Mukesh Ambani is stringing in new partnerships within the Reliance ecosystem with the best in global business -- from Facebook, Google and Microsoft to umpteen sovereign wealth funds and a soon-to-be-declared strategic partner in a big global retailer, notes Shailesh Dobhal.
Private equity firms invested about USD 3.7 billion across 133 deals during the first quarter of 2018 as compared to USD 7.3 billion by way of 200 transactions a year ago.
From $10 billion deployed in Indian start-ups in 2017, $6 billion went to unicorns
US start-ups crash and burn frequently, so why the concern about start-up losses in India? The principal reason, says Kanika Datta, is that Indian start-ups clone ideas from the US. Flipkart, Ola, Oyo, Paytm are all variations of ideas developed in the US.
Marquee recruiters made premium offers, with consulting leading the pack by making 25.04% of the offers, followed by IT/ITeS (18.59%), e-commerce (10.55%) and BFSI (10.13%).
Morgan Stanley writing down its investment in the e-commerce leader by 27 per cent does not augur well for the sector.
The Forbes 5th annual '30 Under 30' list features 600 women and men.
Kapiva's plans to introduce allopathy-like doses of ayurvedic remedies for the millennial consumer finds traction.
This year, PhonePe is focussed on bringing more partners across categories, including travel, commute, food, hyper-local, retail and entertainment on the platform.
An overriding ambition to rule the domestic skies prevented Jet Airways from becoming a strong and formidable player in the international market. The Sahara buy added to the complexity of its operations and a dilution of what the airline stood for, says Anjuli Bhargava.
Paytm, which recently hived off its e-commerce and payments bank businesses into separate companies, would use these fresh funds to bolster the two businesses
These days, one frequently hears of consolidation, rollback and even closure from the start-up world.
At the heart of the issue is the way e-commerce is defined in the current draft policy.
PhonePe via Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) plans to get into a number of new verticals, including fee payments in schools and colleges, payments at hospitals and other services
Few angels have seen exits; till that happens, they won't be rushing to invest again.
The mobile wallet player plans to add more Chinese sellers to its e-commerce platform and boost technology for its soon-to-be-launched payments bank
Nikesh Arora is one of the highest-paid business leaders globally.
Following their passion paid off for Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth with their fantasy sports platform Dream11 entering the unicorn club with a valuation of over $1 billion.
Arora will resign less than two years since he joined the Japanese Internet conglomerate
Did you know that India is among the top five countries in food processing?
'Saying that Snapdeal is not doing well is beyond premature. Suggesting that someone has won or lost is myopic.'
Swiggy is following a path that seems similar to what Meituan, one of China's largest O2O (online-to-offline) platforms that delivers food, sells movie tickets and offers hotel reservation, has done so far, reports Patanjali Pahwa.
With over 45 healthcare facilities and over 300 vibrant diagnostic centres, Fortis is India's second-largest hospital chain -- next only to Apollo, which has 64 hospitals with 10,000 beds. Therefore, any international or domestic hospital chain that buys Fortis will simply catapult to the numero uno position.
According to Munjal, there is an opportunity for somebody who comes from a not for profit background in health care to do something.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
After raising $2.5 billion from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and his Vision Fund, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are back in the driving seat at Flipkart, the company they founded over a decade ago.
In about a year, top e-commerce companies are expected to raise as much funds as the three sector leaders raised in about five years.
India's first true e-commerce marketplace is struggling for its survival and in it lies valuable lessons for pure play aggregators, say experts.
PM app downloaded 2.5 million times, to see 20-fold growth in user base
The company brings its global campaign to India, looks for trust and a way to grow its business in the country
Exercise. Check e-mails. Wake up to a cup of tea.
Fewer e-commerce companies hired candidates from B-schools this year.
The Tata group-owned budget hotel chain is going back to drawing board to reboot the brand. Is it too late?
Start-ups are changing the way people take vacations.
Venture capitalists are leveraging their experience to build something new.
Sarvesh Agrawal tells Shobha Warrier about how he built a start-up "of the interns, by the interns and for the interns."
As an entrepreneur the most important quality you have to have is that all consuming passion to become an entrepreneur.
India'sstartups have a good beginning but will they survive competition is a big questions which needs immediate attention.
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