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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…
 • Akshay Datt
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.
 • 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…
 • 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…
 • Akshay Datt
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.
 • 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
 • Akshay Datt

November 2025

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