Startups & Leaders

With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a widespread health scare, the insurance industry in India saw an influx of new-age tech-driven startups that not only addressed health and other insurance needs,...

Here’s a quiz question: what’s common to Amanda Seyfried, Jared Leto, Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt? The answer: They have all been cast as flawed tech entrepreneurs in movies or...

True, Ukraine and its people have had a rough last decade, but it hasn’t stopped the country from building a rapidly growing and high-quality startup ecosystem. As a result, the...

Dubai-based mobility startup SWVL, has acquired Berlin-based public mobility solutions provider door2door for an undisclosed sum Founded in 2012, door2door has developed a proprietary "mobility as a service" MaaS...

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff...

Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal defends 10-minute delivery service Zomato co-founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal defended the company’s latest 10-minute delivery service, a day after the move was criticised and doubts were raised...

Oxyzo steps out of Ofbusiness’ shadow, turns unicorn in India's largest Series-A roundOne unicorn gives birth to another as Oxyzo, the financing vertical of B2B marketplace OfBusiness, bags $200 million...

Several Bay Area businesses said they are dealing with unpaid bills across the board after a local startup and food delivery company suddenly shut down. Emily Winston, the owner of...

IN WHAT may seem like a natural extension in hindsight, Indian service startups are leveraging consumer data generated on their platform to understand market demand for specific products and expand...