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How SMG Built Fynd Into a ~₹300 Crore Retail Engine
The IIT designer who chose infrastructure over marketplace glory and sold to Reliance for ~₹300 crore
Feb 19
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Akshay Datt
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Sreevathsa Prabhakar Built Servify By Fixing What Others Ignored
How a service engineer turned after-sales chaos into a platform powering Apple, Samsung, and AT&T
Feb 13
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Akshay Datt
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The Physicist's Formula: How Ritu Verma Built Ankur Capital Into India's Deep Science Powerhouse
A soft matter researcher turned venture capitalist is proving that India's next wave of unicorns won't come from copying Silicon Valley, but from…
Feb 6
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Akshay Datt
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January 2026
Amit Gaiki and Flam AI: An AI-Native Content Engine That Found Real Revenue by Fixing One Problem
How a consumer app pivot and an obsession with removing friction turned Flam AI into a $10M ARR mixed reality advertising platform
Jan 30
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Akshay Datt
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How Ashok Hariharan Built IDfy Into India's Trust Infrastructure, One Crisis at a Time
A 15-year journey from ₹80 lakh seed round to ₹188 crore in revenue - and why the biggest growth wave is still ahead
Jan 28
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Akshay Datt
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How Utham Gowda Built Captain Fresh Into a $1 Billion Seafood Empire While Competitors Collapsed
The investment banker turned CEO spent $6 million on market research, traveled 1.8 million kilometers, and acquired 10 companies to become the last man…
Jan 20
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Akshay Datt
Dr. Arjun Jain on Fast Code AI: Why the $100 Million AI Engineers Know Scaling Laws Are Dead
A Yann LeCun protégé explains how the industry is pivoting from the "Software TAM" to the "Salary TAM" through outcome-based pricing and small language…
Jan 14
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Akshay Datt
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Mark Kahn of Omnivore: How a Texas Immigrant Built a $300M Fund Betting on Rural India
The Managing Partner who traded Houston for Patna explains why India's next unicorns will come from agriculture, not apps
Jan 6
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Akshay Datt
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Dr. Prithwi Singh’s Khetika: Building India’s Clean Label Food Giant
How a veterinarian-turned-entrepreneur is scaling ₹247 crore revenue by owning the entire supply chain, from Rajasthan farms to Mumbai kitchens
Jan 6
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Akshay Datt
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December 2025
How Madhav Krishna Built Vahan Into India's Largest Blue-Collar Recruiter By Digitizing Trust
The Columbia-trained AI researcher pivoted from English-teaching chatbots to placing 40,000 workers monthly - more than any platform in India. His…
Dec 31, 2025
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Akshay Datt
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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, 2025
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Akshay Datt
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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, 2025
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Akshay Datt
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