indian-startups
(5)
Vineet Rao and the small basket that became a billion-dollar bet
After a decade building software at Microsoft, Vineet Rao co-founded DealShare around a different customer: the household watching every rupee. A WhatsApp experiment in Jaipur became a venture-backed grocery business, then faced the harder arithmetic of scale.
Nimish Goel Bet the Company on Making Celebrity Time Scale
A gatecrashed wedding supplied the spark. A stubborn bottleneck supplied the business. Nimish Goel turned five seconds of fandom into an enterprise bet on video at impossible scale.
Abhishek Bhayana Built for the Checkout Counter, Not the Pitch Deck
Bikry’s founder spent a decade circling one stubborn problem: how to give a neighbourhood business the powers of an internet company without charging it like one.
Kabir Nagral Keeps the Name and Changes the Game
He left Harvard to build Craze, learned payroll from the sharp end, killed the product in public, and kept the name for an AI video company. The through-line is less glamorous than any pivot: Kabir Nagral likes software that does the work.
The Bet That India's Small Towns Would Shop by Watching
He turned a hunt for hidden Ganesh Chaturthi pandals into a 50-million-user app, then watched India's social-commerce dream test every assumption he had made.