Ola Enters Grocery Delivery Space, To Deliver Groceries In Under 30 Minutes
India’s grocery delivery has been abuzz of late — Swiggy had set the ball rolling by announcing 15-30 minute deliveries, following which Grofers…
Category: Startups
Hate Outdated Technology, Am Aiming High: Vijay Shekhar Sharma In His College Yearbook In 1998
In college yearbooks, graduating students often try to capture how their lives will pan out once they’ve left their college gates. They write…
Ola Reports An Operating Profit For The First Time In Its History
Indian startups might’ve seen their revenues plummet last year, but the decreased business has led to some positive outcomes after all. Ola has…
10-Minute Grocery Delivery App Zepto, Founded By Two 19-Year-Olds, Now Valued At $225 Million
India’s incumbent grocery delivery firms have been arguing about the merits of 10-minute deliveries, but a startup founded by two 19-year-olds has gone…
Adani Group Picks Up 20% Stake In Flight Booking Platform Cleartrip
Even as Reliance and the Tatas have strung together a series of startup acquisitions towards their super-app plans, a third Indian conglomerate seems…
Online Grocer BigBasket Opens Its First Physical Store In Bangalore
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Online grocer BigBasket, which had looked to disrupt physical outlets that sell groceries,…
Bajaj Says It’ll Eat Companies Like Ola “For Breakfast”, Ola CEO Fires Back
India’s electric scooter space has barely got off the ground, but the trash talking appears to have already begun among companies vying for…
Insurance Startup Acko Becomes India’s Latest Unicorn, Now Valued At $1.1 Billion
2021 has been a heady year for India’s startup ecosystem, and it continues to churn out unicorns with metronomic regularity. Insurance startup Acko…
IPO Was Desperate Contingency Plan, Had 6 Months Of Cash Left In Bank: Zomato CEO
Zomato’s IPO has been seen as one of the biggest successes of India’s startup ecosystem — the startup became India’s first unicorn to…