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In partnership with executive search firm Longhouse Consulting, ET has put together a list of high-profile executives who launched their own ventures this year. Several of these executives are still tinkering with and developing their startups in stealth mode.
New capital — in primary funding — is increasingly hard to come by due to a host of reasons, including global macroeconomic conditions and a reset in valuations. In this scenario, existing investors who want a partial exit from older investments are game for such deals.
Indias top internet firms like Flipkart have been fertile breeding grounds for entrepreneurs who left jobs to start something of their own. Drawing on a record inflow of venture capital in the past decade, 297 founders set up some 253 new companies, bolstering Indias Startup Mafia. This and more in todays ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Drawing on a record inflow of venture capital in the past decade, 297 founders have set up some 253 startups, igniting talk of a new-look “startup mafia,” as such cohorts of entrepreneurs are termed in industry parlance.