Startups

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.”

CVS Kiran, co-founder and chief executive officer of Red Balloon Aerospace.

Updated : May 27, 2026

Red Balloon Aerospace tests near-space platform for telecom, disaster monitoring applications

With the launch, India joins the US, France, Japan and China in developing indigenous stratospheric hydrogen balloon systems.

Ashish Kumar also said he would continue overseeing the existing portfolio of Fundamentum’s earlier funds alongside building F2A.

Updated : May 26, 2026

Fundamentum's Ashish Kumar launches F2A with Rs 3,000 crore war chest to back AI, deeptech startups

Former SIDBI Venture Capital senior investment executive Debraj Banerjee has joined the platform as General Partner. The platform is backed by a mix of institutional and individual investors, including Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who has come on board as the anchor investor.

The goal of the test is to collect flight data that will help AnduraX develop its guidance, navigation and control systems, along with precision landing capabilities for its reusable re-entry vehicle, ARES.

Updated : May 26, 2026

AnduraX to conduct India’s first high-altitude drop test for reusable spaceplane

The test, called ADM-01 (ARES Drop Mission 1), is scheduled for the first week of June. The company plans to carry an experimental vehicle to an altitude of 25,000 metres using a high-altitude balloon before releasing it in near-stratospheric conditions.

Updated : May 25, 2026

Startups

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red Balloon Aerospace tests near-space platform for telecom, disaster monitoring applications

Fundamentum's Ashish Kumar launches F2A with Rs 3,000 crore war chest to back AI, deeptech startups

AnduraX to conduct India’s first high-altitude drop test for reusable spaceplane

Yes Madam raises Rs 50 crore in funding from Info Edge Growth Fund

Pronto defends AI camera pilot after privacy backlash; rivals Urban Company, Snabbit distance themselves

‘They were creating problems that didn’t exist’: Why Bolt fired its entire HR team

‘People who automate jobs with AI will always have a job’: Productivity Startup ClickUp cuts 22% of its workforce

Intuit to cut 3,000 jobs as AI push reshapes operations

Scapia raises $63 million led by General Catalyst to scale AI-first travel fintech platform

Deepinder Goyal’s wearable startup Temple ties up with Zetwerk, Ethereal Machines for production scale-up

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