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Dunzo delivery platform illustrating the rise and shutdown of one of India's pioneering hyperlocal delivery startups
Resources

Dunzo shutdown: What went wrong and why

For years, asking someone to "Dunzo it" was simply how people in Bengaluru talked about…

By Ridhima Garg
Collage of leading Indian unicorn startups representing India's startup ecosystem and the rise of billion-dollar companies
Artificial Intelligence

India’s Unicorn Boom: The Winners, The Failures, and the Lessons Every Founder Should Learn

By TFN Editorial Team, The Founder Nation Editorial Team While India minted a record 44…

By Ridhima Garg
Alexander Wang founder of Scale AI and AI infrastructure entrepreneur
Artificial Intelligence

How Scale AI Became the Most Important Company Nobody Talks About: The Hidden Infrastructure of AI Training

Scale AI has no brand recognition. You have never heard of it. Most venture capitalists…

By Neha Gupta
Mukesh Ambani presenting Reliance Industries' strategy for AI, Jio, and the company's next phase of growth
Enterprise Edge

Mukesh Ambani’s next big bet: What Reliance does after Jio

While Jio's IPO makes the headlines, Ambani has already moved his most consequential capital to…

By Ridhima Garg
Social commerce platforms including Meesho, WhatsApp Business, and Instagram Shopping used by Indian consumers.
Featured

What is social commerce and why India is its biggest market

By TFN Editorial Team, The Founder Nation Editorial Team While Western markets are still debating…

By Ridhima Garg
Leading Indian D2C brands such as Mamaearth, boAt, and Sugar Cosmetics that use asset-light manufacturing models.
Featured

What is asset-light manufacturing and why every Indian D2C brand is doing it

While venture capital got more cautious about funding factories, it got far more comfortable funding…

By Ridhima Garg
Meesho marketplace and boAt consumer electronics representing two Indian startups that built successful businesses by targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
Artificial Intelligence

Meesho vs boAt: Two startups that found India in places nobody was looking

While most Indian startups chased the same 50 million metro shoppers, two very different founders…

By Ridhima Garg
Midjourney AI image generator homepage showing the bootstrapped platform that became profitable without venture capital funding.
Artificial Intelligence

Why Midjourney stayed profitable without VC funding

While its best-funded rival nearly collapsed, a 163-person company with zero outside capital quietly crossed…

By Ridhima Garg
Duolingo homepage featuring the Duo owl logo and language learning platform.
Artificial Intelligence

How Duolingo Built One of the World’s Most Addictive Learning Apps

While every other edtech company was racing to build better curricula, Duolingo quietly built a…

By Ridhima Garg
Cloudflare homepage showing the internet infrastructure platform used by millions of websites worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence

How Cloud-flare Built the Infrastructure Powering 20% of the Internet.

While AWS and Google Cloud raced to build the internet's compute layer, a company most…

By Ridhima Garg
Ather Energy and Ola Electric scooters representing two different strategies in India's electric two-wheeler market.
Featured

Ather vs Ola Electric: How Quality Beat Blitzscaling in India’s EV Market

While Ola Electric blitzscaled to half the electric scooter market and then watched it collapse,…

By Ridhima Garg
Postman logo and API platform homepage representing one of the world's leading API development platforms built from India.
Featured

How Postman became a global product from India

While every Indian SaaS founder was being told to move to San Francisco before building…

By Ridhima Garg

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