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</h4></a><p class="text-normal font-light text-[#000] line-clamp-3 cursor-pointer">As India continues to work toward becoming a global innovation and entrepreneurship powerhouse, India’s MSMEs are playing a vital role by driving jobs, exports, digital adoption, and inclusive growth</p><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/author/brand-solutions"><p class="text-normal font-semibold text-[#000] hover:underline cursor-pointer">Brand Solutions</p></a></div></div></div><div class="w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between gap-y-[1.5rem]"><div class="relative aspect-video"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/2026/06/aerospace-manufacturing-rvce-duo-building-indias-precision-future"><div class="relative w-full aspect-double"><img alt="From a college dorm room to aerospace manufacturing, the RVCE duo is building India&#x27;s precision future" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="600" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="mx-auto h-full w-full object-cover " style="color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, 240px" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=384&amp;q=75 384w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/cs/2/21ccd920-843c-11ec-8817-0b5512a0f9d5/1781086119372.png?mode=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;ar=2%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/></div></a></div><div class="flex flex-col gap-y-[1rem]"><div class="flex group"><div class="h-[10px] w-[10px] bg-[#000] my-auto mr-[0.75rem] cursor-pointer group-hover:bg-[#ff0e01]"></div><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/category/startup-ecosystem"><p class="text-normal font-semibold text-[#000] line-clamp-1 capitalize tracking-tight group- group-hover:underline cursor-pointer">Startup Ecosystem</p></a></div><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/2026/06/aerospace-manufacturing-rvce-duo-building-indias-precision-future"><h4 class="text-mildlarge leading-[26px] font-[700] tracking-tight text-[#000] line-clamp-3 min-h-[78px] capitalize  hover:underline">From a college dorm room to aerospace manufacturing, the RVCE duo is building India&#x27;s precision future</h4></a><p class="text-normal font-light text-[#000] line-clamp-3 cursor-pointer">Ethereal Machines builds India&#x27;s precision manufacturing future — designing its own five-axis CNC machines and offering them as an on-demand service for aerospace, defence, healthcare, and electronics. The MoE-backed venture will be showcased at Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice.
</p><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/author/candidadsilva"><p class="text-normal font-semibold text-[#000] hover:underline cursor-pointer">Candida D&#x27;silva</p></a></div></div></div><div class="w-full"><div class="flex flex-col justify-between gap-y-[1.5rem]"><div class="relative aspect-video"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/video/ai-powered-remote-monitoring-transforming-patient-care"><div class="relative w-full aspect-video"><img alt="How AI-Powered Remote Monitoring is Transforming Patient Care Beyond Hospital Walls | Dr Rahul Chandola 

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stop-color="#FF5130"></stop><stop offset="1" stop-color="#E1296F"></stop></linearGradient></defs></svg></div><h2 class="section__title">Explore</h2></div></div></div><div class="text-center px-[3rem] md:px-[1rem]"><p class=" text-[20px] md:text-[32px] leading-[26px] pt-[1rem] md:pt-[3rem] pb-[1rem] text-[#E0E0E0]">Upcoming startups of <!-- -->2026<!-- --> and browse them on YourStory</p></div><div class="container px-[3rem] md:px-0 grid grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-3 lg:grid-cols-4 gap-y-[2rem] gap-x-[1rem] lg:gap-[2.5rem] mt-[2rem] mb-[5rem] md:mt-[5rem] md:mb-[5rem]"><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/segwise"><img alt="Segwise.Ai" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Segwise2+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Segwise.Ai</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">SAAS</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/ongil"><img alt="Ongil.Ai" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+163.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Ongil.Ai</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">AI/ML</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/nexstem"><img alt="NexStem" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nexstem+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">NexStem</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Health-Tech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/farmonaut"><img alt="Farmonaut" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Farmonaut.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Farmonaut</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Agritech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/recircle"><img alt="Recircle" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ReCircle+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Recircle</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Cleantech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/fabrik"><img alt="Fabrik Space" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Fabrik.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Fabrik Space</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">SAAS</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/verdant-impact"><img alt="Verdant Impact" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Frame+158+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Verdant Impact</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Agritech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/the-eplane-company"><img alt="The EPlane Company" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/ePlane+AI.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">The EPlane Company</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Mobility</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/nawgati"><img alt="Nawgati" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Nawgati.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Nawgati</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Enterprise-Tech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/kshanaai"><img alt="Kshana Al" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Kshana.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Kshana Al</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">AI/ML</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/marut-drones"><img alt="Marut Drones" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Marut+Drones+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Marut Drones</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Dronetech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/anatomech"><img alt="Anatomech" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Anatomech.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Anatomech</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">Health-Tech</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/naam"><img alt="Naam" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-nimg="fill" class="h-[220px] md:h-[420px] object-cover" style="position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 16.25vw" srcSet="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=750&amp;q=75 750w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=828&amp;q=75 828w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Naam.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Naam</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">AI/ML</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative aspect-square md:max-w-[314px] md:max-h-[314px] border border-slate-600 lg:scale-[80%]"><a class="text-inherit undefined" href="/companies/neuralgarage"><img 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https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Visual+Dub+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Visual+Dub+2.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">NeuralGarage</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal leading-[16px] md:leading-[24px]">AI/ML</p></div></div></a></div></div><div><div class="md:w-full relative 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https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Monet+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Monet+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Monet+1.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Monet Work</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div class="h-[8px] w-[8px] sm:h-[14px] sm:w-[14px] bg-[#FFFFFF] rounded-[50%] my-auto mr-[0.5rem] sm:mr-[0.75rem]"></div><p class="text-[16px] sm:text-[28px] lg:text-[34px] font-normal 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https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Evate+Technologies.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1080&amp;q=75 1080w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Evate+Technologies.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1200&amp;q=75 1200w, https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Evate+Technologies.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75 1920w" src="https://images.yourstory.com/homepage/explore/Evate+Technologies.png?mode=crop&amp;ar=1%3A1&amp;format=auto&amp;w=1920&amp;q=75"/><div class="bg-gradient-to-t from-black from-25% to-transparent absolute w-full h-full"></div><div class="absolute bottom-[1rem] sm:bottom-[2rem] left-[0] text-[#FFFFFF] w-full text-center"><p class="text-[20px] sm:text-[32px] lg:text-[44px] leading-[20px] sm:leading-[32px] lg:leading-[44px] font-bold tracking-tight mb-[0.5rem] sm:mb-[0.75rem] lg:mb-[1rem]">Evate Technologies</p><div class="flex cursor-pointer mb-[0.75rem] justify-center"><div 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This is particularly relevant in a country where hundreds of millions of people prefer regional languages and where voice remains a more natural interface than text for many users.\n\nRaghavan previously worked on India’s digital public infrastructure initiatives such as Aadhaar, while Kumar, a prominent AI researcher associated with AI4Bharat, a project focused on Indian language technologies. \nTheir backgrounds combined expertise in large-scale public digital systems and advanced AI research, helping position the startup at the intersection of technology innovation and public utility.\n\nSarvam’s ambitions extend beyond building chatbots or consumer applications. The company is pursuing a full-stack AI approach. This means developing the underlying models, training infrastructure, deployment platforms and end-user applications rather than focusing on a single layer of the technology stack.\n\nThe company highlighted several operational milestones during its announcement. It noted its systems currently handle more than 2 million conversations every day and process over 10 million API calls daily. Sarvam has also digitised more than 35 million pages and transcribed over 500,000 hours of audio every month.\n\nThe startup pointed to several large-scale deployments as evidence of commercial traction. These include collecting data from 17 million farmers for India’s Ministry of Agriculture and supporting outreach efforts involving 45 million insurance policyholders through AI-powered voice systems.\n\nSuch deployments highlight an increasingly important trend within India’s AI sector. While much global attention remains focused on consumer-facing chatbots, Indian startups are often finding opportunities in enterprise software, government services and language technologies that address specific local challenges.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"28:T5f9,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"The funding announcement also comes amid growing interest in the concept of sovereign AI, which is essentially a country’s ability to develop and control critical AI technologies, data and computing infrastructure rather than relying entirely on foreign providers.\n\nIndia has been actively pursuing this objective through the IndiaAI Mission, a government initiative aimed at strengthening domestic AI research, infrastructure and innovation. Earlier, Sarvam was selected as one of the companies involved in India’s efforts to build indigenous foundational AI models, reinforcing its position within the country’s emerging AI ecosystem.\n\nThe broader AI sector has witnessed a surge in investment over the past two years. Globally, companies developing large language models have attracted billions of dollars as businesses and governments seek to harness generative AI technologies.\n\nAt the same time, competition in the sector is intensifying. Global technology companies such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta continue to invest heavily in increasingly capable AI models. Chinese firms including DeepSeek have also emerged as influential players by demonstrating that powerful AI systems can be developed at lower costs than previously believed.