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Groww Promoters Sell Stake Worth ₹270 Cr
Stock broking firm Groww’s promoters have offloaded shares worth around ₹270 Cr over the past one week, according to disclosures filed with the exchanges.
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The Race to Build the Next Great Asian Fast-Casual Chain
Aks Sethi remembers the moment that changed the trajectory of his business. In 2014, the entrepreneur—then four years into running Thai Chili, a sit-down restaurant in Gilbert, Arizona—walked into a Chipotle and saw the future.
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India’s Swiss Watch Challengers
On April 10, the Prime Minister was spotted wearing a wristwatch adorned with a tiger motif that immediately drew the attention of watch enthusiasts in India — not for its price tag or a global luxury label, but for its origin.
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The Hidden Cost of the Third-Party Delivery Boom and How to Win
Over the years, the typical QSR customer has changed. One of the biggest changes is that 30–40 percent of dine-in customers have moved toward the drive-thru. This shift originally driven by COVID caused the customers to visit their favorite restaurants a different way.
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D2CX Converge Ahmedabad Spotlights Growth Playbooks Of India’s Emerging Consumer Brands
As India’s consumer internet story matures beyond the first wave of ecommerce adoption, the next decade of D2C growth will be shaped by brands that can build strong recall, crack omnichannel distribution, and create products tailored to the country’s evolving consumption habits.
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NPCI To Roll Out Unified Soundbox Infrastructure For Merchants: Report
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is working on building a common interoperable infrastructure for UPI soundboxes to enable a single device to process UPI payments across different payment apps.
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The Mythos Threat, Delhivery’s Q4 Snapshot & More
When AI Learns to Break Things Anthropic’s Mythos — an AI system capable of autonomously finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities — has sent shockwaves through India’s financial establishment.
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Shadowfax’s Inflection Point And The Next Frontier
It was FY22 and Shadowfax was still viewed largely as another fast-growing logistics startup battling for ecommerce deliveries in India’s crowded third-party logistics (3PL) market.
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New-Age Tech Stocks Slide Amid Q4 Earnings; Pine Labs, Zaggle Lead Losses
New-age tech stocks saw a bearish week as investors turned selective amid the ongoing Q4 earnings session. Forty six out of the 57 new-age tech stocks under Inc42’s coverage fell in a range of 0.2% to over 22% this week.
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Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to an adult. Among the clearest signs of evolution and maturity of this ecosystem is the growing number of startups eyeing a public listing now.
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App-Based Gig Workers’ Union Calls For 5-Hour Nationwide Shutdown
The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) has called for a nationwide five-hour shutdown of app-based services, demanding higher kilometre-based payment rates from digital platforms and government intervention following the recent hike in petrol, diesel and LPG prices.
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From Rapido To HrdWyr— Indian Startups Raised $303 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding momentum witnessed a sharp uptick this week on the back of Rapido’s mega funding round this week. Fifteen startups managed to raise $303 Mn between May 11 to May 15, marking a 129% increase from $132.2 Mn raised across 18 deals last week.
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7 Brew is On a Growth Run for the Record Books
7 Brew didn’t merely outpace its own rapid growth from a year ago—it opened as many locations in 2025 as it did the previous two years combined. The chain expanded by a net of 281 restaurants, according its just-released FDD. That after lifting by 141 net in 2024 and 140 in 2023.
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How ‘The King of Miami Nightlife’ is Building a 360-Degree Global Lifestyle Empire
Restaurant operators, listen up: The nature of dining out is changing, according to David Grutman, who is credited with single-handedly transforming the global nightlife and hospitality scene.
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The State of Mobile Ordering in QSR: Which Brands are Winning, and Where Opportunity Still Lies
Last year’s Emerging Experiences Report—the third iteration in partnership with Intouch Insight—took us across the QSR landscape to visit next-generation designs. Were these elevated, tech-enabled builds satisfying their premise? Had AI infiltrated the guest experience?
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Joshua Liggins Wants to Keep the Magic Going at Dave’s Hot Chicken
Joshua Liggins has a lot of observations from his opening months at Dave’s Hot Chicken. One being, if you stripped the buzz and just paid attention to how it operated, you’d think this was a brand clawing for survival.
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Wayback Burgers Opens in Hickory Creek, Texas
Wayback Burgers, America’s favorite hometown burger joint and one of the nation’s fastest-growing burger franchises, announced the official opening of its newest location at the Victory Shops – 3100 FM 2181 in Hickory Creek, TX on Friday, May 15.
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