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The country’s latest AI fund, founded by a former IndiaAI Mission advisor, is courting the next crop of Indian AI founders, while also backing...
Revenue is up 5X since FY24. So are losses. Yet the IPO filing leaves investors without key customer metrics and answers on FDI risks
The babycare retailer spent years building stores and private labels. Even when the world around it was changing rapidly
Mahindra University is offering generous scholarships to address the problem. It may not be enough
Horizon Industrial Parks is set to be India’s largest warehousing platform. But it’s saddled with Rs 6,700 crore of debt and over half of its 58...
Accenture Song’s biggest competitors are no longer just WPP, Publicis, and Dentsu, but everyone trying to blur the lines between marketing,...
Harshvardhan Lunia and family have filed an NCLT petition alleging foul play by Temasek subsidiary Fullerton. The case will be heard on 18 June
$150 million buys influence over Sarvam's roadmap and a stake in India's sovereign-AI story. Whether it buys revenue is the question nobody can yet...
The energy-efficient AC startup prioritised engineering and services before expanding its retail presence. But slow and steady brand building has a...
Of the 750 companies the fund has invested in, seven out of 10 are tech-heavy—defying the fund’s intention of backing traditional manufacturers
…for a few hundred rupees. It may be a Faustian bargain, once again
A fixed-income-only corpus can work if you get your numbers and objectives in line
Organon’s Q1 numbers on 30 April showed how Sun bought its worst quarter. But India’s biggest pharma company will hope it doesn’t get worse...
The global giant’s betting rapid expansion and a pre-existing subscription program will make up for the delay
An early stage ultimatum—meet this target or I’ll shut you down—still reverberates across the company, propelling it forward
The lack of a robust EV ecosystem, from poor afters-sales service to paltry infrastructure, is fraying consumer interest
India’s fourth-largest drugmaker lost two of its most-profitable drugs within months. Its new pipeline is what investors care about
While Tata is trying to build a self-contained chipmaking ecosystem from the ground up, Murugappa is acquiring disparate pieces and stacking them...
The government is moving NEET online to fight question paper leaks, but the real problem might not have to do with the mode of exam
The state built India’s largest captive solar market for its data centres. Now it’s dismantling the economics that made it work
By making high-value chemicals from biomass, at mouth-watering gross margins, and replacing petroleum-derived products
As drones shrink delivery times and logistics costs, D2C brands like Mamaearth and Giva are beginning to see a way around Amazon and Flipkart
The onus of bankrolling the partnership has fallen on AI companies. All telcos have to do in return is leverage their existing ecosystem
Mutual funds have grown faster as domestic institutional investors in Indian stocks than LIC of late. Yet, in moments of market stress, the insurer...
Factory-less HRV Pharma has turned managing regulatory paperwork into a successful standalone business
Not by trading, but by storing
Nilesh Gupta and his family know that putting money back in the Rs 13,600 crore electronics chain is time-tested and lucrative. They aren’t so sure...
Cities building metros acquire land, divert drains, and tear up roads. Fixing what the rain does to all of it is somebody else’s problem
The e-commerce platform’s management is on a quest to lower costs of its in-house logistics arm, Valmo, but it has much to learn from 3PL players...
Once a pioneer, Instamart now takes 15 months to add as many users as Blinkit does in three. Swiggy’s growing losses are no comfort, either
Once a pioneer, Instamart now takes 15 months to add as many users as Blinkit does in three. Swiggy’s growing losses are no comfort, either
Strapped for cash back home, universities like Deakin, Bristol, and Aberdeen are looking at India to pad their wallets. They are finding it a tough...
Even though direct plans have jumped from nothing to half the mutual-fund industry’s AUM, Jio Blackrock’s dependence on active schemes needs...
Tata Communications has Nvidia’s most advanced chips, a growing AI-infrastructure stack, and enterprise demand. Its stock is still down 16%
After staying conservative for 20 years, this homegrown PE firm now wants to be an institutionalised one, with bigger bets and a wider portfolio....
The cash-infusion has enabled the public-sector telecom company to improve its financials, but not, so far, its market position. The lack of a...
While super-intelligent LLMs have shrunk the time it takes hackers to mount an attack to under 10 hours, Indian companies still need 180 days to patch...
While super-intelligent LLMs have shrunk the time it takes hackers to mount an attack to under 10 hours, Indian companies still need 180 days to patch...
In under two years, Eternal’s going-out business has scaled to nearly half of Bookmyshow’s revenue and over 60% of its users by redefining outing
As the world migrates to open-source software, India is going the opposite way—to a closed, proprietary stack it claims is safer
The airport operator wants to have its hands in all the pies, and is taking over everything from pilot training to aircraft maintenance and repair
From the two-part blockbuster Dhurandhar to prestige flicks like Laapataa Ladies, Reliance’s film business is a throwback to the good old studio...
Sebi’s F&O clampdown is pushing brokers into margin lending. It’s not exactly low-risk for investors
GMR-operated Delhi airport oversaw all flights in the region for decades. Now with Noida in the mix, it’s trying to stay relevant by monetising...
Fresh off a fundraise from Chryscapital and Warburg Pincus, the company behind Orchids schools needs to find more struggling schools, and fast
Over three fourth of the company’s value comes not from its core business but from the 6.1% stake it holds in Reliance Industries
Over three fourth of the company’s value comes not from its core business but from the 6.1% stake it holds in Reliance Industries
Kamalakar Devaki’s Sandlogic automated workflows for Bajaj Finance, Indira IVF. Now he wants to take the next step and sell a full stack by building...
Andhra Pradesh has promised the world’s largest technology companies a digital capital. What they have right now are hills, fences, and no power
Hospitals and stockists are making steep margins off initiatives meant to make life-saving medication affordable