Big break-ups, mergers & acquisitions, courtroom drama and stiff competition in the skies—the year ahead promises to be action-packed.
The overhang of 2023 will be hard to shake off coming into the new year. Particularly for startups, which saw the funding slowdown from 2022 becoming even more acute—Indian startups saw funding drop by more than half last year. On the flip side, in tech there is a resurgent global excitement around artificial intelligence and all the possible products and businesses that can be built on top of it. At the same time, public markets ended the year on a high with one of the best Decembers in a decade or two, to the point where many strong companies and …