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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.