The Rise of Indonesian Tech Startups Building Global Digital Tools
Indonesia's digital economy hit $90 billion in 2024 — and beneath the e-commerce giants, a quieter wave of developers is shipping web tools used by millions worldwide.
Startups
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.
Pixxel and Sarvam AI Will Put a Data Centre in Orbit by End of 2026
The Pathfinder satellite will carry datacenter-class GPUs and India-built AI models into low Earth orbit — processing hyperspectral imagery in space, without touching a foreign cloud.
Dil Foods Raises ₹72 Cr Series B to Scale India’s Regional Virtual Restaurant Brands
Bikaji Foods' family office leads the round — a legacy snack empire betting on a delivery-first platform that has grown 30x since it operated from just 30 locations three years ago.
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.
Flo Mobility Raises $2.5 Mn to Put Autonomous Robots on India’s Construction Sites
With 60-plus robots already deployed across L&T, Godrej, and Sobha project sites — and a 45% cost saving claim — the Bengaluru startup is taking construction automation to a sector that has resisted it for decades.
Rapido Raises $240 Mn from Prosus, Hits $3 Bn Valuation in Bid to Outlast Uber in India
The Bengaluru ride-hailing platform — now Uber's own-declared biggest rival in India — closes a $730 Mn primary and secondary transaction as it doubles down on tier-2 expansion and affordable mobility.
Bombay Banta Raises ₹8 Crore Pre-Series A Led by DSG Consumer Partners
The Haryana-based desi beverage brand, stocked on Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart, is valued at ₹80 crore post the round.
Vobiz.ai Raises $1 Mn to Build India-Native Infra for AI Voice Agents
As AI voice agents proliferate across customer service, sales, and enterprise workflows, the telephony layer they run on is becoming its own infrastructure category — and Bengaluru's Vobiz.ai is betting on being the plumbing.
Deepika Padukone-Backed Epigamia Names Ritesh Gauba CEO, Elevates Ankur Goel to Co-Founder & COO
Around seventeen months after the death of co-founder Rohan Mirchandani, the Greek yogurt brand has formally completed its leadership rebuild — appointing an FMCG veteran as CEO and recognising the man who held the company together in the interim.
BigEndian Semiconductors Raises $6 Mn to Commercialise India’s First Homegrown SoC
The Bengaluru fabless chip startup — which completed tape-out of its first commercial chip — has raised $6 million to move from test silicon to production-ready SoCs for surveillance, telecom, and IoT markets.