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A Shot At The Moon

Rahul Narayan’s TeamIndus is in the fray to launch India’s first private moonshot. Besides the $20 million-prize money from Google, success could mean heralding a new age of space entrepreneurship in India.

The Future is Al-ready

The founders of Fluid AI, brothers Abhinav and Raghav Aggarwal, are deploying Artificial Intelligence to make, among other things, banking fun for customers. Of course, they have a more serious intent: They want to be the plug-and-play AI engine for the world.

Prescription For The Future

Bengaluru-based Osteo3d makes 3D-printed medical models and guides to help surgeons better plan and execute surgeries

Masters Of Their Own Destiny

These bootstrapped businesses have focussed on their core products and geographical markets and have grown with the economy since liberalisation

Pizza Unchained

The success of Domino’s, Papa John’s and the rest of Big Pizza has devastated mom-and-pop pie shops. Now Slice is helping the little guys unite, get online—and fight back.

Auto Play

Chandigarh-based autorickshaw aggregation company Jugnoo is revving up its business by going beyond ride-hailing services

The Canadian Dream

With Victory Square, Shafin Tejani is weaving together a startup ecosystem in Vancouver that has real advantages over its neighbours to the south.

The Problem Solver

It is déjà vu for veteran banker Vikram Limaye, who will have to draw from his experience of  navigating IDFC out of troubled waters to face uncannily similar challenges as NSE’s new boss:  An organisation beset with top management exits and, yet, preparing to go public

The Second Time Around

When watch collector Pascal Raffy bought the venerable Swiss brand Bovet, he reinvented the company—and himself

Avenging MySpace

A decade ago, Chris DeWolfe ran the world’s most successful website, one that Facebook turned into a punch line. Now he’s back, seeking permanence in the ephemeral sphere of mobile games

Hitting The ‘Like' Button Too Big To Delete?

Lack of a credible alternative and awareness about data safety and security mean Facebook doesn’t lose out in its biggest market because of alleged data abuse

Testing Times Made Easy

With its platform that allows software testing in quick time, BrowserStack has won over global clients and is making a profit too

Prime Choice

Buyer interest in luxury residences has been, by and large, subdued, yet a new breed of HNIs is indulging in some big-ticket buys at coveted locations

Coining Toss

Lee Seung-Gun’s payments app has taken young Koreans by storm. Can he scale it into a fintech unicorn?

Digital Medici

You no longer need to be rich to be an arts benefactor. But can crowdfunding site Patreon save creators from the starvation wages of online advertising?

Twin-Win Venture

As he prepares to take Varroc Engineering public, Tarang Jain joins twin brother Anurang on the 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires List.

How To Beat Wall Street And Silicon Valley Simultaneously

The American Dream is alive and well on Wall Street thanks to Robert Smith, the richest black person in America, who has figured out a way to re-engineer both private equity and enterprise software— and used this secret playbook to build a $4.4 billion fortune.

The Artisanal Industrialist

Francis Holder built a billion-dollar bread-and-pastry empire by mixing American mechanical production with traditional French techniques. Now the Henry Ford of baking is savouring his greatest success—selling millions of macarons to the classes on Madison Avenue and the masses at McDonald’s

Getting a Global Grip

Despite initial missteps in its pursuit of international stature, Apollo Tyres is still in the game. Along the way, it has not lost sight of the Indian market.

Glaxo Takes Its Medicine

Andrew Witty inherited a drugmaker sick with scandal and spent the next eight years patching up his patient.GlaxoSmithKline may finally be well again.

Time To Hit The Beach?

Flush from a run at the Asian VIP casino take, Aussie operators gird for a wider resorts battle.

We are focussed on Made in India, for India, by India

With a user base of over 37 million, India is a market LinkedIn cannot ignore. With its recent India-specific product launches, the platform has firmly set its sights on the long term, says CEO Jeff Weiner.

Vegan Veterans

For more than 40 years Follow Your Heart has been quietly selling health-conscious foods. Now VCs are backing fast-growing competitors.

A Step Above

Three-year-old shoemaker Jack Erwin disrupted the footwear market by cutting out the middleman. Can it make the next leap forward?

The Right Hack

School dropout to cyber security entrepreneur: How 23-year-old Trishneet Arora’s love for technology helped him chart a different course

Global Factors Favour a Rise in Gold Prices

Circumstances Driving Demand for the Yellow Metal Include Increasing Crude Prices and Us-led Inflation Fears 

Where Angels Tread

Wealthy Individuals With an Appetite for Risk Are Increasingly Viewing Startups as a Viable Asset Class 

‘We Sell More Deity Figurines to Indians in the US than Here'

Spanish luxury brand Lladró’s porcelain pieces have found their way into many affluent Indian households, resulting in a 15 percent average growth in sales in the country each year

Advantage, McNroe

How Ankit Daga is taking McNroe to the next level of growth by building on the deo brands started by his father

The Retooling Of Stanley Black & Decker

Jim Loree wants to turn a 175-year-old manufacturer into a company as innovative as any in Silicon Valley