In this issue

Education is no longer confined to the four walls of a classroom. More and more subscribers are willing to make the transition from brick-and-mortar classrooms to online. Professors are even turning into actors to impart lessons on popular platforms such as YouTube and TikTok. The edtech sector in India has improved for the better, and this issue of Forbes India tells you how. Private equity investors have shed their apprehension to bankroll distinctive business models. That apart, startups are teaching schoolchildren how to programme and use technology to solve problems. It is a crowded space and one that is constantly evolving.

Second Life

Kavin Mittal’s messaging app, Hike, had a turbulent ride over the past few years, but is now focusing on two verticals to infuse new life into the company

8 mins

Ploughing a Different Course

For almost 15 years, Pioneering Ventures, an incubator-cum-investment firm, has been silently solving the challenges in India’s food and agriculture system with bold bets and patient capital

9 mins

Ecommerce Evangelist

How Shopmatic, a Singapore-headquartered ecommerce enabler, is riding India’s entrepreneurship wave

5 mins

‘New Technologies Give You New Approaches for Risk Management'

ICICI Lombard’s MD and CEO Bhargav Dasgupta on why there cannot be a standard solution for all clients and the need to make employees sensitive to emerging risks

4 mins

Booming Business

Satyanarayan Nuwal’s Solar Industries India is seeing explosive growth

4 mins

Roku Redo

More than a decade after being beaten by TiVo, Anthony Wood became a billionaire with cheap streaming gadgets. That business has never turned a profit. Roku is now betting its future on a model that’s as old as TV: Advertising

4 mins

Liquidity Manager

China’s king of beverages Zong Qinghou aims to revitalise Wahaha

5 mins

Fashion Forward

By connecting innovators with large-scale manufacturers, Fashion for Good is helping take sustainable ideas mainstream

6 mins

A Waltz Across Time

Vienna, judged the most liveable city in the world, is remoulding its historic identity with the help of technology and creativity

5 mins

Porsche Taycan 4S

Taycan 4S, Porsche’s first-of-its-kind electric sports car is not so much about being an electric vehicle (EV) as much as it is about being yet another Porsche. It loses none of the details that are part of the Porsche gene pool, and smoothly blends traditions with futurism.

2 mins

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