Anandan: India saw more B2B than B2C tech startups founded in 2018
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Rajan Anandan explains the broad-basing of the Indian startup ecosystem beyond traditional consumer internet businesses.
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“Actually, if you look at the data last year, there were more B to B tech companies founded than B to C tech companies in India, right?”
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