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As troubles mount at Gensol, BluSmart is fighting for survival

Gensol’s aggressive growth strategy in green business encountered harsh realities, compounded by corporate governance issues. As a result, sister concern BluSmart’s clean mobility ambitions are now in jeopardy

Rajiv Ghosh Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

How India’s Musk is feeling the heat of intense public scrutiny

It’s not just Tesla and Elon Musk who are going through a rough patch. Amid falling sales, revenues and stock price, Ola Electric’s claims, numbers and practices are under the spotlight, giving CEO Bhavish Aggarwal sleepless nights

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Who will win the battle to become Indian households’ No. 1 superapp?

As Flipkart and Amazon enter the fast-growing quick-commerce segment, here’s a look at how established companies are trying to stay ahead of the competition

Jochelle Mendonca Swathi Moorthy Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

This is how you should invest in Indian tech stocks in 2025

The Indian stock markets are seeing an increasing number of tech stocks apart from age-old IT services companies. Here is a handy guide for investors to approach such stocks

Jochelle Mendonca Manu P Toms Kanika Saxena Shishir Prasad
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

This small company’s Esops will make its housekeeping staff wealthy

Infosys started the practice of granting Esops to its office assistants and drivers. In the past 15 years, startups have granted Esops worth billions but largely to senior staff. A small startup is making it more inclusive again

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

How Rapido quietly managed to break the duopoly of Ola and Uber

For years, Ola and Uber ruled the Indian ride-hailing market. But as hefty commissions drew the ire of drivers, Rapido has used the subscription model to grow its market share

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Why this VC firm is going to villages to discover the next Flipkart

Venture capital firm Accel, which has two dozen unicorns in its portfolio, is searching for the next set of outliers at the intersection of India’s consumption story and the digital shift in Bharat

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Byju Raveendran’s rocky, humbling slide to his last chance saloon

The Byju’s board has been suspended and the insolvency resolution professional has taken over the management of the company. The sand under founder Byju Raveendran’s feet are shifting fast. How did things come to this stage?

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

SoftBank’s latest investment signals Masa’s brand-new India strategy

SoftBank Vision Fund has recovered most of the $10.7bn it has deployed in India. The world’s leading tech investor has tweaked its investment approach as the growth-stage deal landscape becomes active again

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Once derided, startups have now become stock market darlings

The public market’s new-found love for startup stocks and the venture capital investor-level exuberance may not be permanent. Irrespective of the seasonality, this is the start of a big shift

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

How a Kabul boy became the poster boy of India's startup scene

With Ola Electric going public, a broader investor ecosystem than VCs will interact with its promoter. The tryst with public markets is an important moment for one of India’s most polarising startup faces

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Can green jackfruit be a silver bullet in fight against fatty liver, cancer?

A recent animal study has proven green jackfruit flour’s potency in treating fatty liver and liver cancer. An expert group of doctors, scientists and researchers are coming together to initiate an elaborate clinical trial on this

Manu P Toms Vikas Dandekar
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

India’s first unicorn clicks again on the IPO button, this time at home

In 2021, ad-tech leader InMobi had made moves for a US listing with a potential $15bn market cap. But the vagaries of the capital market forced it to abort the plans. InMobi is back with its IPO plans. This time round, on the Indian bourses

Manu P Toms Swathi Moorthy
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Meet the Blinkit man who turned Zomato’s ‘mistake’ into a dream run

Albinder Dhindsa’s friendship with Deepinder Goyal blossomed in IIT Delhi. Soon, Goyal became one of Dhindsa’s earliest backers as an angel investor. When the time came, Goyal was paid back with a dream market rally

Priyanka Sahay Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Five challenges for Bhavish Aggarwal after exit of Ola Cabs’ CEO

The latest departure from its corner office brings into sharp focus Ola’s organisational volatility and several of its challenges

Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Tata group's super-app is struggling. Can this man make it click?

Tata Digital’s new CEO comes with an illustrious track record of turning around another Tata group company. But Naveen Tahilyani faces a host of challenges in his new innings

Mugdha Variyar Manu P Toms
THE ECONOMIC TIMES

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