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Mehta: Ather 450 was India's fastest accelerating scooter at launch
“When we launched in 2018, Ather four 50 was the fastest accelerating scooter ever produced in the country. I mean, all scooters, all petrol scooters included.”
Sinha: Cashfree Processes Over 1.4B Transactions and $50B Annually
“And today we are very proud to say we have partnered with most of this larger internet companies in India, and we process more than 1.4 billion transactions in a year and move, you know, upwards of fifty billion dollars, you know, transactions, you know, every…”
Akash Sinha: India has around 440M to 450M UPI users
“If you look at UPI users, that number will be around 44, 45 CR.”
Virwani: Bangalore leads global commercial real estate absorption in recent years
“Bangalore is, is the highest amount of absorption in terms of real estate globally in the last like few years.”
Sacheti: About 40% of jewelry sold in America is made in India
“About 40% of jewelry sold in America is made in India.”
Offline Mobile Payments Were Largely Undeployed Globally in Early 2010s
“In fact, worldwide, other than China, where, you know, WeChat Pay and Alipay had exploded, most of the other places, literally Google had done one pilot with Google Wallet, and PayPal had done one pilot, but that's about it. Nobody had deployed this.”
Ahluwalia: Meesho matched or beat Flipkart's order volume during 2022 festive sales
“Misho is competing with the likes of Flipkart head to head in 2022, right? They clocked almost equal number of orders or higher number of orders in the recent, you know, the great India annual festival, which is done before Diwali.”
Nakrani: BharatPe launched India's first daily installment merchant loan product
“When we launched the loan product, The lending product. It was India's first EDI product daily installment, which again was a very convenient and very new to merchants.”
Taneja: Purplle founders did not speak to media for first 7-8 years
“I think first seven, eight years of our life, we never spoke to media.”
Happilo was the first Indian dry fruit brand to introduce ziplock pouches
“We introduced the Ziploc pouches, which was first in the industry, right? And earlier, nobody used to sell in stand-up pouches.”
Khatri: Fitbit was the only smartwatch option in India initially
“We realized that there's only a Fitbit in India and there's no other option.”
EaseMyTrip grew over 60% annually from 2015 to 2020
“So from 2015 till 2020, there was no year where our business did not grow by more than 60%.”
Agarwal: ElectricPe will install 2,500 charging boxes across Bangalore in one month
“They are, as of today, they are yet to install, they are, they have some test boxes installed, but in the next one month, they are going to install 2500 boxes across Bangalore.”
Agarwal: 40% of Maruti Suzuki's Profits Come From Service and Parts
“If you look at the balance sheet of a Maruti Suzuki, you will find that 40% of their profit comes not from their vehicle sale, but comes from after sale service or spare parts.”
Singhal: CoinSwitch recorded over $10 million in profit by 2020
“In 20, 20, we almost had over ten million dollars in profit recorded”
Singhal: Less than 1% of Indians invest beyond fixed deposits
“Today, less than one percent of India invests beyond fixed deposits, which is a very sad number to look at, right?”
Krishna: Vedantu was the first company in India to offer live interactive classes
“We were the first company in India to start with live interactive classes, live classes, which today is obviously mainstream, but we are doing this, you know, even this talk on this, but way back in, it was a very new concept, especially for teaching and learn…”
HealthifyMe's VaccinateMe platform helped 25 million people find COVID-19 vaccines
“And then with Bertie who launched under-forty-five and we actually hired them and we combined our forces, we've helped twenty-five million people find their vaccine”
Deshpande targets a ₹350Cr equal-gender revenue split within two years
“I feel that in the next two years, we can build a 300 to three 50 crore equal brand between men and women.”
Chadha: Flintobox's 2021 Cashflow Will Multiply Its 2020 Revenue Post-Pivot
“So they pivoted and that company over the last you know, I can say that in the last three months, the cashflow that they're generating is probably going to be more than not three months, but let's say this year, the cashflow that they generate will be more tha…”
Chadha: Wingreens May Reach 500 Crore Revenue in a Couple of Years
“When we first saw it was a three crore a year business. This year they're already on track to be a two 50 crore a year business, and maybe in a couple of years will be a 500 crore a year business.”
