Presenting the state of EV Charging Infrastructure in India - 7th Edition - March 2025 All information is based on public infrastructure, covering ~95% of the market Total number of CCS2 connectors ⏫ 12700 Total number of Type2 connectors 🔼 4036 Biggest CCS2 networks -

🚨🚕Ride-hailing beyond supply/demand: India's ride-hailing landscape is transforming. Focus has returned to cabs, but the strategy has evolved. Platforms are now betting heavily on service segmentation to cater to diverse user needs in a crowded market. 🧵A thread:

A whistleblower complaint in Dec 2023 unraveled serious fraud at Medikabazaar, India’s B2B healthtech platform. What followed: forensic audits, auditor resignation, investor revolt. 🧵

🚨🚨More than a month of research and countless conversations later, here's our story on India's drone sector's reliance on Chinese components, inability to manufacture a drone in India and the fight between a few major drone companies The CapTable the-captable.com/2025/04/india-…

🚨Today’s story dives into a quiet digital revolution—one that’s reshaping how India’s youth spend, stream, and seek connection. If you’ve ever swiped past those flashy livestream ads, this thread is for you. At the center of it all? Tango Live. A 🧵

🚨🚀 The startup ecosystem is navigating choppy waters! Late-stage startups are trimming IPO sizes & exploring secondaries to brave volatile markets. Here's a breakdown of the trends shaping late-stage startups in 2025. 🧵

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Meta is investing $200 million in a pan-India dark fibre network dubbed Project Gajendra, The CapTable has learned. Google and Amazon, too, have spent over $2 billion collectively on submarine fibre cables in just the past decade. But how, and why? A 🧵

Extremely irresponsible behaviour from Porter . I’d booked packers & movers for today & until the last min they didn’t assign a partner. after multiple calls to customer care, they told me at 11pm yesterday that they can’t do it. Haven’t received a refund for my pre-booking.

🚨 Eternal's profits shrink for second consecutive quarter hurt by heavy investments in Quick Commerce. Q4 FY25 : Rs 39 Crore Q3 FY25 : Rs 59 Crore Q4 FY24 : Rs 175 Crore

Last week on The CapTable: The latest filings of Dailyhunt parent VerSe Innovation appear to show widening gaps between its public narrative and financial realities, as outgoing auditor Deloitte flags governance and control lapses.

As reported in YourStory , IIT Madras -incubated Ather Energy made a stellar debut on Dalal Street, listing at ₹328 per share — a 2.2% premium — despite challenging market conditions. IIT Madras achieved an impressive 40x return through IIT Madras Incubation Cell and RTBI, having nurtured

🚨🚨Three investor board members have stepped down from Globalbees' board Representatives from Lightspeed, Premji Invest and Chiratae Ventures have quit the company's board Pranav Balakrishnan and Akshita Toshniwal report for YourStory yourstory.com/2025/05/firstc…

🚨EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Since its acquisition by the Tata Group in '21, 1mg has evolved from an e-pharmacy into a full-stack outpatient healthcare business, offering diagnostics, teleconsultations, rapid medicine delivery, and offline retail and institutional healthcare.

🚨 Unacademy founders to step down from the company. In sept 24, when The CapTable reached out to Unacademy to check if the founders are indeed stepping down, its board and the founders had issued a "strong denial" saying "these are baseless rumours." A 🧵👇🏼

A bit late to this, but after closely following Tata 1mg for a while, my colleague Pranav Balakrishnan and I finally got to ask all our curious questions to founder & CEO Prashant Tandon in this interview for The CapTable. the-captable.com/2025/05/tata-1…

🚨Udaan says, it has now closed its Series G round at $114 mn. In February, the company had said it had raised $75 mn in Series G and was expecting another $25 mn. This round values Udaan at $1.8 bn. The company was one valued at over $3 bn.

Pranav Balakrishnan of The CapTable had done a detailed piece last year on why Udaan was shrinking the-captable.com/2024/04/udaans…

A year ago, getting listed on quick commerce platforms like Zepto was the thing for D2C brands. Investors asked about it. Founders chased it. For many, it felt like a shortcut to scale. But that dream is quickly unraveling. 🧵

#ICYMI | 🍔 Rapido’s food delivery foray has everyone talking this week. Back in April, The CapTable broke down its playbook: go after underserved markets with lower AOVs and leaner cost structures—just like Meesho did in e-commerce and Rapido did in ride-hailing. The goal?

🚨New: Zepto is running into trouble with dozens of small brands. Zepto was the most aggressive among quick commerce platforms in onboarding brands. In a year, its brand count went from 2,000 to 8,000. But this onboarding of brands was rampant.  A 🧵