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The growing unease of EaseMyTrip’s investors
The online travel aggregator is struggling to grow now more than ever. Meanwhile, its promoters' stake sales reveal a pump and dump pattern that does little to ease shareholders’ concerns.
10 Aug 2025
The quick rise and even quicker fall of India’s smartwatch industry
At a time when startups selling chips or pet food have raised millions of dollars in funding, investors have shunned wearable tech companies. The fate of the sector hangs in the balance.
29 Jul 2025
The Good Glamm Group is to be dismantled as lenders enforce brand-by-brand breakup
Founder Darpan Sanghvi confirms the collapse of the once-promising content-to-commerce company.
23 Jul 2025
Deep tech startup Chara Tech has ambitions to solve auto’s rare-earth crisis
Thanks to China’s supply curbs, the Bengaluru-based company has suddenly found its rare earth-free motors in the spotlight. But building a successful business is a different ballgame altogether.
22 Jul 2025
Inside Eloelo app, Indians are live-streaming into nothing
Backed by WaterBridge and Kalaari, Eloelo spent years trying to find the right product to start monetizing. Only to fall back on lonely Indians looking for someone to speak to and willing to pay for it.
20 Jul 2025
Wakefit built a Rs 1,000-crore mattress brand. Now it wants to do a full-stack
A pioneer in the online D2C mattress market, the startup is eyeing the public markets on the strength of its expanded home and furnishings presence. Will its next decade be as good as the one behind it?
07 Jul 2025
Pakistan’s failed startup promise, competition force Careem’s exit
The most popular startup of the Middle Eastern region just exited its decade-old operation in the country, citing competition and macro challenges. Both these reasons need to be unpacked and understood separately.
02 Jul 2025
Binny Bansal-backed Curefoods files papers for an IPO
The cloud kitchen startup plans to tap favourable market sentiment to raise Rs 800 crore in a fresh issue.
29 Jun 2025
In India, everything is logistics
Large, valuable businesses are being built in the country, many of whom are delivering food, grocery, goods, services and even people. At their core, these two-sided marketplaces are solving for efficient logistics.
21 Jun 2025
The often overlooked suffering of employees in startup debacles
Every time a major startup goes under, it is the employees who are left jobless and waiting for dues to be cleared (if at all). Perhaps it is time founders and investors got their act together.
14 Jun 2025