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Alibaba: Overcoming Rejection to Build a Giant Jack Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999 to help small businesses in China connect with global markets. Despite facing rejections from investors, Ma persisted, focusing on e-commerce,

🇮🇳 India Leads the World in Digital Payments! 💥 In FY25, UPI (Unified Payments Interface) recorded a staggering ➡️ 185.8 billion transactions ➡️ Accounting for 83.4% of the total digital payment volume This isn’t just a metro-city story — it’s h

Top 20 VCs in the world (As per *Forbes*). I will try to bring them to the community and also see how they can invest/ co-invest in Indian startups Also I will try to bring *case studies* of their *top investments*. 1. ⁠Alfred Lin- Sequoia  2.⁠ ⁠

Mafia Series #1 THE PAYPAL MAFIA GANG ■Elon musk = Tesla,SpaceX, Neuralink etc ■Peter Theil = Co founder of Palantir Tech,Early investor in Facebook and has Founders fund ■Reid Hoffman = Co founder of Linkedin ■Max Levechin = Co founder of Af

UPI Transactions Jump 5% MoM In May To 1,404 Cr Monthly Growth: UPI transactions rose 5% month-on-month in May to 14.04 billion, with transaction volume increasing 4.1% to INR 20.45 lakh crore. Yearly Growth: Year-on-year, transaction count surged

How CRED Cred-ed ? Short Case study on CRED CRED, founded by Kunal Shah in 2018, shows how a failing loyalty program can morph into a fintech unicorn. 🦄 Here's how: ➪ Gap Filled: CRED made credit card bill payments easy and rewarding. ➪ Initial S

ONE INTERESTING OBSERVATION SERIES DAY #2 With the surge in digital payments, UPI has become the most popular payment method in India. However, it's also the most targeted by fraudsters. In 2022, UPI accounted for a staggering 55% of all fraud case

How Two Brothers Built a $100B Company! This is the story of Patrick Collison and John Collison, two Irish brothers with a passion for technology and entrepreneurship. In 2010, the Collison brothers were frustrated by the complexity of online payme

16 March Startup Bulletin E-COMMERCE HIGHLIGHTS - finperks raised $4M pre-seed for prepaid payments infrastructure (Germany) - Pickup Coffee secured $8M debt funding to expand in the Philippines - Stake closed $8M + acquired UMoveFree to scale its

Weekly Update #6 📰 Top Startup News • India Accelerator expands to Saudi Arabia with a $15M fund to help Indian startups enter the Middle East. • India crosses 2 lakh recognized startups, with nearly 50% having women leaders. • Shiprocket files rev