A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
As the virus shifts to smaller towns and rural India, we bring stories of entrepreneurs who have quietly innovated to help the underserved, and of those who have built resilient businesses by serving beyond urban India
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Delivering diesel to where the customer is has the makings of a big business with modest gains for the environment too
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
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