\n\nThe company’s growth has been rapid. In late 2023, shortly after its launch, Sarvam raised $41 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures. Less than three years later, it has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"29:T7b8,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"As with any business, capital remains a critical challenge for biotech startups. BIRAC has several programmes that support companies at various stages: from incubation all the way to the market launch.\n\nThe Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) is the flagship early-stage funding programme. This scheme offers grant-in-aid of up to Rs 50 lakh for a period of 18 months, enabling entrepreneurs to translate their ideas into proof-of-concept. The programme is implemented through a network of 8 mature BioNEST incubators (BIG Partners).\n\nThe Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED), Fund launched in 2016, provides early-stage capital assistance to biotech startups. The fund serves as the first equity-based financial support of up to Rs 30 lakh for startups that have reached the PoC stage. This support enables startups to graduate to a level where they are able to raise investments from other sources like venture capital firms.\n\nThe LEAP Fund (Launching Entrepreneurial Driven Affordable Products), launched in 2018, accelerates commercialisation of innovative biotech solutions through targeted equity support. Startups under this programme can access up to Rs 100 lakh for product validation, scale-up, and market deployment.\n\nBiotech Fund of funds – AcE (Accelerating Entrepreneurs) is promoted by DBT under the aegis of Make in India initiative, and implemented by BIRAC. Today, AcE fund supports 16 Alternate Investment Funds (AIF) daughter funds who have invested Venture capital of Rs 1200 crore in 93 Start-ups, SMEs.\n\nThe Contract Research Scheme (CRS) was launched by BIRAC in 2012 to bridge the gap between academia and industry. The scheme promotes validation of a product/technology (developed by academia) by an industry partner.\n\nEarly Translation Accelerator (ETA) is a strategic initiative aimed at bridging the critical gap between laboratory discoveries and market-ready products by supporting early-stage translational research.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2a:T6c9,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"However, there is much more to be done if the country needs to fully realise the potential of bio-economy as Kumar says, “I think the next revolution will happen through industrialisation of biology.”\n\nAccording to Kumar, BIRAC’s incubation centres network which now stands at around 100, needs to be strengthened. Other countries like China, the US or Europe have thousands of such centres.\n\nOn the funding ecosystem for these biotech startups, Kumar believes a mechanism has to evolve where there is continuous flow of capital to these entrepreneurs instead of having a project based approach.\n\nAlso, the country needs a platform which will attract biotech startups outside India to come and set up their base in the country, especially those with Indian diaspora connection. At the same time, there is a need to create a channel which will enable Indian biotech startups to explore the global markets. In addition, also getting into technology partnerships with global biotech research institutions so that efforts are not wasted in building solutions which are already present.\n\nKumar believes the pipeline of biotech startups is still not very strong enough for investors to put in their capital and called for creating entrepreneurs in residence-like programmes to encourage the academics to take up the startup route.\n\nGiven the importance of bio-economy, the BIRAC MD believes there has to be a mission to reduce the dependence on imported critical raw materials.\n\nKumar believes given the fast-paced developments in the world of bio-economy there is an urgent need to create a regulatory framework.\n\n“Whatever growth we are envisaging for our country must be a sustainable, circular and net zero economy,” says Kumar.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2b:T8e0,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"On a typical evening at a bar, people gather to unwind. At a Pint of View (PoV) event, they gather to learn.\n\nThe Bengaluru-based startup has built a growing community around an unusual proposition: academic lectures delivered in neighbourhood bars. From bat ecology and neuroscience to history, literature, and art, its events attract hundreds of paying attendees looking to spend an evening engaging with ideas rather than small talk.\n\nFounded in 2025 by Harsh Snehanshu, Shruti Sah, and Meghna Chaudhury, PoV was inspired by the New York-based lecture series Lectures on Tap. The founders kept hoping someone would bring the concept to India. When that didn't happen, they decided to do it themselves.\n\nBut the idea was about more than simply moving lectures out of classrooms. For the founders, it was a response to a system that often treats education as a means to an end rather than something worth pursuing for its own sake.\n\n“We love reclaiming public spaces for the mind. This is also our sarcastic critique on the education system. There was a need to get away from the whole regimentation and power dynamic in the structure of the Indian education system. This sort of an environment where professors are interacting with adults who are snacking and drinking in front of them kind of normalises the dynamic between them,” Snehanshu says.\n\nSah believes many adults still want to learn, but simply lack access to the kind of learning they are interested in.\n\n“In universities, you can’t really sit at lectures outside of your degree and hence, curiosity often goes wasted. Our lectures fix that. Expert academics are delivering lectures in neighbourhood venues with no gatekeeping. It's all about genuine curiosity, nostalgia for classroom learning, and making it easy for working adults to explore subjects they always wished they could,” she says.\n\nThe founders are no strangers to building communities. Snehanshu and Sah previously co-founded Cubbon Reads, the silent reading movement that grew far beyond Bengaluru and eventually spread to dozens of cities around the world.\n\nPoV appears to be on a similar path. What started in Bengaluru now operates in 11 additional Indian cities and recently launched its first international chapter in London.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2c:T1016,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"data:image/png;base64,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"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2d:T513,When you get selected to represent the country, there is pressure. But pressure is a privilege because it means you have the opportunity to go out there and make a difference. Why do we train? As athletes, we train to represent our country and compete.\n\nI, for one, thrived on competition. As a tournament approached, you could almost sense the excitement. I never really looked at it as pressure; I looked at it as an opportunity to say, ‘Hey, now I have a chance to go out, give it my all, and showcase everything I’ve been training for.’\n\nOf course, that comes with its ups and downs. You don’t always succeed in sport. Two plus two is not always four—it can sometimes be zero, but it can also sometimes be five. That’s the nature of sport. You compete as hard as you can, and hopefully you come out on top. And no matter what happens, there’s always a next day. You get back to training and competing.\n\nWhile pressure can sometimes take away the joy of sport, competition isn’t the only place where pressure exists. Pressure is there every day because you set certain standards for yourself. I certainly did. In many cases, I wasn’t playing to meet other people’s expectations; I was playing to meet my own standards, which were often higher than what others expected of me.\n2e:T81f,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"At the time we were playing, there wasn't much social media, so there wasn’t a lot of hype around what we were doing. We were just grateful to get the opportunity to compete. It may sound trivial today, but back then, getting to a Commonwealth Games or qualifying for the Olympics was a huge deal. There was a lot of hard work involved, but also a fair amount of calculation and luck.\n\nBecause of that, I never really focused on whether something would be a first, whether I was emulating someone, or whether I was chasing a record.\n\nTake the World Junior Championships, for example. No Indian had ever won a medal there before. When I went into the tournament, believe it or not, we carried only two sets of kitting because that’s how far Indians were generally expected to go—maybe the second round. By the third or fourth round, I had run out of kitting and actually had to borrow clothes from other team members. The final I played was my seventh match of the tournament, so that tells you how prepared we were for a deep run.\n\nSimilarly, when I played my final National Championships, where I was attempting to win a ninth consecutive title, I knew what it would mean. Mr Prakash Padukone, who has always been my idol and mentor, was sitting in the stadium for the final. Across the net was a young Saina Nehwal, who was already generating a lot of attention and playing exceptionally well.\n\nBut even then, my focus wasn’t really on the record. I was dealing with a serious wrist injury, and all I was thinking about was whether I could get through the tournament. Match after match, my only prayer was, ‘Please let me finish this one. Please don’t let the pain come back.’\n\nThankfully, I managed to win. The pain returned the very next day—it was almost magical. Looking back, it feels like it was meant to happen.\n\nOf course, equalling Mr Padukone’s record was very special. He’s a legend, and I would never compare myself to him or to everything he has done for Indian badminton. But in hindsight, it feels good to know I was able to do what I loved.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2f:T427,Having lived the life of an athlete, I believe it’s valuable to have experienced sportspersons on corporate boards because they bring a different perspective. It adds diversity of thought, enriches discussions, and broadens the way challenges and opportunities are viewed at the board level.\n\nHaving said that, when you break it down, many of the lessons from sport are directly applicable to the corporate world. As athletes, we've constantly dealt with uncertainty and external pressures. You learn how to stay calm, maintain clarity, and keep your focus despite the noise around you. \n\nThat mindset becomes particularly relevant in boardrooms as well. Decisions need to be based on substance and informed judgment. They require you to draw on your experience while exercising ethical judgement and safeguarding the company’s integrity. Whether it’s adhering to corporate governance standards, protecting the interests of minority shareholders, or ensuring due diligence throughout the decision-making process, independence and objectivity are critical.\n30:Te2d,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Indian chief marketing officers (CMOs) are among the most optimistic globally about the business impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Many are taking direct responsibility for AI spending and prioritising technologies they believe can drive revenue growth, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG).\n\nThe conclusions are based on BCG’s annual survey of 300 CMOs worldwide, which looked at how marketing leaders are adopting AI and, increasingly, agentic AI systems.\n\nThe research indicated that India stands apart not only because of its confidence in AI’s commercial value, but also because marketing teams are playing a central role in shaping AI-led transformation across businesses.\n\nMore than half of Indian CMOs said they expect AI use cases to deliver between 5% and 9% additional revenue growth, the highest level recorded among the markets surveyed.\n\nAccording to the study,  7% of Indian respondents said AI investments are owned by the marketing function, compared with a global average of 47%.\n\nThis points to a wider evolution in the role of marketing. While marketing has traditionally focused on brand development and communications, organisations are increasingly expecting marketing leaders to contribute directly to growth through technology adoption, data-driven decision-making, and improved customer experiences.\n\nThe survey found that 43% of Indian CMOs believe expectations from chief executives have risen significantly over the past two years. More than one in four said accelerating AI and digital transformation has become their CEO’s foremost priority.\n\nMark Abraham, Global Leader, Marketing, Sales and Pricing Practice, BCG, and a co-author of the report, said, “Investment must now move beyond individual AI tools, and towards fully connected agentic operating systems built on strong data foundations, brand intelligence layers, multi-agent orchestration, and the right talent. If established brands don't build this first, new agentic-native attacker brands will do so.”