Why India Has So Few Drug Discovery Startups | Vyome CEO Venkat Nelabhotla
India supplies a fifth of the world's medicines and invents almost none of them. Venkat Nelabhotla spent three decades inside that industry...
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Eggoz Founder Abhishek Negi: The Business Funda Behind India's Egg Brand
Eggoz is India's largest branded egg company, built on a market where over 95% of eggs sold in the country are still loose, unpackaged, and...
He raised $80M from Nomura before building a single bus | Manav Bansal, Drivn
An electric intercity bus costs ₹1.5 crore, which is exactly why almost nobody in India was financing them. Manav Bansal left a $2.5 billion...
Did OpenAI's Agents Become A Civilisation? Arjun Jain Disagrees
Seven hundred AI agents were handed a task that could not be solved, and instead of failing they found a hole in a shared package manager an...
India's Palantir: Inside the Defence Tech Startup Boom | Manu Iyer, Bluehill.VC
Every startup in India is suddenly a deep tech startup, and Manu Iyer thinks that is exactly the problem. The co-founder and managing partne...
How to Sell Into US Healthcare From India: The Wysa Playbook with Ramakant Vempati
Most Indian founders flip to Delaware to reach American capital. This AI mental health startup went the other way, staying incorporated in I...
Inside India's Gaming & Microdrama Boom | Salone Sehgal (Lumikai)
India's gaming market crossed $14 billion this year - and it happened right after the real money gaming ban wiped out $2 billion of it overn...
How Mobile Games Actually Make Money | Anurag Choudhary (Felicity)
Most people assume a gaming company gets built by a gamer. Anurag Choudhary does not play video games, and he has built one of the only mobi...
Roby John(SuperGaming) on how the gaming business actually makes money
Most people still think gaming is entertainment, not an industry bigger than movies and music combined. This conversation is a rare look at...
Akshay Shekhar (Kazam) on the India Energy Stack: UPI for Electricity
Most founders spend to acquire customers, but Kazam built an EV charging business where customers pay upfront and the cost of acquisition tu...
Ajay Jain (SilverX) on How To Pitch A VC
Most founders open their VC pitch with a billion-dollar TAM slide. Ajay Jain, co-founder of Silverneedle Ventures, refuses to look at it, an...
How to Run a Profitable Services Firm in the AI Era | Sridhar Muppidi (ello.ai)
Most service businesses are adding people to grow. One Hyderabad founder did the opposite and cut his team from 1,000 to 600 with zero drop...
From Zero to 400 Harbors: Building FreshToHome's $320M Supply Chain
Building a supply chain across 400 fish harbors before spending a single rupee on marketing sounds like madness, until you realise it is exa...
Rajesh Jain (Netcore Cloud) on How to Bootstrap a SaaS Company to $100M Revenue
Most founders chase venture capital like oxygen, but the man who pulled off India's first major dot-com exit built a bootstrapped SaaS compa...
The Series A VC Reshaping Indian Startup Funding | Rajeev Kalambi @ Cactus Partners
Most founders chase the billion-customer dream and the unicorn lottery at the same time. This India VC funding strategy conversation dismant...
Is Venture Capital Built to Break Founders - Amrit Chandan @ Lorefully
Most founders pitch VCs without understanding the math that decides their fate, and Amrit Chandan learned this the hard way after raising $1...
India's Non-Invasive Answer to Elon Musk's Neuralink | Siddharth Panwar @ NeuroDx
Most Indian AI startups are racing to build chatbots for Indic languages. Dr. Siddharth Panwar took a different bet, building India's first...
What VCs Miss When Evaluating Lending Startups: Alok Mittal
Six months before India's first real credit cycle hit, one MSME digital lending founder quietly stopped approving 30% of his eligible borrow...
How to Build a Profitable B2B Marketplace in India: FarMart
Alekh Sanghera spent his early career as a digital payments consultant at MicroSave, working on Bill Gates Foundation and World Bank rural f...
First Indian on NASDAQ: Kanwal Rekhi
When every networking engineer in Silicon Valley said TCP/IP was wrong for Ethernet, one IIT graduate from India ignored the consensus, buil...