Suprita Anupam

Bangalore

Senior Journalist at Inc42

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Grabbing an MRF stake for a few hundred rupees may be possible sooner than you think

2 weeks ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%], In the world of financial and capital markets regulation, most tech-first proposals die quietly in committee meetings. But the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is now preparing to actually test the waters when it comes to fractional ownership of shares. Not just in theory, but as a pilot. On blockchain. Granted, this is part of the capital-market regulator's Innovation Sandbox, and the pilot will be run on past data.
Physics Wallah's Rs 15 lakh 'BTech' comes without a BTech degree

2 weeks ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. Eighteen months and about Rs 4 lakh ($4,700) later, Manav* gave up. The 18-year-old had enrolled in Physics Wallah's new programme, pitched on its website as a four-year "BTech" course in computer science and artificial intelligence, designed to make students "industry-ready".
Mahindra's new EVs promise the future, but the software is ... still loading

1 month ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. "My car arrived at the stockyard almost 20 days ago. Yet, they aren't ready to deliver it," said a visibly frustrated buyer of Mahindra's XEV 9e in Bengaluru. The reason, apparently, is a software update. Not a missing part or a logistical snag-just some lines of code standing between a customer and their almost Rs 34 lakh ($39,500) electric SUV.
Lenskart built its empire on franchisees. Now it's battling them in courts

1 month ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. Lenskart is heading to the stock market amid a bitter battle with its franchise store owners. It's a fight that has been simmering for years, but now it's boiling over into courtrooms, with franchise store owners accusing India's largest eyewear brand of squeezing them out, opaque accounting practices, and straight-up fraud. The scale of this dispute is striking.
Phonepe spent millions to rival Policybazaar. Its users couldn't care less

1 month ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. Phonepe, the American retailer Walmart-backed fintech giant, is all set to debut in the public market in the second half of FY26. But it's a tough road ahead for the company, considering it derives a chunk of its revenue from just one vertical.
India's Rs 18,000 crore battery plan is stuck at Rs 24 crore

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. India's battery dreams are losing charge. The government envisioned the country transforming into a global powerhouse in cell manufacturing by the end of this decade. So, it dangled a juicy carrot of subsidies-worth over Rs 18,000 crore ($2 billion)-for companies to produce batteries locally. It's been over three years since.
Swiggy's post-IPO pain dulls HNIs' appetite for pre-listing bets

2 months ago | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

Suprit (as he'd like to be addressed) is a staff writer at The Ken, covering everything from startups and VCs to technology and policy. "Would you like to buy a piece of India's hottest food-delivery and oldest quick-commerce giant at a discount?" That was the pitch some brokers made to high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) in mid-2024 as Swiggy prepared for its big stock-market debut. Sure, a discount is great. But a discount to what?
Razorpay, Phonepe, and others confront Juspay’s “white box”

Feb 7, 2025 | the-ken.com | hari krishna |Suprita Anupam |Rounak Kumar Gunjan |Anand Kalyanaraman

Any merchant needs to work with a licensed payment aggregator to accept online payments. Many relied on Juspay as an orchestration platform—essentially, an “aggregator of aggregators” to help them integrate with different payment aggregators as a failsafe. Put simply, if one payment aggregator goes down, Juspay automatically ensures that merchants can continue accepting payments through an alternative.
Razorpay, Phonepe, and others confront Juspay’s “white box”

Feb 6, 2025 | the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Anand Kalyanaraman |Suprita Anupam |Rahul Chaudhary

Subscribe to The Ken’s premium plan and download our beautiful apps for iOS, ipad or android to tune in. Or sign up to Two by Two with a monthly subscription for early access to full episodes on Apple Podcasts. App Store Play Store Apple Podcasts On January 20th, the online publication The Head and Tale broke the news that two of India’s largest payment aggregators and gateways, Razorpay and Cashfree, were severing ties with India’s largest payment orchestrator or router, Juspay.
Tata Punch’s rise buries the ghost of Nano

Feb 5, 2025 | the-ken.com | Suprita Anupam

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