\n\nOn the flip side, the report highlighted a disconnect between enthusiasm and large-scale implementation. While 96% of CMOs globally said AI is driving end-to-end transformation within marketing, fewer than one-third have used AI agents to transform their function at scale. Only 8% are running campaigns in which multiple AI agents operate autonomously.\n\nIndia is also showing stronger interest in agentic commerce, an emerging model in which AI agents assist consumers with product discovery, comparison, and purchasing decisions. Nearly three-quarters of Indian CMOs placed agentic commerce among their three most important strategic priorities, exceeding the global average.\n\nParul Bajaj, India Leader, Marketing, Sales and Pricing Practice, BCG, and co-author of the report, said, “There is a genuine shift underway in how marketing functions in India are leading AI transformation. Indian CMOs are projecting the highest AI-driven growth of any market we surveyed, directly owning the AI investment agenda, and placing focused bets on agentic commerce and personalisation.”\n\nBajaj noted that India’s approach differs from many other markets because of the combination of leadership support, investment ownership, and talent development.\n\nThe findings also suggested growing confidence in the availability of AI talent in India. Just 13% of Indian CMOs identified AI skills shortages as a severe risk, compared with 22% globally. 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Then, seeing others around them lose their lives and leave their family without any protection, people started getting life insurance. \\nAgrawal credited the Government for the sustained push in taking insurance down to a village level as also the regulator for making sure that the end-consumer is getting the value that they are paying for.\\n\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"header\":2},\"data\":\"The cockroach mentality\\n\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"Agrawal’s childhood was spent partly in Bihar (he moved to West Bengal later), when 15-16-hour daily powercuts were the norm and a generator used to power a fan and a bulb in his house. It was a big joint family. 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So that helped us get a lot of experiences.” This helped him in the entrepreneurship journey, during which he has tried everything from event management to T-shirt selling. “I have been a hustler. And I have done whatever I had to do to survive,” said Agrawal, invoking what he refers to as the ‘cockroach mentality’. \\n\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"bold\":true},\"data\":\"“\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"Because \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"italic\":true},\"data\":\"mera manna hai \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"(my belief is) \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"italic\":true},\"data\":\"ki jo tikta hai wahi banata hai \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"(that the one who stays/lasts is the one who makes it). If you keep surviving and if you keep turning up every day, you are ahead of 99.99% of people in the world.”\\n\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"header\":2},\"data\":\"It’s digital and offline\\n\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"Adaptability and survival form the philosophical basis of InsuranceDekho too. “\"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"italic\":true},\"data\":\"Jo aaj hum hai kal hum rahe na rahe \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"(Whether we are here today or not here tomorrow) that business survives the test of time. And that is what we built in insurance.”\\n\\nAgrawal said offline channels will remain relevant for a long time in the country. “This is a country where digital will also thrive, where a mix of digital plus offline will also thrive, and where pure offline will also thrive,” said he, adding that large parts of India will still need a mix of online and offline for at least the next 10 to 15 years.\\n\\nHe said there are sectors such as health insurance where the trust factor needs to be high. “Digital systems can help reduce friction. But wherever you need human interface, \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{\"italic\":true},\"data\":\"aapko vahan pe logon ki jarurat padegi \"}},{\"contentType\":\"text\",\"value\":{\"formats\":{},\"data\":\"(you will need people there).” \\nInsuranceDekho first launched its team in all state capitals. In phase two, it opened in all major towns. In phase three, slowed down by the pandemic, the company started operating in all towns. 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Beauty, the company believes, is a “high-frequency category with a large addressable market”.\n\n“This overlaps perfectly with the core category we have built,” says Aayush Agarwal, Founder and CEO, Snabbit. \n\n“Consumers today expect convenience everywhere, but availing beauty services still involves long waiting periods. We see an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the experience through speed, reliability and hyperlocal fulfilment.”\n\nThe company has quietly piloted the sub-15-minute service over the last six weeks in Bengaluru’s Sarjapur micromarket, where it claims to have completed over 2,000 jobs so far. According to the company, the average fulfilment time during the pilot has remained under 15 minutes.\n\nThe pilot currently operates with 25 active beauty professionals and is averaging nearly 50 jobs a day, the company stated in a press release.\n\nThe idea is simple: if consumers can order food and groceries and get house help instantly, why not get a blow-dry, threading, waxing, or facial at home before stepping out?\n\nBut whether beauty services can actually flourish as an instant service category, and not something consumers prefer planning for, remains a question. \n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"5c:T858,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1," by Redseer Strategy Consultants. \n\nThe report notes that the market is undergoing a structural shift, driven by rapid digitisation, changing consumer behaviour, Gen Z-led spending, and the rise of convenience-first commerce models.\n\nWithin this broader ecosystem, at-home salon services have emerged as a fast-growing niche. Industry estimates peg India’s home salon segment at over Rs 3,000 crore within the country’s nearly Rs 30,000 crore salon industry.\n\nThe category is currently dominated by Urban Company, which popularised appointment-led salon-at-home services like waxing, threading, facials and clean-ups. Yes Madam, another notable player in the BPC segment, hasn’t made a significant dent in Urban Company’s dominance, industry experts believe.\n\nSnabbit wants to challenge the market dominance. \n\n“We are seeing a very strong surge in demand, driven almost entirely by organic word-of-mouth in the dense neighbourhoods we have launched in,” says Dev Priyam, Vice President, Business at Snabbit, who leads the beauty category. \n\nHe continues, “Consumers should not have to plan around basic beauty needs anymore. Whether it’s before office, after work, or ahead of stepping out, beauty is increasingly becoming an instant, convenience-led use case.\n\n“Our focus right now is on perfecting the experience before folding the service into the Snabbit app and scaling it across our existing micromarkets.” \n\nIs the salon category the next logical market for Snabbit to enter?\n\nSatish Meena, Founder of research platform Datum Intelligence, believes so. “Urban Company has already created the market for beauty services at home. The problem Snabbit is now trying to solve is making it instant,” says Meena. \n\n“Salon is already one of Urban Company’s largest categories. Order-wise, I don’t know the exact number, but it is a significant chunk. Beauty and salon services are already meaningful for them. And I think that’s a much bigger challenge for any company because this is UC’s bread and butter.”\n\nThat said, will Snabbit actually be able to make a significant dent in a category that "])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"5d:T631,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"For Snabbit, quick at-home beauty services could fundamentally change how often consumers interact with the platform, and potentially unlock an entirely new consumer behaviour around beauty and grooming.\n\nBeauty services naturally come with higher ticket sizes, since consumers would book multiple treatments together when a beautician makes a house visit. \n\n“If you are asking someone to come home, you usually take a combination of two-three services from that partner,” says Meena.\n\nHe adds, “Customers will be much more willing to order these services if someone can come in just 10 minutes and do your makeup, hair drying, or something else before a party. Otherwise, if you have to plan everything and book in advance, many times you don’t do it at all.\"\n\nHe also argues that this shift could move beauty services beyond occasion-led consumption into smaller, impulse-driven use cases.\n\n“Earlier, if you had a big party or something, then makeup artists and others would come home. But now, because it is available instantly, people may start using it even for smaller occasions, like going to a friend’s house,” he says. “You are not necessarily doing full makeup every time. You can call for basic services too.”\n\nConvenience could create frequency.\n\nThis shift is already visible, at least in part, in how Urban Company has evolved its salon business. Over the years, the listed company has steadily reduced fulfilment windows for beauty services—from bookings made hours or even days in advance to just 30-45 minutes prior in parts of Delhi-NCR today.\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"5e:T6fe,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"“UC realised that customer expectations have changed across categories. Customers now want everything much faster,” says Meena. “That’s why they anticipated that beauty services would also eventually shift in this direction.”\n\nBut not everyone is convinced there is a strong  consumer need for instant beauty services. \n\nA senior VC executive tracking consumer internet startups says their firm’s consumer research suggests that most beauty services remain inherently planned purchases. \n\n“There’s no intuitive need for a quick beauty service. Most of these services tend to be planned because of the time it takes to finish them,” says the executive, requesting anonymity. \n\n“The quick-commerce model also structurally restricts the amount of cross-sell possible since professionals are operating on a tight clock.”\n\nThe executive doesn’t think beauty and salon services are a natural extension of quick house-help services. \n\n“It’s a good-to-have at best. The frequency of home services still makes a strong case given it needs to be done at least thrice a month. We don’t feel beauty is as high frequency but some particular use cases might have a higher frequency than others— blow drying was one such use case that came out when we spoke to consumers.”\n\nAvantika Jain, a Mumbai-based advertising professional, thinks there is demand for instant beauty services, particularly for last-minute use cases.\n\n“I think for threading and waxing, people need quick beauty services,” says Jain. “For example, on Urban Company, you still have to book fairly in advance for the next day, even on Yes Madam. A professional’s travel time is also long. So for quick things, say one has a flight or forgot to get something done, people can go for it.”\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"5f:Tdfa,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Unlike traditional salon-at-home models that typically rely on advance scheduling and specialised professionals, Snabbit says it has built a leaner, instant-first operating model centred around high-frequency beauty use cases such as threading, waxing, clean-ups, facials, hair styling, saree draping, and head massages. \n\nA key part of this strategy lies in training beauticians as multi-skilled “all-rounders” capable of delivering multiple services in a single visit, instead of sending separate specialists for different requirements.\n\nHowever, beauty is a category where trust matters much more than convenience.\n\nConsumer perception poses a major challenge, as most users still primarily associate Snabbit with household chores.\n\nDespite the convenience, Jain says consumers may hesitate to trust newer platforms for personal grooming services. \n\n“Snabbit has been very much established as a cleaning brand for me, so I am not sure how it will transition,” she adds. “Their Instagram and marketing are all around cleaning and household help.\"\n\nFor the past two years, Jain has relied on two regular beauticians from Urban Company for her needs, whom she trusts and knows well.