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It’s a payment aggregator (PA) feeding frenzy out there as dozens of startups and big tech companies have bagged the…
Three years after Indian startups lined up for public listings in 2021, we are back on the IPO trail in…
India’s EV story is about to change in a major way this year. Tesla is finally coming to India. After…
Announced in 2015 and rolled out the next year, Startup India is about to turn 10. And the inaugural Startup…
From IPL to GST — between these two acronyms, the fate of fantasy gaming in India has swung from euphoria…
Last time when we caught up with things at Flipkart, our focus was on the company’s fintech ambitions, and in…
Chaos, anger and then some relief. It’s been a rocky two days for some of the biggest apps in India,…
BYJU’S has lost the faith of its investors and BYJU’S has very likely also lost Byju Raveendran. If the all-important…
It’s D-Day for BYJU’S as the contentious extraordinary general meeting (EGM) is expected to shine a light on a number…
“For GenAI, last year was the honeymoon year. Which was about being amazed with what you can do with it.…
For most of the past decade, Mumbai has been India’s third-largest startup hub, behind Bengaluru and Delhi NCR. But the…
In June 2022, PhysicsWallah or PW emerged out of nowhere to become the 101st unicorn startup from India with its…
It’s looking like the year of startup IPOs and unicorns chasing profitability, and Swiggy is all set to join the…
When the quick commerce and the 10-minute delivery madness began in late 2020, many — including us — wondered whether…
Was it wilful fraud or simply incompetence by the four founders and unintended outcomes thereof? That’s the question being asked…
“Could the Paytm Payments Bank MD be on this call and tell us what exactly is the issue?” asked the…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget 2024-25 address was more of a recap of the past decade than a look…
If there were any doubts about generative AI being the biggest thing in tech right now, the unicorn round for…
Nearly two years after the end of FY22, BYJU’S finally showed its financial picture for that fiscal year. The irony,…
These next few months will be some of the most interesting in Paytm’s 14 years. The Q3 results show that…
India’s National Startup Day is only two years old, but there is one clear indication of its growing significance for…
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – The Dark Knight (2008)…
The end of 2023 was something of an anti-climax for AI. Especially, after a year, where you could pretty much…
Dear reader, This piece actually started out as satire back in September last year. We wanted to bring up the…
With each passing year — and we have had 10 years of recaps and predictions — the future of technology…
It’s been a busy year for Bhavish Aggarwal and 2024 promises to be nothing less. With Ola Electric filing for…
What’s a newsmaker in the context of startups and tech? Is it an outspoken founder or investor who was among…
It’s been a tale of two halves for PhonePe in 2023. But now at the end of the year, it…
After the funding peak of 2021, when valuations of dozens of startups skyrocketed far away from their actual revenue, it…
It’s a season of pain for even some of the most storied venture capital firms in India, and Omidyar Network…
The year was 2017 and four Flipkart executives decided it was time to disrupt the investment tech market. But Lalit…
CRED doesn’t do labels — ask the company to name its key leaders, and there’s no straight answer. The refrain…
Just when Paytm seemed to be on track to hit profitability, there’s another speed bump. And this time around, Paytm…
Dark clouds have circled BYJU’S all through the past two years. The edtech giant, once heralded as a beacon for…
All roads lead to Rome, and for India’s fintech startups, Rome means owning every inch of the value chain. In…
It’s a position fraught with pressures at the best of times, but the last few weeks have made it all…
“The folly of one man, is the fortune of another,” wrote English philosopher Francis Bacon in 1612. And more than…
In just 24 hours, the future of generative AI is being questioned. The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of…
The year was 2015 and Reliance Jio was emerging as a potential game changer. Reliance had tried to become a…
Wish You A Very Happy Diwali From Everyone Here At Inc42. Here’s To Another Great Year Ahead For You And…
There’s a new wave of reality TV in India and it’s all about startups. The wild success and popularity of…
After nearly a decade in India, food delivery is finally a profitable business. Zomato’s second consecutive profitable quarter shows that…
When Mamaearth or Honasa Consumer’s IPO first came to the market in late 2022 and early 2023, we wondered whether…
So much has already been said about the unit economics problem in quick commerce, but startups in this space are…
Deeptech startups in India today are writing the playbooks and building the precedents that will keep the Indian tech and…
Google Pay is getting serious about fintech. It’s odd to think about it given that GPay was one of the…
It’s October 2023 and UPI is no longer a novel concept. More than seven years after its launch, India’s UPI…
Even as Urban Company continues to face heat (and widespread protests) from its service partners over a range of issues,…
CRED’s drive (pun intended) for new products has far from abated. With a new vehicle management platform joining Kunal Shah’s…
In April 2022, Dunzo cofounder and CEO Kabeer Biswas claimed that quick commerce in India is a game of optimisation.…