Manish Singh

Reporter, India, TechCrunch

Manish Singh is a senior reporter at TechCrunch, covering India’s startup scene and venture capital investments. He also reports on global tech firms’ India play. Before joining TechCrunch in 2019, Singh wrote for about a dozen publications, including CNBC and VentureBeat. He graduated in Computer Science and Engineering in 2015. He is reachable on manish(at)techcrunch(dot)com.

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Ola Electric, India’s largest electric two-wheeler maker, saw its shares rise as much as 20% on its public debut on Friday, making it the biggest listing among Indian firms in…

Ola Electric surges in India’s biggest listing in two years

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Amazon is fumbling in India

Amazon’s decision to overlook quick-commerce in India is now looking like a significant misstep.

Amazon is fumbling in India

Reliance, India’s largest conglomerate, reduced its workforce by 11%, or more than 42,000 people, in the financial year ended March 2024. 

Indian conglomerate Reliance slashed over 42,000 jobs last financial year

Manish Tiwary, the head of Amazon’s India operations, is leaving the firm “to pursue an opportunity outside of the company” as the U.S. e-commerce giant grapples with mounting pressure from…

Amazon’s India chief resigns amid intensifying competition

India’s fast-growing quick commerce market is getting a new deep-pocketed entrant: Walmart-owned Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm. Flipkart has started to roll out Flipkart Minutes, its quick commerce service, in…

Flipkart blitzes into India’s 10-minute quick commerce battle

Payments infrastructure firm Infibeam Avenues has acquired a majority 54% stake in Rediff.com for up to $3 million, a dramatic twist of fate for the 28-year-old business that was the…

Rediff, once an internet pioneer in India, sells majority stake for $3M

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Indian startups gut valuations ahead of IPO push

Ola Electric and FirstCry are set to test investor appetite with public listing, both pricing their shares below their previous valuation asks.

Indian startups gut valuations ahead of IPO push

Alex Cook, a partner at Tiger Global who oversaw some of its largest fintech investments and India deals, is departing the firm after a tenure of nearly seven years, three…

Tiger Global partner Alex Cook to leave firm, sources say

Bike-taxi startup Rapido, which counts Swiggy among its investors, is the latest Indian firm to become a unicorn.

India’s Rapido becomes a unicorn with fresh $120M funding

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss from its recent security breach among all its customers, a move that has sent…

WazirX to ‘socialize’ $230M security breach loss among customers

Apple has reduced prices of its iPhone models in India by 3-4% following a cut in import duties in the South Asian market.

Apple cuts iPhone price in India amid China slowdown

CRED, an Indian fintech startup, has rolled out a new feature that will help its customers manage and gain deeper insights into their cash flow, as the startup seeks to…

CRED launches personal finance manager for India’s affluent

India’s federal government has removed the so-called angel tax for all classes of investors, delivering a major victory to the country’s startup ecosystem that had lobbied for years against the…

India scraps ‘angel tax’ in boost for startups

WazirX, one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has “temporarily” suspended all trading activities on its platform days after losing about $230 million, nearly half of its reserves, in a security…

WazirX halts trading after $230 million ‘force majeure’ loss

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Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally

Security giant CrowdStrike said the outage was not caused by a cyberattack, as businesses anticipate widespread disruption.

Faulty CrowdStrike update causes major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally

Indian fintech Paytm’s struggles won’t seem to end. The company on Friday reported that its revenue declined by 36% and its loss more than doubled in the first quarter as…

Paytm loss widens and revenue shrinks as it grapples with regulatory clampdown

The Mumbai-based firm said one of its multisig wallets had suffered a security breach, and it was temporarily pausing all withdrawals from the platform.

WazirX halts withdrawals after losing $230 million, nearly half its reserves

Adtech startup InMobi is eyeing a valuation of about $10 billion in an initial public offering it is planning for next year.

InMobi eyes $10 billion valuation in 2025 India IPO

An Indian court has initiated insolvency proceedings against edtech giant Byju’s, once-valued at $22 billion.

Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, faces insolvency proceedings

Google has become one of the latest investors in Moving Tech, the parent firm of Indian open source ridesharing app Namma Yatri that is quickly capturing market share from Uber…

Google backs Indian open source Uber rival

Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company, may consider spinning off its telecom arm Jio for a public listing as early as 2025, Jefferies said in a research note, with investors…

Reliance may list Jio at $112B valuation next year, Jefferies says

Apple has issued a new round of threat notifications to iPhone users across 98 countries, warning them of potential mercenary spyware attacks. It’s the second such alert campaign from the…

Apple warns iPhone users in 98 countries of spyware attacks

For over a decade, real-money gaming companies and fantasy sports startups have marketed themselves as video game companies. But as these businesses face increasing regulatory scrutiny, a coalition of more…

Indian game firms want to distance themselves from fantasy sports

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Investors chase wealth tech startups in India as affluent class grows

The high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth segments are booming in India, prompting some wealth management firms to aggressively expand their relationship manager networks to capture this market.

Investors chase wealth tech startups in India as affluent class grows

Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, on Friday denied any breach of its systems following reports of an alleged security lapse that has caused concern among its customers. The telecom group,…

India’s Airtel dismisses data breach reports amid customer concerns

CoinDCX, India’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding internationally through the acquisition of BitOasis, a digital asset platform in the Middle East and North Africa, the companies said Wednesday. The Bengaluru-based…

CoinDCX acquires BitOasis in international expansion push

The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk’s X, is ceasing operations after its last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed. Despite securing over…

Indian social network Koo is shutting down as buyout talks collapse

Unacademy is slashing another 250 jobs in latest round of cuts as Indian edtech sector continues to struggle.Q

Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs

Matrix is rebranding its India and China affiliates, becoming the latest venture firm to distance its international franchises. The U.S.-headquartered venture capital firm will retain its name, while Matrix Partners…

Matrix venture firm distances from India and China affiliates

Reliance Jio and Airtel, the two largest telecom operators in India, have initiated what analysts expect to be an industrywide increase in tariffs in the world’s second largest wireless market,…

Reliance Jio, Airtel kick off Indian telecom price hike