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Quick medicine delivery startup Plazza raises $15 million from Accel, Elevation, Nexus, others
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Quick medicine delivery startup Plazza raises $15 million from Accel, Elevation, Nexus, others

Quick medicine delivery startup Plazza has raised $15 million in a round co-led by Accel, Elevation Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing…

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Robotic petals couldn't open aboard Vikram-1 due to extreme space conditions: Cosmoserve
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Robotic petals couldn’t open aboard Vikram-1 due to extreme space conditions: Cosmoserve

Hyderabad-based spacetech startup Cosmoserve Space said Sunday the robotic petals in the soft robotic capture system aboard Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket couldn’t open due to…

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Inside Aurum PropTech's five-year acquisition spree of real estate tech startups
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Inside Aurum PropTech’s five-year acquisition spree of real estate tech startups

Last Thursday, Aurum PropTech announced its biggest acquisition yet: a Rs 458-crore all-stock deal to buy out Softbank-backed Housing.com. It was the listed firm’s latest…

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Skyroot Aerospace makes history: India's first private rocket successfully places payloads into orbit
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Skyroot Aerospace makes history: India’s first private rocket successfully places payloads into orbit

Hyderabad-based startup Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday became the nation’s first private organisation to place payloads into orbit with a locally developed rocket, marking a major…

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Cosmoserve awaits telemetry analysis before confirming debris-removal demo outcome on Vikram-1
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Cosmoserve awaits telemetry analysis before confirming debris-removal demo outcome on Vikram-1

Bengaluru: Hyderabad-based Cosmoserve Space is still analysing telemetry from its payload flown on Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 mission on Saturday and has not yet confirmed whether…

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Shanghai Xingshu launches first constellation of its space-based computing project
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Shanghai Xingshu launches first constellation of its space-based computing project

Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology Co. on Saturday said it had launched the first constellation of a space-computing project that in total aims to ‌deploy…

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Skyroot Aerospace joins small group of companies capable of orbital launches
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Skyroot Aerospace joins small group of companies capable of orbital launches

Hyderabad-based unicorn Skyroot Aerospace became the first Indian private company to reach orbit on Saturday, launching Vikram-1, marking a significant milestone for the country’s commercial…

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PM Modi congratulates Skyroot after private rocket reaches orbit: ‘You have planted new seeds in the sky’
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PM Modi congratulates Skyroot after private rocket reaches orbit: ‘You have planted new seeds in the sky’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Skyroot Aerospace cofounder and CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana and his team after the company’s rocket successfully reached orbit, calling the…

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Spacetech unicorn Skyroot launches Vikram-1, marks India's first private orbital rocket mission
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Spacetech unicorn Skyroot launches Vikram-1, marks India’s first private orbital rocket mission

Hyderabad-based unicorn Skyroot Aerospace on Saturday launched Vikram-1, becoming the first private Indian company to attempt placing payloads into orbit and marking a significant milestone…

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Skyroot Aerospace to undertake maiden orbital launch of Vikram-1: PM Modi
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Skyroot Aerospace to undertake maiden orbital launch of Vikram-1: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said Skyroot Aerospace will undertake the maiden orbital launch of Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed launch vehicle, and termed…

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