Startups
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Can FamPay slay it in India's fintech space?
The neo-banking startup for teenagers has whipped up excitement among users and VCs, but can navigating the regulated fintech ecosystem be child's play?
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Vedantu does a Domino's. Can it deliver?
With actor Aamir Khan as brand ambassador, the edtech startup guarantees academic results or money back, akin Domino's '30 Minutes or Free' pizza delivery strategy. Could this be Vedantu's silver bullet?
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Eruvaka Technologies: Making high-risk, high-reward aquaculture farming predictable
The company's farm diagnostic equipment integrates sensors, mobile connectivity and decision tools for affordable monitoring and automation. It reduces aquaculture famers' risks and increases productivity
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ConveGenius provides free education to rural kids. Can it make money?
ConveGenius was launched to reach 100 million school students at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid, and in 2020 teaching through Whatsapp helped it grow 15X
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Repos Energy: Reimagining how you buy diesel
Delivering diesel to where the customer is has the makings of a big business with modest gains for the environment too
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Covid-19, reverse migration, smartphones: Scripting demand for ayurveda startups
As the pandemic makes Indians turn to the age-old formulations of holistic and preventive health care, startups are riding the internet wave into smaller cities
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MedCords: Enabling last-mile healthcare for Bharat
First-generation entrepreneurs of the healthcare platform want to leverage technology and community-based interventions to help people in rural and semi-urban India access all their health care requirements on a single platform
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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