Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow a Bangalore biotech quietly built a blindness breakthrough in under $10 million
Episode 485
Eyestem, a 14-member biotech startup from Bengaluru is turning heads in global pharma circles. With just $10 million and a modest 1,200 sq ft office,…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
‘Don’t call if markets are down’ — the PMS fund delivering returns the big city boys can’t match
Episode 484
Nagpur-based Counter Cyclical Investments doesn’t waste time with handholding. The six-year-old firm has a reputation for being quite cut and dry wit…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The hunger games are raging but Zomato just won't take the bait
Episode 483
Four months ago, food delivery giant Zomato decided to run an experiment. If you are a regular patron of the app, you may have noticed a tab called ‘…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
How to build companies that last when their employees don’t
Episode 482
Thanks to AI, economic disruptions, mass layoffs, and a bunch of other fun things, the 40-year career is no longer something you can take for granted…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
India wants the spotlight at the world’s top school exam. It just won’t step on stage
Episode 481
The world’s “most respected” test of school education—the Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA—began this March. 90 countries are o…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Can LIC do to health insurance what Jio did to telecom?
Episode 480
The Life insurance Corporation of India or LIC is now stepping into a sector where more than 860 million Indians or nearly 60% of the population stil…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Ather’s IPO is a plot twist. Not a finale
Episode 479
Ather Electric once pioneered the electric two wheeler segment. But now it has fallen behind its competition like Ola Electric and TVS Motor in terms…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Software glitches are turning Mahindra’s new EVs into high-tech paperweights
Episode 478
Mahindra’s new EVs the XEV 9e and BE6 were marketed as software wrapped in metal. They promised the future. Things like augmented reality heads up di…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Delhivery’s Ecom Express deal is both tactical and desperate
Episode 477
Earlier this month, India’s largest third party logistics company, Delhivery, acquired its biggest rival Ecom Express in a $165 million distress sale…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Driverless trucks have pushed India’s first unicorn of 2025 into an existential crisis
Episode 476
In January this year, Netradyne, the logistics AI startup, became India’s first unicorn of 2025 after it raised $90 million in series D funding.
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11 months, 4 weeks ago