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  • Large number of Indian unicorns will become profitable in next 24 months: Sequoia's Rajan Anandan March 17, 2023 05:56 PM IST

    Large number of Indian unicorns will become profitable in next 24 months: Sequoia's Rajan Anandan

    High single-digit EBITDA will be required for startups planning initial public offerings, says Sequoia India Managing Director Rajan Anandan

  • India moved from women development to women-led development in last nine years: PM Modi March 10, 2023 11:00 AM IST

    India moved from women development to women-led development in last nine years: PM Modi

    Addressing the post-budget webinar on women empowerment, Modi highlighted that enrolment of women in the fields of engineering, science, technology and maths in the country today was 42 per cent.

  • SoftBank-backed Emeritus expects to be profitable in FY24 on bookings basis February 24, 2023 01:24 PM IST

    SoftBank-backed Emeritus expects to be profitable in FY24 on bookings basis

    Emeritus co-founders Ashwin Damera and Chaitanya Kalipatnapu expect their revenue to grow about 40 percent in 2022-23.

  • There will be another party soon, says WestBridge Capital’s Sandeep Singhal amid funding downturn February 21, 2023 07:14 PM IST

    There will be another party soon, says WestBridge Capital’s Sandeep Singhal amid funding downturn

    Singhal’s comments on Indian startups having a good party come at a time when the fund flow has been reduced to a trickle since the start of 2023

  • Hybrid is the most successful business currently for Byju’s: co-founder Divya Gokulnath February 21, 2023 05:25 PM IST

    Hybrid is the most successful business currently for Byju’s: co-founder Divya Gokulnath

    Gokulnath's optimism about the hybrid learning model comes at a time when Byju's is looking to expand its offline footprint by opening more hybrid centres, owing to dwindling demand for pureplay online learning, which was the company's mainstay until last year.

  • Only six of India's 51 unicorns that have filed results were profitable in FY22 February 15, 2023 12:18 PM IST

    Only six of India's 51 unicorns that have filed results were profitable in FY22

    OfBusiness and Infra.Market were the only two unicorns having a profit of more than Rs 100 crore for FY22

  • Indian unicorns sitting on lofty valuations with higher revenue multiples than global peers February 14, 2023 11:55 AM IST

    Indian unicorns sitting on lofty valuations with higher revenue multiples than global peers

    Nearly half of the country’s 107 unicorns that have filed their financial reports for FY22 have a last-twelve-months average revenue multiple of around 30, according to data compiled by Moneycontrol, higher than most geographies, where such multiples are in the range of 15-20 for high-growth companies, investors and bankers said.

  • Zomato, excluding Blinkit, turns adjusted EBITDA positive for January 2023 February 09, 2023 10:18 PM IST

    Zomato, excluding Blinkit, turns adjusted EBITDA positive for January 2023

    While Zomato’s adjusted EBITDA for Q3 for the food delivery business, zoomed 10x to Rs 23 crore from Rs 2 crore in Q2 FY23 (2022-23), the company burnt Rs 53 crore in the Oct-Dec quarter on its business-to-business (B2B) supplies platform Hyperpure, which weighed on the overall adjusted EBITDA (excluding Blinkit)

  • PhonePe management sees operational profitability by 2025 January 30, 2023 08:09 PM IST

    PhonePe management sees operational profitability by 2025

    PhonePe will have an EBITDA profit of Rs 1,797 crore in the calendar year 2025, with an EBITDA margin of 19.7 percent, the company's management told audit firm KPMG

  • Few takers, teacher exits force Unacademy to defer offline NEET PG institute launch January 24, 2023 08:59 AM IST

    Few takers, teacher exits force Unacademy to defer offline NEET PG institute launch

    Prepladder Neuros launch delayed till March as about 14 teachers have resigned over the last four months

  • Byju’s to open 300 physical tuition centers this year as it bets big on hybrid learning January 20, 2023 11:20 AM IST

    Byju’s to open 300 physical tuition centers this year as it bets big on hybrid learning

    Byju Raveendran said that the company is experiencing continued momentum in demand for its core business, which is online K-12 learning, even as some of the company's closest competitors are witnessing slower growth following the pandemic.

  • Davos 2023: Let the world think Byju’s is struggling, give us 6 months, says Byju Raveendran January 20, 2023 10:35 AM IST

    Davos 2023: Let the world think Byju’s is struggling, give us 6 months, says Byju Raveendran

    In a chat with Moneycontrol, Bjyu’s founder Byju Raveendran and co-founder Divya Gokulnath exuded confidence about turning profitable on a company level over the next quarter. They also spoke about exiting some branding contracts to optimise costs.

