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Co-founder Lisa Suwal talks about how she scaled a family deli-meat business without a single rupee of venture capital and her decision to sell to ITC.

It’s a quintessential family business story—first generation seizes an idea, second takes it many steps forward. Where Lisa Suwal’s arc leaps off the page though, is in how she changed, scaled and sold off the business in under a decade of this generational handover. In between, she also said no to any sort of venture capital funding.
Lisa Suwal is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Prasuma, the company popularly known for its frozen momos today. But Prasuma goes back decades. For the longest time, it was a small business that manufactured and supplied fresh deli meats to the …
Believing education is the key to success, Unacademy raised $880 million and reached a $3.4 billion valuation, only to crash 90%. Its co-founder and CEO gets candid about the state of the startup and Indian edtech.
A churn in venture capital collides with the fear of missing the AI wave, while the Ajay Singh-led airline’s recurring crises raise deeper questions.
The managing partner at Key Capital talks about his new—and the region’s first-ever—secondaries fund and why long investment cycles are not everyone’s cup of tea.