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Anthropic’s prospectus of radical confession

Anthropic is asking public markets to finance a technology it says could transform the global economy, and potentially threaten humanity. Its IPO prospectus raises a harder question: can markets price a risk they may never fully understand?

Anthropic’s prospectus of radical confession

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Talks with top leaders shaping India's economy.

Quick commerce won’t kill the kirana. It may just change the game

Quick Commerce

Quick commerce won’t kill the kirana. It may just change the game

A game-theory analysis suggests kiranas and quick commerce will coexist and specialise in mature markets rather than displace each other.

By Parvathi Benu

Conversations

Beyond shipping: Shiprocket sees itself as an enablement layer between merchants & consumers

By Sanghamitra Kar

Beyond shipping: Shiprocket sees itself as an enablement layer between merchants & consumers

Interview

What’s the next Rapido? AdvantEdge VC’s Kunal Khattar has a shortlist.

By Ishan Patra

What’s the next Rapido? AdvantEdge VC’s Kunal Khattar has a shortlist.

AgriTech

‘Agritech’ has stopped meaning anything, says one of its earliest backers

By Shivani Verma

‘Agritech’ has stopped meaning anything, says one of its earliest backers

Interview

Zoom: The company that became a verb is trying to become a workplace

By Jarshad NK

Zoom: The company that became a verb is trying to become a workplace

Quick commerce won’t kill the kirana. It may just change the game

Quick Commerce

Quick commerce won’t kill the kirana. It may just change the game

A game-theory analysis suggests kiranas and quick commerce will coexist and specialise in mature markets rather than displace each other.

By Parvathi Benu

Beyond shipping: Shiprocket sees itself as an enablement layer between merchants & consumers

Conversations

Beyond shipping: Shiprocket sees itself as an enablement layer between merchants & consumers

By Sanghamitra Kar

What’s the next Rapido? AdvantEdge VC’s Kunal Khattar has a shortlist.

Interview

What’s the next Rapido? AdvantEdge VC’s Kunal Khattar has a shortlist.

By Ishan Patra

‘Agritech’ has stopped meaning anything, says one of its earliest backers

AgriTech

‘Agritech’ has stopped meaning anything, says one of its earliest backers

By Shivani Verma

Zoom: The company that became a verb is trying to become a workplace

Interview

Zoom: The company that became a verb is trying to become a workplace

By Jarshad NK

CT Capsule

Weekly key news & insights from The CapTable.

Global tech debates AI speed. But slowing down isn’t among India’s priorities.

The Crux

Global tech debates AI speed. But slowing down isn’t among India’s priorities.

OpenAI, Anthropic and others are debating how fast AI should advance, but Indian AI labs and startups are not losing sleep over this. They have other questions to deal with: what immediate areas to focus on, how much to invest in them, and what to build for the long term.

By Ishan Patra

$100M gives Pixxel wings to fly. The harder part awaits.

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The Crux

$100M gives Pixxel wings to fly. The harder part awaits.

Ishan Patra

India's chip push shifts focus to manufacturing talent

Policy & Regulation

India's chip push shifts focus to manufacturing talent

Thimmaya Poojary

As GCCs hire more, the focus shifts from headcount to capability

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Jobs and Employment

As GCCs hire more, the focus shifts from headcount to capability

Thimmaya Poojary

India’s burger battle: where global scale meets desi ambition

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Food and Beverage

India’s burger battle: where global scale meets desi ambition

Thimmaya Poojary

The Crux

$100M gives Pixxel wings to fly. The harder part awaits.

By Ishan Patra

$100M gives Pixxel wings to fly. The harder part awaits.

Policy & Regulation

India's chip push shifts focus to manufacturing talent

By Thimmaya Poojary

India's chip push shifts focus to manufacturing talent

Jobs and Employment

As GCCs hire more, the focus shifts from headcount to capability

By Thimmaya Poojary

As GCCs hire more, the focus shifts from headcount to capability

Food and Beverage

India’s burger battle: where global scale meets desi ambition

By Thimmaya Poojary

India’s burger battle: where global scale meets desi ambition

Startups

Track India's startups from seed to growth.

Policy

Patent pending: Why Indian startups aren't racing to protect IP

While India celebrated a record year of patent approvals in 2023, a severe shortage of patent agents and examiners, coupled with lengthy processing times and weak enforcement, continues to hold back the country's intellectual property ambitions.

Parvathi Benu

Patent pending: Why Indian startups aren't racing to protect IP

Patent pending: Why Indian startups aren't racing to protect IP

Policy

Patent pending: Why Indian startups aren't racing to protect IP

While India celebrated a record year of patent approvals in 2023, a severe shortage of patent agents and examiners, coupled with lengthy processing times and weak enforcement, continues to hold back the country's intellectual property ambitions.

