Startups
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Samosa Party and its QSR gambit
Amit Nanwani and Diksha Pande used only one ingredient to make a brand out of a humble samosa: Passion. How big can the party be?
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Meet the Speed Guns: Can Zepto live up to its billing?
Two 19-year-old Stanford dropouts are writing the A to Z of Q commerce in India with speed, guts and gusto
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Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal: Creating value and wealth for millions
Social commerce platform Meesho has touched nine million women micro entrepreneurs across 5,000 towns. The founders are also creating wealth for employees and impacting the broader ecosystem
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Meet all the 42 unicorns born in 2021, the highest ever for any year
Indian startups, from fintech, edtech, healthtech and even proptech, are becoming favourites of investors at home and across the world. Here's a quick lowdown of all the 42 unicorns that were born in India in 2021
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Eruditus and Ashwin Damera: A masterclass in wealth creation
Ashwin Damera's global edtech empire is built on the twin pillars of accessible higher education and creating a valuable business
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You've got mail: Wake up, and start your Jurni
Two young women are sprinting in their bootstrapped journey by delivering morning newsletter on culture, work-life and travel to millennials. Can The Jurni make big business out of newsletters?
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New age tycoons believe in taking the ecosystem with them: Aaditya Sharda of Infra.Market
A staggering rise in revenue—from ₹12.5 crore in FY17 to ₹1,242 crore in FY21—is mundane for the first-generation entrepreneur and the new inductee of Forbes India Tycoons of Tomorrow, Aaditya Sharda. Here's what excites him more
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Meat & Greet: How Licious is spicing up its story
India's biggest meat and seafood brand aggressively ramped up its ready-to-cook division to take it to Rs 200 crore in two years. Can the meat unicorn keep up its gutsy run?
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Cars24 raises $400 million, valuation soars to $3.3 billion
Over the last twelve months, the online platform for used vehicles has mopped up over a billion dollars in funding and has tripled its valuation
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How to give in to your compulsive idea, Virendra Gupta style
After quitting the stability of corporate life, VerSe's founder dove in to create solutions to bridge the digital divide for rural India. The result is a $3 billion juggernaut
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How third-time entrepreneur Srikanth Iyer got it right
It took the founder of HomeLane, India's biggest home interiors brand, 20 years to realise what he didn't want to do—and that the lesson was as important as recognising what he did want