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A family trip to Thailand and a suitcase packed with snacks sparked four sisters’ childhood dream of building a business together, eventually leading them to launch a popcorn brand that now generates around $7,000 a monthFour sisters turned a childhood dream into a business after a family trip to Thailand. They launched Party Of, a popcorn brand with Thai-in...22 Sep, 2026, 11.28 AM IST- Beyond product-market fit: The real challenges of scaling a startupProduct-market fit can prove that a startup has found demand. Scaling it successfully requires a different set of decisions around people, ...22 Sep, 2026, 07.00 AM IST
- Sam Altman was just 19 when he left Stanford to build an app Loopt that struggled to take off; years before ChatGPT, Green Dot paid $43.4 million for itYears before ChatGPT, Sam Altman left Stanford at 19 to build Loopt, a location-based social networking app that struggled to attract users...21 Sep, 2026, 04.32 PM IST
- IIT Madras professor Jhunjhunwala wants PLI to be more startup friendlyPLI should be opened to smaller companies, with incentives tied to meaningful domestic value addition rather than the ability to make large...21 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
- Value commerce startup CityMall in talks to raise Rs 400-500 crore led by Jungle Ventures: SourcesCityMall’s push into ecommerce in smaller towns and cities comes at a time when larger 10-minute delivery players such as Flipkart Minutes ...21 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
- Talent, not design software, is the biggest bill for chip startups: Cadence's Jayashankar NarayanankuttyNarayanankutty told ET AI during SEMICON India 2026 that India needs more engineers across the semiconductor ecosystem, including design an...19 Sep, 2026, 06.17 PM IST
- FTAs opening new career doors for youth, PM Modi says at Rozgar MelaPrime Minister Modi stated that Free Trade Agreements are creating new career possibilities for India's youth. He addressed a Rozgar Mela, ...19 Sep, 2026, 01.48 PM IST
- ETtech Deals Digest: DheyaTech, Firi lead weekly startup funding at $16 millionSeed-stage deals accounted for 71.2% of the capital raised during the week, while early-stage rounds made up the remaining 28.8%. There wer...18 Sep, 2026, 08.30 PM IST
- AI startup Mantic raises $25 million for superhuman forecastingResults from the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, an online forecasting tournament that wrapped up this month, showed the London-based startup ha...18 Sep, 2026, 03.41 PM IST
- ET Startup Awards 2026: Theranautilus’ nanorobots will be ready for human trials by year-endTheranautilus won the Top Innovator category at The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026 for its unique nanorobot technology, which is built ...18 Sep, 2026, 01.45 PM IST
- Semicon India 2.0 targets 200 chip design startups, 1 lakh technicians, Ashwini Vaishnaw saysSemicon India 2.0 aims to support 200 chip design startups and companies. This initiative will also develop one lakh new semiconductor tech...17 Sep, 2026, 12.05 PM IST
- Manus eyes $4 billion value in first round since Meta breakupThe planned $500 million financing round is set to close soon and would make the agentic AI pioneer China’s most valuable startup in its fi...17 Sep, 2026, 11.34 AM IST
- In 2011, Ashton Kutcher invested $500,000 in Uber; 5 years later, his stake was worth more than $60 million as the ride-hailing company expandedIn 2011, Ashton Kutcher invested $500,000 in Uber when the ride-hailing startup was still finding its footing. Five years later, his stake ...15 Sep, 2026, 10.20 PM IST
- ETtech Explainer: Google’s Mechanize deal and acqui-hiresGoogle’s deals with chatbot platform Character.AI and AI coding platform Windsurf, Microsoft’s deal with AI assistant company Inflection AI...15 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
- Japan emerges as a new market for Indian spacetech startupsStartups such as Digantara Industries, Bellatrix Aerospace, Xovian Aerospace, SatNxt, and Manastu Space are seeing growing interest from Ja...14 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
- Karnataka government to fund 100 startups with Rs 25 crore for pilot projects in government departmentsSelected startups can get work orders of up to Rs 25 lakh each for pilot projects under an initiative called Government First under goverme...11 Sep, 2026, 10.46 PM IST
- I quit my Rs 75 LPA job to build a startup and ChatGPT, Google AI made it irrelevant. We lost all customer in 30 days: Techie shares the hard reality of entrepreneurshipA tech entrepreneur who quit a ₹75 lakh-per-year job to build a startup says the company's first product became irrelevant within 30 days a...11 Sep, 2026, 03.58 PM IST
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