Kapoor claims he has never cooked the same dish twice on TV
“Till date, I have never cooked a dish twice.”
Singh: Pratilipi Comics is India's largest online comic platform
“So Prathlipi Comics, I think, is now the largest online comic player in India.”
BetterPlace is India's largest onboarding and background verification provider
“Today we are the largest in the country when it comes to onboarding and background verification.”
Indian enterprises spend roughly $30 billion annually on blue-collar workforces
“So now you look at 15 crore people. And if you do 20,000 rupees per person, that's roughly thirty billion dollar of spend that is happening.”
BetterPlace runs its day-to-day operations profitably without burning cash
“So in principle, we are always we don't burn much money the burn that we do is only coming in our investment, not for running the business, right? Running the business we run in profitability, right?”
Lightspeed India's 2 percent Series B or C stake in Byju's returned 100x
“Lightspeed entered by Jews at series B or series C, and it took only two percent ownership. And that two percent ownership today is actually hundred X.”
GE Medical acquired multiple unbacked early-stage Indian medtech startups recently
“There's a whole bunch of very early medtech companies out of India, which in the last two or three years may not have been, most likely have not been VC invested, but have been acquired by the likes of GE, Medical, and others.”
Finin was the first consumer-facing neobank to launch in India
“Finin as you well know, is the first new bank to be launched in India from the consumer side.”
Sheth: Indian talent management represented only film and cricket stars in 2017
“There was no representation for digital creators back then. The representation was only happening with Bollywood stars and cricketers.”
Kapoor: Medical bills have pushed 200 million Indians into debt
“It's estimated that some two hundred million people have been pushed into debts only because of their medical bills.”
Elance is the only late-90s gig economy startup to survive
“We were literally the only company from that era
That has survived, right?
Like freelance you know, we founded it in December of 98.
Right.
And there were there were a few other companies.
There was one called guru.
There were some one called moonlighter and a…”
Nexus VP predicted in 2020 that Druva would IPO by 2022
“Dhruva has grown, grown very big and hopefully like, you know, incoming Coming year or two, we can take the company public.”
Gupta: First Indian CEO to take a US tech company public
“I think I was the first Indian CEO to take a company public in the tech space in the US.”
Poddar: 22 Million Indian Children Pay Over 30,000 Rupees Monthly School Fees
“There are twenty-two million kids in the country who pay more than 30,000 rupees a month to school fees.”
Gulati: ITI Group holds almost $10 billion in cash
“But the ITI group, you know, essentially is is a group which is worth almost ten billion dollars in cash.”
Meesho initially thrived as the only tool for WhatsApp and Facebook sales
“They were using our app because we were the only tool to manage sales on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram.”
Kapoor: Ixigo is operating at an almost $30M run rate
“And the answer is yes, they are now, you know, at a, almost thirty million dollar run rate.”
IFC Projects South Asia's Gender Gap Will Take 1,000 Years to Close
“Empowering women is seen as a, like a thousand year journey in South Asia, because that's how long it's projected to take to really close the gap between men and women. And IFC no less has made this projection.”
Anandan: India saw more B2B than B2C tech startups founded in 2018
“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?”
Ramp's last private valuation reached approximately $32 billion
“I think the company's last valuation was 32 odd billion dollars.”
Ahluwalia: Indian deep tech raised $1.06B in 2025, doubling 2024
“In 25, the deep tech sector combined raised some 1.06 billion dollars in private equity. And this was double of the amount they raised in 24, right?”
Jindal: Cloudflare was originally pitched as an ad-monetized network
“Business school idea was very much about like a more like ad revenue. So you basically build the network and a lot of traffic, and then you can make money through the eyeballs. That's kind of the idea versus like actually to be the security, the layer, the net…”
Rekhi: IITs were legally barred from accepting private donations in 1990s
“The IITs were not set up to accept any donation or any money from anybody other than the government of India. That was the law.”
Rekhi: Act of Parliament was needed for IIT to accept $50,000 donation
“And so it took a change in act of parliament for them to accept the 50,000 dollars.”
Sahai: HubSpot scaled to $500M in revenue as a single-product company
“So HubSpot went from zero to about 500 as a single product company.”