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Nikhil Subramaniam

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Why Are Startups Joining The Payment Aggregator Rush Despite RBI’s High Compliance Bar

It’s a payment aggregator (PA) feeding frenzy out there as dozens of startups and big tech companies have bagged the…

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Swiggy IPO Out For Delivery

Three years after Indian startups lined up for public listings in 2021, we are back on the IPO trail in…

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Tesla Pulls Into India

India’s EV story is about to change in a major way this year. Tesla is finally coming to India. After…

07.04.2024 10

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Can Startup Mahakumbh Become India’s Answer To Web Summit?

Announced in 2015 and rolled out the next year, Startup India is about to turn 10. And the inaugural Startup…

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IPL Blues For Fantasy Gaming

From IPL to GST — between these two acronyms, the fate of fantasy gaming in India has swung from euphoria…

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Flipkart’s Quick Commerce Do-Over

Last time when we caught up with things at Flipkart, our focus was on the company’s fintech ambitions, and in…

10.03.2024 10

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Indian Apps Vs Google 

Chaos, anger and then some relief. It’s been a rocky two days for some of the biggest apps in India,…

03.03.2024 10

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BYJU’S Without Byju

BYJU’S has lost the faith of its investors and BYJU’S has very likely also lost Byju Raveendran. If the all-important…

25.02.2024 10

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7 Big Questions For BYJU’S Ahead Of The All-Important EGM

It’s D-Day for BYJU’S as the contentious extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is expected to shine a light on a number…

22.02.2024 8

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Wipro-Backed Avaamo Takes Low-Code Approach With LLaMB To Meet GenAI Enterprise Demand

“For GenAI, last year was the honeymoon year. Which was about being amazed with what you can do with it.…

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A Sleeping Giant? ‘TEAM’ And Mumbai Tech Week Look To Propel City’s Startup Fortunes

For most of the past decade, Mumbai has been India’s third-largest startup hub, behind Bengaluru and Delhi NCR. But the…

22.02.2024 6

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PhysicsWallah’s Product Gamble

In June 2022, PhysicsWallah or PW emerged out of nowhere to become the 101st unicorn startup from India with its…

18.02.2024 9

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Behind Swiggy’s INR 10K Cr Revenue Run In FY24 Ahead Of IPO 

It’s looking like the year of startup IPOs and unicorns chasing profitability, and Swiggy is all set to join the…

17.02.2024 10

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Zomato’s Blinkit Fortunes

When the quick commerce and the 10-minute delivery madness began in late 2020, many — including us — wondered whether…

11.02.2024 10

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How Accel-Backed Mooofarm’s Dairy Tech Promise Soured

Was it wilful fraud or simply incompetence by the four founders and unintended outcomes thereof? That’s the question being asked…

06.02.2024 10

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Paytm Has A Way Out Of The Payments Bank Mess, But It’s A Treacherous Path

“Could the Paytm Payments Bank MD be on this call and tell us what exactly is the issue?” asked the…

02.02.2024 5

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Interim Budget 2024-2025: 6 Key Takeaways For India’s Tech Ecosystem

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget 2024-25 address was more of a recap of the past decade than a look…

01.02.2024 8

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Krutrim & AI — Bhavish Aggarwal’s Biggest Bets

If there were any doubts about generative AI being the biggest thing in tech right now, the unicorn round for…

28.01.2024 10

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BYJU’S FY22: Decoding The Auditor’s Red Flags In The Debt-Ridden Edtech Giant 

Nearly two years after the end of FY22, BYJU’S finally showed its financial picture for that fiscal year. The irony,…

23.01.2024 9

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Paytm’s Balancing Act

These next few months will be some of the most interesting in Paytm’s 14 years. The Q3 results show that…

21.01.2024 6

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National Startup Day 2024: Indian Tech’s Next Decade Begins Now

India’s National Startup Day is only two years old, but there is one clear indication of its growing significance for…

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BluSmart’s Rush Hour Ride

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – The Dark Knight (2008)…

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10 Generative AI Predictions For 2024

The end of 2023 was something of an anti-climax for AI. Especially, after a year, where you could pretty much…

08.01.2024 10

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Platforms On A Fee Spree

Dear reader, This piece actually started out as satire back in September last year. We wanted to bring up the…

07.01.2024 10

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Inc42’s Indian Tech & Startup Predictions For 2024

With each passing year — and we have had 10 years of recaps and predictions — the future of technology…

01.01.2024 9

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Ola Electric Charges Up For IPO 

