Naveen Tewari: the unicorn whisperer

Even amidst a pandemic, Naveen Tewari closed 2020 on a new high with Glance, a two-year-old subsidiary of InMobi, also entering the coveted unicorn club

Monday January 11, 2021 , 2 min Read

While entrepreneurs chase the hard-to-attain unicorn status, one entrepreneur is proving he has the proverbial Midas touch. Naveen Tewari, who gave the Indian startup ecosystem its very first unicorn has done it again, convincing us he has the secrets to building scalable businesses in record time.

So if there's one interview you watch, read and follow this week to stay inspired, then let it be this one with India’s very own 'unicorn whisperer.’

Here are some key takeaways you cannot afford to miss:

The road ahead and towards an IPO
The highs and lows of Indian entrepreneurship
Secrets to building endurance and resilience
Future of content distribution and consumption
Why the growth-at-all-costs approach does not work

Startup Spotlight

Agritech startup Fasal is using IoT to help horticulture farmers go remote

In 2017, two techies Ananda Verma and Shailendra Tiwari bought small farmland near Mysore to grow “coloured capsicum” (bell peppers) as a weekend getaway from their big-city life. Realising the struggles of growing horticulture crops, the duo decided to find a tech fix that would help farmers gain better visibility and “run farms on autopilot mode”.

Fasal snapshot — *Infographic: YS Design*

News & Updates

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Blume Venture Partners launches Founders Fund to strengthen its network. The idea is to build long-term relationships with founders and extend the platform and network to these founders.