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Crafting Bharat—Season 2 launches its sixth episode with Swapnil Shah of Freight Tiger
Mint New Delhi
|June 16, 2025
India stands at a pivotal crossroads in its history, confidently embracing its role as a global powerhouse in the 21st century.
ndia stands at a pivotal crossroads in its history, confidently embracing its role as a global powerhouse in the 21st century. Currently the world's fifth-largest economy, projections indicate that by 2027, India will become the third largest, and by 2047, the country is poised to evolve into a $30 lakh crore economy with all the hallmarks of a developed nation.
Crafting Bharat—Season 2 powered by AWS Startups, an initiative by NewsReach, in association with VCCircle, and production partner—HT Smartcast, explores how startups are harnessing the power of the cloud to accelerate growth, optimise operations, and build solutions that will define the India of Tomorrow. This series is hosted by Gautam Srinivasan, currently consulting editor at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India, and The Economic Times, who is well known for hosting a diverse range of TV and digital programmes.
Swapnil Shah, founder and CEO of Freight Tiger—a company that provides an end-to-end freight management platform for frictionless logistics—shares his insights about the logistics ecosystem, digitising the freight industry and how AWS helps Freight Tiger innovate its product. Freight Tiger currently manages close to 5% of the country's road freight—an impressive share that it aims to quadruple to 20% over the next four years.
This captivating series explores inspiring startups that are shifting gears and sparking innovation across sectors—all contributing to India's transformation into a developed nation by 2047.
It's not easy to experiment in the logistics space because any small change can have exponential side effects. So in this context without any shortcuts available, how did you get your product market fit?
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