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The Company That Makes Your Padlock - and India's Rocket Parts
In 2024 the Godrej family split a 127-year-old empire, painted this half purple, and pointed it at Gen Z sofa buyers and rocket contracts at the same time. Here is how 14 businesses live under one signature.
In 1998, Three Engineers Bet the World Wanted India's Gods Delivered
Long before Amazon reached India, three brothers in Delhi were mailing hand-cast bronzes and out-of-print Sanskrit texts to strangers overseas. Twenty-five years on, Exotic India still pays its 10,000 artisans upfront - and ships to roughly 160 countries.
Geniemode
Geniemode is a Gurugram-based B2B cross-border sourcing and supply chain platform that connects global retailers and brands with a vetted network of manufacturers across apparel, home textiles, furniture, and accessories. Founded in 2021 by Amit Sharma and Tanuj Gangwani, it uses technology, AI-driven design, and integrated logistics to manage the end-to-end procurement cycle - from sample development and manufacturing to compliance, quality control, and delivery - offering buyers cost transparency, smaller MOQs, and faster turnaround than traditional sourcing agents.
Kshitij Marwah
Kshitij Marwah is an Indian deep-tech entrepreneur who founded Tesseract, an MIT Media Lab spin-off building extended reality hardware and software in India. Acquired by Reliance in 2019, Tesseract became Jio Tesseract and shipped consumer XR products including JioDive, JioGlass and JioFrames. A former head of the MIT Media Lab India Initiative, he is an MIT Technology Review TR35 honoree (2017), a Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018) awardee and a TED speaker working at the intersection of AI, optics and immersive design.
Euler Motors
Euler Motors is a New Delhi-based electric commercial vehicle maker building cargo three-wheelers and light four-wheeler trucks for India's last-mile logistics. Founded in 2018 by Saurav Kumar, the company designs its own powertrains and batteries in-house, manufactures at a Palwal, Haryana facility, and sells flagship products like the HiLoad EV three-wheeler and the Storm EV light truck to e-commerce, hyperlocal delivery, and logistics fleets. Backed by Hero MotoCorp, GIC, British International Investment and Lightrock, it has put more than 15,000 vehicles on Indian roads.