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The VC firm will likely rake in billions from long-awaited IPOs. But just as the wins roll in, top partners are walking out, internal tensions are mounting, and its global AI ambitions are raising more questions than answers
To prioritise corporate governance and financial management, VCs like Peak XV, Matrix, and Accel are exercising a lot more oversight, introspection, and prudence while signing deals with Indian startup founders
Tech interventions in motor insurance drove Digit to reach $4 billion in valuation. Now, as it seeks to go public, it needs to pull off a similar growth in health insurance. But two things hold it back
Chicago-based Guild Capital’s unusual investment terms lead to founder resignations and legal troubles for early stage startups MegaExams and Wink & Nod among others
“Venture capital is now holding back transformation in Indonesia because it isn’t fostering new tech.”
There’s a lot more to them than the nearly flat revenue and the 15X spike in losses
BharatPe’s foundation is built on risk. Its co-founder and MD Ashneer Grover has played fast and loose not just with the company's governance but also its business model. While its board and investors cry foul now, they're hardly blameless
The playbook behind Tiger Global’s recent spate of investments is both familiar and different from its initial foray in India when it backed now-iconic companies such as Flipkart and Freshworks. But where it pioneered a change in India's VC landscape last time, it is evoking fear, panic and greed in the startup ecosystem this time around.
With credit card payments startup CRED verging on a US$2 billion valuation, investors are banking on the business growing to at least 5X that. Can CRED get there? The answer may have more to do with VC calculus than its current business metrics
Two years ago, cold-pressed juice company Raw Pressery was valued at Rs 500 crore. Last month, it sold to dips and sauce player Wingreens for 1/5th that amount. Covid may have exacerbated its downward spiral, with investors pulling out when it needed them the most, but that's just half the story
One pivot, a series of acquisitions, and a US$4 million down round later, Fave is still struggling to find a strong footing for its business. It’ll soon have to face larger and better-funded competitors that are encroaching its offline loyalty space
Sequoia India is Southeast Asia’s most prominent investor. Now it is doubling down with over US$1 billion in new funds to be shared with India, with a focus on funding startups from seed to IPO. Except exits don’t come easy in the region
Co-working companies’ bet on enterprises—and consequently, enclosed private offices—may have given them a slight edge in weathering the current storm. But they still need to make lasting changes to their business to bounce back
An alliance of Indian startups—led by Cure.fit, Practo, and 1mg—in collaboration with iSpirt are looking to create the tele-medicine platform to end all tele-medicine platforms. It's the 'UPI of healthcare', except healthcare is no payments
From aiming to be Asia’s answer to the US$7 billion worth American UFC to landing on a fake-it-till-you-make-it culture, mixed martial arts organiser and unicorn ONE Championship is trying out yet another move to survive till Round 2
There’s a palpable sense of fear following Covid-19. Businesses are spending less. VCs are waiting and watching. Startups have reported drops in their toplines ranging from 5% to 50% in under a week
Payments solutions provider Pine Labs is the latest Indian unicorn. Scratch past the billion-dollar veneer, however, and there’s a murky past that lies forgotten
Venture capitalists often let their investments do the talking. And talk they do. From $100-million Series A rounds to $500+ million funding rounds, India has had enough and more investor interest and shifting investment patterns of late. We decided to map that interest with data from the last three years
One-year-old payments company focused on merchants has seen a swift rise standing atop the shoulders of the consumer-focused payments apps. But payments supremacy isn’t the destination for BharatPe, merely the vehicle
What drove Sequoia India to start an accelerator? Will it be a game-changer or just more of the same?
After 10 years of being an also-ran, CarDekho is finally getting aggressive. With $110 million in fresh funding and plans to go full stack, will 2019 be CarDekho’s year?
Tapzo, self-billed as “India’s first all in one” app, has shut down its offering. Will it find redemption in a new avatar or is this the definitive end?
Hospital deals have been swift and steady, yet Multiples stopped at just one despite its founder Renuka Ramnath truly believing in healthcare. After all, she came from ICICI Ventures. As her first fund nears its end, is an exit on the cards? If not, what does it tell us about healthcare
The Bengaluru-based beverage startup has entered a juice war started by heavyweights. And it expects to win with its new mass-market drink: Swing
Partner exits at venture capital firms are rare. At Sequoia, two partners have quit within just a year. Their exit has led to curious speculation about the fund’s performance. On whether its India bets are unravelling. Or worse, whether there is infighting within the team. The correct answer is all of the above
Superman of traditional recipes?
The intriguing story of a young SaaS company that had the nation’s top venture capital firms chasing it for an investment. The story of its short and eventful journey towards an acquisition by Freshworks
2 years, $7 million in funding and 2 million users later, payment app Chillr is up for sale. Buyer No.1 is Truecaller, whose payment ambitions are an enigma. Buyer No. 2 is HDFC Bank, Chillr’s biggest partner
2012 to 2017—history will recognise these five years as the period in which venture investing in India came of age
Set the flame to high burn
From QSR to a curated cloud kitchen marketplace, the Sequoia-backed food brand has changed the masala several times to find the perfect recipe
Is the online pharmaceutical growing in the right doses?
The intra-city logistics space is littered with failures and pivots but there may be a winner emerging
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