Female founders are increasingly leading high-growth climate-tech startups, demonstrating how sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship are creating new opportunities across the global economy.
For decades, the world's most critical technology has been manufactured in a single corner of the globe. That era is ending. In 2026, India inaugurated its first commercial semiconductor packaging facility, greenlit its maiden fabrication plant, and hosted a delegation of high-level Indian officials in Taiwan to secure the supply chain of the future. TIGI reports from the chip wars.
Windsurf's emergence as a major acquisition target highlights how AI coding tools are becoming one of the most strategically important categories in technology, attracting intense interest from Silicon Valley giants.
China's humanoid robot marathon showcased the growing importance of physical AI, highlighting how robotics is becoming the next major frontier in global technology competition.
In a tiny hamlet in Assam, a 32-year-old former homemaker now commands a fleet of agricultural drones. In the mountainous terrains of Himachal, a “Drone Didi” delivers life-saving medicines to villages cut off by landslides—in 12 minutes instead of 6 hours. India’s Drone Didi scheme is not just a welfare program; it is a logistics revolution powered by rural women. TIGI reports from the frontlines of the world’s most unexpected drone workforce.
This month in Paris, a tourist from Mumbai paid for a croissant by scanning a QR code with their phone—no chip, no signature, no foreign transaction fee. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, many Americans are still waiting for 3-5 business days for a check to clear. India’s UPI isn’t just a faster way to pay; it’s a public infrastructure revolution that has overtaken Visa in daily transactions. Here’s what the world can learn from the world’s most successful payment rail.
India’s e-commerce and D2C revolution is no longer a metro-story. With 66% of new orders flowing from Tier 2 and 3 cities, this is a structural shift. We decode the "Bharat" consumer boom, space-tech unicorns, and why global giants are now looking at small-town India for their next billion users.
Piper Serica’s ₹800 crore Bharat Tech Fund reflects a growing shift in venture capital toward AI, enterprise software and deep-tech startups as investors search for India’s next wave of innovation.
For decades, quantum computing has been the tech industry's most tantalizing promise – and its most frustrating tease. Every few years, a headline would scream: "Quantum Breakthrough!" Then, nothing. The machines remained too noisy, too expensive, too impossible to program. Skeptics called it a forever‑away technology.
For decades, there was an unwritten rule in Silicon Valley: don't do defense. The Pentagon was slow, bureaucratic, and morally suspect. Top engineers wanted to change the world with social media and self‑driving cars, not missiles and drones. Venture capitalists who funded weapons makers were seen as pariahs. That rule has been incinerated.