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StartupsMay 24, 2026

The ₹1,150 Crore Startup That India's Venture Capitalists Forgot to Notice: How Three IIT Friends Spent 16 Years Building a Profitable Climate-Tech Giant While Everyone Chased Quick Commerce

In 2010, three friends from IIT Kharagpur stood at the threshold of a decision that would define the rest of their lives. Devendra Gupta had a job offer from a multinational corporation. Prateek Singhal had an offer from a prestigious foreign university. Vivek Pandey had a path that looked, to everyone who knew him, like the safe, sensible, upward trajectory of an engineering graduate from one of India's finest institutions. The offers were good. The paths were clear. The alternative was to start a company that made solar-powered pumps for farmers—a category that did not exist, in a market that had never heard of it, with no venture capital, no government incentives, and no guarantee that anyone would buy what they built.

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The Bengaluru Lab That Taught an AI to Read the Brain—And Is Now Helping Surgeons Navigate Its Most Dangerous Territory

Dr. Laina Emmanuel was not supposed to be a neurotech entrepreneur. She was a clinical neuropsychologist, the kind who spends her days in hospital wards, assessing patients with brain tumours, traumatic brain injuries, and neurodegenerative diseases. She watched neurosurgeons plan their operations by staring at black-and-white MRI slices, mentally reconstructing the three-dimensional architecture of the brain, and making their best guess about where the tumour ended and the healthy tissue began. She watched them get it wrong—not often, but often enough. A few millimetres in the wrong direction, and a patient who came in for a tumour resection left the operating theatre unable to speak, or walk, or recognise their spouse.

FundingMay 24, 2026

Why Investors Are Backing Traini’s Big Bet on AI-Powered Dog Communication

Traini’s funding journey increasingly highlights broader conversations around emotional AI, pet technology and how consumer behavior is creating new startup opportunities.

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The Kerala Lab Where a 28-Year-Old Is Printing Human Corneas—and Could End the Global Blindness Waitlist

Dr. Asha Krishnan was not supposed to be a startup founder. She was a research scientist at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, one of India's most respected medical research institutions, working on biomaterials that could one day—perhaps, maybe, eventually—be used to 3D-print human tissue. The work was fascinating, important, and slow. The gap between a published paper and a patient who could see again was measured in decades. She was fine with that. She was a scientist. Patience was the job.

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The ₹47 Crore Underwater Robot That Just Put a Kerala Startup on the Global Deep-Tech Map

Sometime in the past week, in a wood-panelled conference room in Oslo, a young engineer from Kochi stood before a gathering of Norwegian maritime executives and Indian government officials and described a machine that most of the people in the room had never seen. The machine was an underwater remotely operated vehicle—a robot designed to descend into the darkness of harbours, dams, and offshore platforms, where human divers cannot go, and inspect the critical infrastructure that the global economy depends on but almost never sees. It could operate at depths that would crush a diver. It could navigate in zero-visibility conditions using sonar and AI-powered computer vision. It could relay high-definition video, sonar imagery, and structural diagnostics to a control station on the surface. And it had been designed, built, and tested not in Norway—the world leader in subsea engineering—but in Kerala, at a startup called EyeROV Technologies, founded by alumni of IIT Madras and backed by the Kerala Startup Mission.

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The Headphones That Read Your Mind: How Two Indian Women Built an AI-Powered Neurotech Wearable That Reduces Stress in Real Time

The headphones look ordinary. They sit over the ears like any premium audio device, the kind worn by millions of commuters and office workers every day. But inside the ear cups, a system of sensors, electrodes, and adaptive artificial intelligence is doing something no consumer headphone has ever done. It is reading the wearer's brainwaves. It is tracking their heart rate variability in real time. It is detecting the subtle physiological shifts that signal rising stress, fading focus, or the onset of mental fatigue. And then, quietly, without the wearer ever pressing a button, it is responding—adjusting neurostimulation protocols, modulating binaural beats, delivering pre

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The $15 Million Bet That Indian Mythology Can Be Bigger Than Marvel: How the Turnaround CEO Who Sold a Superhero Company for $100 Million Is Building the "Disney from the East"

Jason Kothari was 12 years old when he first imagined Bloodshot as a movie. The character—a nanite-infused super-soldier from the Valiant Comics universe—was not yet famous. Valiant itself was not yet famous. It was, in fact, bankrupt. Two decades later, Kothari had acquired Valiant Entertainment while still an undergraduate at Wharton, recruited the management team behind the historic Marvel turnaround, led the company out of bankruptcy, sold it to China's DMG Entertainment for $100 million, and served as executive producer on the Vin Diesel-led Bloodshot film for Sony Pictures. He was, by any measure, one of the most unusual entrepreneurs in the Indian diaspora—a turnaround specialist who had operated at the intersection of entertainment, finance, and technology his entire career.

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The Flipkart Brain Behind a $63 Million Travel Fintech Bet—And a Valuation That Just Doubled

Anil Goteli was 4 a.m. awake in a Dharamshala hotel lobby, his family asleep upstairs, the December cold pressing against the windows. He had left Flipkart after nearly a decade—the books business, the home and furniture division, the entire marketplace, the pricing algorithms, the Big Billion Days. He had helped build India's largest e‑commerce company from a scrappy startup into a Walmart‑owned giant. And now, at 4 a.m. on what was supposed to be a vacation, he was trying to decide what to build next. "I was constantly thinking about what to build," he recalled. "Then one morning it struck me, why don't I build a card that rewards people for travel?"

StartupsMay 24, 2026

The Week India's Students, Its State, and Its VCs All Bet on the Same Thing: Deep Tech

Sometime in the past seven days, a handful of events occurred across India that, taken individually, would each be a modest news item. A venture capital firm you have probably never heard of announced a $100 million fund. A government board approved 22 research grants. A campus report noted that student founders are pivoting from consumer apps to quantum computing. Apple released a few short films about Indian college coders. None of these would, on their own, stop the scroll.

ImpactMay 23, 2026

The Rise of Solopreneurs and Lean Micro-Teams: Why 2026 Is Becoming the Year of the “One-Person Unicorn”

Lean startup structures and solopreneur ecosystems increasingly raise broader questions around technology, autonomy and how entrepreneurship itself may be evolving.