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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…
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Akshay Datt
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…
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Akshay Datt
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
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Akshay Datt
Sasha Mirchandani of Kae Capital: The VC Who Rides Mumbai Trains and Breaks His Own Rules
How the Onida heir built India's most disciplined seed fund by staying small, moving slow, and betting on founders who pivot
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Akshay Datt
The Patient Capital Architect: How Vishesh Rajaram and Speciale Invest Built India’s Deep Tech Unicorns
From pharmaceutical heir to India’s most contrarian deep tech investor, backing rockets, robots, and a manufacturing renaissance
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Akshay Datt
How Srikrishna Swaminathan Built Factors.AI After Creating InMobi's $100M Business Unit
The InMobi VP who processed a billion clicks daily saw what others missed: B2B marketers needed AI-powered attribution to survive the privacy-first era
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Akshay Datt
The Builder Who Never Stopped: Gireendra Kasmalkar's Journey From VeriSoft to Ideas to Impacts and Pentathlon Ventures
How three decades of relentless building led one IIT engineer to crack India's geographic code and reshape the country's tech delivery model
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Akshay Datt
How Madhav Bhagat Built SpotDraft by Betting Against His Own Vision (Twice)
The SpotDraft Co-Founder spent five years building the wrong product while waiting for AI to catch up. Then the technology arrived, and everything…
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Akshay Datt
P. Venkatesh and Maveric Systems: The $75M ARR Banking Specialist Racing Toward IPO
How a 25-year focus on banking unitization built a Chennai-based company targeting $500M revenue and public markets within three years
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Akshay Datt
How LEAD School's Smita Deorah Built India's EdTech Platform From Early Learning Insights
From teaching her one-year-old to read to co-founding a $1.1 billion education company serving 5 million students
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Akshay Datt
How LEAD School's Sumeet Mehta Built India's $1.1 Billion EdTech Platform
From small-town dinner table lessons to transforming 8,500+ schools: The systematic approach that created sustainable education impact
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Akshay Datt

September 2025

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