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StartupsMay 26, 2026

14 Days to 100 Days, 25 Kg to 350 Kg, One Moon to a Space Station: Inside India's Great Space Acceleration

In August 2023, a four-legged lander named Vikram touched down on the lunar surface near the Moon's south pole, and India became the fourth nation in history to achieve a soft landing on another world. The mission was designed to last 14 days. The rover it carried weighed 25 kilograms. When the sun set on the lunar plain, the lander went to sleep, as planned, and did not wake up. It was, by any measure, a triumph—a demonstration of technological capability that had eluded far wealthier nations and that announced India's arrival as a serious space power.

FundingMay 25, 2026

The Venture Capital Renaissance: Heavy Concentration and Strategic Intents Shape Tech Funding

The global venture capital landscape is witnessing a massive revival, driven by an intense concentration of capital into foundational AI, deep-tech infrastructure, and resilient regional marketplaces. Data shows that Indian startups alone have secured upwards of $12 billion in the opening months of the year, punctuated by rapid early-stage momentum in agentic AI platforms and specialized consumer brands. Concurrently, international private markets are breaking records with massive multi-million dollar megadeals, signaling a market that rewards deep technological moats, structural profitability, and clear enterprise-workflow integration over speculative growth.

FundingMay 25, 2026

Defense Startups Are Finding New Momentum as Young Founders Enter India’s Military-Tech Ecosystem

Fresh investments and rising founder activity suggest India’s defence-tech ecosystem is entering a new phase as younger entrepreneurs step into military innovation.

StartupsMay 25, 2026

"I Was 39 With the Body of a 49-Year-Old": The Zomato Co-Founder Who Reversed His Biological Age—and Built a Health-Tech Startup With His Wife That Ranbir Kapoor Just Bet Millions On

Gaurav Gupta was one of the architects of India's food-tech revolution. As a co-founder of Zomato, he spent more than a decade building the infrastructure that turned a restaurant-discovery website into India's largest food-delivery platform—a company that now serves hundreds of millions of users across multiple countries, that went public in 2021, and that fundamentally changed how India eats. He was, by any conventional measure, extraordinarily successful. He was also, by his own quiet admission, falling apart.

TechMay 25, 2026

The Physicist Who Quit IBM to Build India's First Quantum Computer: How Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja Is Racing to Take His 25-Qubit Machine Public—Before the Americans and Chinese Lock Up the Market

In 2019, Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja was a senior quantum scientist at IBM Research, working on some of the world's most advanced superconducting quantum processors at the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He had a comfortable salary, a prestigious position, and a front-row seat to the development of the hardware that would eventually power the world's largest quantum computing network. He was exactly where any ambitious quantum physicist would want to be—and he was restless. The machines he was building would be deployed everywhere except the country he came from. India, with its deep pool of scientific talent and its virtually nonexistent quantum hardware industry, was invisible in the quantum computing revolution. Nagaraja could not change that from Yorktown Heights. So he quit.

TechMay 25, 2026

The Two Dropouts Who Spent a Decade Building a Battery Nobody Believed In: How Gegadyne Energy Just Launched a Lithium-Free Power Pack That Charges in Minutes—and Is Already on European Factory Floors

In 2014, two mechatronics engineering students at Mumbai's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies set out to build an electric vehicle for their final-year project. Jubin Varghese was a car enthusiast. Ameya Gadiwan was a hard-tech tinkerer. Together, they combed through Mumbai's junkyards, collecting spare parts, convinced that they could assemble a working EV from the discarded remnants of the internal-combustion age. They built the chassis. They built the drivetrain. And then they discovered that the battery required to power their creation would cost three times as much as everything else combined. They dropped out of college soon after and started Gegadyne Energy in 2015. They began with lead-acid batteries, which were cheap but charged painfully slowly. They switched to lithium-ion, which charged faster but degraded with every cycle. They experimented with supercapacitors—quick to charge, long-lasting, but low on energy density. Nothing worked. "There was scope to build incremental battery tech instead of creating something from scratch," Varghese said. "Since India doesn't have an established battery supply chain, we decided to work on materials that are widely available in nature."

TechMay 25, 2026

The Software Company That Bet 8 Years on a Battery: How KPIT Built India's First Indigenous Sodium-Ion Power Pack—and Handed It to a Manufacturer to Take on Lithium

In December 2023, a publicly listed automotive software company with no prior history in electrochemistry unveiled a battery technology that it had been developing, quietly and without fanfare, for eight years. The company was KPIT Technologies, a Pune-headquartered mobility solutions firm with a market capitalisation of roughly ₹45,000 crore, over 12,000 employees, and a client roster that includes some of the largest automakers on Earth. It was not a battery startup. It was not a research laboratory. It was a software company that had decided, in 2015, that India's electric vehicle revolution would never reach scale unless someone built a battery that did not depend on lithium—and that it was willing to be the company that tried.

TechMay 25, 2026

The Five Friends Who Bet Everything on Building the World's First Hybrid Satellite Eye

In 2020, five final-year students at IIT Madras sat in a hostel room and asked themselves a question that most aerospace engineers spend entire careers avoiding. What if you could put two completely different kinds of cameras on the same satellite? Not one optical camera that takes beautiful pictures in daylight and goes blind the moment a cloud passes over. Not one radar sensor that can see through storms and darkness but produces images that look like a grainy ultrasound. Both. On one platform. Working together. The question was technically elegant and commercially insane—the kind of problem that had defeated every satellite manufacturer for a generation because the two sensors interfered with each other, the data streams were incompatible, and the engineering complexity was orders of magnitude greater than building two separate satellites.

WomenMay 25, 2026

Automated Intelligence: How Komal Talwar’s XLSCOUT Redefines Global Patent Frameworks

Intellectual property pioneer Komal Talwar is fundamentally reshaping the global R&D landscape through XLSCOUT, an integrated, AI-driven patent monetization and analysis platform. Managing an extensive database of more than 170 million patents across 100-plus countries, the platform leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate tedious prior-art searches and patent drafting processes. By compressing traditional manual research timelines by over 45%, this deep-tech innovation gives corporate enterprises, law firms, and research institutions a highly secure, automated pathway to maximize the commercial value of their intellectual assets.

WomenMay 25, 2026

She Lost a Cousin to a Disease That Could Have Been Prevented. So This Physicist-Turned-Genomics Pioneer Built India's First Personal DNA Company—and Is Mapping the Future of Preventive Healthcare.

In 2003, Anu Acharya was a successful technology entrepreneur in Hyderabad, running a software company she had founded after a stint as a research physicist at the University of Illinois. She was not a biologist. She was not a doctor. She had never worked in healthcare. And then her cousin died of a genetic disorder—a disease that, had it been detected early enough, could have been managed, treated, perhaps even prevented. The loss was devastating. The question it planted in her mind was even more so: how many Indians were carrying genetic risks they had no way of knowing about?