\n\n“I only book from Urban Company. I use Yes Madam when Urban Company isn’t available. For eyebrows and things like that, I don’t trust anyone else. Worst case, in an emergency, I would rather go to a salon downstairs,” she says.\n\nHaving said that, she also acknowledges that convenience and pricing could eventually influence consumer behaviour.\n\n“People are not loyal to Zepto or Blinkit either. People switch based on where there are better discounts or availability. I am also that kind of customer. But with this category, trust matters a lot,” she explains.\n\nThis is where Snabbit’s biggest challenge may lie, and a lot depends on training, service quality, and trust. \n\n“This is a very difficult category to build because customer expectations are very different. Beauty services are much more personal. Training and consistency will play a very significant role,” says Meena.\n\nHe says Urban Company has spent years building processes around beautician training, service quality, and consistency. \n\n“That’s something Snabbit will also have to build. In cleaning services, that is comparatively easier. Beauty is a very different category because customer expectations are much higher,” he says. \n\nFor now, Meena says profitability appears to be secondary for Snabbit. “The focus is market share. If this pilot scales, it becomes easier for Snabbit to raise the next round because this is already a proven category thanks to Urban Company,” he adds. \n\nHe believes the beauty push is part of a larger ambition to move beyond household chores and become a broader instant-services platform.\n\n“Eventually, I think Snabbit will enter most categories Urban Company is present in. The larger vision is becoming a platform that can provide instant manpower for any household task: beauty, yoga, baby care, elder care, or anything else,” he says. \n\nThe senior VC executive quoted earlier echoes this view. He says Snabbit wants to enter “everything that is of lower average order value (AOV)”. “Snabbit’s wedge is in entering markets that UC doesn’t concentrate as much on because of lower AOVs.”\n\nThe sub-15 salon-at-home service may give Snabbit access to customers. But whether it clocks in repeat usage depends entirely on the service quality, customer experience, and, more broadly, customers’ perception of the company itself. \n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"60:Tbb4,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Ask G.R. Balasubramaniam whether he suffered to build what he built, and he will shut you down politely but firmly.\n\n“A labourer carries 100 kilograms on his back,” he says. “How can I say I suffered? A man who cannot feed his family—that is suffering. Everything else is just life.”\n\nHe is not being modest for the microphones or cameras. He has clearly thought about this for a long time, and he believes it completely. The trouble is that his own story keeps getting in the way of the argument.\nThis is a man who never finished school. Who was sent away from his village at 13 to work in a relative’s butter business. Who spent 14 years building up that business, and then found himself in a situation where he had to set up something on his own. Who then started his own venture with Rs 3,000 in a 10-by-20-foot rented shop, with no plan, no connections, and a wife to support.\n\nThat venture is now GRB Dairy Foods. It is on course to achieving revenues of Rs 1,400 crore. It employs 2,500 people. It sells ghee, sweets, snacks, and spices in more than 40 countries. And more importantly, it has never taken a single rupee from any outside investor.\n\nAnd its founder will tell you, with a straight face, that none of this was particularly difficult.\nThis is his story. You can decide for yourself.\n\nBalasubramaniam grew up in Chinna Karattupatty, a small village near Palani in Tamil Nadu. When he was a boy, the village had about 300 people. There was no bus. No electricity. No proper water supply. The nearest school beyond Class 5 was 5 kilometres away.\n\nHis father was not a rich man, but not a desperately poor one either. He made a living the way many men in that part of Tamil Nadu did in the 1960s: riding a bicycle from village to village, buying pulses and small produce, selling them in the next town. He also farmed a small piece of land. There were six children to raise.\n\nThe father wanted his sons to study. He pushed the eldest hard, arranging for school, paying what he could. The eldest refused. The second son studied, but without much interest or result. Balasubramaniam was the fifth child with a younger brother, and he was good at school. Sharp, eager, the one who actually wanted to be in a classroom.\nBut in 1970, when he was barely 13 and in Class 8, the family made a decision. His elder sister and her husband ran a small butter business in Bengaluru. The business was growing and they needed help. \nHiring outsiders was not how the business community operated. You sent your own people. So Balasubramaniam, the boy with the most academic promise in the family, was pulled out of school and sent to Bengaluru to work.\n\nHe did not go back to school.\n\nFor the next 14 years, he worked in his brother-in-law’s butter business. He did everything. He went to villages to buy butter from small producers. He delivered it to homes across Bengaluru. He kept accounts. He learned how to judge the quality of butter by touch and smell, how to convert it into "])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"61:T6d7,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,", how to talk to customers, how to manage cash that came in slowly and went out fast. He did all of this not as a dependent but as someone who had decided, consciously, that this was his own business. Not in a legal sense. It belonged to his brother-in-law. But in the way he showed up every day, it was his.\n\n“I had no other option,” he says. “My father could not take me back. So I told myself, this is my life now. And because I threw myself into it fully, I learned everything. That involvement for those 14 years is the reason I am where I am today.”\n\nIn 1983, Balasubramaniam got married. After the wedding, he continued working with his brother-in-law, but the relationship began to shift. There was no big fight, no shouting match. What happened was quieter and, in its own way, harder to deal with. After some minor misunderstanding, his brother-in-law simply stopped giving him any responsibilities. Balasubramaniam still lived under his roof, still ate his food, and still had all the comforts of the household. But he had no work. Nothing to do. \n\n“He never told me to leave,” Balasubramaniam says. “He did not say go. But I had no work. In that situation, how can you stay?”\n\nSix months after his wedding, in 1984, he walked out. He was 28. He had Rs 6,000 in savings. He paid Rs 3,000 as advance rent for a small room. That left Rs 3,000. His father was in no position to help. His brothers were not around. He could not go back to his brother-in-law. He had no formal education and no certificate of any kind. Nobody was going to give him a job.\n\n“I sat not knowing what to do,” he says. “I knew butter, I knew ghee, but I had never been the one making decisions. It felt like a blank. Like nothing was there.”\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"62:T18a9,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Then a small idea arrived. He organised a chit fund, a rotating savings scheme common in South India where a group of people contribute a fixed amount every month, and one person gets the full pot each month by rotation or auction. His brother-in-law used to run one. Balasubramaniam thought: why not start one myself?\n\nThe problem was obvious. He had no money, no standing, no business of his own. Why would anyone trust him with their savings? But it turned out that 14 years of honest, hard work had given him something more valuable than capital. People knew him. They knew he was reliable. He went around asking people to join. Within a single day, the group was formed. By the second month, he drew the pot, about Rs 50,000, and used it to buy his first stock of butter.\n\nHe started small. Seventy-five kilograms of butter a month, delivered door to door across Bengaluru neighbourhoods on the same cycle-and-hustle model he had grown up watching. But during his years with his brother-in-law, he had noticed something that the others in the business had not bothered to think about. Butter did not last. It went bad quickly. Retailers lost money on spoilage. And the hotels and sweet shops that bought butter were only buying it to convert it into ghee anyway, often badly. They would burn it, or lose yield, or produce ghee that was inconsistent from one batch to the next.\n\nWhat if Balasubramaniam did the conversion himself? Buy the butter, make the ghee at home, and sell the finished product directly to hotels, sweet shops, and households? He had the skill. His wife helped with production. The response was immediate.\n\nWithin a year, his monthly income went from nearly nothing to Rs 25,000. He rented a 10-by-20-foot shop, hired his first few people, and started putting labels on his bottles. The label was simple: a plain sticker with three letters. G.R.B. His own initials. He did not have a grand branding strategy. He did not even register the name. A friend who ran a small printing press made him a hundred labels, single-colour. He stuck them on and started selling.\n\nThe one decision that shaped everything that followed was about quality, and it was non-negotiable from day one. The big dairy companies made ghee by mechanically separating cream from milk and processing it at scale. It was efficient and clean, but the product was bland. It lacked the aroma, the granulation, and the depth of flavour that Indian households associated with ghee made at home, the traditional way, from curd-churned butter clarified slowly over heat.\n\nBalasubramaniam’s ghee was made closer to that traditional method. His sourcing was different, his process was different, and the result tasted different. It also cost more to produce, which meant his retail price was Rs 20 to Rs 30 higher per kg than the competition.\n\nWhen he expanded to Chennai in 1993 under a new brand name Udhayam, his salesmen walked into shops where nobody had heard of Udhayam and quoted a price higher than the brand the shopkeeper already trusted. They were turned away. Laughed at. Told they were mad.\n\n“My boys came back with a lot of scolding,” he says, and he smiles when he says it.\n\nBut he had trained them the way he had trained himself: do not give up after the first visit. Go back. Go back again. Get the shopkeeper to try it just once. Get him to give it to one customer. Let the customer decide.\n\nThe customers decided. Once they tasted GRB Udhayam ghee, they came back for more. Shopkeepers who had refused to stock it started reordering. The word spread not through advertising but through kitchens. One household told another.\n\n“I was asked many times to reduce my price,” Balasubramaniam says. “I never did. If there is no business, that is fine. But there is no compromise on quality. Not then, not now, not ever.”\n\nThrough the 1990s, when the business was flourishing, he was alone. He bought the raw materials. He supervised production. He loaded the van. He delivered to shops. He collected payments. He came home and did the accounts. His wife ran the production floor and kept the operation alive while he was on the road.\n\nHe could see the business growing, but he could also see that he was the bottleneck. Every time he chased a new opportunity, something behind him slipped. He was one man doing five people’s jobs, and the maths was not going to work forever.\n\nThe solution scared him. He decided to hire people, even if it meant giving away half his income in salaries. The fixed cost of employees, month after month regardless of how sales went, kept him up at night. But the alternative was staying small forever, and he knew that was a slower kind of death.\n\nHe began building what became the first FMCG-style distribution network for ghee in India. He appointed distributors. He hired salesmen and put them on fixed routes, visiting individual retail shops every week, taking orders, building relationships, exactly the way companies like Hindustan Lever sold soap and toothpaste. Nobody in the ghee business had done this before. Ghee was sold in bulk, through wholesale markets. The idea of branding it, packaging it in consumer-sized bottles, and pushing it through retail, shop by shop, was entirely new.\n\nThe first factory came up in Bengaluru in 1991; Dindigul was the second factory. A bigger one followed in Hosur in 1999. Chennai became the first major market outside Bengaluru, and from there, GRB spread across Tamil Nadu, then to Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and beyond. A new facility near Madurai now handles expanded production, including sweets and snacks sold under the Town Bus brand.