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The Hosur facility will initially produce 250,000 electric two-wheelers annually and can scale to 500,000 units as the company targets India's growing mass-market EV segment

Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners also participated, while Urban Company's Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Snap's Ajit Mohan and entrepreneur Anand Ahuja joined as angel investors

The deal marks Adobe's second known acquisition of an Indian firm as it expands its push into agentic marketing and AI-powered automation

Bengaluru startup Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that use dynamic soaring, inspired by albatross flight, to remain airborne for months and monitor oceans continuously

Batti helped build Whatfix into a global enterprise software company and was a mentor to India's startup community

With this fundraise, the company has raised Rs 50.5 crore to date. It had earlier raised Rs 17 crore in a seed funding round

Deal value grows 5% against a 161% global surge in the first seven months

This book on founders and their failures offers flashes of genuine insight but feels incomplete

The venture capital firm has secured Rs 300 crore in commitments and plans to back 21-22 engineering-led fintech and deep-tech companies at the Series A and select Series B stages

Sovereign AI startup appoints former Mistral and xAI executive as adviser as it expands globally and builds a one trillion-parameter foundation model

Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital co-lead funding as startup expands AI agents that automate procurement and supply-chain spending for Fortune 500 companies

The company, which uses conversational AI to plan and book overseas holidays, will use the funds to expand into new markets and grow its engineering team

CuspAI initially started out with a focus on finding new materials for carbon capture and water purification

Funding in India's fintech sector rose 42 per cent year-on-year to $2 billion in H1 2026, with late-stage companies accounting for four-fifths of the total capital raised

The first five startups backed under the government's RDI fund will develop indigenous technologies in space, defence, healthcare, batteries and biotechnology through milestone-based financing

Vishal Gupta, part of PhonePe's founding team, has stepped down as the fintech integrates its insurance business with its consumer payments business

The hospitality startup will use the funds to expand across leisure destinations, invest in technology and strengthen its portfolio of managed holiday homes

The Bengaluru-based robotics startup will use the funding led by IAN Group to drive product innovation, expand in the US and strengthen factory and warehouse deployments

His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same. The hotel chain is one of many companies South Korean artificial-intelligence startup RLWRLD (pronounced "real world") is working with to create an extensive library of human expertise, harvested from skilled workers across industries, to develop AI brains for robots that could be coming to industrial sites and homes. It collects similar data from logistics workers at CJ, capturing how they grip, lift and handle goods in warehouses, and from staff at a Japanese convenience store chain Lawson, tracking how they organise food displays. The goal is to build an AI software layer that can work in robots across a range of factories and other work sites in coming years, before potentially expanding into homes. ...

The home-services platform reported a 43% rise in quarterly revenue as transaction volumes hit a multi-year high