Startups
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Ion Energy: Building the tech backbone for electric vehicles
Akhil Aryan and Alexandre Collet recognised a crucial gap in the Indian EV market and embarked upon building advanced electronics, battery management systems, and predictive analytics platforms especially for electric vehicles
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Lohum Cleantech: Recycling EV batteries
Harvard Business School graduates and close friends Rajat Verma and Justin Lemmon are working on closing the supply chain loop in the electric vehicle market by reclaiming raw materials from lithium-ion batteries, and could go on to give a second-life to used batteries in the future
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Welcome to Motel California: Bert Muller, Burrito, and India
Bert Mueller has been living his American dream by selling Mexican cuisine in India for close to a decade. Post-pandemic, California Burrito is set to clock its best numbers. Find out how Mueller built his Taco stand in India
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Age of Rage: How Rage is giving coffee a heady makeover
Rage Coffee has brewed instant success with its functional and flavoured offering. Can it now take on the big boys of the caffeine world?
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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?
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Analysts, Ugly Duckling & Mr India: A peek into the rise and rise of Infra.Market
When Aaditya Sharda and Souvik Sengupta wanted to scale their bootstrapped venture in early 2019, they couldn't find takers. Finally, when venture capital came, the friends managed to save 2.5 percent stake. The Infra.Market story, though, did not get diluted
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Creative Galileo gets $2.5 million in seed round from Kalaari, others
The edtech startup is the first one to be backed by Kalaari's CXXO programme for women founders-CEOs
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Startup Fridays Ep 25: In India, a light bulb went off in my head, and I knew I wanted to invest in founders there - Brendan Rogers
Our guest this Friday was Brendan Rogers, founding partner at 2am VC, a venture capital firm in the US, which focuses on investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs in India. 2am VC, which Rogers co-founded with Hershel Mehta, has already made investments in Indian startups in sectors including fintech and health care. Rogers also co-founded Wag! Labs, a pet services startup that attracted investors including SoftBank. Rogers spoke about the energy among young entrepreneurs in the country, and how 2am VC could help
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Meesho raises $570 million, valuation soars to $4.9 billion
Fidelity and B Capital lead funding in the Facebook-backed venture, which has more than doubled its valuation in five months
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Freshworks and a fledgling product nation: The best is yet to come
The SaaS company's IPO has inspired a generation of entrepreneurs in India, some of whom will likely build enduring global businesses. A peek into our cover story
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The charge of the great Indian SaaS brigade
Freshworks's Nasdaq IPO brings global credibility to the India-to-Silicon-Valley playbook and, sooner or later, a $100-billion-market-cap company will emerge from the Indian SaaS ecosystem