Startups

Engineers often describe FFSC as the most difficult rocket engine architecture because it combines exceptional performance with extraordinary engineering complexity.

Updated : Aug 8, 2026

Bengaluru startup's rocket engine marks a first: Can it become India's answer to SpaceX's Raptor?

The announcement has drawn comparisons with SpaceX's Raptor, the engine powering Starship, because Raptor remains the only Full-Flow Staged Combustion engine to have flown in space.

Swiggy spent the past year carefully rebuilding its margins to reach break-even

Updated : Jul 31, 2026

What kind of retailer is Swiggy becoming?

Swiggy has achieved the financial milestone it has chased for over a year. But with margins now under pressure again, the bigger question is whether its curation-first strategy can deliver the growth investors want.

The battery can be configured for CubeSats as well as larger microsatellites, with an expected operational life of up to five years in low-Earth orbit.

Updated : Jul 31, 2026

Skyroot's Vikram-1 milestone: How TakeMe2Space's battery cleared space's toughest test

PowerBank-50 packs more than 50 Wh of energy into a unit weighing just 380 gm. TakeMe2Space has priced it at ₹1,04,900, positioning it as a lower-cost alternative to imported systems.

Arboreal Bioinnovations Private Limited was co-founded by Swati Pandey (CEO) and Manish Chauhan.

Updated : Jul 30, 2026

Arboreal Bioinnovations raises ₹230 cr in Series A funding for specialty food ingredient expansion

The company manufactures ingredients across next-generation proteins, cocoa-based ingredients, natural zero-calorie sweeteners, and functional fibres with additional platforms under development.

Cursor Start is a cheaper, India-specific subscription tier, as the company plans to expand its India footprint,

Updated : Jul 29, 2026

Cursor launches affordable India-only AI plan; Price starts at…

Cursor Start is a cheaper, India-specific subscription tier, launched at an affordable price that includes several premium AI features such as Cursor Composer 2.5 for AI-assisted coding, the Grok 4.5 AI model, and more.

Blinkit has consolidated its position as Eternal’s largest consumer business, accounting for 76% of the consolidated adjusted revenue in the June quarter.

Updated : Jul 24, 2026

Blinkit is coming for Amazon’s shelf

80,000 SKUs, gourmet formats, owned inventory; Eternal’s quick commerce arm is evolving from a convenience service into the infrastructure for online retail

Ashneer Grover announced the launch of Fund My Staff

Updated : Jul 24, 2026

'Ameer-gareeb debate bahut ho gayi': Ashneer Grover announces 'Fund My Staff' platform; details here

Ashneer Grover’s Fund My Staff is designed to help employees with limited credit history access loans through employer backing.

Updated : Jul 16, 2026

Skyroot’s Vikram-1 set for July 18 launch in India’s first private orbital rocket attempt

The Vikram-1 rocket is scheduled to lift off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 11:30 am.

Updated : Jul 16, 2026

Former ISRO chairman S Somanath joins Agnikul board ahead of reusable rocket test

The startup’s Mission 02 will attempt to recover the first stage of its Agnibaan rocket after launch while also testing whether the rocket’s upper stage can remain in orbit and operate as a functional platform after deploying a satellite.

The startup also claims that 71% of its users have been acquired through referrals and word-of-mouth, without spending on paid marketing.

Updated : Jul 13, 2026

BITS Pilani-backed sortmyprep raises $350,000 in pre-seed funding to expand AI-powered exam preparation platform

The startup also claims that 71% of its users have been acquired through referrals and word-of-mouth, without spending on paid marketing.

The UAV is designed for missions in heavily defended airspace, where speed, autonomy and electronic warfare resilience are critical.

Updated : Jul 10, 2026

A drone flying at 600 km/h? This Hyderabad startup wants to redefine aerial warfare

The company reached a significant milestone in early 2026 when it successfully test-launched its jet-powered UAV from a moving vehicle, demonstrating mobile launch capability that enhances battlefield flexibility.

Updated : Jun 25, 2026

This AI startup has more robot employees than humans, CEO reveals

A robotics startup company revealed that its robot employees have outnumbered humans.

Updated : Jun 19, 2026

Gnani AI launches Prisma v2.5, claims better accuracy than Sarvam, ElevenLabs on Indian speech

Gnani AI said Prisma v2.5 was trained on 14 million hours of proprietary speech data spanning 12 languages. The training corpus includes regional dialects, ambient noise and code-switching, according to the company.

Three graduating students from Rice University, Ege Halac, Jason Chen and Santiago Brent, have raised $1.85 million in pre-seed funding for their startup

Updated : Jun 18, 2026

How three American college students raised over $1 million for healthcare startup

While researching potential projects, the students discovered that many hospitals still rely on road transport to move blood samples, medicines, laboratory samples and emergency medical supplies

Updated : Jun 18, 2026

Who is Aman Sanger, the Indian-origin founder whose AI startup SpaceX bought for $60 billion?

Before Cursor, Aman Sanger had stints at Bridgewater Associates and Google and ran an AI consultancy, but the real bet came in 2022 when the four launched Anysphere.

Sarvam has released two flagship models in recent months, both trained from scratch in India.

Updated : Jun 15, 2026

Sarvam AI becomes unicorn with $234 million funding; HCLTech leads with $150 million

The fresh capital will go toward training Sarvam's next frontier model, with a focus on agentic, coding, and cybersecurity use cases, and toward expanding compute access to scale its forward-deployed operations across key verticals.

Shashwath TR, cofounder and CEO of Mindgrove Technologies

Updated : Jun 15, 2026

‘India’s biggest challenge isn’t talent. It’s the service mindset,’ says Mindgrove CEO Shashwath TR

India has long been strong in semiconductor design services, but has had fewer companies that own products and intellectual property. Shashwath said this needs to change if India wants to build globally competitive chip companies.

In Nice, Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will jointly inaugurate Bharat Innovates 2026.

Updated : Jun 12, 2026

From Nice to Paris, PM Modi's France visit puts India's deeptech ambitions in focus at Bharat Innovates and VivaTech

From Bharat Innovates in Nice to VivaTech in Paris, Modi’s France visit will spotlight India’s push to position itself as a deeptech builder, not just a digital market.

"India's AI opportunity will not be defined only by the largest models. It will also be defined by the most efficient models," said Sravanth Aluru, CEO and co-founder of Avataar.

Updated : Jun 12, 2026

Peak XV-backed Avataar launches indigenous video model Varya, bets on low-cost AI video generation

Varya can generate video at a cost of about Rs 0.48 per second, making it up to 10 times more efficient than several leading global video models based on its internal benchmarks.

Exponent Energy founder and chief executive Arun Vinayak.

Updated : Jun 10, 2026

Exponent Energy bags Rs 200 crore funding as it pivots from charging startup to energy company

In an interview with Business Today, Vinayak said the company is transitioning from being an energy technology startup focused on R&D to a full-fledged energy company focused on scale.

The CEO revealed that he uses OpenAI’s Codex to write emails on his behalf.

Updated : Jun 1, 2026

This startup CEO spent $13,000 AI bill on OpenAI’s Codex in a single month

Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, recalled the spend as the highest AI bill he has paid. He said, “I got some side eye from our COO, Brandon Gell, on that one.”