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How Vishal Prasad Gupta Turns Pond Algae Into Biofuel in a Push for Cleaner Energy
Discover how Jharkhand engineer Vishal Prasad Gupta and his startup More Mileage are converting pond microalgae into third-generation biofuel in…
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Klang Raises €1.32 Million to Expand AI-Powered Speech Technology
Swedish startup Klang has raised a €1.32 million seed round to scale its local AI speech technology, releasing an open…
Technology
Maritime Intelligence Startup Quartermaster Raises $140 Million to Expand Real-Time Ocean Monitoring
Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster has raised a $140 million Series B to expand its SmartMast technology, turning commercial ships into…
Technology
Delivery-Robot Startup LOMBY Raises $2.5 Million to Scale Autonomous Logistics
Tokyo-based startup LOMBY has secured a $2.5 million Series A round to mass-produce its autonomous delivery robots, tackling the crisis…
Business
Two Friends Turn TikTok Pickle Videos Into an $8.5 Million Food Startup
How two Gen Z founders turned viral TikTok pickle videos into Good Girl Snacks, raising a $3 million seed round…
Business
17-Year-Old IIT Student Builds Zrestro Startup to Transform the Restaurant Industry
IIT Guwahati student Rishu Raj has launched Zrestro, a bootstrapped food-tech startup bringing restaurant delivery and digital jobs to India's…
Business
Qatar Startup Factory Expands Portfolio With $1 Million Investment in Two Early-Stage Ventures
GrowthX has invested a combined $1 million in Hired Valley and Talebhub, bringing the two early-stage companies into Snoonu Startup…
Technology
Airbound Founder Naman Pushp Builds Drone Startup to Transform Medical Deliveries
Airbound founder Naman Pushp has secured a $37 million Series A to expand autonomous medical drone deliveries in India, partnering…
Technology
Snorkel AI Revenue Surges as Demand for Advanced AI Training Data Accelerates
Snorkel AI’s revenue run rate hit $375 million following a $350 million funding round. Explore how the AI training data…
Technology
DeepSeek Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $1 Billion as Chinese AI Startup Expands
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has reportedly surpassed an annualised revenue run rate of $1 billion, driven by surging API demand…
Technology
Happy 28th Birthday, Google: The Search Box That Changed How Humanity Finds Answers
Google turns 28 today. What began as a Stanford research project became one of the defining technologies of the internet,…
Business
IIT Madras Deep-Tech Fund Reaches ₹450 Crore First Close, Backing Space and Quantum Startups
The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I hits a ₹450 crore first close, deploying capital into deep-tech startups across space, quantum,…
Technology
Sketchware: The Android IDE Built for a Phone, the Startup Behind It and the Community That Kept It Alive
Sketchware tried to make Android development possible entirely from a smartphone. Its startup failed to sustain the original service, but…
Space
Private Space Investment More Than Doubles to $23 Billion as Investors Demand Proof
Global private investment in space companies reached $23 billion in the year through June, more than double the prior-year level…
Business
Ather Energy Plans Aggressive Overseas Expansion as Global Electric Scooter Demand Grows
Discover how Ather Energy is driving its international expansion, taking its smart electric scooters to new global markets amid rising…
Business
Rio Health Raises $4.5 Million to Expand Quick-Commerce Healthcare Network
Rio Health has raised $4.5 million in a pre-Series A round led by Version One Ventures to scale its AI-powered…
Technology
Former SpaceX Engineer Jacob Balaj Is Building Rook, a Rocket Designed to Deliver Cargo in Minutes
Former SpaceX integration engineer Jacob Balaj is now building Rook, a reusable cargo rocket designed to move 250 kg up…
Business
Miogra Aims to Empower Local Businesses While Making Everyday Shopping Easier
Miogra, a hyperlocal delivery platform by Kipgra Ventures, is digitising neighbourhood commerce in Tamil Nadu by connecting local vendors directly…
Business
Instafix: The Gurugram Startup Bringing 30-Minute Phone Repair to Your Doorstep
Chetan Chauhan and Aniket Kale built Instafix to solve the frustration of broken smartphones, offering 30-minute doorstep repairs in Gurugram.
Business
Gaurav Londhe's Traffic Vada Pav: The ₹20 Idea Born From Thane's Traffic
Gaurav Londhe turned the frustration of Mumbai traffic into 'The Traffic Vada Pav,' a unique ₹20 snack business serving commuters…
Business
Inbound Aerospace Signs 5-Year Partnership With Australia's Space Angel for Spacecraft Recovery
India's Inbound Aerospace and Australia's Space Angel Group signed a five-year MoU to explore spacecraft recovery, testing and spaceport infrastructure…
Technology
A German Startup Is Building a Diamond-Powered Quantum Computer That Could Avoid Massive Cooling Systems
A Leipzig startup, SaxonQ, is building room-temperature quantum computers using diamond NV centers. Here's what's verified, what's a company claim,…
Technology
Supabase: How an Open-Source Firebase Alternative Became a $10.5 Billion Backend Platform
Supabase has grown from an open-source Firebase alternative into a nearly 10-million-developer backend platform valued at $10.5 billion. This analysis…
Business
FirstClub Is Betting India’s Quick-Commerce Race Needs More Than Speed
FirstClub is taking a different route in India’s quick-commerce race: curated groceries, graded produce and ingredient screening, delivered quickly but…
Technology
SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60 Billion, Turning Elon Musk’s Rocket Company Into an AI Software Powerhouse
SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor parent Anysphere, bringing one of the fastest-growing AI coding platforms into…
Technology
Tanay Kothari Built Wispr Flow Into a $2 Billion AI Startup
Indian-origin founder Tanay Kothari and co-founder Sahaj Garg turned Wispr from an experimental interface startup into the company behind Wispr…
Technology
Japan’s Fugu AI Is Not Just Another Chatbot: Inside the System That Commands Other AI Models
Sakana AI’s Fugu does not try to replace every frontier model. It coordinates them. The Tokyo startup is betting that…
Technology
The AI Revenue Race: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi and the Real Economics of the Next AI War
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, xAI and Chinese AI labs are generating radically different kinds of AI revenue. We separate real…
Business
India’s Startup Tax Paradox: Founders Are Told to Build, Then Navigate a System Built for Mature Companies
India has more than 207,000 recognised startups, but founders still navigate a tax architecture split across profit tax, ESOPs, GST,…
Technology
Can a Robot Learn a New Job From Just One Demonstration? This Startup Says Yes
Generalist AI's GEN-1.5 model claims to pick up physical tasks from a few seconds of demonstration, potentially changing how robots…
Technology
Why India Needs More Product Leaders Like Leah Tharin to Build Companies That Compound
An analytical report examining why India's technology ecosystem must transition toward rigorous, financially integrated product leadership, featuring frameworks from Leah…
Business
Taasha Craft: The Kosamba Village Bangle Brand That Landed a ₹75 Lakh Shark Tank India Deal
Four women from a small village in Valsad district turned a lockdown hobby into a ₹15 crore-valued bangle brand supporting…
Business
Frebulous: Building the 'Zomato-Like' Digital Infrastructure for India's Laundry Industry
Frebulous is bringing the Zomato model to India's laundry industry. Discover how founders Mihir Modhiya and Umesh Vadhel are digitizing…