I was interested in watching a particular movie on Prime video. Do you know why? The only reason was that it was about starting a business & scaling it up like crazy. Moreover, it was a true story. As usual, I checked the IMDb rating [not that I am a fan of imdb]. But I … Read more
There is gloom all over. Markets are down. SaaS is down. Right? But there’s some good news. The following startups have recently raised Series A / B / C / D funding: UAE recruiting platform Ogram PayEngine Singapore based metaverse startup BUD Chainalysis Jaipur startup WoodenStreet Health-tech startup Medznmore Healthcare + BNPL startup Walnut [hellowalnut] … Read more
I am sure you have read this. India got its 100th Unicorn. “Open” is the 100th unicorn. It’s a business banking platform for SMEs. The total valuation of these unicorns is $ 332.7 Billion. The Indian Startup Ecosystem is the third-largest in the world. One thing that is common among these startups is the use … Read more
Two university dropouts had a dream. They dreamed of making computers that the average person could use. One of them had a family garage. Both of them started working in that garage. One of them sold his Volkswagen and the other sold his expensive Hewlett Packard Scientific calculator and raised US $ 1300. They started … Read more
The latest in this list is Bigbasket. They got bought over by Tata. Last month, Urban Ladder was bought over by Reliance. Slack was bought by Salesforce for $ 27.7 Bn. Slideshare was bought long time ago by LinkedIn. And, LinkedIn was then bought over by Microsoft. “Taxi For Sure” was acquired long ago by … Read more
I am sure you have heard/used some of these #Unicorns [those with a minimum of $1 billion valuations]: Stripe Airbnb Doordash Dropbox Coinbase Instacart Ginkgo Bioworks Gusto Flexport Rappi Brex Gitlab Checkr Pagerduty Segment Podium Scale Faire Twitch Weave Amplitude PlanGrid Mixpanel Benchling Boom Front Cruise Optimizely Meesho LendUp MessageBird mbx Systems Standard Embark The … Read more