More than 1,000 women leaders and aspiring executives came together across six Indian cities for Iron Lady's Walk to the Board 2026, a coordinated national push to accelerate women into boardroom and C-suite positions.
E-waste management platform Karo Sambhav and sanitary-waste recycler Padcare Labs are among the nominees for the Economic Times Startup Awards' Social Enterprise category, spotlighting a growing cohort of Indian startups pairing environmental impact with commercial viability.
Nidhi Pant, co-founder of S4S Technologies, has won the 17th Social Entrepreneur of the Year India Award for building solar-powered food processing technology that helps thousands of smallholder women farmers turn agricultural waste into income.
Nvidia has notified major enterprise customers that server systems built around its high-end AI processors will see price increases exceeding 15 percent, driven by rising memory chip costs that are rippling across the broader AI hardware supply chain.
Seed and early-stage funding into Indian startups surpassed $609 million across July and August 2026, according to Tracxn data, as investors continued to back new ventures even amid a more selective overall funding environment.
PRISM, the parent company of hospitality platform OYO, has filed updated draft IPO papers with India's markets regulator seeking to raise up to Rs 6,650 crore, marking the company's latest attempt at a long-delayed public listing.
Indian data centre operator CtrlS has raised Rs 250 crore from Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and entrepreneur Sreeram Reddy Vanga, capital the company says will support its infrastructure expansion across India as AI-driven demand for computing capacity accelerates.
India's largest discount brokerage has applied to SEBI for a Category-I merchant banking licence, a move that would let it manage IPOs and advise companies on fundraising as its core broking revenue comes under pressure.
Nobel Hygiene, India's largest home-grown maker of absorbent hygiene products, has filed draft papers with SEBI for an IPO comprising a Rs 150 crore fresh issue and a secondary share sale led by backer Quadria Capital.
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech venture Navi has raised $100 million from Dutch technology investor Prosus in its first-ever institutional funding round, valuing the company at approximately $1.3 billion as it prepares for a public listing.