\n\nToday, GRB exports to more than 40 countries, including Singapore, Australia, the UAE, and markets across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Revenue crossed ₹1,000 crore two years ago in FY23-24. \n\nThis year, Balasubramaniam is targeting Rs 1,400 crore. Ghee still accounts for about 75 to 80 per cent of the business. In January 2026, the Indian Dairy Association honoured him with the Outstanding Dairy Professional Award for five decades of contribution to the industry. And not one rupee of this has come from outside investors. No venture capital, no private equity, no debt-fuelled expansion. Everything has been built from what the business earned.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"63:T7ca,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Balasubramaniam’s two sons, Dhanraj and Balakarthik, now handle much of the company’s operations. Dhanraj looks after commercial strategy and sales. Balakarthik, who has a master’s degree in food processing engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, runs production and marketing. Both are well-educated. Their father mentions this fact with something that is not quite pride and not quite sadness, but both at once.\n\nBecause when you ask GR Balasubramaniam about his one regret, the answer comes instantly. There is no pause, no false modesty, no weighing of words.\n\n“I never got to study,” he says. \"Even today, that is the one thing I feel is missing. I have struggled with communication so many times. People would say something and I would understand it differently. If I had studied, none of those problems would have existed.”\n\nYou might expect a man with his track record to have made peace with this, to have reframed it as the thing that pushed him into business and therefore, in a roundabout way, the thing that made him successful. People have said this to him. He does not buy it.\n\n“People ask whether not studying was actually a good thing, because it forced me into business. I have never once thought of it that way. Not for a single day.”\n\nIt is a striking thing to hear from a man who has spent the previous ninety minutes insisting that he has no complaints, that he has never suffered, that his generation’s troubles are nothing compared to the one before. He will wave away every hardship you throw at him. He will refuse to call his journey extraordinary. He will remind you about the labourer carrying 100 kilograms on his back.\n\nBut he will not let go of this. The boy who wanted to study and was sent to sell butter instead is still somewhere inside the man who built a company whose revenue is likely to touch Rs 1,400 crore. And that, more than any revenue number or export milestone, is the most striking thing he told us.\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"64:T4c7,One suggestion that often comes up is whether India could train its AI systems using datasets from ongoing conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war. But experts say that approach is largely impractical. \n\nShashidhara BP, former managing director of Aeronautical Development Establishment under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), argues that such data is unlikely to be accessible. \n\n“It is almost impossible to use data generated in other war scenarios. Such datasets are typically proprietary to the respective defence forces and are almost always encrypted to prevent misuse,” he says. \n\nInstead, he believes India’s long-term strategy must focus on developing indigenous AI systems tailored to its own defence datasets. \n\n“There are a number of initiatives under way in both the government and private sector. 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However, Swiggy and Zomato declined to respond to queries from 69:T40c,What if the future of farming isn’t in the soil at all, but in code? \n\nToday, algorithms, AI models, and satellite imaging are shaping agricultural decisions long before a seed touches the ground, redefining how crops are planned, grown and harvested.\n\nThat shift is already visible on the ground. Brahmjyot Singh Khalsi of Purple Farms points to AI-driven climate control as a turning point. “We cultivate strawberries year-round in Ahmedabad, even when outdoor temperatures rise to 45°C in peak summer. 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Founded in 2016 by Anand Parikh, a graduate of IIT-Madras, the company built the Shira Clamp, which has been in use by surgeons since 2018.\n70:T82e,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"The flagship product set the foundation. The Shira Microvascular Clamp is an indigenously developed and patented device that simplifies microvascular anastomosis, enabling less experienced surgeons to perform a specialised surgery safely and serve patients of cancer surgery and preventable amputations. The thumbnail-sized device holds the vessel ends open and gives surgeons clear visual access to the suture site while reducing tissue manipulation, making the procedure easier, faster and more dependable than the traditional technique.\n\nThe newer ambition goes a step further, removing stitches from the equation altogether. The company has been developing products that can eliminate sutures, and the device now in focus is positioned as a low-cost, implantable solution for sutureless anastomosis. The appeal is intuitive. Hand-suturing vessels under a microscope is slow and unforgiving, so a reliable sutureless approach could cut operating time, reduce the skill barrier and improve outcomes, particularly in smaller hospitals that lack super-specialists.\n\nCredibility for the venture is not in short supply. Shira Medtech has won recognition from the Government of India, the Department of Biotechnology, the Department of Science and Technology, the Government of Gujarat, Tata Trusts, Lockheed Martin and Titan Company. It has also been backed by the BIRAC Biotechnology Ignition incubator and was awarded the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award. That recognition has continued recently. The idea was named among the winners at the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC) 2025, run by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a Bengaluru-based life sciences research and innovation hub and one of India's largest biotech incubators, among the country's most prestigious platforms for deep-science entrepreneurs. Its clinical work has been documented in peer-reviewed surgical literature, and its reach is now crossing borders, with products that have received MDA approval and are available in Malaysia through an exclusive distribution partner.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"71:T52c,Anastomosis simply means surgically connecting two structures. In microvascular surgery, those structures are blood vessels often less than two millimetres across, reconnected so that blood can flow again after trauma, cancer removal or reconstruction.\n\nThe difficulty lies in the scale. A surgeon places a series of impossibly fine stitches around the rim of each vessel while peering through a microscope, with little margin for error. A clumsy join can clot or leak, undoing the entire operation and, in the worst cases, costing a patient their limb.\n\nThat is why tools matter so much here. Anything that holds the vessels steady, keeps them open or removes the need for stitches lowers the chance of failure and shortens a procedure that can otherwise run for hours.\n\nThe forward path for Shira Medtech runs through validation and access. A sutureless device that performs reliably in everyday operating theatres, not just in expert hands, could meaningfully expand who gets reconstructive surgery and where. With a track record of adoption, awards and an early international footprint behind it, the company is betting that the next leap in this field will be about removing complexity rather than adding it, putting advanced surgery within reach of the many hospitals that have long been priced or skilled out of it.\n\n72:T85f,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"This is not a company waiting on a single idea. Founded in 2022, it personalises health by identifying and modulating key gut bacteria, pairing microbiome data with AI and mathematical modelling. It already sells DNA sequencing-based microbiome tests and targeted prebiotics, including formulations aimed at sleep and stress and a test it markets as India's first in-depth gut microbiome test for PCOS, with processes certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001. The startup crossed 500 customers in its first year and holds two granted patents, with two more nearing completion. In June 2025 it raised Rs 4 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures.\n\nThe coffee husk project is where the company's science is most visible, and the thesis is not improvised. Iom Bioworks' head of bioproducts research, Dr Divyashri G, is the lead author of a peer-reviewed review in Frontiers in Pharmacology that set out the experimental evidence for the neuroprotective potential of non-digestible oligosaccharides, pectic oligosaccharides among them. Published research has separately shown coffee processing waste to be a viable source of biologically active pectin, the material from which these oligosaccharides are made. India, a major coffee grower, generates the husk in large volumes, so the company is industrialising a pathway its own scientists have already mapped in the literature.\n\nThe leadership adds weight. Alongside founder and chief executive Bipin Pradeep Kumar and chief scientist Dr Samik Ghosh, the company counts Dr Hiroaki Kitano among its co-founders. Kitano helped pioneer the field of systems biology and is Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group and Chief Executive of Sony AI, a pedigree rare for an early-stage Indian wellness venture. The idea has earned national validation too, having been named among the winners at the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC) 2025, run by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a Bengaluru-based life sciences research hub and one of India's largest biotech incubators. NBEC is among the country's most prestigious platforms for deep-science entrepreneurs."])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"73:T547,A Jharkhand-based deeptech startup is trying to answer a question that has stumped heavy industry for decades. What if the carbon pouring out of a factory chimney was not waste to be buried, but raw material to be sold? Intrinsic Foundries, a carbon-to-value biomanufacturing company, has raised Rs 12 crore in a seed funding round led by Transition VC, capital it plans to use to take its microalgae-based carbon capture technology from pilot to commercial scale. The round matters because it backs a rare idea in the climate space, one where cutting emissions could actually pay for itself rather than draining balance sheets.\n\nIndia has committed to reaching net zero by 2070, and the hardest part of that journey lies in the so-called hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, cement, refineries and chemicals. For these industries, carbon capture, utilisation and storage is widely seen as the only realistic lever. The problem has always been money. Traditionally, carbon capture has treated emissions as waste destined for underground storage, often costing tens of millions of dollars, an approach that is capital-heavy and rarely profitable. In its most recent Budget, India committed Rs 20,000 crore over five years to scale up Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage, a signal that the policy push is real even as the economics remain stubborn.\n74:T8fc,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Founded in 2023, Intrinsic Foundries converts industrial emissions, effluents and residues into premium biochemicals using proprietary microbial biorefinery systems, modular photobioreactors and integrated automation. The technology takes a biological route. It feeds captured carbon to microalgae grown inside controlled tanks, paired with what the company describes as Factory 4.0 automation. The microbes consume the carbon and, in turn, produce compounds that can be sold into multiple industries. It is advancing commercial engagement across cement, steel, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and food systems through partnerships with industrial groups. In effect, a steel plant or refinery becomes a supplier of ingredients for the health and wellness shelves.\n\nThe startup says it has already moved beyond the whiteboard. In 2025, Intrinsic completed a successful proof of concept at a thermal power plant, demonstrating sustained carbon capture and stable operational performance under real-world conditions. Microalgae is its first focus, while it continues to develop other microbial biorefineries including yeast-based systems.\n\nThe roadmap is ambitious. Over the next 12 to 24 months, the company plans to commission multiple industrial pilots and operationalise its first one-tonne-per-day commercial plant. Part of the fresh capital will go towards executing industrial pilots, expanding research, filing IPs, and establishing its US entity to support global market development. Founder Shreyansh Jain, an alumnus of BITS Pilani and Cornell University, frames the opportunity bluntly. \"Carbon is not waste. It is a resource waiting to be transformed,\" he has said. Investors appear to share that read, pointing to weak unit economics and high capital costs as the real barriers that a revenue-generating model could finally clear.