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The Future of Startup Exits: How India’s IPO Wave Is Evolving in 2025 & What It Means for Founders & Investors
India’s startup exits are shedding their wild-west skin, evolving from the frothy frenzy of 2021’s 45 unicorn births into a more mature, metrics-driven marketplace where […]
The Funding Winter Isn’t Over: How Smart Indian Startups Are Growing Without VC Money
Bootstrapping & Profitability Resurgence The funding winter that began in mid-2022 is not a temporary dip; it is a permanent reset. In H1 2025, Indian […]
The Future of Regulation How AI Can Simplify Compliance for Startups and Slash 40 Monthly Hurdles to Zero
In November 2025, India’s startup ecosystem—now 1.64 lakh DPIIT-recognised strong—faces a regulatory thicket thicker than ever. The DPDP Act’s full enforcement from October 1 mandates […]
From D2C to D2B Why Direct-to-Business Is the Next Retail Revolution – And It’s Rewriting $100B in B2B Commerce
India’s D2C boom, projected to hit $100 billion by 2025 per Statista, has been a founder’s dream: Brands like Mamaearth and boAt slashing middlemen to […]
The End of Startup Exceptionalism Why Innovation Must Merge with Mainstream Policy – A Foresight for National Destiny
India’s startup odyssey, once a blaze of exceptionalism—tax exemptions, fast-track patents, and DPIIT shields—now flickers amid 11,223 closures in 2025 alone, a 30% surge from […]
Quiet Capital, Quietly Rising How Family Offices Are Becoming India’s New Venture Capitalists in 2025Patient Wealth Reshaping the Startup Renaissance
While marquee VC funds slashed deal counts by 38 % in 2025 and chased only late-stage “safe” bets, a new force wrote 42 % of […]
Green Guardians Rising: India’s Sustainable Entrepreneurship Revolution in 2025 – Pioneering the Transition or Perishing in Pollution
India is choking. Delhi’s AQI routinely breaches 900, 14 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are Indian, and the country loses $95 billion annually […]
From Medicine Mayhem to IPO Momentum: How PharmEasy’s Visionaries Turned Health Woes into a $1B Revival Story
In 2015, Prashant Tandon and Dharmil Sheth, spotting India’s fragmented pharmacy chaos, co-founded PharmEasy in Mumbai to deliver medicines, diagnostics, and telehealth to doorsteps. Now […]
From a ₹2 Crore Mumbai Flat Startup to an ₹80,000 Crore Empire: How Falguni Nayar’s Nykaa Redefined India’s Beauty and Retail Industry
In 2012, Falguni Nayar, then 49 and one of India’s top investment bankers, took a leap of faith — leaving her high-profile Kotak Mahindra career […]