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StartupsMay 16, 2026

Orbit or Bust: How Skyroot Aerospace Became India’s First Rocket Unicorn and Rewrote the Rules of Deep-Tech Entrepreneurship

In a clean room no larger than a high school basketball court, a hand-painted sign hangs above a workstation cluttered with avionics boards and 3D-printed engine components. It reads: Orbit or Bust. The engineers beneath it—many in their twenties, many trained at ISRO, India’s storied government space agency—are assembling the guidance system for Vikram-1, the country’s first privately developed orbital rocket. The sign is not a motivational poster. It is a statement of intent, scrawled in black paint on a whiteboard by a team that had no money, no precedent, and no reason to believe they would succeed except that they refused to believe anything else

ImpactMay 16, 2026

Why AI Language Access Could Become the Next Digital Inclusion Story

As artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday life, digital inclusion may increasingly depend on more than internet access. The next challenge could be ensuring technology understands the languages, cultures, and communities it aims to serve

TechMay 16, 2026

Fire With Fire: Inside the $125M Cybersecurity Startup Fighting Hackers With Real-Time AI Reasoning

The email landed in a corporate inbox at 9:42 a.m. on a Tuesday. It appeared to come from the CFO. It referenced a real vendor, a real invoice number, and a real project that had been discussed in a company-wide memo the previous week. The language was flawless. The tone was perfect. The attachment, disguised as a PDF, contained a zero-day exploit that had never been seen in the wild. The entire attack—from reconnaissance to payload delivery—was generated by an AI agent in under four minutes.

FundingMay 16, 2026

Mekr Technologies Raises ₹67 Crore as Investors Bet on India’s Manufacturing Push

Mekr Technologies’ ₹67 crore funding round reflects growing investor confidence in India’s manufacturing transformation. As venture capital expands beyond software, industrial and design-led manufacturing startups are increasingly emerging as the next frontier of innovation

FundingMay 16, 2026

Climate-Tech Continues to Attract Capital Even as Venture Funding Becomes More Selective

Climate-tech continues to stand out in a cautious venture market, attracting investor interest even as funding becomes more selective. The shift signals a growing preference for scalable solutions, stronger execution, and technologies with clear commercial potential.

StartupsMay 16, 2026

From Software to Security: How Anduril Is Reinventing the Modern Defense Business

The first thing you must understand about the new arsenal of democracy is that it smells like sea salt and espresso. It is housed in a converted aerospace warehouse a five-minute bike ride from the Pacific Ocean. Engineers in flip-flops and Patagonia vests huddle over laptops in a courtyard where autonomous drones hang from the ceiling like sculptures. A taco truck is permanently stationed near the entrance. On any given morning, the sharp tang of saltwater drifts through open bay doors and mingles with the quiet hum of code compiling. This is not your grandfather’s defense contractor. This is Anduril Industries. And in the spring of 2026, it just became the most valuable private defense technology company in American history, closing a $5 billion funding round that valued the firm at $61 billion. The round, led by Thrive Capital with heavy participation from Andreessen Horowitz, was not merely a capital raise. It was a declaration that the business of national security has been permanently, perhaps irrevocably, rewritten

FundingMay 16, 2026

Intel and AMD Veterans’ Agrani Labs Seeks $100 Million to Build Next-Generation AI Chips

Agrani Labs’ reported $100 million funding push signals growing investor confidence in India’s deep-tech ambitions. As AI infrastructure demand accelerates globally, semiconductor startups are increasingly becoming central to the next phase of artificial intelligence growth.

FundingMay 16, 2026

Skyroot Aerospace Becomes India’s First Spacetech Unicorn After $60 Million Funding Round

Skyroot Aerospace’s rise to India’s first spacetech unicorn marks a defining moment for the country’s private space ambitions. The $60 million funding round reflects growing investor confidence in India’s expanding deep-tech and aerospace ecosystem.

WomenMay 4, 2026

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: The Relentless Architect of India’s Biotech Revolution

A Vision Ahead of Its Time In the late 1970s, when India’s industrial landscape was dominated by traditional sectors like manufacturing and textiles, the idea of building a biotechnology company was almost inconceivable. Scientific entrepreneurship was rare, venture capital was nearly nonexistent, and women in leadership roles were even rarer. Yet, in this unlikely environment, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw chose to build something the country had never seen before. What began as a small venture in a garage would eventually grow into Biocon — a global biopharmaceutical powerhouse that redefined India’s role in affordable healthcare and innovation.

FundingMay 1, 2026

Financial Analysis: Markets at a Crossroads as AI, Fintech, and Global Uncertainty Redefine the Financial Landscape

New Delhi: The global financial ecosystem is undergoing a profound transformation, marked by a convergence of macroeconomic pressures, technological disruption, and evolving investor behavior. While traditional financial indicators continue to influence market direction, the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI), fintech innovation, and digital infrastructure is reshaping how capital flows, risks are managed, and value is created.