  • Byju’s will not renew its branding partnerships with BCCI, ICC and FIFA, says CEO Raveendran January 20, 2023 09:11 AM IST

    Byju’s will not renew its branding partnerships with BCCI, ICC and FIFA, says CEO Raveendran

    Byju's currently has three large branding partnerships with the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India), ICC (International Cricket Council), and FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) that will be up for renewal, but the company will not renew any of them, according to co-founder and CEO Byju Raveendran.

  • Davos 2023 | Byju's 2.0 will be much better, the worst is behind us, says Byju Raveendran January 19, 2023 12:37 PM IST

    Davos 2023 | Byju's 2.0 will be much better, the worst is behind us, says Byju Raveendran

    Raveendran also claimed that by the end of this quarter or by the next quarter FY24, Byju's will turn profitable on a company level

  • Byju's to stop field sales to avoid mis-selling amid rising criticism over sales tactics January 16, 2023 06:19 PM IST

    Byju's to stop field sales to avoid mis-selling amid rising criticism over sales tactics

    The change in sales strategy for Byju's follows the company's meetings with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in December, where the company was asked by the child rights' body to make necessary changes to its sales tactics amid complaints of mis-selling and over-selling.

  • Unacademy's Relevel to layoff 40 more employees as it pivots from education biz to tests product app NextLevel January 10, 2023 04:51 PM IST

    Unacademy's Relevel to layoff 40 more employees as it pivots from education biz to tests product app NextLevel

    The latest round of layoffs and Relevel's move to shut down its core business further highlights the predicament of the job guarantee vertical, which was struggling since August last year

  • Study abroad startup Leap Scholar, valued at nearly $1 billion, earns $5.4 million in FY22 January 05, 2023 11:24 AM IST

    Study abroad startup Leap Scholar, valued at nearly $1 billion, earns $5.4 million in FY22

    Leap Scholar's expenses grew more than 7 times to Rs 121 crore during the year, which led to the firm reporting a widening loss of Rs 80.3 crore for FY22

  • Cockroaches in demand as unicorns catch a cold this funding winter January 03, 2023 01:38 PM IST

    Cockroaches in demand as unicorns catch a cold this funding winter

    After a tumultuous 2022, as investors and founders gear up for an uncertain 2023, it will be interesting to see who wins the race--mythical unicorn beasts or grounded, immune cockroaches that can outlive a nuclear war

  • The A-Z of Tech and Startups: A 2022 guide from Moneycontrol December 30, 2022 09:53 AM IST

    The A-Z of Tech and Startups: A 2022 guide from Moneycontrol

    As we prepare to ring in 2023, Moneycontrol's Tech and Startup team put together a handy glossary of names, themes, and trends that became part of our vocabulary in 2022.

  • Messi, mis-selling, sackings, and burning cash: Byju's’ annus horribilis December 28, 2022 06:22 AM IST

    Messi, mis-selling, sackings, and burning cash: Byju's’ annus horribilis

    The startup superstar has gone from hero to zero rather rapidly. Will the picture be somewhat different in 2023? Coming soon to a screen near you

  • 25,000 past and present Flipkart group employees likely to benefit from $700 million cash payout December 27, 2022 10:48 AM IST

    25,000 past and present Flipkart group employees likely to benefit from $700 million cash payout

    The top 20 employees of Flipkart, the most senior and early staffers of the e-commerce giant, will be getting as much as $200 million out of the $700 million payout,

  • New unicorns halve in 2022 as startup ecosystem faces funding winter December 26, 2022 11:46 AM IST

    New unicorns halve in 2022 as startup ecosystem faces funding winter

    Compared to last year's total of 542, only 244 new unicorns have been created globally so far in 2022, while only 23 new unicorns have been minted in India this year, compared to 44 in 2021.

  • SoftBank cuts India investments by 84% in 2022 amid macroeconomic headwinds December 20, 2022 10:45 AM IST

    SoftBank cuts India investments by 84% in 2022 amid macroeconomic headwinds

    The Japanese conglomerate, which posted huge losses globally, also logged the highest number of exits from India this year

  • Agritech sector to mint over eight unicorns by 2027: Report December 14, 2022 01:31 PM IST

    Agritech sector to mint over eight unicorns by 2027: Report

    This comes at a time when agritech has been receiving continued investor interest even as the rest of the ecosystem struggles through a funding winter, as per a report by Avendus Capital

  • Tiger Global startup investments drop 70% in 11 months of 2022 as funding winter worsens December 12, 2022 09:55 AM IST

    Tiger Global startup investments drop 70% in 11 months of 2022 as funding winter worsens

    In terms of value, Tiger Global has slowed in India this year, as it has globally, shows data. Tiger Global invested $807 million in the first eleven months of 2022, a 70 percent decrease from the previous year's total of $2.75 billion.