Startups
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Staying hungry and foolish: How Kamesh Goyal started up at 50 and built a unicorn
For the insurance veteran turned rookie founder, age was just a number when he decided to start Digit Insurance in 2015. Five years later, his company is a unicorn, with a valuation of $3.5 billion
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Slam Dunk: Can Rajan Bajaj grab a big slice of the fintech pie?
New unicorn Slice is fast becoming a darling of millennials, Gen Z, and Tiger Global. Can the credit card challenger live up to its billing?
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Lizzie Chapman: Pioneering buy now pay later in India
ZestMoney's Chapman has been in fintech before it became a rage, and has cracked the consumer market in her adopted home—India
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How Sakshi Vij is melting electric hesitancy with Myles Zero
New technology, high cost of ownership, battery life and range are the three biggest factors driving EV adoption hesitancy. Myles Zero's EV subscription-only model aims to hit three targets with one plan
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Vineeta Singh: Sugar Cosmetics, and the passion for the impossible
Sugar cosmetics is Singh's third startup, and one that she is determined to make ubiquitous in Indian women's makeup kits
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The e-plane company: Will India's first air taxi be electric?
Incubated at IIT-Madras, the startup is founded by the institute's professor Satya Chakravarthy and his student Pranjal Mehta; the duo hope their electric flying cars can do last-mile delivery too
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Move over Whatsapp video calls, it's showtime for live shopping
A clutch of companies is offering live commerce services to merchants for a monthly fee as well as a cut of their sales. Do they hint at the future of retail?
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How banker-turned-investor Sameer Aggarwal is financing the EV revolution
Former HSBC banker Sameer Aggarwal has been a prime mover in financing electric rickshaws with RevFin. Will the gambit pay off?
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Is this the wine bottle of the future?
French startup Le Petit Baroudeur has invented a recyclable wine bottle that keeps wine fresh longer
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From scooter rental to EV player: How Bounce morphed to survive the pandemic
Sequoia- and Accel-backed scooter-rental startup Bounce is morphing into a full stack EV player. Can it pounce on the big opportunity?
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Finally, PE and VC firms are selling assets to each other at record high numbers
Alternative asset fund managers have returned $38.7 billion in 2021 by exiting 229 deals. Exits through secondaries hit $12.9 billion, signalling a deepening of an alternate asset market in India