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The 75-Year-Old Sweet Shop That Put Bakarwadi on an Assembly Line
Chitale Bandhu turned a Pune sweet counter into a packaged-food network by solving an unusually difficult problem: how to make a regional snack at industrial scale without making it taste anonymous.
The $49 Billion Checkout Line Behind Your Dinner
Delivery Hero built a federation of local apps that can move dinner, diapers and cold medicine before the doorbell feels late. Now its most valuable product may be the logistics system hiding behind eleven familiar brands.
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.
JetBuy
JetBuy is a voice-first ordering app that lets people reorder their usual food for delivery or pickup in about a second by speaking a saved command to Siri. After a one-time setup that ties phrases like "dinner," "coffee," or "sushi" to a specific order, a user just says "Hey Siri, JetBuy Dinner" and the order is placed - replacing the roughly 20 taps a typical delivery app takes with zero. Founded by Ryan Holmes and built around the insight that most people order the same handful of things over and over, JetBuy launched on the App Store in 2024 and demoed at Y Combinator's 2025 Demo Day.
Krave Mart
Krave Mart is a Karachi-based quick-commerce grocery startup that delivers everyday household essentials from a network of neighborhood dark stores, typically in 30 minutes. Founded in 2021 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch, it raised what was then Pakistan's largest pre-seed round and built its model around sustainable unit economics and private-label products rather than pure delivery speed. In 2026 it was acquired by ride-hailing company inDrive to power grocery delivery inside inDrive's app.
Grubtech
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
Pronto
Pronto is a Bengaluru-based on-demand and subscription house-help platform that dispatches trained, background-verified cleaning professionals to urban homes in roughly 10 minutes. Founded in 2025 by Anjali Sardana, it applies a quick-commerce playbook to India's largely informal domestic-work market - transparent per-visit pricing, instant or scheduled booking, and structured shifts that give workers (about 99% of them women) predictable income. The company scaled from roughly 1,000 daily bookings to 24,000-25,000 in about a year and was valued at $200M in April 2026.