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Rebel Foods took the restaurant out of the restaurant business
Faasos escaped punishing rents by moving dinner upstairs. Rebel Foods turned that experiment into a network of shared kitchens, food brands and a $1.4 billion valuation. Making the whole machine profitable is the harder course.
Viraj Mehta Built a Streaming Playbook - Then Chose to Come Back
The Mumbai marketing executive joined Muvi when streaming infrastructure was still catching up with the idea. Years later, he returned for the product, the people and the rare pleasure of building the same story twice.
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.
The Quiet Machine Room Behind Wall Street's Trades and Your Favorite Brand's Homepage
Two Wharton classmates started a "virtual" outsourcing shop in a small South Mumbai office in 2000. Twenty-five years later, eClerx settles trades, cleans data, and builds e-commerce pages for the Fortune 500 - and is betting its next chapter on AI that reshapes work instead of replacing people.
Inside Inspira Enterprise's Five-Center Bet on Security Without Friction
The Mumbai company has spent years turning a sprawling partner ecosystem into one operating layer for cyber defense. Now it is adding AI agents, identity controls and enterprise workflows to the watch floor.
The 20,000-store machine hiding in plain sight
Reliance Retail looks like a collection of stores. Look closer and it is a shared operating system for how India shops - online, around the corner and at almost every price point.
Aaryan Kushwah
Aaryan Kushwah is an 18-year-old founder from Mumbai who moved to San Francisco to build Result (YC P26), an operating system for the next generation of internet businesses that takes a founder from incorporation to their first dollar and beyond. Before Result he built 90nine, a student-led journalism agency that published writers across 13 countries, and won a $10,000 Emergent Ventures grant on the same day Stanford rejected him. He is the co-founder and CEO of Result, which he runs with co-founder Savio Martin.
Craze
Craze is a Y Combinator (S22) company that reinvented itself into an AI video maker at craze.ai - a tool that plans, edits and turns creative direction into finished videos. Founded in 2022 by Kabir Nagral and Deepit Patil, Craze began as an HR, payroll and compliance platform for Indian founders before shutting that product down in 2025 and rebuilding around AI, first as a general 'do things with AI' agent layer and now as a creative video studio.
PropertyPistol
PropertyPistol is a Mumbai-based full-stack proptech company founded in 2012 that connects homebuyers, real estate developers and property brokers on a single technology-driven platform. It offers zero-brokerage property transactions to buyers, home-loan facilitation, property advisory and NRI services, and runs Syndicate, a broker aggregation and engagement platform that gives channel partners listings, lead tools and sales support. The company operates across roughly 40 cities in India plus Dubai and has facilitated the sale of tens of thousands of homes.
Prajit Nanu
Prajit Nanu is the co-founder and CEO of Nium, the Singapore-born fintech unicorn that has quietly become the plumbing behind global money movement for banks, airlines, and digital platforms. Starting with a frustrating attempt to wire INR 40,000 for a friend's bachelor party in Phuket, he built what is now a $1.4 billion payments infrastructure company processing over $8 billion annually across 190+ countries in 100 currencies. A commerce graduate from Mumbai with a sales background rather than a fintech pedigree, Nanu turned that outsider status into competitive advantage - building what incumbents told him was impossible.
Cymetrix Software
Cymetrix Software is a global Salesforce and data analytics consulting firm founded in 2016 that helps enterprises modernize their CRM, data, and AI workflows. With a certified team of 150+ consultants and offices in the USA, India, UK, and Japan, Cymetrix delivers multi-cloud Salesforce implementations, MuleSoft integrations, Tableau and Looker analytics, and applied AI - including Agentforce AI agents built on Salesforce Data Cloud - for clients across manufacturing, retail, BFSI, pharma, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors.
The Aruna Project
The Aruna Project is a Cincinnati-based nonprofit athleisure brand that creates lifelong freedom for survivors of sex trafficking through employment supported by holistic care. Founded in 2014 by Ryan and April Berg after time spent in Mumbai's red-light districts, Aruna employs survivor artisans in India and the US to craft premium bags, totes, and hair accessories - with 100% of sales revenue reinvested into freeing, employing, and empowering women. Its 'Freedom Business' model reports an 86% sustained freedom rate versus a 23% industry standard, and its national Aruna Run 5K series mobilizes thousands of runners to 'Run for Her Freedom.'
Diva Yoga
Diva Yoga is a premium, women-first yoga and wellness brand based in Mumbai, India, and the yoga arm of the SARVA wellness group. Co-founded by entrepreneur-yogi Sarvesh Shashi and Bollywood actor Malaika Arora, it pairs studio and digital practice across 25+ forms of yoga with functional training, Zumba, and nutrition counseling. The brand mixes physical studios with corporate and community wellness programs, and has drawn a celebrity-heavy investor roster that includes Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Shahid and Mira Kapoor, and Aishwaryaa R. Dhanush.
Chandra Singh
Chandra Singh is the CTO and Co-Founder of Rescale Technologies, a Thane-based technology firm helping global enterprises navigate digital transformation through cybersecurity, IT staffing, M&A support, and product development. An IIT Bombay graduate, Singh co-founded Rescale Technologies in 2022 alongside Pawan Kumar and Gaurav Meena, positioning the company at the intersection of creative strategy and technical execution.
Sanket Shah
Sanket Shah is the co-founder and CEO of InVideo, an AI-powered video creation platform with over 50 million users across 190+ countries. Starting in 2012 with book-summary YouTube videos and a first company that was acquired, he built InVideo in 2017 on the belief that anyone should be able to create professional-quality video without technical skills. The company has raised over $52 million from Tiger Global, Peak XV, and others, is on a $50 million annual revenue run rate, and is now expanding into AI-driven filmmaking through a strategic partnership with Bollywood studio Abundantia Entertainment.
Uniqus Consultech Inc.
Uniqus Consultech is a tech-enabled, global consulting firm founded in 2022 by ex-KPMG and ex-EY leaders Jamil Khatri and Sandip Khetan. It blends accounting, ESG, risk, valuations, and AI-powered tooling (the UniVerse suite) to modernize how Big Four-style advisory work gets delivered to enterprises like HDFC Bank, Reliance, Flipkart, and Zomato.
Brendan Rogers
Brendan Rogers is the co-founder and general partner of 2am VC, an India-only early-stage venture fund betting on the country's Gen Z founders. Before turning investor, he co-founded Wag!, the on-demand dog-walking app that listed on NASDAQ after raising over $360M, and a social discovery service later acquired by IAC. From bases in Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Los Angeles, he is one of the most visible American VCs operating inside India today.
Avisha Naganath
Avisha Naganath is VP of Talent and Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. Raised in Mumbai and educated at Stanford, she bridges the worlds of global executive search and frontier technology investing, helping founders build world-class leadership teams across a portfolio of 350+ companies spanning AI, biotech, fintech, and climate tech. A former Korn Ferry senior associate, she now sits at the intersection of human capital and breakthrough innovation, with 39 countries visited, three dance styles mastered, and a reputation as the person top founders call when they need to find their next great leader.