STARTUP
Layoffs, shutdowns, funding crunch: The Great Indian Startup Party is over
Startups have also resorted to shutting down non-core verticals, rationalising marketing and advertising spends and have gone on a hiring freeze, as they enter a bleak period, after a blockbuster funding party that lasted for nearly two years
BUSINESS
Infosys reappoints turnaround artist Salil Parekh as boss, showers stock options on top execs
Parekh has been chief executive and managing director of Infosys since January 2018
AUTOMOBILE
Ola Electric CMO Varun Dubey latest to quit, days after CTO exit
An Ola spokesperson confirmed that Dubey was leaving due to personal reasons.
BUSINESS
Swiggy shuts down Supr Daily operations in five cities citing losses
The move will impact employees operating in the five cities – Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai -- as well as some corporate employees. Also, Swiggy has halted the pick-and-drop service, Genie, in multiple cities due to surge in demand.
BUSINESS
Meet Debashis Chatterjee, Chief of LTI-Mindtree: A firm exterior and a soft people-oriented interior
"An egoless person, he hired his own boss and started what turned out to be a big centre for Cognizant in Kolkata," former Cognizant vice-chairman and CEO Lakshmi Narayanan said on Debashis Chatterjee.
BUSINESS
MC Exclusive | You can build a good company in India, regardless of your background or education: Fairfax's Prem Watsa
Indian-Canadian billionaire Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings has investments in a number of Indian companies including general insurance startup Digit which is currently valued at $3.5 billion.
BUSINESS
India will be the place to come to put money in: Fairfax founder Prem Watsa
"We say, jokingly, that our strategic plan is to wait for that telephone to ring," says Prem Watsa in interview
BUSINESS
MC Interview | Good companies find a way to go public at any time, whatever market says: Delhivery’s Sahil Barua
Delhivery’s IPO response could potentially determine the outcome for startups such as Oyo, Snapdeal and Pharmeasy, who have filed draft papers with Sebi but have delayed their listing plans due to uncertainty in the market. Delhivery, too, had delayed its listing plans after it received Sebi’s nod in January.
BUSINESS
EXCLUSIVE: Ola Cars CEO Arun Sirdeshmukh and Ola group strategy head Amit Anchal to exit
An Ola spokesperson confirmed Siredeshmukh's exit in response to queries from Moneycontrol, but she firmly denied Anchal was leaving and said he was still part of the company.
BUSINESS
User retention is flat post 40 minutes, 95% of Indian grocery basket can be covered in 10 minutes: Zepto founder and CEO Aadit Palicha
Zepto's strong operating and execution chops soon saw investor interest and steep valuations amid the funding boom in Indian startups.
BUSINESS
Byju Raveendran floats Byjus Investments to route funds into Byju’s
Byjus Investments Pvt Ltd will serve as the vehicle to route the $400 million that Raveendran said he will invest in Byju’s, as part of a larger $800-million financing round
BUSINESS
Zepto, a 10 -minute grocery delivery app, raises $200 million at a valuation of $900 million
The startup was in fact looking to raise at a $1 billion valuation, which would have given it the unicorn status, but this didn't come through.
BUSINESS
As long as the market is hot, there's going to be high attrition: Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte
But, according to Delaporte, the company is better positioned to attract talent now than it was two or three years ago. With the demand continuing to be on the rise, Delaporte spoke to Moneycontrol about the sustainability of this growth, its acquisition spree and more.
BUSINESS
Acquisitions will continue to be key growth driver for market share gain: Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte
However, the buys will have to make sense from a strategy point of view, said Delaporte, while adding that there is perfect alignment with him and Chairman Rishad Premji on this matter
BUSINESS
IPO is not an endgame, it’s the start of business: Nithin Kamath on why Zerodha will not go public
The founder narrates the story of how a conversation in a gym led to the setting up of India’s largest stock broker for retail investors – without any business experience and without outside funding
BUSINESS
Exclusive | Mu Sigma founder Dhiraj Rajaram buys out investors Sequoia and General Atlantic, regains full ownership
Both funds invested in Mu Sigma in 2011 and were among its largest shareholders, together holding nearly 38 percent.
BUSINESS
Mindtree, L&T Infotech working together on projects for 2 years: Mindtree CEO Debashis Chatterjee
The mid-cap IT services firm Mindtree has been in the news for a possible merger with L&T Infotech as early as next week. The combined revenue of the two entities would be close to about $3.5 billion
BUSINESS
What potential merger of Mindtree and L&T Infotech means
People working at the firms told Moneycontrol that while they have been collaborating on projects, they didn’t think a merger would happen so soon and thought it was at least a year or two away. However, experts pointed out why the merger isn't a risky proposition and why the consolidation could work.
BUSINESS
We have given very strong guidance, will continue to gain market share: Infosys CEO Salil Parekh
While FY22 was a banner year for the IT services major, the fourth quarter disappointed, as revenues and margins came below expectations.
BUSINESS
Russia-Ukraine conflict | Infosys has no plans to do business with Russian clients: CEO Salil Parekh
The company has started transitioning all of its work from its centres in Russia, where it employs less than 100 people, to the centres outside Russia.
BUSINESS
Infosys grows faster than TCS third year in a row, posts 20.3% growth in FY22
This is also the highest growth the company has registered in close to a decade. Infosys registered a 25 percent growth in FY11.
BUSINESS
Tata Neu to unveil improved app after clocking over one million sign-ups and downloads within days of launch
Tata Neu is a key part of the 154-year-old Tata Group's plan to take on established giants such as Amazon, Walmart's Flipkart, and Jio Platforms.
BUSINESS
EV fire incidents a wake-up call for the industry, says Hero Electric's Naveen Munjal
The government may now get stricter with the battery standards, how quickly one can launch the product and get it out in the market, Munjal tells Moneycontrol
BUSINESS
Exclusive | Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal to focus on engineering and product, GR Arun Kumar to lead operations
Ola was last valued at $7.3 billion when it raised $139 million in its Series J round.