\n\nThe idea has earned national validation too. The venture, which entered as IIOT Innovation Private Limited, was named among the winners at the National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition (NBEC) 2025, run by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), a Bengaluru-based life sciences research and innovation hub and one of India's largest biotech incubators. NBEC is among the country's most prestigious platforms for deep-science entrepreneurs.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"75:T562,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Microalgae are microscopic, fast-growing organisms that, much like plants, feed on carbon dioxide and sunlight. When industrial flue gas is channelled into a controlled photobioreactor, the algae absorb the carbon as they multiply.\n\nThat biomass is then processed to extract specific compounds, the kinds of fatty acids, proteins and pigments that already go into supplements, foods and skincare. Because the algae do the heavy lifting, the system sidesteps some of the energy-intensive chemistry that makes conventional capture so expensive.\n\nThe commercial logic is simple. If the end products fetch a premium, the cost of capturing carbon is offset by the value of what comes out the other side, turning an environmental cost centre into a potential profit line.\n\nWhether that promise holds at scale is the open question. Moving from a single proof of concept to a steady one-tonne-a-day plant, and then to volumes that would meaningfully dent India's industrial emissions, is a steep climb on which many climate ventures have stumbled. Yet cross-sector demand for sustainable ingredients is rising, and public funding is flowing towards capture, both of which work in the startup's favour. The next two years, as its pilots either prove or puncture the economics, will show whether factories that pay their own way to cleaner air can move from the lab into the mainstream.\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"76:T505, reveals characteristics and dimensions of entrepreneurs that are rarely uncovered during formal meetings. “You begin to notice how a person navigates setbacks, how they communicate under pressure, and how they respond when a teammate needs support. These observations give insight into leadership that are otherwise hard to assess,” he says. \n\nAgrees Gopichand. Like sports, he says, founders need to train every day with purpose and the culture builds from there—teams learn to trust each other through shared effort, clear goals and honest feedback. He believes that when entrepreneurs value preparation, stay calm under pressure, and hold themselves to the same standards that they ask of others, automatically the rest of the team will follow.\n\nAn All England Badminton Champion, Gopichad says he meditates to build resilience. “It helps me reset, stay grounded, and maintain clarity,” he says. \n\nSpeaking of entrepreneurs, he says that India’s next generation of founders stand out for their clarity and energy. However, they miss in time to pause. “In sport, recovery is not separate from performance. Building something meaningful also requires moments to step back, to reflect on why you are doing it and how you are doing it. That is why I value efforts like 77:T649,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Challenge 2024-25, supported by the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF), under the aegis of India AMR Innovation Hub, has announced nine winners of its National Call in India.\n\nThe C-CAMP National AMR Challenge that was launched in August 2024 received about 200 applications from innovators and startups across India for funding and ecosystem support to enable scale-up, production, adoption and societal integration of winning solutions to tackle AMR in the environment.\n\nThe winners are: Foundation for Neglected Diseases Research, Biomoneta Research Pvt. Ltd., D-NOME Pvt. Ltd., Vividew Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Diagopreutic Pvt. Ltd., Mylab Discovery Solutions Pvt. Ltd., \nHuwel Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeeth, and Indian Intitute of Science. \n\nMaking the winner announcement at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting held in New Delhi from April 25 to 27, Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, Director-CEO, C-CAMP, said, \"We have nine solutions addressing critical gaps in point-of-care diagnostics and screening for clinically relevant pathogens in runoffs from farms, fisheries and hospitals, treatment of wastewater and industry effluents and air decontamination in hospitals.\"\n\nThe winners shall be supported by C-CAMP in India, in collaboration with the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Global AMR Innovation Fund. to foster the identification and development of world-class AMR-focused innovative solutions to tackle various aspects of AMR.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"78:T440,Influencer marketing has become a cornerstone of digital advertising, capturing a significant portion of the marketing budgets of brands. However, the industry continues to face challenges, including detecting fake followers, managing campaigns efficiently, and ensuring measurable return on investment (RoI). \n\nTo address these issues, Krishna Priya Akella and Aravindha Bollineni co-founded Starbuzz.ai in 2021. \n\nThe Hyderabad-based startup uses artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify and enhance the influencer marketing process for brands. “The influencer marketing industry is growing exponentially, but it’s not without its pitfalls. One of the biggest challenges brands face is ensuring that the influencers they partner with have authentic followers and genuine engagement. This lack of trust in data has been a significant roadblock for many companies looking to invest heavily in this space,” Akella tells YourStory. \n\nThe platform automates many aspects of influencer collaboration, making it easier for marketers to discover, manage, and analyse their partnerships.\n\n79:T417, post-production software company Postudio has raised $1 million funding in a pre-seed round led by media-tech focused Audacity Venture Capital. The company has also crossed a milestone of $1 million ARR within two years of its launch and plans to double the revenues in 2025. \n\nThe new capital will be used for rapid scale-up, product development and expansion of the team. \n\n“We’ve scaled quickly  in the Indian enterprise segment in a very capital efficient manner. In 2025, we plan to sustain this momentum and expand into the U.S. market in the second half of this year,” said Dhawal Gusain, Co-founder of Postudio.\n\n\"At Postudio, our goal has always been to empower creative teams with tools that simplify and enhance their post-production workflows. Our platform already supports key processes like virtual editing, real-time collaboration, and seamless camera-to-edit data transfer. We're now doubling down on innovation, integrating cutting-edge AI and Gen AI workflows to redefine post-production,\" added Co-founder Harish Prabhu.\n7a:T56a,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"JoySpoon, a mouth freshener brand has added Rs 56 lakhs to its ongoing seed round, bringing the total funding to Rs 1.81 crore. The latest round was led by Dishit Nathwani, Director at Gulab Oils, with participation from Prateek Toshniwal of Ivy Growth Associates, Abhinav Jain \u0026 Ankit Jain, CFOs at CoinDCX, PharmEasy and a few others. \n\nThe investment builds upon the ₹1.25 crore raised by JoySpoon from 100x VC, underscoring strong investor confidence in the brand’s ability to reshape the Indian mouth freshener market with healthier, natural \u0026 low sugar alternatives.\n\nWith this fresh round of funding, JoySpoon aims to expand its manufacturing facility in Ahmedabad to meet the rising demand for mouth fresheners, paan, and similar products. The brand also plans to utilise the funds to scale its presence across leading quick commerce platforms like Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, and BigBasket in major metros, as well as strengthen its marketplace presence on Amazon and Flipkart.\n\nVaishali Mehta, Founder of JoySpoon, shared, “As we grow, we are proud to run our manufacturing facility in Ahmedabad entirely by women.  Sticking to our central theme of “day deserves little bits of JOY”  with this facility we want to spread the goodness of Joyspoon across the chain from our women in the manufacturing unit to the consumers having a bit of our health-focussed curations.\"\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"7b:T40b,Singularity, a provider of capital and differentiated market access for growth assets, has appointed Avnish Anand as Partner for leading Investments in Consumer and Ajay Kumar as Senior Advisor. \n\nAs we strengthen our capabilities, it is very clear that building expertise in our focus sectors is crucial for success. Avnish has an excellent understanding of the Indian consumer and a proven ability to build a consumer-centric brand like CaratLane. We have an ambitious vision for our consumer portfolio and Avnish is the perfect person to lead it. Likewise,\n\nAs Co-founder and former MD \u0026 CEO of CaratLane, Anand played a pivotal role in transforming the company. At Singularity, he will focus on building and scaling the consumer portfolio, leveraging his deep understanding of consumer businesses in India.  Having served as India’s longest-tenured Defense Secretary, Kumar will be instrumental in Singularity’s focus on key high-potential sectors such as semiconductors, defense, electronics, and critical energy minerals.   \n7c:T884,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Chennai-based SaaS company Zoho has launched its indigenously designed server named Nathu La.\n\nZoho said the rollout marks a new development in the company’s journey of building a full technology stack from hardware layers to software applications.\n\nThe new server was built out of its Nagpur centre, which was set up in 2020 to work on R\u0026D projects such as designing servers. According to Zoho, in 2023, the Indian government announced import restrictions on compute devices including servers, further highlighting the necessity to develop this technology in the country.\n\nThe Nathu La server, based on Intel Xeon 6 Processors, is designed to optimise performance for virtualisation (VM), High Performance Computing (HPC), AI inference, and storage applications.\n\n\"We are proud to build a server system that is truly designed in India and taking a step towards creating sovereign technology,\" said Shailesh Davey, CEO, Zoho Corp, per a statement.\n\nAll modular components including the DC-SCM and NIC (Network Interface Card) were designed in-house by Zoho's hardware engineering team and assembled by Indian EMS partners. Over five patents have been filed covering thermal management and cost-optimised server architecture designs.\n\nZoho claimed that Nathu La has achieved equivalent performance with 12-18% lower power consumption and 20-30% lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The Nathu La server, comprising Intel Xeon 6 processors, was developed collaboratively with Intel, leveraging their enablement capabilities and technical expertise.\n\nAccording to Zoho, India's digital infrastructure is expanding at an unprecedented pace. However, the server technology underpinning that infrastructure has historically been sourced from abroad, with Indian enterprises paying royalties and licensing fees to foreign entities.\n\n\"The development of the Nathu La server reflects our commitment to creating complex technology powered by talent from smaller towns and villages. Through focused investments in R\u0026D and skill development, this foray into hardware enables us not only to build and own the technology, but also to cultivate the expertise and talent behind it,\" Davey said.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"7d:T702,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Huang noted that the latest phase of AI adoption is fundamentally different from earlier waves because systems are now capable of autonomous reasoning and task execution.\n\n“Demand has gone parabolic. The reason is simple. Agentic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profitable, so model makers are in a race to produce more,” Huang said during the earnings call.\n\nTokens are units of text or data processed by AI systems. More profitable AI services mean companies are willing to spend heavily on computing infrastructure, benefiting suppliers like NVIDIA.\n\nThe company’s strongest business remained data centres, where computing revenue rose 77% year-on-year to $60 billion while networking revenue nearly tripled to $15 billion. Networking has become increasingly important because modern AI systems require thousands of chips to work together efficiently. NVIDIA said InfiniBand revenue grew more than four-fold, driven by deployment of its latest networking technology.