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Seethalakshmy Narayanan: The finance wizard
Narayanan has walked the talk at 29. She is the youngest-ever vice president at Premji Invest in its 17-year history and has led seven investments aggregating over $300 million
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Women's Premier League: Top five players to watch out for
From Phoebe Litchfield to Ashwani Kumari, these cricketers can make the second edition of the T20 tournament come alive with their on-field exploits
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From interim budget coverage to India's semiconductor opportunity, here are our most-read stories of the week
K Dinesh and family's philanthropic journey, Sheena Iyengar's lessons on creativity and innovation, Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers on the success of SA20 are some of the stories that piqued the interest of our readers this week
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K Dinesh and family: The generous givers
From health and education, livelihood, animal welfare, and environment and climate, and even disaster relief, K Dinesh's philanthropic endeavours span several causes and organisations to make a vast, lasting impact. A look at how his family—wife and two daughters—are the cornerstones of his philanthropic principles
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Tech money for social good: From Kris Gopalakrishnan to K Dinesh, Azim Premji, Nandan Nilekani, and more
Philanthropists from the technology industry have not just been at the forefront of using their money for impact, but have also often backed underfunded, 'risky' causes with patient capital
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Give and Tech: India's IT entrepreneurs lead the way
Just as in the bustling US tech sector, India's IT entrepreneurs — from the IT services bellwethers to the more recent digital native billionaires—have carved a niche for themselves by not just donating millions but also by immersing themselves in relatively newer causes like climate change and gender inequality
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SBI MF: Betting big with AIFs
India's largest fund house continues to gain in AUM and market share, finding interest in the unlisted marketplace. As it focuses on AIFs to drive growth, it now needs to set the rules as a leader to leapfrog to the next level
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The Solitaire: Mithun Sacheti & the untold CaratLane story
From running out of money and coming menacingly close to going back to the family business in 2011, to being almost spooked by Nigerian scam, Mithun Sacheti has had his share of trials and tribulations. The founder, like a diamond, never cracked under pressure
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Francisco D'Souza on why the tech services industry is at a unique moment
When Forbes India first put Francisco D'Souza on the cover in May 2012, he was christened 'Chief Emerging Officer' for his efforts to reinvent Cognizant and the role of the CEO. Eleven years later, D'Souza, now co-founder of private equity firm Recognize, writes about another transformation of the technology services industry that's today being driven by radical technology innovation and the prospect of artificial intelligence, among other drivers
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Cannes 2023: Anurag Kashyap and Rahul Bhat talk all things 'Kennedy' with Meenakshi Shedde
Anurag Kashyap says that 'Kennedy', a buzzy fictional thriller based on a real-life incident in locked-down Mumbai, fulfils all his cinematic fantasies. Watch as he and actor Rahul Bhat take film journalist Meenakshi Shedde through the film's journey, just ahead of its Cannes premiere
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Climake's Shravan Shankar and Simmi Sareen on the glass-half-full climate tech finance scene in India
Shravan Shankar and Simmi Sareen, co-founders of Climake, a platform for climate tech funding and market access, discuss the latest edition of their flagship annual report—The State of Climate Finance in India 2023. Equity funding for climate tech decreased by 34 percent in 2022 from the previous year, although 2021 numbers were a bit skewed by eight large strategic, IPO, and post-IPO deals, they note. They also found that, on the positive side, investments in sectors beyond renewables—like agritech and waste and circularity—which urgently need to grow, increased