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StartupsJun 9, 2026

OTT vs Theatres — How India’s ₹13,000 Crore Box Office Boom is Reshaping the Streaming Economy

For a brief period after the pandemic, it seemed like Indian cinema had fundamentally changed forever. Big films were arriving on streaming platforms within weeks—some skipping theatres entirely. But in 2025, the industry swung back. The Indian box office hit a record high of ₹13,000 crore, up 14% from the previous year, while digital and OTT revenues for films declined 7% year-on-year to ₹2,900 crore. This article analyzes the great theatrical resurgence, the economics of the 8–12 week window, and how OTT platforms are pivoting from blockbuster acquisitions to smarter, data-driven content bets. We also explore what this means for producers, exhibitors, and the future of movie-watching in India.

FundingJun 8, 2026

The D2C Reset: Why 2026 Is The Year India's Consumer Brands Learned That Discipline Beats Growth At Any Cost

India's D2C sector is entering a new phase where profitability, retention and operational discipline matter more than growth at any cost. Investors are rewarding fundamentals over hype.

ImpactJun 8, 2026

Gynoveda and the Founders Who Chose Impact Over Income — and Built Better Businesses Because of It

In an ecosystem that measures success in valuation milestones and funding rounds, Gynoveda's Rachana Gupta offers a different definition — one measured in lives changed and health restored. Her story reveals something that the startup world often forgets: impact and excellence are not opposites. They are often the same thing.

ImpactJun 8, 2026

Beyond Valuation: How India's 132 Unicorns Are Reshaping the Social Contract, the Tax Base, and the Next Generation's Expectations

India's unicorns are not merely financial instruments generating returns for their investors. They are institutions — shaping employment norms, digital infrastructure, policy conversations, and the expectations of an entire generation about what work, wealth, and possibility can look like.

ImpactJun 8, 2026

One Hundred Startups Changing India at Population Scale: The IndiaAI Impact Compendium and the Stories It Contains

When IndiaAI published its compendium of over 100 startups and nonprofits deploying artificial intelligence for population-scale impact, it was received as a useful directory. What it actually represents is far more remarkable: documented proof that AI is beginning to reach the people for whom it could matter most.

WomenJun 8, 2026

Ghazal Alagh, Vineeta Singh, and the Deep Philosophy of the Unconventional Bet

One turned a mother's worry into a billion-dollar brand. The other walked away from a one-crore salary to build a cosmetics empire. Both made unconventional bets at moments when convention was screaming at them to stand down. We examine what their choices reveal about the nature of founder conviction — and what the Indian startup ecosystem must learn from it.

StartupsJun 8, 2026

Sanjeev Bikhchandani — The Man Who Bet His Savings on a Job Portal When India Had No Internet Jobs

In 1995, Sanjeev Bikhchandani was a 32-year-old marketing professional with a steady job. He and his wife invested their life savings — ₹8 lakh — to start a small business in his father's backyard shed. Their idea: a job portal called Naukri.com. The problem? India had barely 10,000 internet connections, and almost no one looked for jobs online. Everyone said he was crazy. But Sanjeev believed that the internet would change everything. Today, Naukri.com is India’s largest online job portal, with over 70 million registered users and 150,000+ recruiter clients. His company, InfoEdge, is a $10 billion publicly traded giant that has also funded successful startups like Zomato, PolicyBazaar, and Swiggy. This article traces Sanjeev's journey from a backyard startup to a pioneer of Indian internet, and from a job portal founder to one of India’s most respected angel investors.

WomenJun 8, 2026

Type Beauty's Ananya Kapur and the Women Founders Who Are Rewriting What Beauty — and Business — Means in India

A new generation of women-led beauty brands is dismantling decades of colonial beauty standards and building in their place something more honest, more inclusive, and more commercially powerful. We examine the founders leading this cultural and economic revolution.

StartupsJun 8, 2026

Mukesh Bansal — The Engineer Who Sold T-Shirts Online and Then Built India’s Largest Health & Fitness Platform

In 2007, Mukesh Bansal was a software engineer in the US, earning a comfortable salary. He wanted to return to India but didn’t know what to do. He noticed that Indians were becoming more fashion-conscious, but online shopping for clothes was almost non-existent. So he founded Myntra, an online personalized gift store that pivoted to fashion e-commerce. He grew Myntra into a $300 million business before selling it to Flipkart. Then he started Cure.fit (now Cure.Fit), a health and fitness platform that combines gyms, yoga, mental wellness, and healthy food delivery. This article traces Mukesh’s journey from a BITS Pilani engineer to a serial entrepreneur who built two category-defining companies. We analyze his “pivot or die” philosophy, his obsession with customer experience, and his ability to spot trends before they become mainstream.

WomenJun 8, 2026

A Decade of Startup India: Why the Most Important Chapter Has Always Been the Women Writing It

National Startup Day 2026 marks ten years of the Startup India initiative — a decade that has produced 207,000 startups, 132 unicorns, and a cultural transformation in what Indian entrepreneurship means. But its most consequential and least fully recognized achievement may be the growing leadership of women founders. We examine the decade's women-led revolution.