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This Minnesota couple built a business around rice harvested from lakes and rivers. Now it eyes $50,000 in additional annual revenueThe Minnesota family business is among 26 recipients of an Entrepreneur Fund grant programme that awarded $450,000, with support from the W...
In 2011, Jessica Alba co-founded The Honest Company around household and baby products; its 2021 market debut briefly valued it at nearly $2 billionJessica Alba co-founded The Honest Company after struggling to find safe household and baby products. The company grew rapidly, focusing on...
Mid-sized restaurants hungry for funds as investors stay awayMid-sized organized restaurant chains face financing challenges. Investors are being more cautious, focusing on sustainable profits and uni...
ETtech Q&A: From Anthropic to OpenRouter, Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on how the firm bets on AIPartners Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on the Anthropic bet, life beyond it, where the firm is putting its money now, and why India's AI fu...
Sauce's Manu Chandra on consumer exits; Physical AI's regulation pushSauce's Manu Chandra said he expects larger exits for investors of India's new-age consumer brands. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning...
Frontier AI slowdown a distraction, compute is the real constraint: early Anthropic backer Menlo VenturesMenlo Ventures' Matt Murphy called the slowing down "a bit of a red herring", and said compute, not intelligence, is the real constraint, i...
The only billionaires making money this year are in techThe roughly 100 technology fortunes among the world’s 500 richest people gained a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30, the most ever for...
Gen Z has jobs, networks and endless online connections, but still feels lonely: This startup wants to change thatA startup focused on helping young professionals build real-world communities has raised $3.5 million as concerns grow over loneliness amon...
AI can pick the fund, but can it stop you from selling at the bottom?The software can analyse thousands of funds and figure out that the three or four you are researching have almost identical portfolios. How...
PMEGP may get 5-year extension till 2030-31 with Rs 15,000 crore outlay; govt weighs easier normsThe government is considering extending the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme until 2030-31 with an estimated Rs 15,000 cror...
European Prize for Women Innovators 2027: Recognition, categories, key dates and application detailsThe 2027 European Prize for Women Innovators is inviting women entrepreneurs and innovators to apply for European recognition of their work...
In 2015, a Portland entrepreneur borrowed $5,000 to make a leather journal; 6 years later, his brand crossed $100 million in salesA leather journal made in a Portland garage became the starting point for Portland Leather Goods, a company that grew far beyond local craf...
ET Startup Awards 2026: Palmonas leans on offline retail expansion as branded jewellery market gets crowdedPalmonas is betting on offline retail and repeat customers to compete in India’s increasingly crowded jewellery market. The four-year-old s...
How 25 students of Gurgaon-based college raised Rs 60 crore funding in deep tech and space ventures in a dayTwenty-five startups from Gurugram-based Masters’ Union University received soft funding commitments worth Rs 60.5 crore. The startups pres...
In 2011, a Kentucky couple Tori Gerbig and her husband Chris put $300 into an eBay clothing side hustle called Pink Lily; 10 years later, sales hit $141 millionTori Gerbig and her husband, Chris, began selling women’s clothing and accessories on eBay in 2011 with about $300. What started as a way t...
Strong growth for NEDFI during FY 2025–26NEDFI maintained a strong financial performance during the year, with gross income growing by 4.40% to Rs. 270.82 crore. Interest income in...
Farmer’s son from a remote Madhya Pradesh village cracked IIT Bombay, earned a dual degree, now has Rs 10,000 crore net worth and runs Bengaluru-based GrowwLalit Keshre, co-founder and CEO of Bengaluru-based Groww, was raised in a farming family in Lepa, Madhya Pradesh and studied in the only E...
Jessica Alba helped put $6 million into The Honest Company in 2011; 4 years later, the startup reached a $1.7 billion valuationThe incident that motivated Jessica Alba to co-found The Honest Company with entrepreneur Brian Lee in 2011 was a personal concern in her f...
From India to the US boardroom: Why L-1A is becoming a strategic US-expansion route for Indian mid-sized businessesIndian mid-sized and entrepreneur-led companies increasingly view the L-1A visa as a means to establish US operations. This visa allows for...
AI coding startup ByteAsk raises $1 million from YC, Entrepreneur FirstThe startup is building AI coding agents for C and C++ developers working in high-stakes industries such as defence, aerospace, robotics, h...