Entrepreneurs

How Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari turned PhonePe into the backbone of India’s digital payments economy

With an annual revenue run rate of roughly $200 million, the company is now EBITDA profitable and generating cash—a milestone many digital-first consumer startups struggle to reach.

Shreya Mishra and Neeraj Jain are driving India’s residential solar adoption through SolarSquare, blending consumer focus with clean energy innovation.

Amagi founders transform broadcasting through cloud innovation, enabling targeted ads, scalable streaming, and global content monetisation.

Butterfly Learnings, founded in 2021 by Dr. Sonam Kothari and Abhishek Sen, is a Mumbai-based company offering integrated therapy and developmental care services for children and families.

Founded in 2019 by Ishwar Kumhar and Nikita Kumawat, Brandworks Technologies offers design-led OEM/ODM electronics manufacturing, integrating R&D, engineering, and scalable production.

Before founding EUME, Naina built a strong foundation in luxury brand management.

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WazirX's journey has seen strong user growth, brand recognition, and community support amid rising crypto adoption in India. However, it also had to deal with some difficult phases.

India’s digital health sector is growing rapidly, with AI, diagnostics, and data-driven models improving access, accuracy, and efficiency, while addressing gaps in infrastructure, affordability, and patient-centric care delivery.

India’s consumer tech sector is entering an AI-driven era, where companies prioritise personalisation, data-led growth, and efficiency while maintaining trust, authenticity, and strong brand connections.

India’s education system doesn’t just need smarter tools, it needs better teachers, stronger industry alignment, and a fundamental shift from passive learning to active creation.

As distributed systems, collaborative platforms, and AI-driven environments continue to evolve, that question is likely to define the next wave of innovation.

The advice to founders was consistent and unsentimental: commit for a decade, don’t chase crowded ideas, go deep, choose co-founders carefully, and stay relentlessly customer-obsessed. 

Chari reflects on PhonePe’s 10-year journey, framing it within India’s broader digital transformation. 

Tamannaah Fine Jewellery redefines everyday luxury with versatile, modern heirlooms blending timeless design, wearability, and contemporary elegance for urban consumers.

Founded in 2019 by Vishal Gupta and Rachana Gupta, Gynoveda offers holistic, Ayurveda-based solutions for women’s health, focusing on root causes across life stages.

Aurassure delivers hyperlocal climate intelligence, empowering cities with real-time data on air, weather, heat risks.

Positioned as a limited-edition luxury streetwear brand, The Good Lord operates at the intersection of culture, design, and storytelling.

In today’s complex and fast-moving business environment, entrepreneurship is evolving.

For one project leader, a key turning point came when he moved from consulting into a new market with limited data, uncertainty, and little room for error.

Dr. Dmitry Chebanov, molecular biologist and scientific lead of Holivita — an AI-driven health intelligence platform focused on structuring personal medical data — about prevention, digital twins, and why understanding matters more than tracking.

Katsch claims the platforms can produce uranium, lithium, rare earth elements, and hydrogen while capturing ocean plastics.

Now the Co-Founder of Scimplify, Sachin represents a new generation of founders tackling industrial and deep-tech challenges with scale, discipline, and global ambition.

Jeremy Tang is globally recognized for bringing technical depth to modern marketing, building scalable systems with a founder’s instinct for speed and scale.

For Misbah Ashraf, co-founder of fintech platform Jar, becoming an entrepreneur was never about a fashionable career choice. It was a necessity born out of survival.