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Inside The Leadership Behind ShareChat’s ₹1,000 Cr Turnaround

Google-backed social media startup ShareChat is planning for a $400 Mn IPO by next year. It crossed ₹1,000 Cr in…

24.07.2026 10

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Why RBI’s Data Governance Push Puts Fintech Partners In A Spot

The RBI’s proposed data governance framework could have significant implications for India’s fintech ecosystem, even though the regulatory...

17.07.2026 20

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The Unit Economics Of India’s Voice AI Boom

India’s voice AI revolution has revolved around a few key pillars, such as speech recognition accuracy, multilingual capabilities, latency and…

15.07.2026 10

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India Trains The World’s Robots, But At What Cost?

In the 1990s, American hospitals began routing physician dictations to transcriptionists in Bangalore and Chennai. It was unglamorous work, but…

01.07.2026 30

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Indian Startup Funding Slips 9% To $5.2 Bn In H1 2026

Despite persistent global macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions, investor interest in the Indian startup ecosystem remained largely...

30.06.2026 20

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Glam On Demand: Making Sense Of The 15-Minute At-Home Beauty Boom

Forget quick commerce or instant househelp services — instant at-home beauty is looking like the next big thing in the…

09.06.2026 30

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How Indian Consumer Brands Are Rethinking Growth In An Omnichannel, Data-Driven Era

Growth is no longer all about acquisitions, as India’s $2.4 Tn consumer economy evolves rapidly to become the world’s second-largest…

19.02.2026 40

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