Zepto tops LinkedIn’s 2025 Top Startups India List for third time – The Economic Times

Quick commerce platform Zepto has secured the top spot on the 2025 LinkedIn Top Startups India list for the third consecutive year, followed by enterprise cloud storage firm Lucidity and 10-minute food delivery platform Swish. The list, released on Wednesday, ranks emerging companies where careers are most likely to thrive, based on proprietary data across four key metrics: employee growth, member engagement, job interest, and the ability to attract top talent. To qualify, startups must be privately held, headquartered in India, have at least 30 employees, and be no older than five years, while also avoiding recent mass layoffs. Data for the 2025 ranking was collected between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. “Quick-commerce unicorn Zepto (#1) leads the list for the third consecutive year, followed by Lucidity (#2), which is redefining enterprise cloud storage, and Swish (#3), a Bengaluru-based 10-minute food delivery platform. “Despite operating in different categories, all three are scaling rapidly and expanding into new markets, signalling that operational precision, technology depth and category agility are the defining advantages of India’s top-performing startups,” LinkedIn said. The 2025 list highlights the continued rise of quick commerce, AI-native platforms, and specialised fintech as core engines of India’s startup
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