After a sprint, a pause for breath

2021 not only saw record funding creating a third of the country’s unicorns, but also the first major listings, providing new valuation anchors Neelkanth MishraLast Updated at April 5, 2022 00:15 IST This was published in the Business Standard on April 6, 2022 (link). Over the past year, India added a record 38 new unicorns … Read more

Too much of a good thing

Written by Neelkanth Mishra | October 14, 2021 3:01:28 am This appeared in the Indian Express on 14 October 2021 (link). To imitate and to conform — do what others around us are doing — are common and very powerful human tendencies. Scientists ascribe the evolutionary success of these traits to benefits accruing to individuals … Read more

India’s changing corporate landscape: 100 Unicorns, Part 1

We are in the early stages of an extraordinary episode of rapid scaling up of new companiesNeelkanth MishraLast Updated at April 5, 2021 23:10 IST This is the first in a four-part series published in the Business Standard (link). Over the past 15 years, economic activity as well as wealth creation has shifted noticeably to … Read more