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How Manu Nair and EtherealX Are Building India's Answer to the Rocket Monopoly
India's most-watched space startup has secured $130M in launch contracts without launching a single rocket. Here is why the world is paying attention.
 • Akshay Datt
The Doctor Will See You Now: Priyadarshi Mohapatra and CureBay's Rural Healthcare Model
How a tech executive's Skype ID moment became the founding idea behind a primary healthcare network for 100 crore Indians who never had one.
 • Akshay Datt
Pranav Pai and 3one4 Capital: How Betting on India Before It Was Obvious Built a 5x+ Fund
3one4 Capital's Managing Partner on 10 years of contrarian investing, the logic behind 5 unicorns, and why the next decade will be defined by sovereign…
 • Akshay Datt
Simran Mulchandani Built Rangeet by Removing Screens from EdTech
How a former J.P. Morgan trader and Blue Frog founder is reaching 500,000 children with a teacher-first model that bets against everything the industry…
 • Akshay Datt
How Prateep Basu and SatSure Are Turning Satellite Pixels Into Farm Loans
From ISRO rocket scientist to Earth intelligence entrepreneur, Prateep Basu built SatSure to solve a problem banks didn't know satellites could fix.
 • Akshay Datt

February 2026

Nalin Agrawal Built Snapmint to Give India's Next 300 Million Consumers a Smarter Way to Buy
From a 2016 ad campaign anomaly to a $125M Series B, the Snapmint story is about fixing a credit system that was built to profit from mistakes.
 • Akshay Datt
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
 • Akshay Datt
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
 • Akshay Datt
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…
 • Akshay Datt

January 2026

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