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...
28 Sep, 2026, 07.24 PM IST
Kevin Durant started with a $100,000 investment in this AI startup eight years ago; Nvidia’s $12.9 billion deal could make his stake worth $60 millionKevin Durant placed a $250,000 investment in Hugging Face during its inaugural funding phase, setting the stage for impressive returns. As ...
27 Sep, 2026, 11.18 AM IST
Gen Z friends turned their shared pickle obsession on TikTok into a food startup now valued at Rs 81 croreLeah Marcus and Yasaman Bakhtiar began exchanging pickle videos on TikTok in 2023 before leaving their jobs to create Good Girl Snacks. The...
26 Sep, 2026, 08.10 PM IST
AI startup Demoverse raises $600K to let consumers co-create products with brandsDemoverse secured six hundred thousand dollars in pre-seed funding led by Lumikai. This platform uses artificial intelligence to let consum...
22 Sep, 2026, 12.32 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
Voice AI startup Arrowhead eyes fresh funding to accelerate international expansionArrowhead is betting on BFSI-led international expansion as it scales voice agents across lending, insurance, collections and customer serv...
15 Sep, 2026, 05.54 PM IST
Karnataka Cabinet clears Negila Yogi scheme, drone testing facility, AI hubThe Karnataka Cabinet approved free cultivation services for farmers owning up to three acres. A drone testing facility will be established...
09 Sep, 2026, 10.54 PM IST
Semicon startup Makr Microsystems raises Rs 10.2 crore from Bluehill VC, Artha Venture FundThe startup’s main technology — Acoustic Atomic Force Microscopy (AAFM) — uses acoustic signals and a scanning probe to gather information ...
03 Sep, 2026, 08.15 PM IST
ISM 2.0 paradox: Tough IP rules might leave startups starving for global cashThe India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0 was notified on Monday. The domestic chip design industry welcomed the large, updated design-link...
03 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Oppex AI raises Rs 4.2 crore in pre-seed round from Info Edge VenturesBengaluru-based Oppex AI has secured Rs 4.2 crore in pre-seed funding from Info Edge Ventures. The fresh capital will be used to expand the...
01 Sep, 2026, 07.32 PM IST
Kepler Aerospace raises $8 million in seed round led by Blue Ashva CapitalBengaluru-based Kepler Aerospace has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Blue Ashva Capital and and co-led by Finvolve India Accelerat...
01 Sep, 2026, 04.52 PM IST
Deeptech boom leaves most lab-stage startups strandedA survey by the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association showed that only 15% of deeptech funds back companies at technology readin...
01 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Government notifies Rs 1.27 lakh crore Semicon 2.0 scheme to boost chip ecosystemThe scheme has been divided into six segments covering designing of chips by Indian firms, setting up units for capital equipment required ...
01 Sep, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
India’s space economy may grow 5x to $45 billion by 2030. Who is leading the boom?India’s private space sector is shifting from prototypes to commercial operations, with the government targeting a fivefold expansion of th...
27 Aug, 2026, 11.08 AM IST
Be Clinical raises Rs 21 crore in seed round led by SauceThe investment was led by Sauce and included participation from V3 Ventures and angel investors. The capital will fuel product innovation a...
24 Aug, 2026, 11.52 AM IST
Lilly Chen left high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk. Years later, she joined Meta and founded a startup competing with AccentureLilly Chen's unique path led her from a Buddhist monastery to Meta and then to founding FSH Technologies. A pandemic hackathon project with...
20 Aug, 2026, 11.16 PM IST