Emerging Trends in Indian Startups

In around a decade, the Indian start-up ecosystem has scaled to become 3rd largest start-up hub in the World followed by the US and China. No doubt the success of consumer internet companies have played and continue to play a big role in that. The ecosystem has seen a cycle of boom, bust and exits with a promise that India has the ability to return capital to investors, proved to an extent by FlipKart's sell out.

As e-commerce continues to be the biggest bet for entrepreneurs and investors in 2019 and beyond, the new crop of opportunities is beginning to break out even as existing ones like food-tech continues to explode. To highlights some of those, though investor lens, that would trend in 2019.

1. Foodtech to fight it out– Early-stage funding including angel deals will continue to remain relatively muted for start-ups in comparison to the 2014-15 party even as Softbank, Alibaba, Tencent, and Naspers will continue to dominate the investment scene by taking bigger punts in their bets. As a result, food delivery certainly will see a battle as much as e-commerce as Swiggy and Zomato have a slugfest while Ola with FoodPanda and UberEats try to find…