Startup Stories
Athikur Rehman Ansari: Building Cerebrate Solutions in Online Reputation Management
Discover how Athikur Rehman Ansari built Cerebrate Solutions into a bootstrapped online reputation management agency with a team of over 150 experts.
Ivan Zhao: Why Notion Had to Start Over Before It Found Its Audience
Inside Ivan Zhao and Simon Last’s Notion journey: the Kyoto rebuild, years without traction and the challenge of making flexible software feel useful.
Dylan Field: The Browser Bet That Changed How Teams Design Together
Dylan Field and Evan Wallace spent years building Figma around a browser-first idea. Their founder story reveals why collaboration was a product decision.
Melanie Perkins: The Yearbook Business That Rehearsed Canva’s Global Ambition
How Melanie Perkins turned a school yearbook business into the starting point for Canva, and why her journey offers a different lesson about ambition.
Karishma Panchal Patel Built Evolve to Make ISO Systems Actually Work
Meet Karishma Panchal Patel, founder of Evolve, who has delivered 150+ quality and sustainability projects and conducted 1,000+ audits, helping businesses turn ISO compliance into a lasting culture.
Dr. Rajesh Mohan Rai: Transforming Leadership Through Executive Coaching and Strategic Growth
Discover how Dr. Rajesh Mohan Rai helps organisations strengthen leadership, improve business performance and achieve sustainable growth through executive coaching.
A Better Investment Conversation Starts with Understanding
Vedant Raj Lohia’s vision for making bonds more accessible, and investing more connected
From Corporate Finance to Building Articolo India: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Vikas Gupta
Vikas Gupta, a Chartered Accountant and former corporate finance professional at GE and Macquarie Bank, transformed his corporate experience into an entrepreneurial venture. Through Articolo India, he has built a diversified business spanning brand distribution, private labels, manufacturing, imports and exports.
Beyond Websites, Beyond Marketing: Shreyas and the Rise of Website Revenue Intelligence
Shreyas, founder of TSM Nexus, is building a structured approach to website audits, commercial priorities, and growth through Website Revenue Intelligence.
She Built the Door Herself: Arshi Khan and the Agency Born from a Pause
After a pandemic-era job loss and professional rejections, Arshi Khan founded Rewired Mavericks with a conviction that marketing must do more than capture attention—it must connect brand communication to business growth.
After Decades in Banking, Anne Boden Started Over and Built Starling
Anne Boden’s Starling Bank journey: how an industry insider built a mobile bank, from its 2014 founding to early products and operating milestones.
Can a Specialist Beat the AI Giants? Inside Jarek Kutylowski’s DeepL
Discover how Jarek Kutylowski built DeepL in Cologne, turning specialist AI translation research into language tools for global business workflows.
