Category: Startups
Fast food, fast growth: Investors queue for quick-service restaurants
India’s quick service restaurant (QSR) sector is seeing a flurry of deal activity, with fast-expanding chains drawing strong investor interest, multiple industry executives, bankers and…
ET Soonicorns Summit Sundowner Mumbai 2025 – The Opening | ET Soonicorns Summit Sundowner Mumbai 2025
Chetan Naik, Senior Fund Manager & Strategy Head at 360One Asset, and Shalini Karunakaran Kuila, AVP at Economic Times, jointly unveiled the Economic Times Top…
Karnataka unveils Centre for Entrepreneurship in Kalaburagi under Rs 1,000 crore LEAP programme
The state government has unveiled a new Centre for Entrepreneurship in Kalaburagi under its flagship Local Economy Accelerator Programme (LEAP). The Rs 1,000 crore, five-year…
Bike taxis lawful, serve public interest, Uber tells Karnataka HC
Ride-hailing service Uber on Monday told the Karnataka High Court that bike taxis were not only lawful but also served the public interest by helping…
SBI Ventures plans to launch Rs 2,000 crore climate-focussed fund in January-March
SBI Ventures, an alternative asset manager promoted by State Bank of India (SBI), intends to raise Rs 2,000 crore for its third climate-focused fund to…
Shiprocket CEO says AI not hype or doomsday: ‘Puts more time in our hands, how can it be bad’
Artificial intelligence is not a hype but a business-transforming reality, Shiprocket co-founder and CEO Saahil Goel has said, adding that any skepticism over AI ignores…
Rapido leads India’s mobility market, says Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi
Bengaluru-based Rapido tops the charts in India’s mobility market, said Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Dutch investor Prosus, on Monday. Prosus owns around 5% of Rapido,…
PayU India posts 20% revenue growth in H1 FY26 on payments and credit momentum
Fintech company PayU India reported a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue to $397 million for the first six months of the current fiscal year, driven…
Key milestone, will mark new growth chapter amid online, qcomm boom: Shiprocket CEO on upcoming IPO
Shiprocket Co-Founder and CEO Saahil Goel sees the upcoming IPO as a key milestone reflecting internal discipline, scale and governance, and believes it will set…
Canva’s Obrecht says firm eyeing IPO in ‘next couple of years’
Canva, Australia’s most high profile startup, has had a surge in users of its new product suite as it builds toward listing as a public…