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'Take the India Story to the world': PM Modi urges media to spotlight India's achievementsPrime Minister Narendra Modi outlined the goal of developing India by 2047 during a Diwali Milan event. He highlighted India's significant ...
Rs 35 lakh revenue from Rs 500 service: Two Hyderabad childhood friends built an app helping NRIs hire personal assistants in IndiaTwo Hyderabad childhood friends, Nishant Parepalli and Shashank Veer Pothaduri, launched Shoppin in 2023. The startup connects customers in...
Farmer's son from small Tamil Nadu village builds Rs 1.5-crore software business after quitting nine-year Chennai IT career & starting with just two laptopsEswaran Arumugam launched his Tamil Nadu-based software venture, Yaa Creations, with just Rs 1 lakh borrowed from his brother and two lapto...
₹85,000 Temple: Deepinder Goyal’s wearable is a health-tech gambleDeepinder Goyal’s ₹85,000 Temple wearable aims to track real-time body performance and brain blood circulation, but its technology lacks me...
From Rs 25,000 to Rs 2.5 crore: Three Pune brothers turn college kabada project into goldmine, sold 20 lakh kg scrapThree Pune brothers have transformed a college project into a Rs 2.5 crore scrap collection business. Jayesh, Ganesh and Vaibhav Pakhale st...
Anthropic wants to create new billionaires through its IPO, but American voters are growing tired of Big Tech's wealth explosionAnthropic is preparing for a significant IPO amid growing public resistance to AI-related infrastructure projects. Investors are discussing...
Failed UPSC dream to Rs 130 crore success: How Bengaluru man turned Rs 1 crore investment into a healthy food businessSandeep Jangala's journey began with a dream of becoming an IAS officer, but the road to success was not without its obstacles after his UP...
Meet Marcin Kleczynski, who was 14 when a computer virus led him to start a side hustle; how did he turn it into a multi-hundred-million-dollar company?Marcin Kleczynski was not initially an experienced professional programmer. He taught himself coding using online communities and programmi...
UPSC Success Stories: He cracked AIIMS at 16, cleared UPSC at 22, and left IAS at 24 to build a nearly ₹2,000 crore startupAt just 16, Roman Saini achieved a remarkable feat by clearing the AIIMS entrance examination, and later, he conquered the UPSC Civil Servi...
Google Calendar crushed their first startup, so they sold it on eBay. Then they built TwitchJustin Kan and Emmett Shear’s first startup, Kiko, struggled after Google launched its own calendar service. The founders sold Kiko on eBay...
Meet Lukas Biewald, who lost his CEO role at his first startup; how an unpaid internship at OpenAI helped him build an AI company behind a karate studio that sold for $1.7 billionAfter reportedly leaving the CEO role, Lukas Biewald felt that he needed to strengthen his technical knowledge as deep learning advanced. H...
You make your own reality: Amrit Acharya left US job to build Zetwerk in India despite his father’s initial scepticism; years later, his father stood beside him as company went publicAmrit Acharya, CEO of Zetwerk, marked the company's public listing at the National Stock Exchange. Acharya faced skepticism from his father...
Superstar Mamootty, worth Rs 340 crore, barely invested in startups, but one he had shares in earned over Rs 800 crore in 2025. CA says, 'He has a good…’The Bramayugam actor was previously a stakeholder in Motherhood, a maternal health venture run by his daughter, Surumy, and her spouse, Dr ...
He wanted coffee lovers to explore new countries through every cup. How Michael Shewmake built a $22 million coffee subscription businessMichael Shewmake started Atlas Coffee Club with $5,000 and a plan to help people discover coffee from around the world. From its colourful ...
Meet Jon Yongfook, who launched Bannerbear with just $500 in 2019; by 2024, the automated image-generation tool reached $48,000 in monthly revenueJon Yongfook Cockle is the founder of Bannerbear. He launched the project in 2019 with an estimated cost of $500. Bannerbear's task is simp...
Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by MetaMahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based cla...
Meet Shruti Gandhi, who launched Array Ventures in 2016; 8 years later, her first fund had returned all its capital to investorsGandhi announced the achievement in a year-end update in February 2025. It claimed that Array Ventures fully returned its 2016 Fund I in th...
Meet Roger Chen and Amit Lakhani, who started Onyx Bio to build a 'virtual immune system'; in 2026, the startup raised $8 millionOnyx Bio is based in Berkeley, California. It announced the funding on October 8, 2026. The round was led by Dimension Capital. It had part...
In 2026, three founders launched an AI assistant with its own phone number, it can book flights, order groceries; the startup later reached a $300 million valuationTab is designed to work through messaging platforms that people already use. It includes platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage. Users can se...
Meet Ali Partovi, man who bet on young talent and backed Cursor and Kalshi; his $150 million Neo fund reached $1.2 billion in value by the end of 2025Partovi is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He founded Neo in 2017. He had earlier invested in technology companies, which included Face...