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Meesho’s Next Monetisation Engines

Meesho has spent much of its journey building scale in India’s value commerce market. Its low-cost marketplace model has helped…

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Gargi S

Netflix Flips Its India Script

What if Netflix’s next big hit in India is not an expensive scripted original, but a reality show with a…

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India Can Build Rockets, But Can Its VCs Fund The Next One?

On July 18, 2026, Skyroot Aerospace achieved a historic milestone when its Vikram-1 rocket successfully placed satellites into orbit, becoming…

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Akshit P

eMudhra Has Quit TLS. The Accountability Questions Haven’t

On October 27, Google removed eMudhra’s root certificate called emSign ECC Root CA – G3. Any website still relying on…

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Meha A

Decoding The Commerce And Lending Engines Of IPO-Bound OfBusiness

OfBusiness is heading for the stock market with a business that earns most of its revenue in one place and…

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Ankush Das

Finding India’s Next AI Goldmine

A recent debate over investors’ lack of interest in India’s hardware and deeptech bets has brought some longstanding challenges in…

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Bismah M

Why This Festive Season Is Getting More Expensive For Ecommerce Sellers

Consider a kurta priced at ₹799 sold directly on Flipkart by a fashion brand such as Globus Fashion. Since July,…

27.10.2026 10

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Meha A

Store Memory: D2C In The Age Of Experiential Retail

Remember the charm of walking into a Crossword store, picking up a book and spending hours reading it without anyone…

27.10.2026 20

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Gargi S

Growth Vs Profitability: Swiggy’s Tug-Of-War

Swiggy’s results for the second quarter (Q2) of the financial year 2026-27 (FY27) show that the tug of war between…

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Debarghya S

Flipkart’s Summer Of Discontent

Questions over an IPO and ESOPs, huge investments in quick commerce and food delivery and the pressure to deliver profits:…

25.10.2026 40

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Ankush Das

PHP2Shell: Who Is At Risk And How Can Businesses Stay Safe?

PHP, a programming language used to build websites, is at the centre of a major security concern after researchers uncovered…

24.10.2026 20

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Akshit P

Zetwerk Makes Its Market Debut; Can Scale Alone Widen Its Thin Margins?

Companies change course in good times and bad. For Zetwerk, the key turn came after it raised $150 Mn from…

23.10.2026 20

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Anirudh T

Festive Sales See Shoppers Log In, But Hold Back On Big-Ticket Purchases

The festive season, usually a time to splurge, is telling a different story this year. A smaller number of card…

23.10.2026 10

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Palak S

The CFO Code: Perfios’ Prashant Mahagaonkar On Balancing Founder Ambition With Financial Discipline

Getting an acquisition across the finish line can take months of negotiations, due diligence, paperwork and financial scrutiny. But closing…

23.10.2026 20

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Shraddha G

eMudhra To Exit Certificate Business As Security Flaw Triggers Distrust

Bengaluru-based cybersecurity company eMudhra, which recently found itself at the centre of a security key issue, has announced plans to…

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Palak S

Inside Critical PHP Vulnerabilities That Have 70% Of The Internet At Risk

A pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the open-source programming language that powers much of the modern web, has forced…

22.10.2026 20

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Shraddha G

eMudhra Weak Link Tests India’s Chain Of Digital Trust

A private key meant to vouch for the security of websites around the world turned out to be the number…

22.10.2026 20

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Anirudh T

How Pee Safe Built A Profitable Quick Commerce Business That Drives 40% Domestic Sales

For India’s D2C brands, quick commerce has opened up another route to millions of consumers. But turning that access into…

21.10.2026 30

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Ankush Das

Can India Capitalise On The AI Homecoming?

For decades, Indian engineers and researchers moved to Silicon Valley, joining global technology companies and contributing to products and research…

21.10.2026 20

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Shrishti B

What’s Cooking In Smart Kitchens?

Food has a way of taking us back in time. A familiar aroma or a single bite can bring back…

20.10.2026 8

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Mobavenue’s Tejas Rathod On The Shift From Ad Optimisation To AI Decisioning

A high click rate cannot tell a fintech company whether a user will complete the KYC. Similarly, downloading an app…

19.10.2026 30

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Gargi S

Will The Jio Platforms IPO Live Up To Its Billing?

It’s already called the biggest IPO in India, but Reliance Industries Limited is leaving no stone unturned. RIL chairman Mukesh…

19.10.2026 20

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Debarghya S

Starlink, Jio & OneWeb: Untangling The Satcom Queue

The irony was not lost on many. Around the same time as the internet in India’s national capital Delhi was…

18.10.2026 30

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FirstCry’s Core Revenue Engine Is Fighting Too Many Battles

Sixteen years since FirstCry began its journey, what began as a kidswear marketplace has spawned a massive multi-channel ecommerce and…

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Ankush Das

How LeadSquared’s Chandra Sahal Is Turning Finance Into A Real-Time Decision Engine

For a long time, the finance function in organisations has been a back-office job — close the books, stay compliant,…

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Gargi S

Rising AI’s Costs Put SaaS Companies Between A Rock And A Hard Place

Recently, Zoho cofounder Sridhar Vembu raised concerns over the economics of building software in an AI-driven market. In a post…

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Anirudh T

Tonbo Imaging IPO Gets A Strong Start, But Does Growth Justify Its Valuation?

