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Exit, but without big cheques: VCs warn India’s startup founders

To prioritise corporate governance and financial management, VCs like Peak XV, Matrix, and Accel are exercising a lot more oversight, introspection, and prudence while signing deals with Indian startup founders

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Southeast Asian companies devour AI investments, thanks to the US-China tiff. Is there a limit?

American and Chinese tech giants, such as Microsoft and Alibaba, are competing in Southeast Asia, where local service providers are using AI to attract young, tech-savvy users

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From Pundri to Belagavi: wealth managers’ newfound love beyond Mumbai and B’luru

Financial advisors are crafting unique strategies to make the most of the rising affluence and shifting investment priorities in Tier 2 cities and beyond

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Indian VCs’ inaugural funds run into an end-of-lifecycle battle

Indian venture-capital firms that are due for an exit from their decade-old funds are challenged by their reliance on a few good assets, discount-hungry incoming investors, and an unrelenting regulator

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How startups stopped worrying about high attrition and learned to live with it

As employees quit in droves, startups are getting creative with their human resource processes to address surging attrition rates

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Raising money from investors is hard. Returning it is even harder

Meet five founders who shut their companies in 2023 and chose to return money at a time when fundraising has been hard

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Philippine venture capitalists have a new investment thesis

The heydays of Filipino B2C startups are approaching their end as venture capitalists and builders set sights on another field of startups in the country

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Swiggy’s pre-IPO motto: execute, don’t ideate

In its quest to be profitable before a 2024 listing, the foodtech is reining in its employees

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Upbanx claimed a US$120M valuation. Its loan products still don’t show for it

KPMG and the media consider the fintech to be the next big thing in Indonesia. But its products for content creators are still small

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India’s startup workplaces confront the rise of the ‘unhireables’

India’s overfunded and overvalued startups were built on the top of overvalued talent. Today, most startups have accepted drastically lower valuations, to avoid becoming “uninvestible”. But many professionals haven’t. They risk becoming the “unhireables”

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How an Indonesian SaaS startup’s destiny may be rewritten by Sequoia India

Lummo raised nearly US$130 million in venture capital in over three years but couldn’t generate substantial revenues. Unable to find a fit-for-market product, it is chewing over two options to save its face

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