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How much do Unicorns spend on ESOPs?
employee esops, startup stock options, esops to employees, employee stock option plan for employees of startups, median money spent on esops

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 26, 20241 min read


Run down for the month - Apr'22
Startups making headlines in April 2022

Ritwik Khator
May 16, 20222 min read


Around the World in a Blink - Taki & Shein
With every passing day, we're seeing blockchain and crypto being put to more productive use cases finally. Our latest find is an Indian...

Kartikeyan Khator
Apr 16, 20222 min read


Effects of Startup Replication
It is a common belief that Indian startups are born out of mere replication of startups that have witnessed good demand or raised huge...

Kartikeyan Khator
Apr 14, 20226 min read


How much Stake should Founders retain?
As an entrepreneur there’s a lot riding on the outcome of your negotiations with potential investors. The biggest trade off being between...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20222 min read


Did the Unicorns actually add Value?
In FY20, India’s 68 Unicorns spent cash of over ₹138,000 crores, posting a total net loss of over ₹41,000 crores. Now before you write...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20223 min read


A snapshot of the 2021 Unicorn story of the Globe
Here are 6 cards that sum up the 2021 Unicorn story of the Globe: This article is a part of the December'21 edition of our Startup...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20221 min read


What if you had Invested in Indian Unicorns?
At the inception of 2021 we started keeping tap of the valuation of all Unicorns in India, subsequent funds raised and the hike in...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20221 min read


Should ‘Unicorn’ be a Metric of Success?
There’s no doubt that when a Startup achieves the coveted Unicorn tag, it’s a moment of pride for its founders, employees, and investors,...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 14, 20224 min read


Where do Unicorns park Idle Funds?
Time and again you must’ve heard in 2021 (108 times to be precise), that a Startup raised funds north of a hundred million dollars. Of...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 13, 20221 min read


Is Edtech really solving India's Education Problems?
At the heart of any good Startup idea is the problem that it plans to solve. Every great company creates value in the long run by solving...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 8, 20225 min read


Rundown for the Month - Aug'21
India lends the P2P way: This month, we saw two unicorn startups - CRED and BharatPe entering the Peer-to-Peer lending space. This...

Ritwik Khator
Sep 1, 20212 min read




Is Byju's Building an Edtech monopoly?
As Mark Zuckerberg built and scaled Facebook, he had a bigger vision – Facebook shall one day sit at the helm of everything that’s social...

Kartikeyan Khator
Aug 31, 20217 min read


Would you Stick with the Mobikwick IPO?
Sometimes we feel like we're Superman. You know how he would never kill the bad guy but hand him over to the cops… So here we are today,...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jul 30, 20218 min read


Rundown for the Month - June'21
Here are the top stories that made the news in June'21 in India's Startup Ecosystem: More Unicorns - BrowserStack becomes the seventh...

Ritwik Khator
Jun 30, 20212 min read


Run Down for the Month - May'21
It's coming of age at India Inc.: Tata Sons has acquired a 64% stake in online grocery seller BigBasket, buying out majority stake of...

Ritwik Khator
Jun 1, 20212 min read


Do you have an appetite for Zomato's IPO?
Food bearing, discounts lading, Zomato dressed in red-and-white like a Santa Clause has not only been a darling for its customers but...

Ritwik Khator
May 31, 20214 min read


Paytm's Fintech Gameplan
Let’s be frank. Paytm is one of the first Indian Startups to have accomplished the dream that is shown to every foreign VC: Acquisition...

Ritwik Khator
Apr 30, 20214 min read


CRED Makes Some Noise
In the latest OH MY GOD Events, we have Fintech Startup: Cred turning into a Unicorn in just 3 years from inception! In simple terms,...

Ritwik Khator
Apr 30, 20212 min read
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