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[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.
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.
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.
Skyroot Hits $1.1 Billion and Sets Its Sights on the US and Europe
India's first spacetech unicorn is already at the Sriharikota launchpad with Vikram-1 — and its co-founder says 70 to 80 percent of the business will come from overseas, targeting customers that global launch providers can't serve fast enough.
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.
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.
The Best Platforms for Accessing High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Today
As demand for geospatial data accelerates across industries — from disaster response to infrastructure planning — the platform you use to access satellite imagery is as important as the imagery itself.
Aurm Raises ₹42 Cr Series A for Private Bank Locker Infrastructure
India's bank locker waitlists stretch for years. Aurm is building the private vault infrastructure that sits inside your gated community instead — and Earth Fund and Sattva Ventures just backed the vision.
Mumbai’s Ubiqedge Raises ₹10 Cr Seed Round Led by Piper Serica for AIoT OS
India's industrial infrastructure runs on fragmented, mostly manual systems. Ubiqedge built the hardware and software stack to fix that from scratch — and Piper Serica just led its first institutional round.
Bengaluru’s Ctruh Raises $2.5M Seed to Build Browser-Native 3D and XR Infrastructure
The round was led by Inflection Point Ventures and joins a growing wave of Indian deep-tech bets on spatial computing — a category the global XR market projects to exceed $346 billion in 2026.