Mythik’s funding momentum is highlighting a major shift in India’s creator economy, where investors are increasingly backing fandom-tech and community infrastructure rather than creators alone.
Anscer Robotics is gaining investor attention as India’s AI automation ecosystem expands rapidly, reflecting a broader funding shift toward robotics, industrial infrastructure and intelligent manufacturing technologies.
Indian startup Meta Fashion is building “phygital fashion,” blending virtual gaming identities with real-world apparel as investors begin exploring the future of digital identity and fashion-tech innovation.
Red Balloon Aerospace’s near-space balloon launch is becoming more than an aerospace milestone. It is emerging as part of a larger deep-tech funding conversation around India’s growing space-tech and atmospheric infrastructure ecosystem.
When RRR released in March 2022, the world witnessed something unprecedented: a Telugu film that transcended language, region, and even the Oscars. Ram Charan's portrayal of Alluri Sitarama Raju – the revolutionary who walked into a British compound and emerged a legend – earned him a Golden Globe nomination and a global fanbase. But RRR was not Ram Charan's first blockbuster. It was the culmination of a 15-year journey from "Chiru's son" to one of the highest-paid actors in Asia. His estimated net worth today is ₹1,100 crore (approximately $132 million) – second only to Prabhas among South Indian stars. He commands ₹120 crore per film plus profit share, endorses over 20 brands, owns a production house (V Mega Pictures), and has built an investment portfolio that spans agriculture, tech, and real estate. This is not just a star. This is a dynastic empire, carefully modernized for a global audience
StrainX Bioworks has emerged from stealth after raising $13 million in Series A funding, highlighting growing investor confidence in India’s synthetic biology and deep-biotech ecosystem.
Tech-enabled grab-and-go coffee chain Abcoffee has raised ₹61 crore in a pre-Series B funding round led by Kliff Ventures, with participation from existing investors. The startup, which operates a network of small-format coffee kiosks in high-footfall locations like metro stations, corporate parks, and college campuses, also reported doubling its revenue in FY26. Unlike traditional café chains that require large seating spaces and higher overheads, Abcoffee focuses on speed, affordability, and technology-driven operations — allowing customers to order via app or QR code and grab their coffee in under two minutes. The fresh capital will be used to expand to 200+ locations across India and invest in proprietary coffee brewing technology.
Ashish Kumar, the co-founder of Fundamentum Partnership, has just unveiled F2A (Fundamentum Frontier Advisors) — a massive ₹2,000 crore fund dedicated entirely to AI and deeptech startups. And as an anchor investor, he's brought in none other than Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys co-founder and one of India's most respected tech minds.
The patient is a 29‑year‑old man named Alex. Four years ago, a diving accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He cannot move his arms or legs. He cannot feed himself. He breathes with a ventilator. But he can think. And thinking, it turns out, is enough. Implanted in his motor cortex is a coin‑sized device with 1,024 flexible electrodes, thinner than a human hair, each listening to the faint electrical chatter of his neurons. The device, from Elon Musk's Neuralink, transmits that chatter wirelessly to a small receiver on his chest, which relays it to a nearby computer. An AI model, trained on months of Alex's attempted movements, decodes his neural firing patterns into commands: move cursor up, click, type letter. Alex can now browse the web, send emails, play chess, and control a robotic arm. He does all of this with his thoughts alone.
The printer does not look like a medical miracle. It resembles a modified inkjet, about the size of a dormitory refrigerator, with six cartridges instead of four. But instead of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, these cartridges contain living cells: hepatocytes (liver cells) from a donor, endothelial cells to line blood vessels, and a gelatin‑based bio‑ink that serves as a temporary scaffold. The print bed is chilled to 4°C to keep the cells viable. The print head moves in precise, programmed patterns, laying down layer after layer of cells, building a three‑dimensional structure that mirrors the complex geometry of a human liver segment. After six hours, the print is complete. The construct is transferred to a bioreactor, where it matures for two weeks, the cells knitting together, the scaffold degrading, and tiny blood vessels forming their own primitive networks. Then, the packaged organ—a 4‑centimeter cube of functional liver tissue—is rushed to the operating room.