Startup Stories

One year ago, I received the first call on our business number. It the daughter of a gallbladder cancer patient. They didn’t have insurance and she had already spent a…

India’s ban on TikTok last year left a vacuum in the short form video content space, but several players rushed to make the grade and become the new go-to platform…

In 2018, Bastin Gerald constantly heard friends, who worked in large technology companies, struggling to simplify OKR practices. Short for ‘Objectives and Key Results’, the abbreviation popularised by Intel’s Andy…

When Alok Mittal started lending platform Indifi, there was no doubt in his mind that the SME and MSME segment was underserved. Alok had found that close to 85 percent of…

There’s been quite a bit of movement in the additive manufacturing space in recent months. If I had to pinpoint a reason, I would say that — much like robotics…

Fort Robotics today announced a $13 million raise. Led by Prime Movers Lab, the round also features Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub and…

Substack has attracted a number of high-profile writers to its newsletter platform — and it hasn’t been a secret that the venture-backed startup has lured some of them with sizable…

Snowflake announced earlier this month that it would give up its dual-class shareholder structure, a corporate governance setup that often gives founders and executives superior voting rights, typically involving 10…

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Today, one of the trailblazers…

Determined early-stage startup founders (are there really any other kind?) always keep a sharp eye out for advantages that help them build better and faster. Well, heads up folks because…