AI Lets Anyone Build Apps. The App Store Shows Who Actually Wins
Google's new game-maker is the latest tool that lets non-coders ship products. The data suggests the harder job now is getting anyone to find, use and pay for them.
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.
Seedubator is the only UAE-listed project among XPRIZE awardees
The Dubai-built AI workspace for first-time founders took a $50,000 runner-up award in the $2 million Build with Gemini XPRIZE.
IndiKhoj Built a Bootstrapped Label on a Corset It Never Planned
Founder Anoushka started with handblock shirts. A corset made for a friend’s fashion show changed the plan, and 200-300 monthly orders followed.
Ownership Has Boundaries: Lessons from Coinspaid Solutions on Career Growth in Financial Infrastructure
Two careers at Coinspaid Solutions show how autonomy works in financial infrastructure: scope grows, but so does the compliance and product context needed to use it well.
Web3 Infrastructure Is Quietly Rebuilding While India Hesitates
As global venture capital pivots from token hype to infrastructure bets, India's tax regime and the Gulf's regulatory clarity are pulling the next wave of Web3 capital in opposite directions.
Airbound Raises $37 Mn Series A to Chase Cost Parity With Trucking
Greenoaks leads a round backing the Bengaluru aerospace startup's bet that redesigning the aircraft, not the software, is what finally makes drone delivery cheap.
Bakingo Raises ₹100 Cr Series B From Faering Capital
The step-up comes entirely from the incumbent investor, with losses widening nearly twentyfold even as revenue scaled through FY25.
Why India’s Next D2C Winners Are Being Built In Indore, Not Indiranagar
Metro-first playbooks built India's first wave of digital-first brands. A new set of numbers suggests the founders chasing the next wave are looking somewhere else entirely.
Mitti Labs raises $9.5 Mn Series A led by Aramco Ventures
Saudi Aramco's venture arm makes its first India bet on a satellite-and-AI platform that has grown from 8,000 to over 100,000 rice farms in two seasons, betting methane data becomes as investable as the oil giant's own emissions math.
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.
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.