India Goes Past UK, Is Now Home To 3rd Highest Unicorn Startups In The World
India’s unicorn glut of 2021 hasn’t only created new jobs and brand-new millionaires, but it’s also helped India vault up the global unicorn…
Category: Startups
Blinkit Shuts Down Grocery Deliveries In Areas Where It Can’t Yet Deliver In 10 Minutes
Eight-year-old Grofers had rebranded itself to Blinkit last week, and it appears that the new branding goes beyond a simple name change. Blinkit…
Razorpay Raises Funds At $7.5 Billion Valuation, Becomes India’s 4th Most Valuable Startup
In October 2020, Razorpay had first entered India’s unicorn club. Just 14 months later, it’s become India’s fourth most valuable startup. Razorpay has…
Sharp Drop In Stocks Of Tech Firms “Scary”, Only Small Percentage Will Bounce Back: Zerodha CEO
It’s been an indifferent year for tech companies that have gone public the world over, and the founder of India’s biggest brokerage feels…
Byju’s Alleged Predatory Practices While Selling Courses Highlighted In Indian Parliament
There had been murmurs for a while about how Byju’s had been misspelling its educational products to vulnerable people who couldn’t afford them,…
Grofers Rebrands As BlinkIt, Will Focus On 10-Minute Deliveries
It’s not everyday that a six-month old startup run by two 19-year olds upends a billion-dollar industry, but Zepto seems to have done…
Zepto’s Superfast Grocery Deliveries Are Blowing Minds On Twitter, But Not Everyone’s Impressed
Until a year ago, India’s grocery delivery space felt largely settled — BigBasket, Grofers, Amazon a few others companies provided similar services, and…
Byju’s Acquires Austria-Based GeoGebra, Delhivery Acquires US-Based Drone Company
From hoping to get acquired by foreign companies, to acquiring foreign companies themselves, Indian startups have come a long way. Two Indian unicorn…
Pristyn Care Becomes India’s Latest Unicorn Startup, Raises Funds At $1.4 Billion Valuation
2021 is nearly drawing to a close, but India keeps churning out startup unicorns with metronomic regularity. Healthcare startup Pristyn Care has become…