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I've recently heard about an inspiring community initiative in Auckland that started with university students teaching English to others (I didn't read about them much but briefly). They discovered that food and essentials were quite expensive, with

Top News of the Day: 1. Education-focused NBFC, Varthana, has secured INR 27 crore (around $3.2 million) in funding from Triodos Investment Management. 2. Wealth management platform Upstox has announced its entry into the insurance distribution b

Top News of the Day: 1. Insurtech startup Finsall has raised Rs 15 crore in bridge funding to establish a non-banking finance company for scaling lending operations 2. The CEO of EdTech company Physics Wallah, Alakh Pandey, has filed a plea in the

Imagine 1/5 Indians being 60+ in age 📛📛 While we talk of demographic dividend, and being the world’s youngest major nation, we often miss one key point. That, we are also one of the world’s fastest-aging societies. .. Right now, 6% of our popul

Top News of the Week: 1. Funding: - On a weekly basis, startup funding surged 85% to $444 million as compared to around $239.7 million raised during the previous week. - Deals include 5 growth-stage deals and 14 early-stage deals. Meanwhile, two

A Brief Timeline: Ritesh Agarwal Picture Ritesh Agarwal, born in 1993 in Odisha, India. At just 13, he's already hustling, selling SIM cards and making his first entrepreneurial strides. By 16, he's earned enough to buy his first computer for ₹50,00

Top News of the Day: 1. Zomato's quick commerce arm, Blinkit, has introduced a returns and exchanges service to its platform, expanding its categories beyond daily groceries. 2. Indian digital credit marketplace Paisabazaar, owned by PB Fintech, is

#Deepdive: Zepto’s soaring valuation is driven by its meat biz 💰🚀 Strange that hardly anyone’s talking about it. No doubt, most people don’t get it. So, let’s deep-dive and break down! .. Zepto was recently valued at $3.6bn (though the pre-mone

Summary of the Week: 1. Fundings: Indian startups cumulatively raised $260.1 Mn from 31 deals between April 15-20: - An uptick in the investment activity across the ecosystem. Between April 15 and 20, startups cumulatively raised $260.1 Mn across 3

Koo's Founder on ⬇️⬇️ Should you join a startup I narrated my redBus story not as much for a nostalgic walk, but more for those who are considering joining one to get a sense of how innocently I went about it and the sacrifices it needed. I was lea