It’s been a busy year for Bhavish Aggarwal and 2024 promises to be nothing less. With Ola Electric filing for…

24.12.2023 8

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8 Newsmakers Of 2023: The People Behind The Biggest Indian Tech Stories Of The Year

What’s a newsmaker in the context of startups and tech? Is it an outspoken founder or investor who was among…

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PhonePe’s Billion-Dollar Year: A War Chest To Fight Super App Wars

It’s been a tale of two halves for PhonePe in 2023. But now at the end of the year, it…

18.12.2023 10

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Startups In Their Profitability Era

After the funding peak of 2021, when valuations of dozens of startups skyrocketed far away from their actual revenue, it…

17.12.2023 10

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Behind Omidyar Network’s ‘Sudden-Yet-Expected’ India Exit

It’s a season of pain for even some of the most storied venture capital firms in India, and Omidyar Network…

13.12.2023 6

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Groww’s ‘Super App’ Year: Going D2C To Win The Fintech Race

The year was 2017 and four Flipkart executives decided it was time to disrupt the investment tech market. But Lalit…

12.12.2023 10

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Five Years In The Making: CRED’s Year Of Vindication

CRED doesn’t do labels — ask the company to name its key leaders, and there’s no straight answer. The refrain…

11.12.2023 10

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Paytm’s Lost Postpaid Magic

Just when Paytm seemed to be on track to hit profitability, there’s another speed bump. And this time around, Paytm…

10.12.2023 10

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Lessons From BYJU’S

Dark clouds have circled BYJU’S all through the past two years. The edtech giant, once heralded as a beacon for…

03.12.2023 10

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Can BharatPe’s Merchant-First DNA Deliver Fintech ‘Super App’ Success? 

All roads lead to Rome, and for India’s fintech startups, Rome means owning every inch of the value chain. In…

30.11.2023 10

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Founders Vs VCs: The Race To Reset

It’s a position fraught with pressures at the best of times, but the last few weeks have made it all…

26.11.2023 10

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With RMG Dead, Can India’s Game Dev Startups Step Up To The Gaming Mantle? 

“The folly of one man, is the fortune of another,” wrote English philosopher Francis Bacon in 1612. And more than…

21.11.2023 9

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Open Season At OpenAI

In just 24 hours, the future of generative AI is being questioned. The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of…

20.11.2023 10

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The ‘Jio Stack’: The Making Of Reliance’s Digital Empire

The year was 2015 and Reliance Jio was emerging as a potential game changer. Reliance had tried to become a…

14.11.2023 10

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A Diwali For Gig Workers?

Wish You A Very Happy Diwali From Everyone Here At Inc42. Here’s To Another Great Year Ahead For You And…

12.11.2023 10

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The Rise Of The Shark Tank India Clones

There’s a new wave of reality TV in India and it’s all about startups. The wild success and popularity of…

11.11.2023 8

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Zomato’s Profit-Making Machine

After nearly a decade in India, food delivery is finally a profitable business. Zomato’s second consecutive profitable quarter shows that…

05.11.2023 9

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Searching For The Real Mamaearth: Key Questions Ahead Of Honasa’s IPO

When Mamaearth or Honasa Consumer’s IPO first came to the market in late 2022 and early 2023, we wondered whether…

31.10.2023 10

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Beyond Zepto’s 14X Revenue Surge

So much has already been said about the unit economics problem in quick commerce, but startups in this space are…

29.10.2023 9

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Deeptech Playbooks Are Being Written By Early Stage Startups Today: Peak XV’s Rajan Anandan

Deeptech startups in India today are writing the playbooks and building the precedents that will keep the Indian tech and…

23.10.2023 9

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Google Pay On Paytm’s Trail

Google Pay is getting serious about fintech. It’s odd to think about it given that GPay was one of the…

22.10.2023 10

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The UPI Paradox

It’s October 2023 and UPI is no longer a novel concept. More than seven years after its launch, India’s UPI…

15.10.2023 10

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Inside Urban Company’s Foray Into Consumer Durables

Even as Urban Company continues to face heat (and widespread protests) from its service partners over a range of issues,…

14.10.2023 8

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Is CRED Finally Cooking?

CRED’s drive (pun intended) for new products has far from abated. With a new vehicle management platform joining Kunal Shah’s…

08.10.2023 10

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The Dunzo Breakdown

In April 2022, Dunzo cofounder and CEO Kabeer Biswas claimed that quick commerce in India is a game of optimisation.…

06.10.2023 10

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