K Vaitheeswaran
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- Sep 28, 2026
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Why Indian startups flipped for more than two decades (opens the original)
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Flipkart flipped. Maybe the brand name was a giveaway. But it wasn’t alone. Startups such as InMobi, Pine Labs, Meesho, Groww, Zepto, PhonePe, Razorpay, and Freshworks also adopted overseas holding structures at different stages of their journey. From the mid-2000s till around 2020, something peculiar happened. India produced brilliant engineers, smart first-generation entrepreneurs and unicorns. But when it came to ownership, many of these companies quietly packed their bags and moved their cor
Do venture capitalists know how to invest in deep tech? (opens the original)
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This is the third and final instalment in the series on investing in deep-tech startups in India. The ecosystem is beginning to attract serious capital. Around 200 deep-tech startups have raised nearly $2.3 billion so far this year, compared with $1.62 billion raised by 453 startups in 2025, which is a 42 per cent growth in funding and more than thrice the average deal size. This suggests some of the startups are graduating from experiments into enterprises. The government, too, has been support
Deep-tech: Patient, but not unquestioning capital (opens the original)
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In the previous column we discussed how the people best equipped to identify promising deep-tech startups are often also connected to the small ecosystem, leading to an expertise-proximity dilemma. India must accept this reality and move ahead while ensuring transparency and accountability. First, we must stop evaluating deep-tech startups like conventional startups. An e-commerce or SaaS company can show customers, revenues, unit economics, annual run rates, repeat subscriptions and gross margi
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