{"id":991023,"date":"2026-02-10T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991023"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:45:24","slug":"startups-deepen-profit-focus-in-q3intro-most-firms-improve-bottom-lines-as-profit-discipline-sharpens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/10\/startups-deepen-profit-focus-in-q3intro-most-firms-improve-bottom-lines-as-profit-discipline-sharpens\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups deepen profit focus in Q3Intro: Most firms improve bottom lines as profit discipline sharpens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several new-age tech-based companies reported improving profitability in the December quarter, underscoring a continued shift away from growth-at-all-costs strategies towards more sustainable business models. Of the 12 major startups that have reported results so far for the October-December quarter, nine showed an improvement in their bottomlines, with most also posting double-digit revenue growth. <\/p>\n<p>Payments and fintech firms were among the strongest performers. MobiKwik swung to a profit of Rs 4 crore in Q3 from a loss of Rs 53 crore a year earlier, helped by sharply lower lending-related expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several new-age tech-based companies reported improving profitability in the December quarter, underscoring a continued shift away from growth-at-all-costs strategies towards more sustainable business models. Of the 12 major startups that have reported results so far for the October-December quarter, nine showed an improvement in their bottomlines, with most also posting double-digit revenue growth. Payments and fintech firms were among the strongest performers. MobiKwik swung to a profit of Rs 4 crore in Q3 from a loss of Rs 53 crore a year earlier, helped by sharply lower lending-related expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}