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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicIndian unicorns

Topic: Indian unicorns

Naukri.com started with 1,000 job postings. Only 14,000 Indians used the Internet back then

In 'The Earnicons: Stories of Rare Profitable Unicorns', Dhruv Nath narrates how Naukri.com, Zerodha, Zoho, and Dream11 became market leaders.

India sees number of unicorns fall for first time since 2017, well below govt’s 100-plus claim

The ‘Global Unicorn Index 2024’ by Hurun noted that Indian entrepreneurs were creating more unicorns outside the country, and also highlighted the slowdown in start-up funding in India.

Zepto becomes first startup in India to surpass billion-dollar valuation mark in a year

The grocery startup said it raised $200 million in fresh funding 'in the midst of the deepest downturn in capital markets in over a decade' from US-based investment firms.

SVB collapse shows it’s time to bring Indian startups home

Allowing startups to redomicile to India and foreign direct listing will help retail investors participate in technology markets.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.