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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Innovation during infection: On finding opportunities during a calamity

The Covid-19 pandemic is not the first infection in the past two decades to spur disruption—the SARS outbreak in China in 2002 spurred its internet economy and saw Jack Ma grabbing the opportunity with both hands. Now, coronavirus may have provided a once-in-a-lifetime launchpad for Indian companies

Byju Innovation Labs: Bridging the teacher-student gap with AI, ML

With an aim to solve moonshot problems, Byju's lab initiative hopes to consistently innovate internally to solve education's biggest challenges with technology to avoid becoming obsolete

Eyes in the sky: GalaxEye's constellation of hybrid sensors may transform satellite imagery

Named Drishti, the IIT-Madras graduates' hybrid sensor attempts to combine the best of radar sensing and optical imagery and will provide data as a service to commercial customers

This duo incubates early-stage non-profits. Their goal: Bring 1 crore Indians out of poverty by 2025

It takes a village to create a successful, scalable non-profit startup, and Sudha Srinivasan and team at The/Nudge Centre for Social Innovation have set out to build an infrastructure that promotes disruptive, differentiated thinking to solve critical social issues

Sanitary waste usually ends up in landfills and seas. This innovation recycles it to protect environment, empower women

Padcare Labs' innovation breaks down the toxic waste of sanitary napkins and recycles the disposed pads into cellulose that can be used in the packaging industry or to make vases, paver blocks, and more

Can Goodknight kill the mosquito incense stick market?

The mosquito incense market is largely illegal and unorganised. Goodknight hopes its Jumbo Fast Card will be the one-stop solution to slay both—the mosquitos and the competition

When man meets machine: Using AI to improve productivity of factory workers

Rather than using artificial intelligence to replace humans, Drishti Technologies, a Silicon Valley and Bengaluru-based startup, is using computer vision and deep learning to improve human productivity

From 'Dil Chahta Hai' to 'Mirzapur', Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani look back on a 20-year partnership

Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani founded Excel Entertainment 20 years ago, starting with 'Dil Chahta Hai', and continue to score with OTT hits like 'Mirzapur'. They talk about the journey so far, and the one ahead

Thoughts on ideas

Investors call it the 'Amazon of Construction'. Meet the builders of Infra.Market, the now $2.5 billion behemoth

In its audacious bid to disrupt the fossilised real estate and constructions industry with its innovative business model, Infra.Market—the B2B online infra procurement platform—gets deeper with its retail play. Will the aggressive gambit pay off?