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Research, ideas, founder intelligence, and tools — curated and updated every month. Everything a serious builder needs to stay sharp.

This Month's Highlight

Cover Story
Cover Story · Business Empires

How India's Next Wave of Founders Is Quietly Rejecting Silicon Valley's Entire Playbook

10 min read May 2026 Featured
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Top Read This Month

5 Productivity Systems That Actually Hold Up Under Real Founder Pressure

The New VC Thesis Post-2024 Correction — What Investors Are Actually Looking For Now

India Startup Ecosystem — Q1 2026 Quarterly Report · Funding Trends, M&A Analysis & What Founders Need to Know

Book of the Month

Zero to One — Peter Thiel

  • The monopoly framework and how to apply it to your market
  • Why "competition is for losers" is not arrogance — it's strategy
  • Three Indian startups that built using Thiel's principles without knowing it
Read the Full Breakdown
Interview of the Month

Nithin Kamath on Building Zerodha Without a Single Rupee of Institutional Funding

  • Why Kamath never wanted institutional money and what that decision cost him early on
  • The one metric Zerodha obsessed over when every other fintech was chasing users
  • What he would do differently if starting today
Read Our Notes + Watch the Interview
AI Tools of the Month

The Complete AI Productivity Stack for Founders — 2026

  • ChatGPT — Advanced reasoning and content engine for strategy, copy, and ops
  • Notion AI — Smart workspace that automates docs, projects, and knowledge bases
  • Perplexity — AI-powered research engine for real-time market intelligence
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India Startup Funding Tracker

Where the capital is moving.

Funding rounds, M&A deals, and VC activity — curated every month for founders and builders tracking the Indian startup ecosystem.

Updated · May 2026

$7.1B

YTD 2026

↑43%

vs Q1 2025

686

Deals tracked

Monthly Deployment Trend

in $M
$756MDec$930MJan$2.0BFeb$1.2BMar$1.5BApr$1.5BMay

Sector Split

Consumer / D2C / QComm27%
Fintech / NBFC22%
AI & Deeptech18%
Healthtech12%
Climate / EV11%
Others10%

Top 5 Funding Rounds

1

Weaver Services

Premji Invest, Lightspeed

$155M Growth

NBFC / Housing Finance

2

Ultrahuman

Health Wearables

$48M Series C

Consumer Electronics

3

Euler Motors

Lightrock, Hero MotoCorp

$47M Series E

Commercial EV

4

Mozark

Comms Tech Infra

$40M

Telecom

5

Swish

Bain Capital (lead), Accel

$38M Series B

Quick Commerce

Top M&A & VC Deals

1

upGrad acquires Unacademy

All-stock deal · ~$350M valuation

Acquisition
2

L'Oréal + Innovist (Minimalist)

$350–450M · Advanced talks

Acquisition
3

Nazara acquires Bluetile + BestPlay

$100.3M · Spanish gaming studios

Acquisition
4

Estée Lauder + Forest Essentials

Full buyout · Premium Ayurveda brand

Acquisition
5

MakeMyTrip + Flamingo Transworld

Luxury travel segment consolidation

Acquisition
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TATA Business Empire

A deep dive into the Tata Group's business empire — strategy, leadership, and how they built one of India's most iconic conglomerates.

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Sector Research & Annual Reports

Where the capital flowed. Who built market share. Who lost it.

Sector Report

Indian Fintech — 2025 Annual Review Report

Where the capital flowed, who built market share, who lost it, and what the regulatory shifts mean for 2026.

$2.5B+

FinTech Startups Funding in FY 2025

228.3B+

Total No. of UPI Transaction in 2025

Sector Report

The Indian Climate-tech Landscape — 2026

India’s climate-tech race is accelerating — from EVs and green hydrogen to climate finance and energy storage.

800+

Operational ClimateTech Startups in India

$1.28B+

ClimateTech Private Funding in 2025

Sector Report

The Indian AI Startup Landscape — Q2 2025 Report

Who is building, who is funded, where the white spaces are, and which international players are positioning for India entry.

#5 Global

India AI Startup Infra Rank

$1.8B+

AI Startup Funding in 2025

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