The shipping industry has had a transformative journey since the pandemic. The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is a daily freight container index issued by the Baltic Exchange and Freightos. The index measures global container freight rates by calculating spot rates for 40-foot containers on 12 global tradelanes. The index remained…

D2C e-commerce is when the manufacturer/producer sells its products/produce directly to consumers from their web store. A more traditional retailer business model goes from the manufacturer/producers > to a wholesaler > to a distributor > to retailers > and then finally to a consumer. The D2C e-commerce model quite literally…

MARKET The recent $100 mn investment in Physicswallah has stirred the pot and once again got the community talking about K-12. According to investors close to the company’s advisors, PW earned close to Rs 300–400 crore ($39.2 million-$52.3 million); in revenue for the year ended March 2021, almost neck and neck…

Within hours of becoming president, Joe Biden had moved to recommit the United States to the Paris Agreement — the internationally binding treaty to combat climate change. This takes us back to 2015 when the treaty first came into being. It has since been looked at as a symbolic juncture…

Market: For the purpose of this micro thesis, I will be analysing the casual gaming market in India. A global analysis does not allow us to reach a common consensus on what model works, since differences in the underlying demographics’ socio-economic background are too disparate. There are numerous reasons why…

A big moment in the life of an entrepreneur is when he/she and the team receive a term sheet from an investor. Although term sheets are distinct from LOIs and memorandums of understanding (MOUs), the three documents are often referred to interchangeably because they accomplish similar goals and contain similar…

Metropolis. Thyrocare. Dr Lal PathLabs. It’s never a good occasion when somebody breathes their name. These pathology chains would be called upon by the recommendation of your doctor — who thinks you either have a disease or has suggested a preventive checkup. For context, Pathology is the study of the…

With Covid 19 giving India’s Ed-Tech sector a spring in its step — it is worth analysing it’s impact hitherto and whether it can substitute conventional offline modes of education by providing a more refined alternative. Some might say that Byju has established himself as the cynosure of the eyes…