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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...
Five years ago, Nykaa was seen as India’s premium beauty retailer. Today, it wants investors to believe it’s building something…
The month of June kept the Indian fintech sector busy on multiple fronts. The headline move came from CRED raising…
“Kunal Shah represents the very best of India’s startup ecosystem: bold thinking, intellectual curiosity, relentless execution and the ability to…
When someone buys car insurance in India, it’s generally assumed that most of the premium goes towards insurance coverage. However,…
Meesho’s first acquisition announcement after the ecommerce company went public also marked its foray into B2B retail space from the…
For decades, India has exported some of its brightest minds to the world’s leading research labs. Researchers of Indian origin…
India’s flex workspace market is witnessing one of its strongest growth phases, with the total market capacity projected to expand…
Nearly two years after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tightened regulations governing India’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry, fresh questions…
India’s kirana stores are suddenly in demand. Over the past few months, Meesho acquired Kirana Club; Udaan acquired ShopKirana; and …
The Kunal Shah era at CRED is over. The Meta era begins. That’s just as true for Shah as CRED.…
Over a year after raising ₹2,626 Cr via its IPO, Ather Energy is looking to raise more fresh capital. The…
When BlueStone launched its IPO in August 2025, many market analysts said that it was overpriced. This was because they…
India’s IPO market is stirring back to life. After months of delays, due to geopolitical uncertainty, volatile equity markets and…
The paper leaks, the cancellation and the rescheduling of the NEET-UG examination has thrown the lives of over 2.2 Mn…
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
How often does a digital media startup buy a publishing house? And even if it does, does this tech startup,…
Insurtech startup Turtlemint has raised ₹397.2 Cr from anchor investors. The platform allotted 2.61 Cr equity shares to anchor investors…
Sovereign AI is back in the spotlight. India tried to position itself as a ‘neutral’ market through the India AI…
For nearly 25 years, India’s digital economy has largely been governed by the Information Technology Act, 2000, which was drafted…
Earlier this year, intimate care startup Ugees partnered with premium innerwear brand Krvvy. Around the same time, menstrual hygiene startup…
At least seven times during FirstCry’s March-quarter earnings call, the company returned to a familiar theme: rationalisation. Competition, the...
For Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart, much of the post-pandemic era was spent persuading urban Indians to prioritise convenience over…
The race in AI video generation is currently being dominated by global giants like OpenAI, Google and Chinese startups flush…
India’s smartphone market may no longer be growing rapidly in unit terms (as per IDC’s May 2026 report), but consumers…
Earlier this week, Zepto filed its updated draft red herring prospectus (UDRHP) with the market regulator SEBI. The startup intends…
Indian football fans were worried till just a few days ago that the 2026 FIFA World Cup might just be…
Ever since they have been around, technology companies hired for pedigree, technical depth, experience and execution speed. But, with AI…
Forget quick commerce or instant househelp services — instant at-home beauty is looking like the next big thing in the…
The familiar ritual of seeking a friend’s opinion and scrolling through endless product listings before making an online purchase is…
For decades, the industry operated one-dimensionally, with large production houses controlling access to expensive cameras and movies requiring...
Thus far, India’s startup IPO story has mostly remained dominated by startups in sectors like ecommerce, fintech and SaaS. But…
In the summer of 2021, Bhavish Aggarwal was arguably India’s most audacious tech entrepreneur. Ola Cabs (now Ola Consumer), the…
From June 1, the code repository platform GitHub moved its Copilot AI-coding assistant from a flat subscription-based model to a…
In a landmark judgement, the Delhi High Court (HC) imposed a fine of ₹30 Lakh on search and AI giant…
When Praveer Kochhar, the cofounder of KOGO AI, an enterprise AI platform, was asked about his first enterprise deal, he…
Open Zepto, Blinkit, or Swiggy Instamart right now, and you’ll notice something unusual. Instead of pushing everyday essentials, these platforms…
In a move that echoes a controversial chapter in India’s edtech history, PhysicsWallah (PW) is betting big on student financing.…
Death by a thousand cuts. That’s perhaps the most fitting way to describe the state of India’s real-money gaming (RMG)…
Since becoming the first new-age coworking space provider to list in India, Awfis has steadily grown its top line while…
Airtel finds itself into a familiar battleground – the net neutrality debate. India’s second largest telecom operator stirred up the…
India was quick to respond to Sam Altman when he underestimated the country’s ability to build something even remotely comparable…
For most of India’s legal history, personality rights were concerns largely reserved for film stars and cricketers. Amitabh Bachchan went…
In the last few years, the world has adapted to new waves of uncertainty. From Covid to various economic slowdowns…
Every few years, the coffee market transitions towards a new trend or niche in the search of finding the next…
In October last year, Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety called Instamart’s shift to an inventory-led model an eventuality. That conviction, it…