Startups
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Loopworm: Creating insect protein for livestock and even pet food
Insects don't need a lot of arable land or portable water that plants need and greenhouse emissions from insect cultivation are much lower than that of composting
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Eeki Foods: Hydroponic veggies at mandi rates
With an innovative polymer composite material used to make containers for the hydroponics, doing away with coolers or chillers, Eeki Foods grows three times the yield of conventional farming, by using 80 percent less water
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Step into the future: A taste of the innovations brewing in India
India has emerged as a genuine global hub of startups-led Innovation
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IPO frenzy may be over but new-age Indian companies have potential to go public: Redseer's Anil Kumar, Rohan Agarwal
With the evolving global macro environment of higher interest rates, there are questions around the business models of Indian new-age startups and their ability to be value-creating public market companies. However, there are two reasons why this narrative doesn't hold water, according to Kumar who is CEO and Agarwal who is partner at Redseer Strategy Consultants
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Focus on growing your company and not the share price: PolicyBazaar's Yashish Dahiya
While many entrepreneurs have lost sleep once the market stripped the bountiful IPO gains, Yashish Dahiya is the picture of calm. He didn't find much reason to celebrate when his company listed at a premium, and he's not much worried about the rout—what he wants to understand is the logic behind both
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Girish Mathrubootham on how to stay hungry amid a carnage
The poster boy of Indian SaaS is braving a brutal global tech meltdown and trying to keep Freshworks steady. What might come handy is turning deaf and building credibility
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Out of Nile, into tile: Young Egyptians battle plastic plague
Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile
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MapMyIndia knows how to navigate storms and the stock markets
After coming close to selling the company and battling the odds for over two decades, the Vermas got MapMyIndia listed in 2021. Now, their venture is navigating the stock market storm better than its peers
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Don't worry about the wild swings, highs and lows. Just keep batting: Hemant Jalan on life after IPO
With listing at 75 percent premium and a record high the day after, Indigo Paints made a stunning debut in 2021. Two years later, the stock has plunged below the issue price. Can Hemant Jalan continue to paint the town red?
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CarTrade is zero-debt, has cash reserves and is profitable. Why is it's stock getting battered?
Vinay Sanghi steered CarTrade to a public listing after over a decade of hustle. Seventeen months later, the stock is down by over 70 percent from its issue price. Sanghi reflects on life after IPO and how it's changed his attitude as an entrepreneur
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RateGain: India's first listed Saas company may be down from stock market highs but not out
After a blockbuster IPO in December 2021, RateGain's stock fell 43 percent from its listing price before recouping gains as of Jan 18. Here, Bhanu Chopra reflects on the company's performance which remained bootstrapped for a decade, turned profits for 14 years before two years of losses during the pandemic and was back in the black after listing on the bourses