A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
On the cover of Forbes India's 30 under 30 issue is cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal, who has risen the ranks with exceptional talent and grit. The rising star speaks to Forbes India's Kathakali Chanda and Kunal Purandare about his emotional beginnings, what he has learned from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, and what his batting strategy has been
In India, the sports and fitness market swings like a pendulum: a raft of premium multinational brands at one end and countless desi companies that pedalling cheap products at the other. 29-year-old Bihani is creating high-quality yet affordable products at Boldfit
With the belief that the making of food to its delivery to controlling the food stack, everything should be owned and managed, Swish has over 70 unique stock-keeping units (SKUs), covering indulgences, snacks, beverages, and meals
With the confidence that India can resolve its trash problem, WeVois deploys an IoT-enabled app for efficient waste collection to reduce open dumping and burning of household trash
Karnatac's YouTube channel KK Create has garnered 973 million views and two million subscribers from 466 videos that tell raw and bold stories, offering a view into the lives of everyday people who are often forgotten. Her aim: To visit India's 800 districts to experience and tell their stories
Morii collaborates with over 165 women artisans from 12 villages across India, combining techniques such as Sujani embroidery from Bihar, Bela block printing, and Rabari embroidery with contemporary abstract designs from Kutch and Kantha embroidery from West Bengal
With the help of UAVs, the founder and MD of Fuselage Innovations is addressing critical challenges across the farming sector, infrastructure monitoring, and environmental conservation
Khan's collective called Gabba creates art with an effort to uphold the history of the site and generate political, social and domestic conversations that can create mutual learnings between the artists and the community
From an online travel agency amid the pandemic to finding its niche in the B2B online ticket booking market, Flyzy's co-founders have come a long way with an aim to be a unicorn in profit not valuation
169Pi.ai was set up after Sam Altman's India visit piqued the brothers' interest in information about India in language models, finding a unique opportunity to do something homegrown versus West-oriented information on the internet
Fix My Curls, which sells its products D2C while also listing them on Amazon, Nykaa and quick commerce platforms, raised just shy of a million dollars from Amazon Sambhav Fund, India Quotient, more
Bhanzu, started as a Government of Telangana numeracy development project, works with nearly 5,000 government schools to teach maths in the "best possible way"
Digantara is working toward achieving surveillance superiority, ensuring not only a safer and more sustainable space environment but also towards safeguarding sovereign assets in the face of an increasingly contested space domain
In her decade long acting career, Balamurali has done some 30 films, and has a National Award to her credit
When Rohit Saraf decided to become an actor, he dove in without a Plan B. After several odd, tiny roles Mismatched has turned out to be a turning point in his career
From designing clothes for herself to becoming a social media content creator, and walking the Cannes Film Festival red carpet in 2024, Tyagi is redefining what it means to be a digital content creator
Shanti Banaras, a designer Banarasi sarees and Indian clothing brand was born out of recognising the decline of real zari—an intricate weaving technique
Mohta became Bain Capital's youngest VP at 27 and in 2022, the company closed a near-$500 million deal to pick up a substantial stake in asset and wealth management services firm 360 One (formerly IIF Wealth)—a company Mohta was tracking since his early days at Bain
As one of the youngest members of the global venture debt industry, Uboweja has played a pivotal role in building global venture and private debt fund in areas of deal sourcing, fundraising, exits, and providing strategic support to portfolio companies
Farm-to-table where eateries are burgeoning in India, and the USP of Project Hum, other than popularising clean eating, is that it connects diners with farmers they source the produce from
Dangi and Goyal's Nextstem works to democratise brain-computer interface (BCI) technology and leverage its expertise in neurotech research and engineering to create a comprehensive BCI ecosystem
In a fight against cancer, the co-founder and chief product officer of OptraScan wants to democratise the treatment and make options affordable with the help of digital pathology scanners
"Karan is the hottest beat maker in the current scene. He has the grooves, but he doubles it up with a collaborative personality and entrepreneurial knack," Forbes India 30 Under 30 jury member and singer, songwriter Ankur Tewari says about Kanchan
Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Solinas Integrity, is driven to find a permanent, and effective solution to the cruel practice of manual scavenging; its prototypes clean water pipelines and its robots can clean blocked drains, septic tanks, and more
Soumya Dabriwal and Aradhana Rai Gupta, through their social enterprise Project Baala, have been working to provide quality, low-cost menstrual products, and create awareness about menstrual hygiene and health. Since 2017, their enterprise has reached a million beneficiaries across 28 states in India, apart from Ghana, Nepal and Tanzania
Gukesh, who emerged out of India's vibrant chess ecosystem studded with 85 Grandmasters, at 18 has achieved what many aspire to once in their lifetime. And this is just the beginning
qudrat makes tableware from rice husk and rice straw, which they say is not only sturdy, microwaveable, and freezable but also free of any adhesives and coatings, making it safe for animals eating from trash cans or when it decomposes into the soil in 30 days
In a year the Indian top-order batters were panned for a dismal show, Jaiswal, 23, emerged as the second-highest Test run-getter, and the highest Indian run-getter in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and scored four Test centuries (150+) since his debut in July 2023, two of them double centuries
Pal, a para-athlete made history when she debuted at Stade de France in Paris last year, clinching two bronze medals--in women's 100-metre and 200 metre T35 sprint events
A Columbia University graduate, this podcaster believes in trading ideas as currency