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Ratna Mehta

The author is Executive Vice President, Wadhwani Catalyst Fund at Wadhwani Foundation

Latest Articles By Ratna Mehta

Technology Is The Escalator To Help Businesses Pivot To Higher Pedestals

Technology is driving the innovation required by businesses to pivot and scale. To survive and thrive, there is no shying away from digitization.

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How AI Is Aiding India’s Startups To Sail Into The Wind

AI’s transformative potential arises from its ability to lend itself to diverse applications across various sectors and business functions.

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Startups are the growth engine for job creation in India

By 2030, India will need to create ~90 million new jobs in the non-farm category to cater to ~60 million entering the workforce as per current demographic trends and an additional 30 million workers who could transition from farm-related work to more productive non-farm related sectors

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Startups driving sustainable goals while being the country's growth engine

With the growth of these startups, there is a significant upturn in the economics of their cities and regions, attracting more firms to these regions and creating a virtuous cycle of innovation, economic growth, and employment generation

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Want to be future work ready? Be open to change and upskilling

The adoption of digital technologies in India has been accelerating. Artificial intelligence, robotics and dependence on machine learning are driving the future of work

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The Rise of Unicorns – A Phase or a Sustainable Phenomenon

As we have seen across cycles, some of the most successful companies have been built post any big crisis. In the US, where a large number of unicorns have been created in the past, we have seen an increase in the pace of unicorns addition over time

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From Chalk to Click: Edtech companies unlocking the potential of online education in the Indian market

In 2020, around 90 ed-tech companies received investment of which 61 players have received seed funding

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Indian Startups Chasing The Golden Goose In The Global Playground

With increased globalization and technology, proliferation of Indian startups continues as they paint Indian brands on the world canvas.

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Technology Is Giving Wings To India’s Startups & Small Businesses

Cloud has significantly changed the way we save and share data and communicate remotely. Various file-sharing applications have enabled safe and seamless access of information across locations.

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Social Investing: An Enchanting Melody Of the “Head And Heart” Driving Innovation

Most of these companies are funded initially by impact investors and in subsequent rounds, see increasing participation from VCs and traditional investors as the business model stabilizes.

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