Business models

Less is more is a mantra to live by

7th August 2018

Four years and $100 million. Presented with those numbers, most venture capital firms would likely have spread their bets and racked up a bare minimum of a dozen investments. Not Lightbox. The VC firm has backed just six startups across its second fund raised in 2014 and a $54-million expansion vehicle set up two years later. Simply put, Lightbox does things its own way by banking on a light portfolio of consumer technology companies to build winners.

India

The Indian Matchmaker

22nd July 2020

Why would Jio, a company that has rarely parted with ownership, agree to (or dare we say, actively seek out) partnerships and investments, and why now? What does this $20 BN mean for Jio, and how will these deals affect the broader technology market in India?

Spaces and trends

Crisis to Recovery

Akshat Jain
26th July 2020

According to Morgan Stanley, Global Recession in 2020 is a base case scenario. A recession is often defined as a period of decline in economic activity like trade, industrial output and consumer spending. As a recession is inevitable, we looked at the economic and financial downturns and recoveries in the past century to look for similarities with today’s COVID19 crisis.

India is unique

Supermodels

Percent increase in new deals (vs previous period)

Ideas shape the course of history

Less is more is a mantra to live by

The Indian Matchmaker

Crisis to Recovery

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