\n\nChief Financial Officer Colette Kress said NVIDIA’s customer base had broadened well beyond the large US cloud providers that initially drove AI demand. The company has now reorganised its reporting structure into two broad segments within data centres - Hyperscale and ACIE, which stands for AI Cloud, Industrial and Enterprise. The shift highlights how AI spending is spreading across industries, governments and regional cloud providers.\n\nKress noted that sovereign AI infrastructure is now deployed in nearly 40 countries representing $50 trillion in GDP, while the number of partner data centres exceeding 10 megawatts nearly doubled in a year to more than 80 sites.\n\nThat diversification is becoming strategically important. While hyperscale cloud companies such as "])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"7e:T437,One of the quarter’s most significant announcements was Vera, NVIDIA’s first custom CPU designed for “agentic AI”. Huang said the launch opens a “brand new $200 billion TAM” for the company.\n\nThe company expects nearly $20 billion in CPU revenue this year and plans to begin production shipments of its next-generation VeraRubin systems in the second half of 2026. Kress said VeraRubin could deliver up to 35 times higher inference throughput than Blackwell.\n\n“VeraRubin is going to be even more successful than Grace Blackwell at this point. Every single frontier model company will jump on VeraRubin from the get go,” Huang noted.\n\nDespite the strong momentum, the results also highlighted several challenges.\n\nOne major uncertainty remains China. Although the US government has approved licences for H200 chips to be shipped to Chinese customers, NVIDIA said it had not yet generated revenue from those approvals and remained uncertain whether imports would ultimately be allowed. The company excluded any China data-centre compute revenue from its guidance.\n\n7f:T4a3, are another concern. Huang acknowledged that demand for VeraRubin may outstrip supply for an extended period, while Kress warned that NVIDIA was “not immune to supply challenges”.\n\nOperating expenses are also rising rapidly. 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After completing his textile engineering degree, he joined his father for about six months and quickly realised he wasn’t cut out for the job.\n\n“The market was heavily commoditised, and no matter how much effort you put in, it was too competitive, and there was too much risk for too little return,” he admits.\n\nBut Shah was always sure of one thing: he wanted to build products and in his own company, as an entrepreneur. And, the only way to build something meaningful was to go the technology route.\n\nHe moved to the US to pursue a master’s in Materials Science and Textiles at the University of Massachusetts and worked nonstop in the lab for three years in a rigorous programme, where he admits he “didn’t almost make it.”\n\nNow that he had learned to think like a scientist, the grand plan was to gain industry experience in technology and corporate America, and then build something of his own.\n\nHe started as a scientist at a large multinational organisation in their medical business, designing surgical fabrics and eventually headed the R\u0026D division, staying there for 12 years.\n\n“In parallel, I kept trying different ideas and ventures, and I kept failing. Every time I failed, I learned something. The ideas kept getting more refined and real,” he says. He tried his hand in the medical device business and also ventured into large-scale solar farms. But they all failed.\n\nThe idea arrived, as many do, during a conversation. It was June 2017. A friend from Harvard Business School called Shah and asked him to look into the sanitary pad market in India — an investor had noticed that penetration was low and growth was high. When Shah started digging, it led him to the white space: at the time, only 40% of women in India used pads, and 60% did not. Demand wasn't the problem.\n\nBut making pads like everyone else held no interest. He could have done that 15 years ago in his father's business. So he started asking a different question: what hasn't the industry solved?\n\nHis wife gave him the answer. She said what millions of women have thought, but nobody in the industry has heard: \"I hate disposing of a pad. I can't stomach the footprint it leaves on the planet. If there's something we can solve, we should solve that.\"\n\n\"I had my first customer sitting right there. And I didn't have to fight the idea at home. That's a good start,” Shah says.\n\nHe began approaching the idea clinically, as his training had taught him. He started researching and building prototypes in his garage, and by November-December 2017, as a scientist, he was convinced that it was possible in principle. But what was also important was: did people actually want it?\n\nHe hired an independent third-party research firm to conduct studies with over 200 women on menstrual health and hygiene. They got the feedback they expected: everyone wanted a better pad, a softer and larger pad, but not one person spontaneously touched upon disposability as a problem.\n\n“But we anticipated that. So we planted the question at the end: “What if we gave you a product you could flush and never have to deal with disposal again? There was near disbelief among nearly every respondent. And then 85% said they would want to switch to a flushable option,” Shah explains.\n\nThe industry has done a remarkable job improving comfort and access — from reusable cloth to the first pads without wings, then with wings, then ultra-thin options. But not one organisation has solved for what happens after use.\n\nThe family then moved to Bengaluru, and Anabio was officially incorporated in September 2018. It is located in Electronic City, Bengaluru.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"8e:Tc30,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"The fully flushable, disposable sanitary pad is a highly-engineered product manufactured in Europe because, as Shah points out, precision manufacturing at this level requires European infrastructure.\n\n“We have built every single layer from scratch. Every top sheet, bottom layer, absorbent core — all of it is our own engineering. We then go to factories across Europe, rent machine time, provide them with our exact conditions, and produce each layer. We work across multiple countries to bring the final product together,” he explains.\n\nDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, when he couldn’t travel to Europe, he built a second line of business in life sciences, working on antiviral treatments. The business, Shah says, is earning multiple millions in revenue and generating profits, which are reinvested in the flushable pad project. \n\nAnabio Tech has earned the support of Startup Karnataka and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). Two patents have been filed, with one already approved.\n\nThe company has been conducting consumer studies for the past five years, beginning with small cohorts of 50–100 participants and expanding significantly over the last year to include more than 2,000 users across India. The response has been encouraging, with 81% of users willing to switch to the product even in its current version.\n\nTo ensure performance across the country’s diverse sanitation infrastructure, the pads were tested in hundreds of toilet configurations and by consumers across 500–600 pin codes nationwide. In the majority of cases, it flushed in a single flush. Around 60% of pads flushed in a single attempt, 90% within two flushes, and 97–98% within three. While a small number of cases faced challenges due to low water pressure, the overall performance has exceeded expectations. \n\nAnabio Tech has also been working with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for a year, not just on its own product, but as a participant helping to build flushability standards.\n\nShah's journey has been marked by setbacks as much as breakthroughs. Beyond failed startup ventures and thousands of product iterations, he faced one of his biggest challenges in January 2025, when a fire destroyed Anabio Tech's laboratory, wiping out equipment and years of research and development work. Yet the team rebuilt and continued to pursue its vision.\n\n“We feel it's a miracle that we are still here. And we are genuinely blessed to be where we are,” he says.\n\nThe startup's innovation has garnered significant attention. In 2024, Anabio Tech was named Startup of the Year at the Bangalore Tech Summit. This year, it was featured among Chiratae Ventures' Sonic Deeptech Disruptors, a list spotlighting promising startups pushing the boundaries of deep technology.\n\n“Our prediction is that in the next 10 years, every sanitary pad and diaper will be flushable. The next wave is flushability becoming the default. We want more companies in this space, because Anabio alone cannot move an entire industry. But whoever enters this market, the standards have to be right,” concludes Shah.\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"8f:T575,Niharika talks about a time when negative comments would sit with her for hours. She’d talk to her mum, dwell on it, and be upset. But with time, she has learned to ignore the noise and keep her mum’s advice close to her heart. “She’d say, ‘Even if someone says something negative, that doesn’t make it true.’”\n\n“There’s a saying I love: even if you are the finest, juiciest peach, there will always be people who simply don’t like peaches.”\n\nNiharika believes that being real is the deal, and authenticity gives you longevity. \n\n“If I am real with my audience, they will stay wth me for years,” she notes.\n\nShe reveals that early on, she would say yes to every brand that approached her, regardless of whether it aligned with who she was.\n\n“I noticed that it made my audience unsure of what I stood for. Over time, I learned to say no to things I don’t connect with and work with brands I’d genuinely use, and to share everything with my audience,” she says. She works with big names such as L'Oréal, Maybelline, LAKMÉ, Reliance Digital, and Samsung, among others.\n\nAs Niharika walks the red carpet at Cannes on Saturday, in partnership with Samsung, it’s a dream come true.\n\n“When I started, I had no vision at all, I couldn’t have imagined the number of followers I have, the events I’d be invited to, or the brands I’d work with,” she says.\n\n90:T181b,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Even as political parties woo women voters with promises of welfare, safety, and empowerment, the results of the 2026 assembly elections across five states tell a different story. When it comes to political power, women’s representation still remains low.\n\nAfter decades of women’s political mobilisation and the strong case for the Women’s Reservation Bill, few women actually made it to power in the recently concluded assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry and West Bengal.\n\nAcross these five states, 1019 women contested for 824 assembly seats and only 78 won.\n\nTamil Nadu sent 23 women to the Assembly, including 13 from actor C. Joseph Vijay’s two-year-old Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), out of the 443 women who contested the elections.\n\nWest Bengal, historically among the better-performing states on women’s representation, elected 37 women this year. With 385 women candidates, it had the second-highest number of women contesting the elections.\n\nKerala, despite its strong social development indicators, sent only 11 women out of 92 who contested the elections, while Assam elected seven.\n\nPuducherry stood out for a different reason altogether: despite 40 women contesting, not one made it to the Assembly. In 2021, it elected one woman. \n\nHowever, the numbers point to modest gains in women’s representation in Tamil Nadu, where the number increased from 12 to 23; in Assam, the number of women MLAs remained the same as in 2021. Kerala saw a decrease of one.  West Bengal, meanwhile, moved in the opposite direction, electing fewer women this time despite having more seats, down from 40 to 37.\n\nWomen turned out in greater numbers than men across all five assembly elections in 2026, reinforcing their growing electoral clout even as their representation in legislatures remains limited. \n\nIn West Bengal, 93.8% of women voted compared with 92.06% of men, the highest turnout among the five states. Tamil Nadu saw 86.2% female turnout, compared with 83.77% for men, while in Assam, 86.53% of women cast ballots, compared with 84.95% for men. Kerala recorded one of the widest gender gaps, with 81.17% of women voting compared with 74.9% of men. In Puducherry, too, women outpaced men at the ballot box. \n\nThe numbers once again prove that women are indispensable as voters but remain marginal in political power.\n\nEven after decades of debate around women’s reservation, why are most state assemblies still stuck below the 10% mark for women MLAs?