Startups such as Digantara Industries, Bellatrix Aerospace, Xovian Aerospace, SatNxt, and Manastu Space are seeing growing interest from Japanese companies as the country looks to grow its space and defence capabilities.
Bajaj Finance buys 5% stake in AI video startup TrueFan
Bengaluru-based startup Pranos Fusion has successfully produced plasma inside its experimental reactor, Pragya, marking a major milestone that transitions India's private fusion sector from theory to experimental prototyping.The two-and-a-half-year-old deeptec
Bengaluru-based spacetech startup Astrobase is in talks to raise $40-50 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at around $250-300 million, people aware of the matter told ET.The spacetech startup is developing two-stage reusabl
NRI entrepreneur Aniruddha Anjana says three businesses he launched in India after returning from 10 years in the US failed amid unpaid customer dues, a stalled government drone survey project and alleged corruption and blackmail in his restaurant venture. Des
Khadim Batti, cofounder and chief executive officer of enterprise software startup Whatfix, passed away on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest. He was about 49 years old.Vara Kumar, Batti's cofounder and a close friend, told Whatfix employees in an email that B
Even as funding in India s deeptech sector surges, private capital remains scarce for startups at the earliest stage of development.A survey by the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association showed that only 15% of deeptech funds back companies at techno
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged India s private space startups to expand their focus beyond satellite launches and develop solutions for agriculture, livestock management, dairy, environmental protection and other sectors affecting everyday life.Modi ma
While many startups seek to compete within existing industries, a select few go a step further: they create entirely new categories or cause disruption in existing segments with their unique offerings. Instead of merely improving a familiar product, these comp
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Irregular, a small Israeli startup that has been linked to a string of recent AI security incidents, has published a postmortem report comprising key findings from its internal investigation. However, security experts have reportedly pointed out that the repor
India s electric vehicle charging startups such as Kazam Energy and Pulse Energy are exploring a new line of business: facilitating the sale of surplus solar power from households directly to EV owners.These companies are participating in early pilots of peer
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Homegrown startups in robotics and hardware are facing the brunt of China s move to increasingly deny visas to Indian executives. The impact is more pronounced for such specialised startups since their officials need to frequently travel to China for meeting s
We are back with the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards. As we approach the main event, here are the nominees in one of the eight categories: Midas Touch.The award will recognise the most lucrative exit in the year
Bengaluru is a city of not just opportunities and startups but surprises too. Recently, a LinkedIn member shared a funny incident on how she discovered that her flatmate was actually a pretty successful founder with a thriving business valued at multiple crore
Uber, Verne and Pony.ai said on Wednesday they had launched autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book a self-driving vehicle through Uber's app.Here are more details:Currently, riders can book robotaxi
Sofia Jiang had a career start that many young graduates would consider ideal: a six-figure salary, a prestigious role at Morgan Stanley, and a clear path ahead. But four months into the job, the 23-year-old realised that the career she had worked towards was
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pitched the state as a major investment destination at the UP-Japan Investment Meet 2026 in Delhi. Highlighting UP s 9.6 million MSMEs, 35,000+ large industries and 22,000+ startups, Yogi said the state is moving st
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We are back with the 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards. Ahead of the main event, here are the nominees in one of the eight categories: Top Innovator.The award will recognise innovations that launch a business or give it a big boost
AI-powered matchmaking startups are drawing fresh investor interest as traditional dating apps struggle to keep users engaged. Marriage-focused platform Knot.dating is in the market to raise $5-8 million, while Bengaluru-based Wavelength recently raised $500,0
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek formally released its V4 Pro model on Thursday, pricing it several times higher than its V4 Flash model as it seeks to turn stronger benchmark performance into a premium flagship offering. DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813
Cognition AI is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that may boost the coding startup s valuation by more than 50% to at least $40 billion, people familiar with the matter said.Prospective investors are circling the company less than three mo
Balaji Srinivasan left the US and took his experiment to build a new kind of society to Malaysia s $100 billion ghost city, Forest City. His Network School attracted residents who wanted to live around shared ideas about technology and community, but a local c
Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.The deal has not been finalized and talks could fall through, said some of the people, who asked not to be identif
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Accel, an early backer of Flipkart, Swiggy, and Urban Company, has raised $550 million for its ninth India fund, about 15% lesser than its Fund VIII as the venture capital firm looks to continue to focus on investments in deeptech, manufacturing, and AI. It jo
The Red Fort will witness a new ceremonial sequence during India s 80th Independence Day celebrations on August 15, with the National Song Vande Mataram set to be sung from the ramparts for the first time, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday
Infosys-backed spacetech startup GalaxEye has acquired spacecraft engineering company StarOps, which traces its origins to TeamIndus, to strengthen its in-house satellite development capabilities.TeamIndus was India's first spacetech startup in 2010 and secure
Singapore-based Jungle Ventures has increased India s share of its capital deployment to nearly 70% and expects to invest $200-300 million in the country every two years, as it shifts almost all new investments towards artificial intelligence and advanced manu
India s engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro is looking to work more closely with deeptech startups beyond providing capital, helping them find customers, manufacture products and scale through its businesses.Sushma Kaushik, head of the L&
Indian startups are adopting a tiered approach to artificial intelligence (AI), routing only their most complex tasks to expensive frontier models while relying on cheaper, lower-tier options for everyday execution, which founders said is changing how AI costs
Ravi Tamta, an innovator from Uttarakhand s Almora district, is making waves after demonstrating that his self-built electric flying car has been successfully tested. A resident of Kaflikhan village near Jageshwar Dham, Tamta developed the vehicle HAPIDA SKYNe
Six years ago, Sarabjeet Kaur and her husband Sandeep Singh, both in their mid 40s, were left with just Rs 10,000 and no steady source of income after their two-month-old daughter fell seriously ill and was admitted to PGIMER, Chandigarh. To meet her treatment