VCs clip all love & cash on agentic AIAs personal AI agents transform the consumer internet, Indian VCs are shifting the focus from attention-grabbing apps to intent-driven assi...
13 Oct, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
- CoinSwitch Ventures goes global as BlackLane Capital, plans to back startups with cheques of up to $5 million
CoinSwitch’s investment arm, CoinSwitch Ventures, has rebranded as BlackLane Capital, expanding beyond crypto and Web3 to invest in early-s...
13 Oct, 2026, 01.54 PM IST
US AI data centre startups raise $33.5 billion in 2026 amid power constraints: ReportThe report said investors are increasingly backing technologies that combine energy supply with computing infrastructure as power availabil...
13 Oct, 2026, 01.02 PM IST
Zetwerk’s early backers stand to make returns of up to 38-fold at IPO priceVenture capital (VC) firms Kae Capital, Accel, Peak XV Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners will together sell 76.3 million shares, acc...
13 Oct, 2026, 01.00 PM IST
US AI data centre startups raise $33.5 billion in 2026 amid power constraints: Morgan StanleyUS startups have significantly increased their funding, raising $33.5 billion for technologies addressing AI data centre challenges. This f...
13 Oct, 2026, 12.58 PM IST
Bandhan Bank shares jump 7% as Abu Dhabi’s IHC explores stake in promoter Bandhan Financial ServicesBandhan Bank shares jumped nearly 7% after reports that Abu Dhabi-based IHC was in early-stage discussions to acquire a promoter stake in B...
13 Oct, 2026, 10.31 AM IST
Fintech funding rises 14% to $2.2 billion in Jan-Sep; deal count falls 41%: TracxnFunding in the first nine months of 2025 stood at USD 1.9 billion. The number of rounds dropped to 153 from 260 a year ago, the data intell...
13 Oct, 2026, 10.19 AM IST
NTT Data in final talks to build Anthropic's first data centre in Japan, Nikkei reportsJapan's NTT Data Group, a unit of telecommunications giant NTT, is in the final stages of talks to build a data centre in Osaka, western Ja...
13 Oct, 2026, 08.59 AM IST
IHC, First Abu Dhabi eye stake in Bandhan Bank promoterEarly investors GIC & IFC jointly hold 30% in Bandhan Financial Services (BFSL), keen to exit. PE funds tapped too to gauge strategic inter...
13 Oct, 2026, 08.19 AM IST
SoftBank invested $20 million in Alibaba in 2000. 14 years later, that tiny stake was worth more than $50 billion after its blockbuster IPOIn 2000, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son invested $20 million in Alibaba, the Chinese online marketplace founded by Jack Ma. The company had littl...
12 Oct, 2026, 10.38 PM IST
The ₹1,000 crore question: What must change before a business can scale to the next level?Building a ₹1,000 crore enterprise requires founders to reconsider how they lead, allocate capital and prepare their organisations for grea...
12 Oct, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
TaMo, Unilever's ex-veteran Siddharth Kapur launches InsynQ to help Indian businessesSiddharth Kapur's new initiative, InsynQ by Quantum, serves as a growth advisory platform geared toward startups and family businesses. Thi...
12 Oct, 2026, 02.25 PM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | List when the business is predictable, and stay transparent after: Groww, Meesho foundersThe advice from the two founders, during a panel discussion at The ET Startup Awards moderated by Samidha Sharma, came as a number of start...
12 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ETSA 2026: Over a decade on, India's startup story is only getting startedThe 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) captured this transition, reflecting an ecosystem that has moved beyond the ra...
12 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Trump’s former AI advisor Sriram Krishnan seeks $500 million for new venture fundSriram Krishnan is planning to raise a $500 million venture fund dedicated to AI companies. This fund will target businesses that have reac...
08 Oct, 2026, 11.01 AM IST
Anthropic expands startup programme for AI-native firmsThe US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm will also provide third-party software benefits worth up to USD 45,000 to startups under the...
08 Oct, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
Elon Musk rules out wider TSMC role in Texas Terafab, says his companies will build and run facilityResponding to a post on X about ongoing discussions between TSMC and Musk over the chipmaking project, Musk said there should be no doubt t...
07 Oct, 2026, 03.26 PM IST