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India’s next billion-dollar leap

Padmaja Ruparel
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September 2025
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This story belongs to the Fortune India Magazine September 2025 issue.

India’s future unicorn bets are not on consumer apps, but on research-based, transformational products rooted in deep technologies.

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India’s next billion-dollar leap
 Credits: Anirban Ghosh

CONSUMER APPS have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new wave of entrepreneurs who keep deep technologies at the core to build research-based, transformational products in AI, semiconductors, spacetech, quantum computing, and al problems; they are reshaping the future of Indian innovation.