Rishith Bharadwaj, Author at StoryStack

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Innovation, Science

She Went to Thar to Shoot a Documentary. She Never Left.

Bahula Naturals Aakriti Srivastava: How a Woman Entrepreneur Is Transforming Desert Livelihoods in Rajasthan A journalism graduate from Delhi arrived in a desert village near the India-Pakistan border in...

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business, StartUps

Rusk Media Raises ₹103 Crore to Take India’s Gen-Z Content Global

Rusk Media Raises Rs 103 Crore Series B Led by IvyCap Ventures to Expand Gen-Z Content Play Globally Nearly one billion monthly views, 50 plus seasons, a startup reality...

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business

Vetic Raises $40M to Build India’s First Human-Grade Pet Healthcare Network

Vetic Raises $40 Million Led by Bessemer Venture Partners to Scale India Pet Healthcare Network Nationwide India now has more pet parents than ever, but almost no trustworthy system...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Enterprise Tech

How Equip Is Using AI to Change the Way Companies Hire: One Bengaluru Startup’s Bet That Accountability Beats Automation

Equip is a Bengaluru-based AI-native hiring platform founded in 2020 by Jayanth Neelakanta, a PhD in theoretical physics from Syracuse University. The platform is trusted by over 700 hiring teams...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
StartUps

Influish Raises Pre-Seed at ₹25 Crore Valuation: India’s Creator Economy Finally Gets Its Unified Home

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that full-time content creators in India know intimately. It is not the tiredness that comes from making videos or writing posts, that...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business, Technology

Karnataka HC Calls Gameskraft Founders’ Arrest Illegal. A Major Setback for the ED and a Turning Point for Online Gaming Law in India

The Karnataka High Court on June 16 declared the arrests of Gameskraft founders Deepak Singh, Vikas Taneja and Prithviraj Singh by the ED as illegal. Justice M. Nagaprasanna ordered their...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business

Hari Menon Built BigBasket Over 15 Years. Now He Is Handing It to Amazon’s Amit Nanda

BigBasket co-founder Hari Menon has stepped down as CEO after leading the company since its founding in 2011. Amit Nanda, formerly Director of Selling Partner Services at Amazon India with...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Innovation, Technology

India’s UPI Walks Into Galeries Lafayette in Nice. The World’s Largest Payment Experiment Just Got More Global

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal launched UPI payments at Galeries Lafayette Nice Massena in France on June 16, 2026. The rollout was enabled through Lyra Collect and NPCI International, the global...

16 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business

From Fuel Shock to Electric Shift: Why India Is Finally Plugging In

India sold 2.45 million EVs in FY2026, a 24.6% jump over the previous year. Petrol prices rose ₹7.5 per litre in just 11 days in May 2026, pushing Delhi past...

16 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
StartUps, Technology

xto10x Shuts Down HRtech Platform PeopleCues, Sparking Questions About Its Own Future

xto10x has shut down its HR technology product PeopleCues, ending its foray into the employee engagement and performance management software space In 2021, xto10x acquired HRtech startup Dockabl to strengthen...