On the surface, Pronto looks like the next chapter in India’s long-running home services saga. It’s faster, slicker, and has grown with a velocity that…
Open the box of a new smartphone in India, and you are greeted by a familiar landscape. The icons for Google, WhatsApp, and Instagram are…
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I remember a conversation in a Koramangala cafe back in 2019. The air was thick with the scent of filter coffee and ambition. A young…
There was a different kind of energy in the room. It wasn’t the familiar, frenetic buzz of a consumer tech pitch day in Bengaluru, where…
There is a moment every founder remembers. It’s not always a dramatic eureka in the shower. Sometimes, it’s a quiet accumulation of observations, a pattern…
For a few weeks in February, a narrow 33-kilometer strip of water thousands of kilometers away became the most talked-about topic in startup boardrooms across…
For a few brief, deafening moments, a controlled inferno raged in Chennai. Four engines, firing in perfect synchrony, unleashed a torrent of power, their combined…
There is a unique violence to a rocket engine test. It is a controlled explosion, a furious release of energy that shakes the ground and…
For years, the conversation in Bangalore’s cafes and Mumbai’s co-working spaces has revolved around two moments: the funding round and the exit. The journey in…