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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.
Varun Kogta and the second life of a balance sheet
From bank audits to a family lender in Jaipur, Varun Kogta has helped connect the business of used vehicles with institutional capital. His story runs through the less glamorous machinery of growth: liquidity, reporting and the confidence of lenders.
Arun Kogta’s bet on the second-hand economy
A civil engineer joined his family’s lending business in 2004. Two decades later, Arun Kogta is connecting used vehicles and small businesses in India with capital from global investors.
TiE Rajasthan brings the investor meeting to Jaipur
At SmashUp, founders get a shot at the people who write the cheques. Behind the event is a nonprofit network teaching entrepreneurs how to make that meeting count.
AIC-JKLU gives startup ideas a factory problem to solve
At a university outside Jaipur, AIC-JKLU connects founders with labs, mentors and industrial partners. Its biomaterials accelerator shows what happens when the startup brief begins with a paper mill.
Cyntexa Makes a Business of the Work Between the Apps
From a Jaipur basement to enterprise cloud projects, Cyntexa has built its business around a stubborn problem: expensive software still needs someone to make it work together.
Shrey Sharma built a company by teaching what he knew
Before Cyntexa, there were students with Salesforce questions. Shrey Sharma’s career in Jaipur follows a recurring pattern: learn the work, explain it, then help other people take it further.
Elip AI
Elip AI is a Y Combinator (W25) startup building an AI job agent that lives inside WhatsApp. It reads through millions of job postings overnight, filters out ghost and duplicate listings, and sends each user a short list of ranked, personalized matches by morning - plus tailored, ATS-ready resumes. It is free for job seekers; employers pay when they hire. Founded by Gaurav Luhariwala, the company is based in San Francisco with an Indian entity in Jaipur.