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Electric scooters are becoming a rage and Bengaluru’s Ather has quietly raced ahead

Nearly three years since it launched its first scooter in 2018, Ather Energy’s revenues have increased from Rs 11.7 crore in FY19 to Rs 48.8 crore in FY20.   

Zomato IPO pushes CEO Deepinder Goyal closer to India’s $1 billion club

Zomato IPO is a triumph not just for 36-year-old Deepinder Goyal, but also scores of Indian entrepreneurs. With the 66% stock jump, Goyal is now worth $650 million, based on his 4.7% stake.

Will Zomato deliver? IPO listing today will be barometer for India’s unprofitable unicorns

Zomato has generated a seldom-seen frenzy among the investment community. Investors will now get a taste of the food delivery giant when it debuts today after a $1.3 billion IPO.

Lenskart raises $220 million as India’s tech industry mints more unicorns than ever before

Valued at $2.5 billion, according to founder Peyush Bansal, Lenskart plans to use the capital to expand online sales and add brick-and-mortar stores in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

How Zomato, Paytm IPOs show India’s homegrown startups have arrived

Zomato and Paytm’s popularity among institutional investors is also prompting the other unicorns to consider going public.

Job losses, business closure — Covid hit female entrepreneurs. Here’s how to support them

Studies show 10 to 30% of enterprises registered as ‘women owned’ are not actually owned or run by women. Covid has worsened the situation.

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg are exception not rule — not all startup founders should be CEOs

In ‘Everything Started as Nothing’, Bhaskar Majumdar writes on how to build and sustain startups and scalable businesses in today’s ruthless marketplace.

Indian startups can help post-pandemic recovery, but need revised data protection bill

Startups have many concerns about the bill in its current form — such as compliance costs, restrictions on cross-border data flows and respect for IP rights.

Google and Microsoft invest in TikTok rival, India’s Josh app

Short-video app Josh is tailored to the variety of regional languages, touting it’s 'Made in India' label at a time TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps have been banned.

After InMobi, Naveen Tewari scores a second unicorn with Glance – the lock screen wizard

Naveen Tewari's Glance has reached a valuation of over $1 billion after completing a funding round led by Google & billionaire Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital.

On Camera

In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.