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How Swarup Bose Built Celcius Into India's Largest Cold Chain Platform in Five Years
A lockdown evening, a Canva logo, and two decades of watching food rot. Inside the company solving India's $50 billion cold chain problem.
Dec 16
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Akshay Datt
How Ravi Saxena Built Wonderchef to ₹500 Crore Without Burning Venture Capital
The IIM Ahmedabad graduate who lobbied the government, created markets from scratch, and proved that patience beats cash burn in building India's most…
Dec 15
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Akshay Datt
How Shubham Garg Built CodeVyasa Into a 600 Person, $10-15 M ARR Engineering Partner
Inside the rise of CodeVyasa, the bootstrapped engineering and AI partner founded by Shubham Garg, now serving 80 plus global clients across fintech…
Dec 5
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Akshay Datt
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How Vineet Rai Built Aavishkaar from ₹5,000 Savings into a Billion-Dollar Impact Platform
Vineet bought a dying MFI losing ₹2 crores a month. Today it manages ₹7,000 crores.
Dec 3
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Akshay Datt
Hareesh Chandrasekar's AGNIT Semiconductors: The 18-Year Patient Capital Play Behind India's Chip Dreams
How a Bangalore startup turned academic R&D into strategic advantage, raising just $4.87M to compete in the $1.5B defense semiconductor market
Dec 1
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Akshay Datt
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November 2025
The Bridge Builder: How Anand Prasanna Found India's $10M Revenue Gap
Iron Pillar's Managing Partner on building a growth-stage VC firm by filling the hole others ignored
Nov 21
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Akshay Datt
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How Subin Mitra Built Groyyo Into India's Most Profitable Fashion Supply Chain Startup
The 27-year-old founder raised $50M from Tiger Global, watched his startup nearly collapse, then bet everything on a strategy that cut revenue before it…
Nov 18
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Akshay Datt
How Rajeev Raja helps brand grow using the power of audio
Why the founder who created Mastercard's award-winning sonic identity believes sound is 20x faster than vision in the attention economy
Nov 14
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Akshay Datt
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Shashank Khaitan's Bollywood Playbook
The filmmaker behind Badrinath Ki Dulhania reveals how instinct, storytelling, and systems thinking power both cinema and sports entrepreneurship
Nov 6
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Akshay Datt
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October 2025
The Phoenix Card: How Anil Goteti Built Scapia By Returning $9M to Investors
The former Flipkart SVP shut down his first startup, gave back investor capital, and used that credibility to raise $72M for India's fastest-growing…
Oct 30
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Akshay Datt
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How Raution Jaiswal Built InsuredMine to $5M ARR on Just $40,000
The bootstrap playbook from a founder who turned extreme constraint into competitive advantage, building an insurance CRM that now competes with…
Oct 27
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Akshay Datt
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The Nature of Markets: How Apurv Agrawal Built SquadStack by Learning Not to Fight the Wind
From a side project nobody cared about to ₹200 crore ARR - the story of respecting forces you cannot control
Oct 16
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Akshay Datt
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