Parvathi Benu

The long wait for India's first $100-billion startup success

Investments

The long wait for India's first $100-billion startup success

Nikhil Patwardhan

Size no bar: Why smaller startups are making a beeline for public markets

Investments

Size no bar: Why smaller startups are making a beeline for public markets

Nikhil Patwardhan

Alpha Wave pivots from backing tech titans to traditional firms

Investments

Alpha Wave pivots from backing tech titans to traditional firms

Nikhil Patwardhan

What budget can do for startups in a tough year

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Internet

What budget can do for startups in a tough year

Aprajita Sharma

The long wait for India's first $100-billion startup success

Investments

The long wait for India's first $100-billion startup success

By Nikhil Patwardhan

Size no bar: Why smaller startups are making a beeline for public markets

Investments

Size no bar: Why smaller startups are making a beeline for public markets

By Nikhil Patwardhan

Alpha Wave pivots from backing tech titans to traditional firms

Investments

Alpha Wave pivots from backing tech titans to traditional firms

By Nikhil Patwardhan

What budget can do for startups in a tough year

Internet

What budget can do for startups in a tough year

By Aprajita Sharma

Org Charts

Spotlighting leaders shaping India's top tech firms.

Org Chart: For batter or worse—iD Fresh's Musthafa is learning to get out of the way

Food and Beverage

ID Fresh Food

Org Chart: The leadership bench steering Flipkart toward its IPO

E-commerce

Org Chart: PayU India’s long game as fintech’s easy growth fades

Fintech

PayU Finance India

Org Chart: Inside BigBasket’s C-Suite shuffles and tweaks for a quick commerce era

E-commerce

Bigbasket

Stability and Innovation: How Uber balances local ambitions with global priorities

Mobility

Uber

Inside Cashfree’s C-suite: New hires and rejigs after securing key RBI licences

Fintech

Cashfree Payments

The evolution of Indifi's digital lending DNA

Financial Services

Indifi Technologies

The hands steering Shiprocket's evolution from shipping platform to e-commerce enabler

E-commerce

Shiprocket

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E-commerce

Shop all you want, buy nothing: The rise of dopamine sites

The real AI disruption in ecommerce is internal

Delhi-NCR is India’s online shopping capital and its habits are contagious

The rise of low-ASP ecommerce networks — and why logistics will decide the winner

Quick Commerce

Quick commerce won’t kill the kirana. It may just change the game

The next battle in quick commerce

Explainer: Understanding the FDI question at the heart of Zepto's IPO

Zepto’s bid to rewrite the economics of quick commerce

Mobility

On the right track: why ride-hailing apps are betting big on multimodal transport

India's ethanol transition explained: The science, the concerns, and the road ahead

India’s e-challan dilemma: 75% of traffic fines remain unpaid despite digitisation

Did BluSmart and Gensol’s downfall begin in the boardroom?

OTT

From Gandi Baat to Kyunki 2.0: Balaji dumps risqué for respectable amid OTT content reset

Can STAGE break the mould of hyperlocal OTT platforms in India?

Amazon MX Player wants to shake up India’s free OTT market, but can it challenge YouTube?

Disney+ Hotstar’s Coldplay fever: Is live music the next big frontier for Indian OTTs?

Fintech

Amazon Pay isn’t chasing UPI anymore; it’s chasing your savings

PhonePe goes to market: The UPI champion’s toughest pitch yet

Org Chart: PayU India’s long game as fintech’s easy growth fades

Everyone at India’s biggest fintech fest celebrates UPI. That’s the problem

Policy

Key vendor dilemma complicates Micron’s showcase project in Gujarat

The Rs 23-lakh Golden Visa may not be real, but the crisis it exposes is

Data settles the debate: IIT Delhi leads in both unicorn numbers and startup jobs

India's rising innovation ranking masks critical R&D collaboration gap

Telecom

The Rs 9.3 lakh crore factor: Why the government saved Vodafone Idea

Pankaj Pawar, the quiet force powering Ambani’s $150 billion bet

India’s Rs 40,000 crore fight for a lifeline when disaster strikes

IPO-bound Jio shifts gears from a focus on volumes to monetisation

SaaS

The next SaaS frontier: AI agents and the automation of human labour

Decoding Petpooja's unconventional rise in restaurant tech

How Chargebee changed its DNA to target enterprises

Do AI or DieTo AI or not: Indian SaaS startups' conundrum

EdTech

As the study abroad slowdown worsens, India’s edtech exporters are scrambling

Unacademy is down, Byju’s is out, so who’s winning India’s education race?

The curious case of Byju’s second rights issue

Byju’s gives up all office spaces in India amid worsening liquidity crisis