Zepto files Rs 8,010 Cr UDRHP with FY26 revenue doubling to Rs 22,623 Cr and 1,139 dark stores. How Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra built India’s biggest quick-commerce company from a 10-minute grocery idea in 2021.
In the West, the conversation about women in business begins with venture capital and ends with the funding gap. In India, a parallel economy is quietly creating crores of women entrepreneurs without waiting for a single term sheet. The Lakhpati Didi programme is not charity. It is a market correction happening one self-help group at a time.
New research from Esade reveals that all-women founding teams secure only 2% of early-stage funding despite generating higher returns. The study identifies five levers to fix systemic bias in venture capital, moving beyond "lean in" narratives to structural solutions.
India’s startup count has crossed 680,000 — and 50% are now emerging from Tier 2 & 3 cities. With $8.05B raised in H1 2026 and the IndiaAI Mission deploying GPUs beyond the metros, India’s next unicorn may be hatching in Indore or Guwahati.
While the world debates whether ESG investing is dead, Adesuwa Okunbo-Rhodes is writing a different story. Her firm, Aruwa Capital Management, has built a track record that attracted institutional investors—including pension funds and development finance institutions—to a market most global funds avoid. The final countdown is not about survival. It is about scaling what works.
The public markets are bleeding. Foreign investors have pulled out ₹2 lakh crore. The Nifty has fallen 14%. Yet the IPO pipeline is bursting with over 75 companies waiting to list. In this divergence lies a strategy that the wealthiest investors have already figured out: stop buying what everyone can see. Start buying what comes next.
Immuneel Therapeutics' ₹100 crore Series B round highlights growing investor confidence in India's ability to develop advanced cell and gene therapies rather than simply manufacture healthcare products.
As AI infrastructure expands rapidly, growing concerns about water consumption are raising questions about whether natural resources could become one of the industry's biggest long-term constraints.
Applied Digital's $5.2 billion AI data-center lease highlights how infrastructure providers are becoming some of the most important beneficiaries of the artificial-intelligence boom
Costco's real business isn't selling products. It's selling memberships, a model that allows the retailer to prioritize customer value and build extraordinary loyalty.