Enterprise
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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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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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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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Tiger Global's investment in CoinSwitch Kuber big nod to the Indian crypto industry: Ashish Singhal
Tiger Global Management's $25 million investment in BitCipher Labs last week marked the first investment in an Indian crypto startup for the New York-based investment firm, which is famous for its early backing of Flipkart. It has now added an Indian crypto startup to its portfolio. With Tiger's investment, CoinSwitch's valuation jumped five-fold to more than $500 million in just four months.
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All For Claps: Sameer Nair on his next act beyond the success of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati,' Star TV, and AltBalaji
Applause Entertainment CEO Sameer Nair, who has witnessed highs such as 'Kaun Banega Crorepati', wants to develop a full-blown studio that makes more than just movies
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Razorpay's Harshil Mathur talks about the company's strong growth and valuation jump
With a new round of funding, the Bengaluru fintech company is now valued at $3 billion. It is now set to become more aggressive on acquisitions to widen its products portfolio and expand into markets such as Indonesia and Malaysia, which offer growth opportunity with payments problems that are similar to what businesses faced when Razorpay launched in India