How Flashaid’s Contrarian Bet on Insurance De-Risks Education Financing in India
Gunjali Kothari, alongside her co-founder Manoj Gupta, is orchestrating one of the most audacious plays that I’ve seen in Indian fintech. Their company, Flashaid, is pioneering a new market category entirely: an insurance-backed, loan-free EMI platform designed to solve one of India’s most persistent and painful problems – student loans. In simple terms, Flashaid has […]
What Does It Take to Build a Semiconductor Company in India? The Journey of IndieSemic and Its Founder Nikul Shah
In 2021, when the Covid-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt, a different kind of crisis was unfolding in the manufacturing space. A global semiconductor shortage sent shockwaves through supply chains of every industry, from automotive to consumer electronics. Cars from Tata to Mahindra sat unfinished in lots waiting for “chips,” and Indian electronics […]
Neverinstall’s Browser-First Virtual Desktops Take on Global Giants like Citrix, VMware with a Fully In-House Stack Built in India
For most enterprises in India, managing virtual desktops is still a legacy nightmare. The systems they rely on are often slow, complicated, and designed for on-premise environments of the pre-cloud era, where even logging into a remote workstation could be frustrating and limit employee efficiency in any organization. This personal frustration, especially with developer workstations, […]
Post-Purchase Journey Is a Cost Sink for D2C Brands. Dyrect’s Warranty Management Platform Turns It into a Profit Center
The battle for the customer is won and lost on a thousand tiny fronts in the D2C world. Brands obsess over acquisition costs, conversion rates, and even the perfect “unboxing” experience. Yet, once a product is sold, brands enter a dangerous blind spot: the post-purchase experience. Every delayed shipment or faulty product chips away brand […]
How Cautio Builds Real-Time Accountability for India’s Fleet Operators
For most fleet operators in India, whether it’s a city cab service, a long-distance bus provider, or a last-mile delivery company, what happens inside their vehicles is often a black box. GPS tracking can tell them where a vehicle is, but not what’s going on inside it. Was a passenger mistreated? Was a risky maneuver […]
How ArthAlpha Built an AI-Driven Quant Engine to Outthink India’s Markets and Investor Emotions
India’s asset management industry is undergoing a quiet transformation. While most of the market is driven by fund managers with traditional strategies, new generation quantitative investment firms are beginning to reimagine how capital is managed, using data and algorithms. Quantitative investing, long dominant in Western markets, is slowly finding its place in Indian portfolios too, […]
To Fix Indian healthcare, Even Had to Disrupt Indian Insurance. Founder Mayank Banerjee Tells Us Why
Every year, 7% of India’s population is pushed into poverty due to healthcare costs. I had to double-check when I read this line in a Niti Aayog report on Health Insurance for India’s Missing Middle. The stat is so staggering that it doesn’t feel real. This devastating statistic is the outcome of a system that is fundamentally […]
India’s StepOut Has an AI for Performance Analysis in Football. Europe’s Top Clubs Are Buying in
In the football-mad lanes of Kolkata, a young Jeet Karmakar would watch the FIFA World Cup with a mix of passion and patriotic frustration. The streets would be a sea of Brazilian yellow and Argentinian blue, but one flag was always missing, the Indian tricolour. Like millions of our countrymen, he’d join the chorus of […]
Bhavya’s Four-Year Walk Through Fire to Build, Pivot, and Exit Freshreview
For most founders, an acquisition is the finish line and a moment of triumph. But for Bhavya Purana Hosadurgam, the solo founder of Freshreview, selling the company she had built by spending seven years of her life wasn’t just a strategic move. It was a decision steeped in brutal honesty, a decision shaped by hard-won […]
Toothlens Is Quietly Building India’s Missing Dental Insurance Infrastructure. Without Directly Selling a Single Policy
In India, dental care often falls through the cracks of the healthcare system. It’s expensive, rarely covered by insurance, and largely overlooked by both policyholders and providers. This gap was hard to ignore for Dr. Manoj Rajan, CEO and Co-founder of Toothlens, who had spent years as a dental practitioner hearing the same complaint from […]