Founders

STARTUPS May 25, 2026

Beyond Paneer: StrainX Bioworks Bags $13 Million to Brew India’s Protein Future

It wasn’t a single moment in a sterile lab that sparked the idea for StrainX Bioworks. It was a thousand small observations. It was seeing…

STARTUPS May 24, 2026

The Unseen Observers: When Your Home Services Startup Gets an Offer to Turn Your Kitchen into an AI Lab

Imagine this. A technician from Snabbit, the home services startup you trust, arrives to fix your leaky tap. He’s polite, efficient, and gets the job…

STARTUPS May 24, 2026

Beyond the Smartphone: India’s Niche Hardware Startups Are Solving the Problems We Created for Ourselves

It’s 2 AM. The blue light from your phone paints a ghostly glow on the ceiling. You opened it just to check the time, but…

STARTUPS May 24, 2026

The Unseen Architects: How Incubators and Government Initiatives are Forging India’s Next Founder Generation

The air in the auditorium crackles with a familiar energy. It’s a chaotic symphony of nervous pitches, rapid-fire questions from judges, and the low hum…

STARTUPS May 24, 2026

The Sisters Who Untangled Indian Railways: How Yatri is Building the Definitive Train App

Every long-distance train traveler in India knows the feeling. A knot of anxiety that tightens as you approach the station. Is the train on time?…

STARTUPS May 24, 2026

SolarSquare Nears Landmark $60M Round, Signaling a New Dawn for India’s Rooftop Solar Revolution

There is a quiet revolution happening on the rooftops of urban India. It doesn’t make the noise of a new e-commerce app or a viral…

STARTUPS May 23, 2026

From Kerala’s Spice Gardens to IIM Bangalore: How FasalGuard is Saving India’s Harvest, One Sensor at a Time

Anjali Menon didn’t set out to be a founder. The Bangalore-based software engineer was on her annual monsoon visit to her family’s small farm in…

STARTUPS May 23, 2026

Beyond the Coder: Why India’s AI Startups Are Hunting for a New Breed of Talent

Ankita Desai, the founder of a promising supply chain AI startup in Bangalore, was at her wit’s end. Her team, stacked with PhDs from some…

STARTUPS May 23, 2026

More Than a Cheque: Why Karnataka’s Renewed ELEVATE Grant is a Lifeline for India’s Next Founders

For a founder hunched over a laptop in a co-working space in Hubli, or a hardware engineer tinkering with a prototype in their garage in…

STARTUPS May 22, 2026

The Unseen Super-App: How Astrotalk is Quietly Building a Spiritual Commerce Empire

For generations, faith and spirituality in India have operated on a deeply personal, hyperlocal, and often opaque economy. It’s the neighbourhood pandit your grandmother trusts,…