A shopkeeper weighs vegetables at a grocery store where QR codes for Paytm (behind C), an Indian cellphone-based digital payment platform, are displayed in Mumbai. Overseas funds invested more than US$35bil in Indian startups in 2021 – a tripling from 2020, according to data compiled by Tracxn – buying into everything from fintech and health to gaming. — AFP
MUMBAI: Sumit Gupta has had a big year – turning 30, getting married and seeing his startup become one of India’s newest tech unicorns.
Hampered by the coronavirus pandemic and too busy expanding and getting funding for his cryptocurrency platform CoinDCX, his team finally grabbed a few days on the beach in Goa to celebrate recently.
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A shopkeeper weighs vegetables at a grocery store where QR codes for Paytm (behind C), an Indian cellphone-based digital payment platform, are displayed in Mumbai. Overseas funds invested more than US$35bil in Indian startups in 2021 – a tripling from 2020, according to data compiled by Tracxn – buying into everything from fintech and health to gaming. — AFP
Shoppers stand in front of a store where QR codes for Paytm (C), an Indian cellphone-based digital payment platform, are displayed in Mumbai. — AFP
A woman walks past a store for beauty products platform Nykaa in Mumbai. Companies going public included food delivery app Zomato and beauty products platform Nykaa, listing at huge premiums to their IPO prices and making billionaires of their founders. — AFP
A man works in a poultry shop where QR codes for Paytm (R), an Indian cellphone-based digital payment platform, are displayed in Mumbai. — AFP
Men work at a poultry shop where a QR code for Paytm (L), an Indian cellphone-based digital payment platform, is displayed in Mumbai. — AFP
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