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Budget 2025: Five Key Takeaways For Indian Startups

It’s not surprising that the biggest headlines from the Union Budget 2025-26 are all around the relief for salaried individuals…

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Game Of Drones: How DroneAcharya Plans To Rule Indian Skies With AITMC

“By joining forces, we are creating something greater—it’s like turning 1 plus 1 into 11.” DroneAcharya founder and MD Prateek…

24.01.2025 9

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Game Of Drones: How DroneAcharya Plans To Rule Indian Skies With AITMC

“By joining forces, we are creating something greater—it’s like turning 1 plus 1 into 11.” DroneAcharya founder and MD Prateek…

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Logistics AI Provider Netradyne Is The First Unicorn Of 2025

The provider of logistics AI solutions, Netradyne has become the first Indian unicorn of 2025 after raising $90 Mn in…

17.01.2025 8

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Can Hiroshi Nishijima’s Strategy Bring An End To Zoomcar’s Financial Woes?

Grappling with operational uncertainties and mounting debt, Nasdaq-listed rental car marketplace Zoomcar seems to be on track to resolve some…

09.01.2025 10

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What’s In Store For Indian Fintech Ecosystem In 2025?

Where do the events of 2024 leave India’s fintech ecosystem?  While the fintech opportunity is said to have grown 6X…

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Majority Of Investors Bullish On AI Startups For 2025

If 2023 was the year when generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) took the world by the storm, 2024 was all about…

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The AI Booster Shot: Seed Stage Funding Thrives In 2024 With A 31% YoY Surge

As the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem braces for what some may call a high-octane 2025 for Indian startups, let’s take…

03.01.2025 1

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M&As In Indian Startup Ecosystem Nosedive To All-Time Low

While the Indian startup ecosystem managed to beat the gloom of the extended funding winter in 2024, interest in consolidation…

28.12.2024 4

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Mega Funding Deals Stagnate YoY Even As Late Stage Funding Surge 25% To $7 Bn+

Just when the green shoots of revival in yearly funding started to get visible, we noted that mega funding trends…

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Indian Startup Funding Touches $12 Bn+ In 2024; Stabilises To 2020 Levels

At the Inc42 MoneyX conclave last year, several industry leaders and veterans declared the end of the funding winter when…

27.12.2024 4

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From Aadit Palicha To Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Meet The Startup Newsmakers Of 2024

After what seemed like a lull in 2022 and 2023, we can safely say that Indian startups are back. In…

18.12.2024 2

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Lessons From Yes Madam: When Startup Marketing Crosses The Line

Everyone is talking about Yes Madam. And perhaps that was the intention behind the bizarre PR campaign for the company’s…

10.12.2024 4

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Is Talent Crunch Hurting India’s GenAI Boom?

Even though in its infancy, the GenAI boom in India has fostered more than 200 AI startups, which have cumulatively…

27.11.2024 4

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Decoding India’s $70 Bn+ SaaS Opportunity: The Shift From Horizontal To Vertical SaaS

India’s digital landscape is on the cusp of a massive expansion, with active internet users projected to breach 900 Mn…

15.11.2024 2

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Making Sense Of The Coworking IPO Boom In India

The pandemic changed office spaces forever, but the remote work frenzy is slowly subsiding, and coworking spaces in India have…

13.11.2024 2

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Trump 2.0: What’s In Store For The Indian Startup Ecosystem?

After a landslide victory for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US Presidential elections, all eyes are on how the…

09.11.2024 5

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85% Of Indian SaaS Ventures Have Jumped On The AI Bandwagon

If there is one Indian sector that is well-poised to benefit from the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), it is…

29.10.2024 2

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Behind Broadway’s Bid To Rewire The Omnichannel Route For D2C Brands

It’s hardly a secret that India’s D2C story began online, but omnichannel is the way forward as brands and startups…

02.10.2024 2

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How Delhi NCR Outpaced Bengaluru, Mumbai In The Startup IPO Race

Despite Bengaluru being the startup capital of India, Delhi NCR leads the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India, Bengaluru, with a very…

29.09.2024 1

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Just $7 Bn In Funding Since 2014: India’s Healthtech Sector Ready For A Reboot

It has been four years since the pandemic swept the world and locked billions inside their homes. Despite the mayhem,…

19.09.2024 3

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Meet The 25 Most Active Investors In The Indian Startup Ecosystem In H1 2024

The Indian startup ecosystem has had a rough couple of years. Far from the funding boom of 2021, Indian startups…

23.08.2024 1

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Budget 2024-25: Decoding The Big Manufacturing Push

Manufacturing is at the top in the central government’s list of priorities, as evidenced by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union…

23.07.2024 1

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[Explained] Karnataka Job Quota Bill: What’s At Stake For India’s Silicon Valley

On July 16, the Karnataka cabinet cleared a bill that reserved a big chunk of jobs in the private sector…

18.07.2024 9

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