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Founders building companies — without the hype.
A new Sardar Patel University study covering 2016–2025 finds women now make up 48.1% of India's startup participation — a shift with real consequences for capital, credit and leadership.
Not every company should be a story. Some should just be a business. There is a generation of founders who have figured that out.
The most interesting founder stories are increasingly happening in places where the cost of being wrong is lower and the upside of being right is local.
The gap between what women-led startups raise and what their peers raise has been documented for years. Less time is spent on why it persists.