india-startups

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SanchiConnect Is Building the Switchboard for India’s Hardest Startups
Enterprise · Saas · Marketplace

SanchiConnect Is Building the Switchboard for India’s Hardest Startups

The Noida company began with introductions. It now sells the machinery behind them - software, programs and deal work designed to move deep-tech founders from laboratory promise to purchase order.

deeptech · startup-acceleratorRead →
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StartupLanes Built a Funding Lane With One Startup in the Room
Vc · Marketplace · Fintech

StartupLanes Built a Funding Lane With One Startup in the Room

The pitch-event conveyor belt is gone. StartupLanes puts one company in front of the room, then sells founders the connective tissue from idea to IPO.

startup-funding · angel-networkRead →
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T-Hub Built a 572,000-Square-Foot Answer to India’s Startup Bottleneck
Enterprise · Vc · Ai

T-Hub Built a 572,000-Square-Foot Answer to India’s Startup Bottleneck

Hyderabad did not merely commission an incubator. It built a piece of civic machinery where founders, corporates, investors, universities and government are expected to collide - then turn those collisions into companies.

startup-incubator · innovation-hubRead →
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IIMA Ventures backs the awkward years of a startup
Vc · Climate · Fintech

IIMA Ventures backs the awkward years of a startup

Before the customers, the growth charts and the big funding round comes a much messier job: making the business work. IIMA Ventures has built an institution around that stretch.

startup-incubator · startup-acceleratorRead →
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CarDekho Is Building the Checkout Lane for India's Car Economy
Marketplace · Fintech · Consumer

CarDekho Is Building the Checkout Lane for India's Car Economy

A Jaipur garage project grew into a web of marketplaces, lenders, insurers and dealer tools. The clever part is not the car listing - it is everything CarDekho can attach to the decision that follows.

cardekho · auto-techRead →
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POP
Fintech · Consumer · Ecommerce

POP

POP is trying to turn India’s most ordinary digital ritual into a shopping habit. Its wager: one reward currency can connect UPI payments, credit and a crowded universe of young brands.

pop-upi · popcoinsRead →
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Easyrewardz Software Services
Saas · Enterprise · Fintech

Easyrewardz Software Services

The Gurugram software company has spent more than a decade turning scattered purchases, messages and complaints into a single customer story - then helping brands decide what to do next.

easyrewardz · crm-softwareRead →
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Atlys
Consumer · Saas · Enterprise

Atlys

Atlys turned the least glamorous part of travel into a repeatable software problem. Now the visa app is using identity, automation and a 700,000-application annual run rate to reach for something larger: the operating layer behind international movement.

travel-tech · visa-processingRead →
Story
Gupshup and Yellow.ai Race to Turn India's Chatbots Into Agents
Ai · Enterprise · Saas

Gupshup and Yellow.ai Race to Turn India's Chatbots Into Agents

Two of India's best-known conversational AI companies are chasing the same prize from different corners - one built on high-volume messaging, the other on enterprise voice. The gap between a bot that answers and an agent that acts is where the fight is now.

gupshup · yellow.aiRead →
Legend
Manan Khurma
Founder · Executive · Author

Manan Khurma

Manan Khurma is the founder and chairman of Cuemath, an online math learning platform that teaches K-12 students across 80+ countries through live 1-on-1 classes. An IIT Delhi engineer who started teaching JEE math in his second year of college, Khurma has spent two decades trying to make a billion kids fluent in mathematics.

cuemath · edtechRead →