India's seed funding market raised $3.34 billion across 608 rounds in H1 2026 — compared to $2.96 billion across 1,055 rounds in H1 2025. Fewer companies are getting funded. Bigger cheques are going to the ones that do. The average early-stage cheque size has nearly doubled from $2.8 million to $5.5 million in twelve months.
In July 2024, Incuspaze raised its first institutional round of $8 million. Less than two years later, it has raised ₹150 crore, acquired four companies including Hyderabad's iKeva, scaled to 4 million square feet across 18 cities, and is targeting ₹1,000 crore in revenue by FY29 ahead of a public listing.
A CVD lab-grown diamond is physically, chemically, and optically identical to a mined diamond. It costs 60 to 80 per cent less. It carries no mining footprint. And it is real — not synthetic, not simulant, not a substitute. Limelight Diamonds was founded to make that case to Indian consumers.
Himachal Pradesh has approved a State Innovation Policy and ₹2 crore fund running from 2026 to 2028. The money is modest. The policy framework is not. Micro-grants, seed funding, incubation support, innovation competitions, and IP ownership for student innovators
In an exclusive conversation with The Impactful Global Indian, Aditya Reddy Manugunta opens up about the year he hit rock bottom — and the radical mind-first philosophy that turned his collapse into a movement.
Most ice cream is more additive than food. The emulsifiers, stabilisers, synthetic sweeteners, and preservatives that make commercial ice cream shelf-stable, cheap, and consistent are also the things that make it essentially a processed food product with a dairy flavour. ELVN-ELVN was founded on a single rule that rules most of those ingredients out.
Fourteen years on Ketto — India's largest crowdfunding platform — gave Kunal Kapoor, Varun Sheth, and Zaheer Adenwala a specific and uncomfortable education: most of the medical emergencies families were raising money for had roots in metabolic disease that had been silently progressing for years before anyone intervened.
In deep-tech sectors where women's representation has traditionally been lower, IIT Madras is quietly rewriting the numbers. Of 567 startups incubated under its ambitious "100 Startups a Year" mission, one in four has a woman co-founder. And the percentage has stayed above 25% for two straight years.
She is the third Indian woman to win the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, joining Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Falguni Nayar. Her company, Assiduus Global, has generated over $1 billion in revenue for partner brands and expanded more than 150 companies across 20+ countries. This is not just a personal milestone.
She was given carte blanche. No clients, no team, no brand presence in India. Just the brief: build it. What she built from 2008 to 2025 — a $6 million turnover studio, 250-plus employees, 22% margin growth, 89% staff retention, and India's top-ranked design consultancy — is among the most impressive organisation-building stories in Indian brand and design.