Tag: ai-startups
ETSA 2026: A secret circle, cosmic sparks and the night tech elite got goosebumps
An intimate and candid closed-door interaction with commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal was a surprise even to the winners of the 12th Economic Times…
Peak XV Partners: Peak XV’s Surge programme selects 18 startups for 12th cohort after revamp
Bengaluru: Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners has selected 18 startups for the twelfth cohort of Surge, its seed-stage investing programme, spanning artificial intelligence (AI),…
Flipkart Ventures: Flipkart Ventures backs AI startups Alive and Keploy
Ecommerce major Flipkart’s investment arm, Flipkart Ventures, has invested in artificial intelligence (AI) startups Alive and Keploy as part of its efforts to support early-stage…
Accel raises $3.5 billion to invest in emerging global AI startups
Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments…
Selective VCs turning more to experienced founders, says report
Senior executives who have spent years building India’s largest startups before turning into founders themselves are attracting a disproportionate share of venture capital, according to…
Meet the Indian startups that joined the billion-dollar club in H1 2026
India added five new unicorns in the first half of the year, according to Tracxn’s India Tech H1 2026 report. The startups span artificial intelligence,…
Vibe-coding startup Emergent’s valuation jumps 5x to $1.5 billion in new funding
Vibe-coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a funding round led by private equity firm Creaegis, alongside Ranjan Pai’s family office vehicles MNI Ventures…
Why Sarvam’s Vivek Raghavan calls ‘data in motion’ the most valuable asset for AI startups
Sarvam AI cofounder Vivek Raghavan believes that “data in motion” — usage data generated by users interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) systems — is emerging…
AI startups don’t enjoy SaaS-era margins: Here’s what Kalaari Capital’s Harshit Kumar says founders should do instead
AI-native startups will not enjoy the same luxury of high gross margins that traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS) firms once did, said Harshit Kumar, associate vice president…
Microsoft eyeing startup deals for life after OpenAI
Microsoft is shopping for artificial-intelligence startups as the software company prepares for a future independent of its once-vital partner OpenAI, five people familiar with the…