Anu Raghunathan

Contributor|Asia

I am a contributing editor of Forbes Asia. I cover Indian entrepreneurs and their struggles and successes in their journey to wealth-creation. Previously, I worked as a business reporter for The Dallas Morning News where I revitalized the financial services beat for their

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7,133 viewsJul 2, 2024

Thai Tycoon Drives Online Sales Of Southeast Asia’s Biggest Wholesale Food Market

Retail magnate Pradit Phataraprasit, a former deputy finance minister of Thailand, draws the bulk of his family’s wealth of $1.22 billion from the Mall Group, operator of Bangkok’s shopping hotspots such as Siam Paragon, Emporium and the gigantic, 200,000-square-meter Emsphere Mall, which opened in December.

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6,933 viewsJun 2, 2024

How Delivery App Zepto Plans To Take Bigger Bite Of Quick Commerce Market In India

Cofounders Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra gave up Stanford educations to deliver groceries to India’s homes—now they are eyeing much more.

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PREMIUM1,857 viewsFeb 23, 2024

Byju’s Investors Vote To Oust CEO Byju Raveendran But The Company Says It’s ‘Invalid And Ineffective’

Shareholders of the embattled edtech firm are pushing to remove its cofounder and his family from their leadership positions.

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10,291 viewsJan 25, 2024

Former EdTech Billionaire Byju Raveendran Braves The Odds To Raise Funds Again

India’s embattled edtech firm Byju’s is considering a rights issue for existing investors at a $2 billion valuation, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans.

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2,590 viewsDec 29, 2023

India IPOs End 2023 With A Bang

For the last quarter of 2023, there are 23 IPOs announced in India so far—the highest number for the October-to-December quarter in a decade.