She made money in second grade trading pencils and Pokémon cards; now at 30, the founder-CEO is the youngest self-made billionaireLucy Guo, recently named Forbes’ youngest self-made billionaire with a $1.3 billion net worth, began her journey trading Pokémon cards and ...
01 Sep, 2025, 05.15 PM IST
Zaggle Q1 profit jumps 56% YoY to Rs 26 crore; revenue up 32%During the quarter, the Hyderabad-based spend management platform added strategic clients, including Hindustan Pencils, Apollo Health, Mo E...
14 Aug, 2025, 09.11 PM IST
Getting the basics right; India’s tariff shieldUnion minister Piyush Goyal called on startups to expand their vision, but what stands in the way? This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
08 Apr, 2025, 07.19 PM IST
Defence Acquisition Council approves projects worth Rs 84,560 crThe Defence Acquisition Council, led by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, approved projects worth approximately Rs 84,560 crore, including ai...
16 Feb, 2024, 03.58 PM IST
ET Startup Awards 2023: Digantara wins Best on Campus categoryFounded in 2018 by Lovely Professional University students Anirudh Sharma (CEO) and Rahul Rawat (COO), who teamed up with aerospace enginee...
14 Sep, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2023: Nominees for Best on CampusThe award will showcase a startup whose impact can be judged both by the idea and the execution. The founders should have been students who...
06 Sep, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
How small investors can put money in startups, how gains made on investments will be taxedSome platforms are helping small investors get a foothold in the very-high-risk-very-highreward world of startup investing.
26 Sep, 2022, 06.30 AM IST
Pencilton raises $330K in a pre-seed round by Jupiter, othersPencilton offers a debit card, PencilCard, to teenagers and students to help them manage their expenses while teaching them the basics of m...
27 Jul, 2021, 05.13 PM IST
BlackBuck drives into unicorn club with $67 million fundingBlackBuck will use the funding to invest heavily in product and data science capabilities to strive for better efficiency in freight matchi...
22 Jul, 2021, 07.06 PM IST
Content startup Pencil raises $1 million in pre-Series A funding roundPencil, which enables writers to publish their books for free on its platform, will use the funding to scale up its tech team as it is work...
15 Feb, 2021, 05.49 AM IST
Startups help blue collar workers start their own gigsMany startups are aiming to upskill and reskill the new breed of micro-preneurs across states such as Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh ...
23 Jun, 2020, 10.46 AM IST
Sequoia Surge backs seven Indian startups in the third batchThe $200-million fund, led by former Google top executive Rajan Anandan, has made 15 investments across India and Southeast Asia.
27 Apr, 2020, 02.37 PM IST
Blackstone, Airbnb, Harrods chiefs to speak at GBS 2019Event to see star cast of global business leaders, including bosses of major consultancies, IT cos.
08 Feb, 2019, 06.28 AM IST
Why a clutch of young tech ventures is keen on projects for the governmentStartups like SocialCops and Lucideus have government departments among their clients and that's what sets them apart.
14 Jun, 2017, 11.23 PM IST
Snapdeal donates 142,000 stationery kits to underprivileged studentsThe etailer has partnered with Intex Technologies and Coca Cola India for this initiative.
05 Oct, 2016, 02.08 PM IST
Here's a pencil startup that shuns banks and soars 100% on green ideasThe company sells $2 pencils that can be shoved into soil, after which a plant will sprout. Revenue is set to double this year to about $1....
21 Dec, 2015, 11.03 AM IST
- IIMs mull holding CAT test again in paper-pencil format
Stung by nationwide criticism on CAT bungling, the IIMs want to put the mouse away and go in for the paper-pencil format.
09 Dec, 2009, 05.55 AM IST