Unicorn Tracker
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Jet, Set, Debt: How InnoVen built its equity among unicorns
India's biggest venture debt fund has enabled unicorn founders to strike a delicate balance between less dilution and more growth
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Meet the soonicorns: These 10 companies could soon turn unicorn
Fintech, ecommerce and SaaS companies lead the future, according to a Hurun India report
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How edtech startup Eruditus entered the unicorn club
The firm rocked the edtech charts by making Ivy League education accessible and affordable to executives across the globe
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India's seeing a flurry of new unicorn startups. What's going on, and what's next?
Close to half of India's billion dollar-plus tech ventures—26 till mid-August—have emerged in 2021. Two dozen unicorns have emerged in just eight months. Can they keep galloping?
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Comma, Semicolon and Colon: Decoding the grammar of India's billion-dollar startup behemoths
One similarity between grammar and business is that both are defined by punctuation marks. As the recent unprecedented unicorn run of startups indicates, the magic is in knowing when and how the two go together
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How Zetwerk battled fear of the unknown to turn unicorn in three years
Four IITians built a profitable B2B marketplace for custom manufacturing and made it India's 26th startup this year to enter the coveted, and increasingly crowded, billion-dollar valuation club
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How four ex-Flipsters built Groww into a unicorn
The online investment platform flipped traditional investment logic and scaled at a staggering pace in four years. Can it keep growing?
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How Mindtickle wooed customers and investors to turn unicorn
After five years of 'selling petrol to cyclists' in India, Mindtickle pivoted in 2015 to target 'bike riders' in the US. Six years later, the sales-readiness Saas platform has turned unicorn
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From incredulous to incredible: How OfBusiness turned into a profitable unicorn
In 2016, Asish Mohapatra's funding pitch got rejected 73 times. Five years later, his B2B commerce platform OfBusiness is valued over $1 billion
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Loaded, and reloaded: How BlackBuck turned into a trucking unicorn
The B2B trucking platform built muscle, shed fat and focussed on SMEs to scale rapidly. It leveraged technology and offered solutions that addressed the typical pain points for both truckers and shippers
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VCats & 9Unicorns: A sibling revelry
An incubation platform and accelerator fund are fuelling early-stage investing from 0 to 1 stage. Can the gambit pay off?