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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.
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.