Local VCs reviewing funding playbook on DeepSeek’s big surgeThe launch of China's DeepSeek LLM sparks debate on AI funding in India. Experts foresee smaller seed rounds, capital-efficient scaling, an...
20 Feb, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
VCs bet big on AI application startupsIndia's AI landscape is rapidly evolving, particularly in application development, but remains behind in AI chip and GPU development due to...
24 Dec, 2024, 09.21 AM IST
“Deep tech has widened, there are newer areas for us to build”: Arjun Rao"The definition of deep tech has evolved. Earlier, there were EVs, space tech, software, infrastructure, cloud, data, AI. Now, deep tech ha...
18 Aug, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Apple teases its first owned store in India; Sebi’s promoter tag push queers pitch for startupsIndia has been one of the company’s consistent growth markets. The country features prominently in Apple’s plans to diversify its manufactu...
05 Apr, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
Speciale Invest launches Rs 200 crore growth fund for follow-on investmentsThe new fund, approved by Sebi, will have an initial investment of Rs 100 crore and a final corpus of Rs 200 crore. It will invest in ‘winn...
05 Apr, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
Speciale Invest hires Avaana Capital’s Vishnu Rajeev as an investment principalThe appointment of Vishnu strengthens Speciale Invest's investment team, bringing in a wealth of experience and expertise in the investment...
24 Mar, 2023, 05.26 PM IST
Seed stage investment firm Speciale Invest raises Rs 286 croreThe firm, which focuses on deep tech and enterprise technologies startups, is looking to back more than 20 companies through pre-seed and s...
06 Apr, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Scheduling time away from work helped this founding partner stay productive, maintain work-life balanceIn the first few months, Arjun Rao said not having a set schedule of WFH was challenging.
22 Mar, 2021, 05.26 PM IST
Investors are betting on startups making lab-grown meatThe thought of eating an animal-resembling protein may not sound appetising to many. But this could well be how a large population in the w...
25 Jan, 2021, 03.28 PM IST
Court restricts CureFoods from selling movable assetsThe company had sent a termination notice claiming that it was unable to do business owing to the Covid-19-induced lockdown.
31 Jul, 2020, 04.17 PM IST
Chandrababu Naidu marches to Rashtrapati Bhavan, demands special status for Andhra from PresidentThe delegation marched from Andhra Pradesh Bhavan to Rashtrapati Bhavan and presented a memorandum to the President with 18 demands.
12 Feb, 2019, 07.50 PM IST
Campus hiring now spreads to teacher training schoolsA shortage of trained teachers is driving some of Bengaluru's elite schools to visit teacher training institutes for campus placements.
14 Mar, 2016, 11.29 AM IST
Champions Tennis League is here to say, insists CEO Arjun RaoHowever, the CTL organisers are not losing sleep over either the withdrawal of franchisees or the players.
23 Oct, 2015, 03.55 PM IST