchat is betting that this transition can help…

13.08.2026 10

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Debarghya S

Table Space Goes For IPO, But Its Growth Story Has A Catch

Table Space has become the latest company to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), bringing the managed workspace operator…

13.08.2026 20

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Ankush Das

Enterprise AI Spend Gets A Reality Check

The cost of using AI is falling rapidly, with the price of processing a million tokens dropping by roughly 10X…

12.08.2026 20

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Ankush Das

Anthropic Adds Watermarks In Claude Content As Deepfakes Run Amok

As AI-generated content floods the internet, differentiating machine output from human work has emerged as a defining problem. While regulators…

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Gaurav B

Inside Dark Store Festive Stock Up Strategy

August is here, and India’s biggest shopping months are just around the corner. From Raksha Bandhan and Ganesh Chaturthi to…

11.08.2026 10

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Bismah M

Eternal’s Enterprise AI Turn: Why The Zomato Parent Spun Out Nugget

Eternal’s AI venture Nugget has quietly pulled off a surprise even by Blinkit or Zomato’s standards. Nugget, an enterprise AI…

10.08.2026 20

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Debarghya S

Ola Electric’s Comeback Quarter Comes With A Caveat

Under deep public scrutiny, Bhavish Aggarwal’s Ola Electric has spent the past year trying to fix a business that had…

10.08.2026 20

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UPI’s Free Ride Is Over

In the last 10 years, UPI has changed how India transacts. What began as a simple, instant and interoperable way…

09.08.2026 10

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Anjali J

Inside Nykaa’s Inventory Model: How The Beauty Giant Earns Its Margin

Nykaa was once called the “Amazon of beauty”. And it wasn’t an unfair comparison to some degree. Like Amazon, Nykaa…

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Shraddha G

New Tax Laws Amendment Bill Clears Path For Simpler Data Centre Incentive Regime

India’s push to become a global cloud and AI infrastructure hub received a boost after the Lok Sabha passed the…

07.08.2026 10

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Shrishti B

Inside The Economics That May Make Or Break Instant Home Services

On August 2, Urban Company cofounder and CEO Abhiraj Singh Bhal announced that the company’s instant housekeeping service, InstaHelp, had…

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Debarghya Sil

Meta And WhatsApp’s Moderation Machines Have A Transparency Problem

WhatsApp today is more than just a messaging app. For millions of users, it serves as the primary channel for…

05.08.2026 20

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Shrishti Bisht

The Devil In The Agent

Imagine an AI agent at an Indian bank tasked with reconciling a failed transaction. In trying to complete the job,…

05.08.2026 20

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Ankush Das

The Next Frontier For Faith Commerce

Running out of pooja samagri just before an aarti is no longer the household crisis it once was. The missing…

04.08.2026 30

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Meha Agarwal

Swiggy’s Instamart Turns A Corner

The quick commerce industry in India got a reality check this week as Zepto’s IPO plans were put on hold.…

03.08.2026 40

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Debarghya Sil

Sarvam’s AI Arsenal

In June, Sarvam AI entered India’s unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about ₹2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B…

02.08.2026 30

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Gargi Sarkar

Bharat Mandot Of Stelcore Group On The Hidden Costs Of Taking Indian Brands Global

What’s driving the next phase of India’s export story? It’s no longer just manufacturing capacity or shipping lanes, but the…

01.08.2026 30

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Kissht’s Next Growth Play: Better Borrowers, Lower Costs & Loan Against Property

Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…

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Palak Sharma

UPI’s Monetisation Moment: Why MDR Is Back On The Table

For nearly six years, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India have carried a zero-cost promise: no Merchant Discount Rate…

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Bismah Malik

CRED After Kunal Shah: Can The ‘Walled Garden’ Business Model Pay For Itself?

For the first five years of CRED’s existence, the question on everyone’s minds was: how will CRED even make money.…

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Team Inc42

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…

30.07.2026 30

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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…

30.07.2026 30

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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…

29.07.2026 30

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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…

29.07.2026 30

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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…

29.07.2026 40

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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…

28.07.2026 30

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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…

27.07.2026 30

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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…

26.07.2026 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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…

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Akshit P