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Meesho Bets Big On Voice Commerce; Will India Respond?

India, March 29 -- Somewhere in the bustling market of a tier II town, a woman walks into a fabric store. She points to a kurta and says, "Bhaiya, ye dikhao. is colour ka, is range mein" (Show me thi... Read More


Razorpay's Biggest Bet: From Payments To Becoming The AI Brain For India's Small Businesses

India, March 20 -- Razorpay's CEO Harshil Mathur has AI agents walking him through his day's calendar, reading out the most important stories of the day to him and planning his travel itinerary. ... Read More


Inside FinSight Ventures' Bet On A Pricey Yet Durable Indian Fintech Market

India, March 19 -- When FinSight Ventures' lead India investments, Pavel Gurianov, relocated to Bengaluru from Russia in 2014,his mission was clear: to understand why VCs around the world were falling... Read More


Money Alone Won't Fix India's AI Talent Flight: Lightspeed's Hemant Mohapatra

India, March 5 -- Lightspeed India partner Hemant Mohapatra isn't sugarcoating India's AI talent crisis. Despite the momentum building up for Make In India use cases for the AI ecosystem, reports of ... Read More


A Decade And $1 Bn Later, Can Amazon Pay Turn Scale Into Fintech Dominance?

India, Feb. 25 -- More than a decade after entering India as an ecommerce marketplace, Amazon is steadily stitching together a full-stack fintech play through Amazon Pay, spanning UPI, credit, BNPL, i... Read More


How Marico Turns D2C Founder DNA Into FMCG Scale

India, Feb. 20 -- Marico kicked off 2026 with an acquisition spree. In a matter of weeks, the FMCG giant, known for household staples like Parachute and Saffola, signed three back-to-back deals to dec... Read More


Why Zerodha Is Betting On Retirement Savings - And Backing PensionBox

India, Feb. 15 -- In a move that signals its growing ambitions beyond retail broking, Zerodha has invested approximately $2 million in PensionBox, a B2B pension technology platform, in what both the f... Read More


Playbook Partner's Vikas Choudhury On Why Pre-IPO Bets Shouldn't Be About Exits

India, Feb. 12 -- Growth stage investments-focussed VC fund Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio vice president Vikas Choudhury, has already made two investments in 2026 - an INR100 Cr infusion in... Read More


Why Pre-IPO And Growth Stage Deals Are Not Just About Exits For Playbook Partners

India, Feb. 12 -- Growth stage investments-focussed VC fund Playbook Partners, founded by former Jio vice president Vikas Choudhury, has already made two investments in 2026 - an INR100 Cr infusion in... Read More


After The Exits: How Power, Carry And Legacy Collided At Peak XV Partners

India, Feb. 9 -- Ashish Agrawal was the centre of attention at an industry event hosted by Peak XV in December 2025. Fresh off taking Groww to the IPO milestone, Agrawal was in the thick of it on the... Read More