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Samntha Ruth Prabhu reflects on the success of her Rs 120 crore perfume brand: ‘Success hasn’t taught me much…’Samantha Ruth Prabhu, whose perfume brand earned over Rs 120 crore, recently shared how suffering from an immune condition caused her to be...- Meet Lukas Biewald, who lost his CEO role at his first startup; how an unpaid internship at OpenAI helped him build an AI company behind a karate studio that sold for $1.7 billionAfter reportedly leaving the CEO role, Lukas Biewald felt that he needed to strengthen his technical knowledge as deep learning advanced. H...
- You make your own reality: Amrit Acharya left US job to build Zetwerk in India despite his father’s initial scepticism; years later, his father stood beside him as company went publicAmrit Acharya, CEO of Zetwerk, marked the company's public listing at the National Stock Exchange. Acharya faced skepticism from his father...
- From Rs 3,000 to Rs 6 lakh a month: Ahmedabad couple’s cold coco business started from the back of their carAhmedabad couple Darshan and Shruti Zinzuvadiya started The Coco Station in July 2025 with Rs 2,000 to Rs 3,000. Selling cold coco and coff...
- Superstar Mamootty, worth Rs 340 crore, barely invested in startups, but one he had shares in earned over Rs 800 crore in 2025. CA says, 'He has a good…’The Bramayugam actor was previously a stakeholder in Motherhood, a maternal health venture run by his daughter, Surumy, and her spouse, Dr ...
- "Anybody can do this": Rodney Melton, who makes $23,000 a month from his side hustle-turned-full-time businessAfter crafting a heartfelt pet headstone, 55-year-old Rodney Melton from Arkansas transformed his passion into a thriving stone-carving bus...
- How Databricks’ $2.2 billion Tabular deal helped Tim Chen’s Essence VC nearly return its entire fundTim Chen wasn’t planning to raise a new venture capital fund when investors began approaching him. His investment in Tabular, acquired by D...
- Who are the biggest investors backing Anthropic? A look at key stakeholdersAnthropic’s planned IPO is set to test public-market appetite for artificial intelligence companies. Backed by Amazon, Google, leading vent...
- Luis Ceze, a professor, turned his lab's project into a startup. Nvidia bought it, made him Vice President, and he kept teachingNvidia acquired OctoAI, a software startup founded in 2019, reportedly for $165 million. Following the acquisition, OctoAI was dissolved as...
- Josh Pigford built Baremetrics with just $0 in reported startup costs in 2013; years later, the software business was generating an estimated $1.2 million a yearJosh Pigford built Baremetrics in 2013 to solve a problem he faced with Stripe analytics. He spent seven working days developing the first ...
- Unacademy cofounder Gaurav Munjal pushes back against criticism of Indian VCsMunjal cited companies such as Astrotalk, Airbound and Sarvam AI as examples of startups that have been able to raise capital and grow quic...
- Meet Jon Yongfook, who launched Bannerbear with just $500 in 2019; by 2024, the automated image-generation tool reached $48,000 in monthly revenueJon Yongfook Cockle is the founder of Bannerbear. He launched the project in 2019 with an estimated cost of $500. Bannerbear's task is simp...
- Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by MetaMahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based cla...
- Listing nothingZero Innovations launched its IPO at a valuation of ₹12,000 cr without any products or registered office. The company's prospectus highligh...
- Meet Julie Zhu, who built her startup while working at Apple, it later reached nearly six figures in revenue; what was her strategy?Zhu built Odd One In. It is an artist collectible business. The startup was co-founded by her with a friend in December 2024. Till then, Zh...
- Meet Shruti Gandhi, who launched Array Ventures in 2016; 8 years later, her first fund had returned all its capital to investorsGandhi announced the achievement in a year-end update in February 2025. It claimed that Array Ventures fully returned its 2016 Fund I in th...
- Meet Roger Chen and Amit Lakhani, who started Onyx Bio to build a 'virtual immune system'; in 2026, the startup raised $8 millionOnyx Bio is based in Berkeley, California. It announced the funding on October 8, 2026. The round was led by Dimension Capital. It had part...
- In 2026, three founders launched an AI assistant with its own phone number, it can book flights, order groceries; the startup later reached a $300 million valuationTab is designed to work through messaging platforms that people already use. It includes platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage. Users can se...
- Meet Ali Partovi, man who bet on young talent and backed Cursor and Kalshi; his $150 million Neo fund reached $1.2 billion in value by the end of 2025Partovi is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He founded Neo in 2017. He had earlier invested in technology companies, which included Face...
- From Rs 3,500 salary to Rs 1.5 crore per month: How this Ghaziabad man built an e-bike company with his wife's savingsGhaziabad's Krishna Grover, who started his career with a monthly salary of Rs 3,500, left his corporate job to build Herald E-Bike with su...
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