AI Tools Cut WordPress Build Costs For Founders
Founders comparing WordPress to a custom build now have a new variable to weigh: AI agents that can code, audit, and maintain a site with far less manual hand-holding than before.
Mohammed Haseeb
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of LAFFAZ Media, Mohammed Haseeb is a business journalist and digital strategist covering startups, entrepreneurship, and emerging tech ecosystems across India, MENA, and global markets. He holds a PGDM in Marketing from IMT Ghaziabad. His reporting highlights founder journeys, startup growth, and ecosystem developments.
Info Edge’s Full-Ownership Playbook: What Coding Ninjas Reveals About Edtech’s Endgame
Info Edge didn't rescue Coding Ninjas — it tidied up a stake it had been building for six years, at a moment when the rest of India's edtech sector is being forced into far messier exits.
Elevate Education Raises ₹170 Crore Series D From WestBridge Capital
The Gurugram-based higher education platform, formerly Sunstone, is doubling down on AI across the student lifecycle as it targets profitability by FY27.
Actor Kunal Kapoor Launches Doctor-Led Metabolic Health Platform MetaGO
Built by the founding team behind Ketto, the new venture pairs GLP-1 therapies with continuous clinical supervision for obesity and metabolic care.
From Canada to Dubai: Two Canadians Left High Taxes Behind and Built GenZone
Kevin McKenzie and Shayan Nasiri didn't build GenZone from a whiteboard. They built it from lived frustration — after going through Dubai's broken business setup industry themselves and deciding the solution didn't exist yet.
Ex-Google, Maersk Exec Louisa Loran: “AI Doesn’t Break Culture — It Exposes It”
The former Google and Maersk executive on why well-resourced transformations still fail, what Indian and Gulf leaders must unlearn, and the four behaviours that separate companies that compound from ones that just stay busy.
Shumee Toys Posts All-Time High Revenue of ₹9.62 Crore in FY25, Stellaris Among Investors
The Bengaluru wooden toy brand quietly crossed its highest-ever revenue mark — while key investors including Stellaris Venture Partners and Naveen Tewari were never publicly disclosed.
[Exclusive] Mukund Jha, Emergent: ‘The Most Successful AI Agent for SMBs Will Be the One that Founders Actually Use’
The co-founder of Emergent — the vibe-coding platform that hit $100M ARR in eight months — on why the next frontier isn't building software, it's getting AI to help run your business by automating workflows through chat.
Mekr Raises ₹67 Cr from Avaana Capital to Build India’s Full-Stack Appliance Manufacturing Platform
The New Delhi ODM already makes kettles, trimmers, and vacuum cleaners for Croma, Wipro, and Amazon Basics — now it wants to become the backbone of India's consumer electronics supply chain.
HrdWyr Raises $13 Mn to Build AI-Native Chips for India and the World
The Bengaluru fabless startup's Series A comes as India's semiconductor market races toward $155 Bn by 2031 — and as one of the sector's first AI-native chip companies, HrdWyr is already shipping alongside boAt.
Ecofy Secures $15 Mn Debt from Mirova to Scale Solar and EV Loans
India's first green-only NBFC has raised debt from one of Europe's most active sustainable investment arms — the fourth such DFI bet on Ecofy in three years, and a sign that global climate capital is flowing with increasing confidence into India's distributed energy market.
Marketplace vs D2C: What Indian founders are actually choosing in 2026
Quick commerce rewrote the rules. The either/or debate is over — what Indian founders are navigating now is a five-channel sequencing problem, not a binary choice.