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Xicom builds the software behind the everyday
A dental cupboard, a warehouse and a vending machine have the same awkward problem: nobody has the whole picture. Xicom makes a business out of connecting the pieces.
One Source Built a Marketing Firm by Saying No to Easy Money
The New Delhi consultancy began with personal savings, a borrowed name, and a refusal to buy editorial coverage. Its wager was simple: sell the business outcome first, then assemble the channels to reach it.
Giriish Bindal Has Spent 20 Years Turning Attention Into Action
From research analyst to HR-tech CMO, Bindal's career is a study in how patient editorial craft becomes commercial leverage.
Sameer Sadana Built the Business Behind the Creator
The AppX founder turned a teacher’s frustration into infrastructure for independent educators - then learned to compete on product, patience, and profit.
Bloom Spent a Year Building a Hotel With No Guests - Now It Wants 100,000 Rooms
India's yellow hotel chain made the unfashionable choice to perfect its operating system before chasing flags on maps. The bet produced a profitable ₹357.5 crore business - and a field guide for founders who would rather earn the right to scale.
The Delhi Firm Doing the World's Data Homework
Blackcoffer turns messy enterprise data into dashboards and decisions for clients from consulting giants to a national central bank - 110 people, offices on three continents, and a name that doubles as a mission statement.
AppX
AppX is a Y Combinator-backed (S21) creator economy SaaS company from India that lets educators, influencers and content creators launch their own branded mobile apps and websites to sell courses, memberships, live classes and digital products - without writing code. It bundles course hosting, payments, community tools, DRM content security and marketing into a single console that creators fully own.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Shridhar Gupta
Shridhar Gupta is the co-founder of LocoNav, a fast-growing fleet management SaaS platform that tracks over 5 million commercial vehicles across 50+ countries. Based between New Delhi and San Francisco, he co-built LocoNav from a 2016 startup into a $75M ARR business by 2025, raising $47M including a $37M Series B from investors like Sequoia Capital India and Quiet Capital. His mission: democratize fleet technology in emerging markets where 70% of 250 million commercial vehicles run with zero tech.