shailendra singh
9 ARTICLES
Out to list, Pine Labs is a hardware business pretending to be a fintech
Its core POS machine business is small and growing slowly, and the company has done little else to justify its high valuation.
10 Jul 2025
Peak XV Partners should win the record outcome test with Pine Labs
Finally, this question will be answered. Who has returned the most amount of capital on any venture investment in India in the last two decades?
28 Jun 2025
Peak XV Partners’s American distraction
VCs are a dime a dozen in the San Francisco Bay Area. So, aside from the bragging rights that come with being seen as a global venture firm, it makes no sense for the now-Indian Peak XV to invest in a market that’s already crowded.
26 Apr 2025
India’s Peak XV Partners gets a reality check
Sans the Sequoia heft, the VC firm has realized that it is not special. So, it is bending to the realities of the Indian market by making cuts to both volume and pricing.
02 Oct 2024
What does the split from parent mean for Sequoia India?
Think of the Sequoia India partnership as just another Indian venture fund faced with important, vexing questions.
07 Jun 2023
Five startup stories that went behind the scenes
The undoing of Zilingo, the comeback of Rahul Yadav, all things Byju’s and more.
26 Dec 2022
Call records, documents reveal Zilingo’s dangerous half-truths
As the e-commerce startup nears liquidation, we get to the bottom of key allegations involving its co-founder, lead investor and more.
20 Jun 2022
Zetwerk dispute sparked Sequoia’s fallout with Algo Legal
Sequoia has cut ties with the law firm, founded by its former general counsel, over legal fees quoted to portfolio company Zetwerk.
06 Jun 2022
How Sequoia’s Shailendra Singh pushed out Zilingo’s Ankiti Bose
As Zilingo’s fortunes dwindled with the pandemic, Singh started looking for options to change things up. But the co-founder wasn’t cooperating.
18 Apr 2022