Enterprise
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Why WaterBridge Ventures' 50 percent portfolio bets on rural India
If ride-hailing in urban India is a $6 billion market, solving bus transport is a $20 billion market in smaller towns and beyond—opportunities like these is leading this VC to place bets on startups catering to rural India
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Can an industrial goods platform be unicorn? It takes Rahul Garg's toolkit
Most unicorns are from the B2C segment, but Rahul Garg decided to giving manufactuing a filip by building an industrial goods platform to help enterprises. And in six years, he's built Moglix into a unicorn—his third one
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The purse, and curse, of Tiger
Tiger Global's aggressive big bets this year might do a world of good for the American hedge fund major, although riding the beast can prove tricky at times for founders
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Chalo: Building mobility for tier 2 and beyond
A short by-chance stint in Bhopal prompted cofounder and CEO Mohit Dubey to ditch his American dream to build solutions for rural India. Now, he's disrupting rural mobility
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Frontier Markets: Building an army of rural women influencers
Ajaita Shah's social commerce platform leverages the social capital of women in the villages to listen to the pulse of rural consumers and herald an ecommerce revolution in the hinterlands
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Moglix: How Rahul Garg built an unexpected unicorn
A B2B ecommerce platform for industrial products, nearly 65 percent of Moglix's business comes from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns in the country. Subscribe to Forbes India to read the cover story
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IPO or M&A? How venture capital shapes a startup's future
To a cash-strapped founder, any funding seems like a win, but research by Rory McDonald and colleagues shows that much more is at stake when it comes to venture capital
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Keen to invest in Indian firms with global ambitions: Florian Reichert of Picus Capital
The German early-stage technology investment firm sees significant potential in the country despite the risk of late effects of the pandemic
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Future of Entrepreneurship—The next unicorn will fuel more startups: Girish Mathrubhootam
When we share knowledge, experience, successes, and failures, we make entrepreneurship more accessible than before
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How CashKaro got its payback from cashbacks (and some cash burn)
A business model built around online product and price discovery with the user promise of hard cash in the bank has helped CashKaro step on the gas in the pandemic year—and, in the bargain, build some serious street cred
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How Gupshup turned into a profitable unicorn despite a pivot and two near-deaths
The company has emerged as a global leader in B2B conversational messaging and claims to have over a lakh developers and businesses as its clients