Pooja Sareen

SUMMARY From Sept 12–14 at The Oberoi Sukhvilas in the Shivalik foothills, 50+ of India’s top D2C and retail founders will gather for an off-grid retreat to reimagine the future of consumption What happens when India’s most ambitious D2C and retail founders go off-the-grid for 3 days? Last year in Shimla, we found out.

India, Aug. 8 -- What happens when India's most ambitious D2C and retail founders go off-the-grid for 3 days? Last year in Shimla, we found out. In the hills, away from pitch decks and routine, consumer brand builders chose relationship over networking, transparency over transactions, and vulnerability over vanity - turning conversations into collaborations and peers into partners. This September,D2C Retreat is back with its second edition. Not just to recreate the moment, but to raise the bar.

As India celebrates the 9th anniversary of Startup India and the fourth edition of National Startup Day announced by Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we at Inc42 are more than proud to announce — Griffin Retreat — a gathering of 100 unicorn and soonicorn founders for the first time in India. It feels like just yesterday that India’s startup ecosystem was taking its first tentative steps.