India Tech

What should have been a smooth-sailing ride for WhiteHat Jr after getting acquired by edtech giant Byju’s, it turned out to be a rocky one.

In 2020, Byju’s raised over USD 1 billion from existing and new investors, which took the company’s total funding to date to USD  2.32 billion.

Atmanirbhar Digital Indian Foundation (ADIF) will work with government to design a legal and policy framework that would encourage the growth of digital economy.

India is WhatsApp’s biggest market by user number.

The Bengaluru-based early-stage VC backs consumer brands that target India’s 9 million high-income households.

FirstCry has emerged as one of the biggest players in baby and mother care segment in the world’s second-most populous country.

Naspers-backed food tech major Swiggy—one of the first Indian food delivery companies that was betting big on cloud kitchen—had to shut and relocate many of its non-profitable cloud kitchens in April.

Four-year-old Udaan, which connects small and medium-sized retailers with manufacturers became one of the fastest startups to achieve unicorn status in September 2018.