Startup Stories

Amit and Anurag Jain started with IT outsourcing, built CarDekho in Jaipur and made it a $1.2 billion unicorn by 2021. Here is the funding, the 2023 pivot and the …

Nish Hair is often called a ₹50 crore brand. Here’s where that number comes from, what Parul Gulati’s company reportedly earns, and what nobody outside the business can actually verify …

Five IIT Madras engineers met on a student Hyperloop team, then built GalaxEye. Here’s how their OptoSAR satellite reached orbit and why a US patent matters for Indian deeptech.

Bewakoof founder Prabhkiran Singh is stepping down after 14 years, handing the brand fully to TMRW. Here’s his journey and what’s next.

Yuvraj Singh has joined Deepak Sahni’s stealth healthtech startup UN:BLOC as investor and founding team member, a decade after backing Healthians.

Ashneer Grover has launched Fund My Staff, a platform where employers guarantee employee loans disbursed by an RBI-registered NBFC, targeting workers with little to no formal credit history.

The verified origin story of Zerodha: how Nithin and Nikhil Kamath built India’s most profitable, fully bootstrapped brokerage.

Vandita Purohit built Mauji, India’s first pay-by-the-hour time cafe, after three earlier ventures didn’t work out as planned.

From a Karnataka village with no internet to a NASA contract, Awais Ahmed’s Pixxel journey shows what a real deep-tech bet looks like.

Two Indian students built Tsenta, an AI tool that auto-applies to jobs, after facing thousands of internship rejections. Y Combinator just backed them.