From the Iran war to rising geopolitical tensions across the globe, conflicts are driving demand for advanced defence technologies, from…

16.10.2026 10

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Anirudh T

How Fix My Curls Built Its Quick Commerce Engine From Scratch

For as long as Anshita Mehrotra can remember, conversations at her home were all about cosmetic formulations, ingredients, and consumer…

14.10.2026 30

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Shraddha G

The Personal Agents Era Comes With Caveats

In November 1996, Japanese toymaker Bandai put a pet inside a plastic egg. The Tamagotchi, whose name blends tamago, Japanese…

14.10.2026 10

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Shrishti B

The Quick Commerce Code: Breaking Playbooks Of Brands Winning The 10-Min Delivery Game

India’s quick commerce story is no longer about convenience. What started as a channel for forgotten groceries and last-minute essentials…

13.10.2026 40

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Shrishti B

Winter Wear Steps Into The Rental Zone

With winter almost here, it’s almost time to reopen those trunks and suitcases holding the family’s woolen and warm clothes.…

13.10.2026 30

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Shraddha G

Brands Have A New Mission: How To Get AI To Say Your Name

“Have you ever clicked your mouse HERE? You will.” That was the text accompanying the first banner ad on the…

12.10.2026 40

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Bismah M

Pledge, Sell, Pledge Again: Bhavish Agarwal & Ola Electric’s Dilemma

For close to two years, Bhavish Aggarwal has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. All to keep…

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Swiggy, Zomato Have A New Fight On Their Hands

For years, Swiggy and Zomato have ruled the Indian foodtech sector with an iron fist, building vast restaurant networks and…

11.10.2026 20

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Akshit P

Payments Vs Lending: The Tale Of Paytm’s Two Engines

Paytm began as a digital wallet, became a payments behemoth on the back of that and then built up the…

09.10.2026 30

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Anirudh T

The CFO Code: MoEngage’s Narsimha Reddy On Why Finance Heads Need To Look Beyond Balance Sheets

For decades, a typical CFO job description looked like this: close the books, keep the company compliant, manage cash, and…

09.10.2026 30

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Debarghya S

Indian AI Startup Funding Surges 265% YoY In Q3, Will Momentum Continue?

AI emerged as the defining theme in the Indian startup ecosystem in the July-September quarter, with startups in the segment…

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Ankush Das

The Case For Evals In A Multi-Model World

Another day and another new model grabs the limelight. Product teams scramble to see how it can be used for…

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Gargi S

ServiceNow’s India Bet: Can It Put AI To Work Inside Enterprises?

Enterprise software major ServiceNow is betting that its next leg of growth in India will come not just from digitisation…

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Meha A

Premium Staples Face Their Next Growth Test

Atta, oil, ghee, salt. These are staples that no one really considers twice before buying. Yet a growing crop of…

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Shrishti B

Founder Salaries Tracker FY26: How Much Did India’s Startup Founders Earn?

Sixteen founders across 10 new-age tech companies earned a combined ₹43.4 Cr in fixed remuneration in FY26, up 8.2% from…

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Gargi S

Snapdeal Makes It To D-Street, But Where’s The Moat?

One of India’s earliest ecommerce marketplaces has finally trotted onto D-Street. After a relatively muted 4.93X subscription to its IPO,…

05.10.2026 50

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Is Apple Pay’s India Entry Too Late?

The past fortnight has brought several developments around Apple in India. The iPhone 18 Pro and Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo…

04.10.2026 40

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Akshit P

Skin In The Game: Why Banks Are Taking Stakes In AI Labs

Rogo, a US-based financial-services AI startup, raised $30 Mn this month. What made this unique was that some of the…

03.10.2026 350

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Anjali J

Inside ixigo’s Full-Stack Model: How Trains, Flights And Buses Are Funding Its Next Bets

Everything ixigo has done since it started off in 2007 can be called a stepping stone to get to where…

02.10.2026 40

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Shraddha G

Researchers Make AI Their Confidant, But Can’t Afford To Let Their Guard Down

Imagine spending a decade trying to solve one of mathematics’ hardest problems. You finally make progress only to see an…

01.10.2026 40

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Ankush Das

The Unglamorous Work Behind Enterprise AI

Let’s jump right into it: By now, we have learnt that AI tools can only act on the information they…

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Debarghya S

Home Tech Looks For A Higher Ceiling

A homeowner can spend anywhere between a few weeks to a couple of months deciding the right marble for the…

29.09.2026 20

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Bismah M

Policybazaar, Turtlemint Feel The Squeeze

Riya, 27, wants to buy her first family-floater health cover on Policybazaar. But before she sees a single price, the…

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Spinny’s IPO Ride, But What’s Under The Hood?

Five years ago, CarTrade became one of the first digital auto marketplaces to test India’s public markets. The company went…

27.09.2026 40

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Anjali J