Author: Arabian Media staff

With an MBBS degree from AIIMS Jodhpur, Prince Kaushik was preparing to become a practising surgeon when an accident fractured his spine and confined him to his bed for three months. In 2022, Kaushik experienced what it was like to be a patient and truly understood the importance of good nurses. Recalling those days, Kaushik says, “You get caught up so much in the nature of a disease and its treatment, as a medical student, that you fail to truly grasp what the patient goes through.”After being tended to by nurses for 23 hours a day, Kaushik realised how “the skill…

Altum Credo Home Finance Pvt Ltd has received a Rs 170 crore equity investment from existing backer British International Investment (BII) to fund expansion in existing geographies and strengthen its affordable housing finance franchise. Altum Credo, which is registered with the Reserve Bank of India as an NBFC–HFC, specialises in lending to informal and semi-formal income segments in urban and semi-urban areas. The non-deposit-taking housing finance company focuses on first-time homeowners in the low-income segments and has served more than 15,000 customers across six states in southern and western India. It has assets under management exceeding Rs 1,000 crore.BII is…

Serial entrepreneur Ajay Data believes the world will very soon see “single person unicorns”, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), and if his conviction sounds dramatic, it is meant to be.In a conversation with Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO of YourStory, Data, the Managing Director of Data Group of Industries, sketched a near-future where individuals, armed with AI agents and entrepreneurial drive, can build companies of extraordinary scale. He does not frame this as idle optimism but as a structural shift: AI compresses labour, multiplies capability, and reduces the need for sprawling teams. Where today a unicorn requires a vast talent and…

When Smriti Krishna Singh began speaking with hospitality operators across cities, from Bengaluru to New York, she noticed a pattern. Despite the dynamic nature of the industry, all operators were still relying on manual inventory tracking, fragmented systems, and guesswork in their day-to-day operations. For staff and managers alike, this often translated into long hours, data blind spots, and operational inefficiencies.These conversations confirmed what Smriti had long suspected: the tools available to hospitality businesses hadn’t evolved to meet the pace or complexity of the industry. That gap led her to start kristalball, a platform that uses AI, machine learning, and…

Serial entrepreneur and longtime restaurant group chief executive Julia Stewart, 70, is going viral this week for making one of “the best moves in leadership” when it comes to business deal comebacks.After seven years as a senior leader at Taco Bell, Julia Stewart joined Applebee’s as president in 1998. She left after three years when she was denied a promotion to CEO, she says, despite being promised and earning the role — during her tenure, company and franchise sales skyrocketed, and so did the stock price, per Fortune. Soon after the snub, she joined IHOP as chair and CEO in…

AI-driven supply chain platform Enmovil on Monday said it raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Sorin Investments, the venture capital firm co-founded by former KKR India CEO Sanjay Nayar and Caravel Group COO Angad Banga. Capria Ventures and Twynam also joined the investment round.The Hyderabad-based startup plans to use the fresh funds to expand its sales teams, enhance AI capabilities, and explore international markets through consulting and enterprise partnerships.Founded in 2015 by Ravi Bulusu, Nanda Kishore, and Venkat Moganty, Enmovil offers a full-stack supply chain solution that combines predictive demand forecasting, dispatch planning, and real-time…

Moniqueca Sims, owner of SSG Appliance Academy, got her first glimpse into the appliance repair industry while dating a man who worked in the space. “He worked all the time, seven days a week,” Sims recalls, “so I used to go out with him just to spend time with him. I saw how easy it was for him to repair those appliances, and he was repairing them quickly.”Image Credit: Courtesy of SSG Appliance Academy. Moniqueca Sims. Sims believes in “working smarter, not harder” and had the idea to hire technicians to help the man she was dating with repair calls.…

For most students who have grown up in Tier II and Tier III towns of India, education has existed with an asterisk: migrate or settle. It was a long-standing notion, nurtured over the years that metro migration ensured superior schools, seasoned teachers, and expert coaching. This migration was not merely a quest for quality, it was a necessity formed by systemic lacunae.But now, I notice the change in fermentation. The desire to learn remains the same but the way to achieve it is being rewritten through technology. More precisely, through Artificial Intelligence (AI).The uneven map of learningOver the last two…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It’s hard to imagine modern life without air conditioning, heating and plumbing. For Josh Campbell, founder of Rescue Air and Plumbing, these necessities have been the foundation of his success as an entrepreneur.”We may as well be doctors,” Campbell says. “Doesn’t matter what’s happening in this world — we can’t have our quality of life without [these services].”Rescue Air and Plumbing doesn’t just rely on necessity for growth, however. The $25 million business has achieved success due to the ingrained, small-town values Campbell grew up with. “We treat people like we did…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, 43, oversees the hiring, firing, management, and promotion of 40 to 50 employees at the travel startup, taking a hands-on approach to personnel decisions.On a Saturday episode of the “Social Radars” podcast, Chesky said he stays “as close” as possible to the “people doing the work” at Airbnb and manages staffers who report to the C-Suite executives who also report to the CEO.”I treat them all as my directs,” Chesky said on the podcast. “I skip level, I co-hire them, and I make decisions on whether or not they’re working out and leave the company.” Related:…