Indian Startup Agnikul Successfully Tests World’s First 3D-Printed Single-Piece Rocket Engine
Even as one Indian space-tech startup is readying to send the country’s first private rocket into space, another has notched a world-first to…
Category: Startups
Lenskart Slips Back Into Losses After Being Profitable For 2 Years, Posts Rs. 102 Crore Loss
India’s short list of unicorn startups that actually make money has gotten even shorter. Eyewear company Lenskart, which had been reporting profits for…
Space Startup Skyroot To Launch India’s First Private Rocket Into Space This Month
Even as Elon Musk has been focusing his energies on Twitter over the last few months, an Indian startup is quietly looking to…
Unacademy Terminates 350 Employees In Fresh Round Of Layoffs
If 2021 was the year of the creation of startup unicorns, 2022 is turning out to be the year of startup layoffs. Unacademy…
Bangalore-Based E-Commerce Unicorn Udaan Lays Off 350 Employees
The startup layoffs in India had started off with a trickle in 2022, but they’re now threatening to turn into a deluge. B2B…
Weeks After Laying Off 2,500 Employees, Byju’s Signs Lionel Messi As Brand Ambassador
Byju’s might have fired thousands of employees, been under the scrutiny of elected MPs, and have its financial statements be questioned, but it…
Chennai-Based Payments Unicorn Chargebee Lays Off 142 Employees
If 2021 was the year of creation of startup unicorns — a record 42 startups were minted that year — 2022 is turning…
Byju’s To Not Shut Down Kerala Office Or Fire Employees After State Govt’s Intervention
Hiring and firing decisions are usually made by looking at unit economics, analyzing broad macroeconomic conditions, or studying the funding environment, but in…
BITS Pilani To Let Students Take A Year Off To Build Their Startups
There’s no shortage of examples of entrepreneurs who dropped out of college and built great companies — Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg…