Naren Gupta, a venture capitalist who co-founded Nexus Venture Partners to help plant Indian SaaS startups on the world map, died on Saturday. He was 73. Gupta, who moved to the U.S. to pursue higher education in late 1960s, co-founded Integrated Systems, a software firm that was ultimately sold to Intel. After leaving the firm, […]
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Can India produce a Superhuman.com?
India has no dearth of market access, talent, and capital. But Indian startups haven’t emulated the success of Silicon Valley exemplars like Superhuman. What did Superhuman do differently to succeed in the face of grim competition? What can Indian startups learn from this?
2 Apr 2021
Premium email client Superhuman, which charges a steep $30 monthly fee, has raised $51 million in funding and is valued at $260 million
Superhuman bills itself as the “fastest email experience ever made” and offers a gamified inbox experience to users
While there are three billion email users, Superhuman targets the tip of the pyramid the top 1%