In India, 83.4% of total residential construction is built with private capital. For 9.85 million households surveyed by the National Statistics Office, this percentage represents lifelong savings handed over to contractors on a purely trust-based system. The private construction industry across the country is still largely informal
By 2027, 23% of global retail purchases will happen online. But this number isn't all good news. Amongst the multitude of challenges that already plague ecommerce businesses - from rising logistics costs to increased competition- one key bottleneck that stunts revenue growth is managing inbound demand. This is where
You could wonder how an aircraft maintenance engineer ends up leading growth for a 25,000-farmer-strong beekeeping community. When HoneyDay Bee Farms started training its first set of beekeepers in 2011, Bhargava B Tata was on his first steps of a different journey. Two years earlier, he had
Shruti Jaipuria has never been a stranger to fashion. Born into a family of silk traders, she decided to break new ground in 2012 when she co-founded Varchasv, a retail brand focusing on high-end women's fashion wear and accessories. By steering Varchasv towards high-net-worth
In September 2025, Omar Syed left his thriving agency behind to build in the agentic AI space, a decision that made sense to very few people. What he wanted to do was create the voice AI layer for every business, and for a while, he seemed to be moving towards
In November 2024, an 18-year-old Varalikka Manaksia looked around her home state of West Bengal and saw a glimmer of opportunity in a booming industry: the fishing sector. With an annual output volume of 2 million metric tons and 800,000 hectares of inland water bodies stretching along
When Khyati Jain decided she was going to set out to create the infrastructure for circular fashion in India, the first question she got was, "Who is going to buy a second-hand Gucci bag here?" But at Cycle of Samsara, the peer-to-peer marketplace she now
Aashrith B Arun understands a fundamental truth that far too many startup founders miss. Stories sell. In 2023, he left behind his job in technology consulting at Deloitte to pursue an MBA at the University of Bath. The goal was simple: get the degree and pivot into business strategy. Once
In 2018, Aparna Patel graduated with a Bachelor's in Psychology from the Pandit Deendayal Energy University in the state of Gujarat. Her entry into the other side of the learning world would then arrive in October 2021, when she joined a new-age children's school in
Ankit Pandey had a very unconventional start in the corporate world. While many were collecting degrees and credentials, he opted to dive in headfirst and learn by getting his hands dirty. So his journey began with brewing coffee on the floor of a Starbucks store in the Mumbai suburb of