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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


After The Boom: Why India's UPI Players Are Under Strain

India, Feb. 5 -- India's UPI ecosystem is at a crossroads. As transactions volume and value reach record levels, the government is gently pushing UPI players towards self-reliance. The clearest signal... Read More


Exclusive: Spring Marketing Capital Launches INR 500 Cr Fund For Growth Stage Startups

India, Jan. 31 -- Growth stage investment firm Spring Marketing Capital has launched its second fund with a target corpus of INR 500 Cr (about $54Mn), sources told Inc42. The new fund is receiving st... Read More


Reliance JioMart's Quick Commerce Push Is Set To Rattle Blinkit, Zepto

India, Jan. 29 -- In its investor presentation for the December quarter 2025 (Q3 FY26), the oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries (RIL) revealed that the ecommerce arm, JioMart, was doing cl... Read More