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THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHT
COVER STORY • BUSINESS EMPIRES
How India's Next Wave of Founders Is Quietly Rejecting Silicon Valley's Entire Playbook
10 min read · March 2025 · Featured
Top Read This Month
BOOK OF THE MONTH
The Unbundling Opportunity in B2B SaaS Nobody Is Talking About Yet
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02
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AI Agents Are About to Replace Entire Business Functions — Here's Where to
Why Tier 2 India Is Quietly Becoming the Next Major Startup Epicentre
Ideas of the Month
INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH
Nithin Kamath on Building Zerodha Without a Single Rupee of Institutional Funding
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
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
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Updated Monthly · March 2025
India Startup Funding Tracker
Funding rounds, M&A deals, and VC activity — curated every month for founders and builders tracking the Indian startup ecosystem.
$2.1B
Total deployed
↑18%
43
vs last month
Deals tracked
12-Month India Startup Funding Volume
— Monthly total (USD Million)
Funding Rounds
M&A & VC Deals
Top 5 · March
Top 5 · March
$250M
Meesho
Series F · Fidelity led
Social Commerce
PW
Series B · Westbridge
B2B Manuf.
Edtech
$23M
$210M
Orangebull's
Prefois
Series A · Kedaara
Pre-seed · Edelwise
Rapido
Series E · Swiggy Led
$60M
$80M
Mobility
Fintech
Zomato acquires Paytm Movies
Entertainment consolidation
Acquisition
Tata Digital + 1mg full merger
Warburg Pincus into Lenskart
Focus: B2B SaaS, Fintech, AI-first
Healthtech consolidation
Growth capital
$500M close · Early stage focus
Lightspeed India — Fund IV
Sequoia India — 6 deals this month
Merger
PE
VC
VC
Our Read · Q1 2026
— Money Minded Men's Editorial · Based on March 2026 deal data from the web.
+15 more deals this month
+10 more deals this month
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