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Debarghya S

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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 10

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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 10

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Inside The Numbers Lifting IPO-Bound Cult.fit

After years of prioritising expansion over profitability, Cult.fit’s pre-IPO papers and draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) suggest that the fitness…

13.07.2026 20

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Accel’s Subrata Mitra On Why AI Will Break More Founders, And How To Survive It

Accel partner Subrata Mitra has spent the better part of six decades on the difficult side of entrepreneurship — first…

09.07.2026 20

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How Bike Bazaar Ran Into A Credit Crisis

Pune-based two-wheeler finance startup Bike Bazaar has stopped lending, halting all new disbursements beginning December 2025 owed to a sharp…

02.07.2026 60

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Meta’s $900 Mn CRED Deal And Why Kunal Shah Stepped Away

The Kunal Shah era at CRED is over. The Meta era begins. That’s just as true for Shah as CRED.…

23.06.2026 30

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Is Pratilipi’s Future In Physical Books?

How often does a digital media startup buy a publishing house? And even if it does, does this tech startup,…

19.06.2026 20

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How OneAssist’s AI Stack Is Giving Older Smartphones An Insured Future

India’s smartphone market may no longer be growing rapidly in unit terms (as per IDC’s May 2026 report), but consumers…

11.06.2026 40

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How AI Is Taking Over The Director’s Chair

For decades, the industry operated one-dimensionally, with large production houses controlling access to expensive cameras and movies requiring...

08.06.2026 40

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Can India’s Ride-Hailing Economy Survive The Fuel Shock?

The prolonged crude oil crisis due to the US-Iran war is raising bigger questions for Uber, Rapido, Ola Cabs and…

24.05.2026 20

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Who Will Bell The Consumer AI Cat?

In India, almost every AI conversation today is about sovereign models, semiconductor fabs, GPU clusters, compute capacity, and the race…

13.05.2026 20

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New Rules For The Baby Food Aisle

Picture this: It’s 8 AM in a Mumbai apartment. A working couple is juggling a screaming pressure cooker, an endless…

12.05.2026 30

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Can Bhavish Aggarwal Drag Ola Krutrim Out Of The Rut?

In June 2023, on a visit to India, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said Indian startups looking to build…

10.05.2026 30

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Karnataka Drafting Responsible AI Framework To Embrace ‘I-Governance’: Priyank Kharge

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arguably become the most consequential technological advancement of our era, percolating not only into high-level...

26.04.2026 40

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Inside FinSight Ventures’ Bet On A Pricey Yet Durable Indian Fintech Market

When FinSight Ventures’ lead India investments, Pavel Gurianov, relocated to Bengaluru from Russia in 2014 ,his mission was clear: to…

19.03.2026 50

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Travel Platforms Stranded In The Fog Of War

Geopolitical tensions over the past year have increasingly become the new normal. From the Russia and Ukraine War to rising…

09.03.2026 40

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New Ventures, Old Hands: India’s Startup Founders In Encore Mode

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” The famous quote by Richard Branson neatly captures a shift…

08.03.2026 50

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Fractal’s India Dilemma: The Missing Demand Engine In Enterprise AI

India’s artificial intelligence market is to reach a $126 Bn opportunity by 2030, with a potential GDP impact of $1.7…

22.02.2026 40

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