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📉 From 66 to 4: What's happening with Y Combinator and Indian Startups? 🇮🇳 Y Combinator's backing of Indian startups significantly dropped in 2024, and it's a fascinating shift! Here's why: * "Reverse Flipping" Costs: YC's requirement for a U

Indian startups are Reverse Flipping. Many startups incorporate in countries like Singapore, Mauritius, the US (primarily for SaaS), or the Cayman Islands for several reasons: - Ease of doing business - Tax incentives - Better funding opportunities

Swiggy's upcoming IPO will be a multibagger win for early VC investors. 🎯Detailed insights will be available once their DRHP is public, but if you look at the history - - Elevation Capital: Investment of $5.9 M turned into $61.8 M (~10x returns) -

Building SaaS from India for the world - Rocketlane raises a $24 M Series B. ➡️Total Funding: $45 M (Seed at $3 M, Series A at $18 M) ⏫Lead investors: 8VC, Matrix Partners and Nexus VP. In recent years, many Indian startups are building SaaS compan

Surge, The Y Combinator of India! So Surge is a seed-stage accelerator program launched in 2019 by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA). It provides early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia with funding, mentorship, and

Q1 25 - Startups have secured just over $3.1 B in funding, across 232 deals. Several VC firms have recently closed or launched new funds in the last quarter⤵️ - Bessemer VP → Closed a $350 M India Fund II - Accel → Raised $650 M for India Fund VIII

I assumed H&M’s lower price point would translate into healthier profits. H&M may lead in total sales, but it’s shelling out 4.5× what Zara pays in royalties — ₹865 Cr vs Zara’s ₹190 Cr, eating into margins⤵️ (source - Entrackr) From what I’ve seen

I genuinely feel sad when any Indian startup boasts about being funded by Y Combinator 🙏🙏 That is so because there is this unwritten rule that YC only invests in startups which are registered in the US, Singapore, Canada or Cayman Islands. So eve

Accel closed its 8th India fund with a $ 650 M corpus. Since entering India in 2008, Accel has been a key investor in some of the most influential startups. 📄A few early investments of Accel that have become behemoths today - - Myntra: Seed inv. i

I never thought sustainable jet fuel would be within reach so soon. Twelve, a carbon emissions company in the US, announced a $645 M Series C today. ⏭️Investors include: Capricorn Inv. Group, Pulse Fund, TPG ✈️Twelve seems to have built insane te