Category: Startups
Lenskart to launch IPO on October 31; files RHP
Eyewear retailer Lenskart has filed the red herring prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO), which will be launched on October 31. The IPO, which…
Corporates cool on deeptech investments due to longer time to market
Indian corporate investors appear to be losing their appetite for deeptech startups, with their participation in funding rounds dropping to a five-year low, in a…
OpenAI backs a new venture trying to thwart AI bio attacks
It’s a nightmare scenario: A terrorist without much training uses an artificial intelligence program to engineer a supervirus combining the incubation period of HIV, the…
Haryana govt, SVCL sign Rs 100 crore agreement for Atmanirbhar Startup Venture Fund
Haryana Industries and Commerce Department and SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd. (SVCL) on Friday signed a contribution agreement (CA) for capital commitment of Rs 100 crore…
ETtech Deals Digest: Startups raise $505 million this week, up 83% on-year
Startups raised around $504.6 million between October 18 and 24, an 83.3% increase from the $275.3 million raised during the same period last year, driven…
VCs moving into deeptech as India’s startup space matures: Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath
Venture capital (VC) firms in India are now focussing on startups offering “more challenging, complex” solutions as the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the country matures, Zerodha…
IPO-bound Lenskart bags Rs 90 crore from DMart’s Radhakishan Damani
Billionaire investor Radhakishan Damani, founder of Avenue Supermarts (DMart), has invested around Rs 90 crore in eyewear retailer Lenskart Solutions in a pre-IPO (initial public…
Kerala’s climate tech startup gets Rs 75 lakhs grant from Cochin Shipyard
Deeptech climate startup Neiox Eco Cycle has won a prototyping grant of Rs 75 lakh from Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) under the USHUS Maritime Innovation…
Union ministers Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw to headline ET Startup Awards on October 31 in Bengaluru
Union minister for commerce and industry Piyush Goyal and Union minister for railways, information and broadcasting, electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw will be guests…
ET Startup Awards 2025: Chakr Innovation eyes international foray and new technology
This is part of a series of interviews with the winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2025. Gurgaon-based deep-tech startup Chakr Innovation is developing…