\n\n“Our study shows that ticket distribution to women itself is less than 10% both for state and general elections. Therefore, the final figure reflects issues within the parties that prevent them from distributing tickets to women. This is indeed regrettable because while reservation in the legislature needs an amendment, if parties are sincere about women's reservation, they can at least give more tickets to women candidates,” says Aparajita Bharti, political analyst and founding partner, The Quantum Hub. \n\nIn 2023, a record 19 women were elected to a 90-member Assembly in Chhattisgarh, representing 21% of the total, the largest percentage of women MLAs in the country. Why are larger and more politically influential states lagging behind?\n\n“Tribal states often have slightly different gender norms, which lead to women taking more leadership. At the panchayati raj level, both Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have more than 50% women panchayat leaders, meaning women win more seats than the number reserved for them. This is perhaps reflective of that at the state legislature as well,” says Bharti.\n\nOn the other hand, Kerala, often held up for its high literacy rates, strong social development, and comparatively better gender indicators, continues to have women making up less than 9% of its Assembly, exposing a striking contradiction between social progress and political representation. \n\n“Kerala is an interesting state in this regard, showing that empowerment doesn't automatically translate into political representation for women unless a specific policy nudge is provided. This is because politics, by its very nature, has high entry barriers coming from non-political families. Women, especially, often lack the financial and social capital to navigate the space. They are also more concerned about their safety in political spaces,” she points out.\n\nThe success of women candidates in India continues to depend heavily on leadership decisions rather than on systemic political reform, reflecting the highly centralised, personality-driven nature of most political parties. \n\n“All Indian political parties are quite centralised and personality-driven. We don't have a lot of democracy within our political parties, unfortunately, at this point,” Bharti noted, pointing out that while the Congress briefly experimented with primaries in 2014 to democratise candidate selection, the effort was not sustained. \n\nAgainst that backdrop, TVK sending 13 women to the Tamil Nadu Assembly in its very first election suggests that parties can significantly improve women’s representation when they choose to. \n\n“Political parties should make internal reservations in ticket distribution if they are serious about increasing women's representation. Our studies show that women have the same or more win rate as male candidates,” she says.\n\nAshweetha S, a member of TVK, says, “One aspect we should consider is what kind of women contested - they did not mostly come from legacy political parties. They are also young and will bring the much-needed women's perspective to the Assembly. Appointing S Keerthana as a minister is symbolic of its belief that young women can contribute to the development of the state.”\n\nIn this scenario, should parties voluntarily implement a 33% internal ticket quota before the reservation act becomes law? \n\n“The law has already been passed. But for the reservations to come into effect, a census and delimitation are required. Yes, political parties should walk the talk on women's representation through internal ticket quotas, rather than wait for the census and delimitation,” Bharti adds.\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"91:T4e3,A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated in the Lower House on Friday.\n\nWhile 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.\n\nAccording to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to \"operationalise\" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.\n\nSeats were also to be increased in states and Union Territory assemblies to accommodate 33% reservation for women.\n\nIn September 2023, Parliament passed the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, also known as the Women’s Reservation Act, marking a significant step towards strengthening women’s representation in legislative bodies.\n\nThe law mandates the reservation of one-third of seats for women in both the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies.\n\nHowever, the provisions of the Act are not expected to come into force before 2034, as implementation is contingent upon the completion of the delimitation exercise following the 2027 Census.\n\n92:T7da,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"data:image/png;base64,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"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"93:T49a,For me, every phase in my life has not been consciously made. It has been organic, and God has been kind. When I retired from my athletic career. I got into movies. It was a chance I took, and I did well. I was also working at the bank for 16 years. One day, I resigned, and my husband and I decided to start a school. \nI believe that in every step you take, give it 100%, and when you don't enjoy it, just move on and find another path. When I retired from athletics, I was at the peak. \n\nI was heading the Special Olympics programme for people with intellectual disabilities. We had 80,000 children. I would travel with the team and loved working with the team. \n\nMy husband and I decided to start an institution (KALS) in our hometown to integrate sports into the curriculum, and just let children enjoy and experience sports. \n\nEvery child from Grade 1 to Grade 12 is in the field at that particular time. We have about eight or nine people in the PE department, I think one of the largest in any school. Every academic teacher is involved in any sporting activity that takes place on campus. So it’s like a big family that’s growing through sports and education. \n94:T656,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"data:image/png;base64,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"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"95:Ta2b,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Noronha believes apart from physical training, the mental approach to endurance sport is very important because your opponent is yourself, the distance, and the elements.\n\n\"I train my mind the same way I train my body—consistency and training. It's your mindset that carries you through these long-distance events,” she explains.\n\nHer training routine is rigorous throughout the year—she does four to five swims in a week, three bike sessions, and four runs. These change based on her goals, and, six months before a race, the intensity increases.\n\n“Three to four months before an Ironman is where the volumes and intensity almost touch the Ironman distances separately. My longest cycle ride would be maybe 180 km, my longest swim will be 4 km, and my longest run will be about 40 km. Then four to three weeks before the race, we start tapering down; so we gradually start decreasing the volume. I arrive at the race, at the start line, ready, prepared, and strong, ready to race,” Noronha explains.\n\nBut the real test comes during the race itself, especially when conditions can sometimes turn brutal.\nYet quitting, she says, never felt like an option.\n\n\"When things got tough during the race, I visualised the finish line and I reminded myself: this is why I started. You've trained for maybe two years and this is just one day—you need to do this,” she says.\nStaying present in the moment\n\nAn endurance sport like Ironman or a triathlon also involves loneliness and fatigue, because one is alone for long stretches of time. How did she train her mind during those moments?\n\n“Long training sessions help me to stay calm, be patient with myself and listen to my body. During the race, I break it down into smaller parts. I try to stay present in the moment and focus on the controllables like nutrition, breathing, technique, and form,” says Noronha. \n\nBehind every gruelling kilometre is a support system that makes it possible. Noronha credits her family for being with her every step of the way. Either her father or mother travels with her, taking care of the logistics while she takes care of the competition.\n\n\"These races are actually way more stressful for them than they are for me. I don't see that part of whatever's going on with them when I'm racing. It's only after that where they tell me what happened and how worried they were,” she says. \n\nNoronha is also the latest addition to Under Armour’s athlete roster, the UA SqUAd.\n\n‘Triathlon is a very expensive sport and not many take it up. Under Armour believed in me and saw the potential in me,” she says.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"96:T65f,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Along with training for multiple Ironmans, Noronha is also simultaneously pursuing a BSc in data science and applications from IIT Madras through distance learning.\n\nHow does she manage it all?\n\n\"It's all about planning and following a schedule, I prioritise nutrition to fuel all of these long sessions. I also focus a lot on recovery and sleep so I can stay healthy and have enough energy for everything I'm doing in the whole day. For academic work, I plan everything, so nothing clashes. Following a schedule has helped me manage both sports and studies,” she shares.\n\nThe current record for completing an Ironman on all six continents is held by  26-year-old Canadian triathlete Connor Emen. \n\nNoronha wants to shatter the record across both genders. She is training for Ironman Philippines in May-June and aims to complete two other Ironmans this year, and one next year. \n\nNoronha believes endurance sport has changed the way she approaches everyday life.\n\n\"It's taught me patience, perspective, and how to stay calm when things don't go to plan,” she says. \n\nTo her, the Ironman title represents discipline, belief, and the courage to dream big at such a young age. “It motivates me to keep pushing forward, and keep setting bigger and bolder goals,” she says.\n\nAs Noronha prepares for the next phase of her journey, she is also racing to shift mindsets. \n“In a typical Ironman challenge, only 18% of the participants are women. I am glad the number is increasing. I want to use this platform to give back to the community. I want to encourage more young girls to step into endurance sports,” she says.\n\n\n\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"97:T885,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"\nCelebrating every win, big or small, validates the company’s carefully thought-out decision to back a franchise from Uttar Pradesh.  \n\n“We represent a progressive idea of UP: women’s cricket at an elite, commercially viable level, in a state where there is still a lot of ground to cover. We want to be part of that journey of change,” says Jinisha. \n\nAnd there are already signs of change on the ground. \n\n“Families are increasingly supportive of their daughters’ aspirations, and sport is emerging as a powerful pathway. We aim to create more opportunities for girls to participate and move up the ranks,” says Jinisha, who manages UP Warriorz and other Capri-owned sports holdings and also leads grassroots and community-building initiatives beyond the WPL calendar. \n\nCapri Sports is the sports division of Capri Global Capital, an NBFC built by her father Rajesh Sharma as a first-generation entrepreneur. “I’ve always admired the path he laid out, and I’ve learned a lot from him growing up,” says Jinisha .\n\nShe is now charting her own journey as she leads the UP Warriorz franchise with the larger vision of investing in women’s cricket and creating purpose-led impact through sport. \n\nSport has been a constant presence in her life. At school, she was involved in multiple disciplines—football, basketball and cricket. “It was one of the ways I expressed myself outside the classroom,” she says. \n\nAfter completing graduate school, Jinisha joined Capri Loans, a group company. But sports was always going to be her calling, some way or the other. \n\nAfter a sabbatical for her master’s degree at Exeter University, UK, Jinisha returned to the company at the end of 2022 when it was exploring new avenues for growth, including sports. \n\nCapri Sports presented the perfect opportunity for her to rekindle her interest in sports, albeit in a different avatar.  \n\nIn a single year (2023), under Jinisha’s leadership, Capri invested in four sporting teams: UP Warriorz (WPL), Bengal Warriors (Pro Kabaddi League), Rajasthan Warriors (Ultimate Kho-Kho), and Sharjah Warriors (International League T20 cricket).\n\nIn an interview with "])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"98:T671,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"We chose UP very deliberately. It’s the largest and most populous state, with significant long-term \ncommercial potential. From a fan-base perspective too, we felt sport could penetrate the state in a very different way. There was clearly a commercial lens to the decision but also a larger ambition.\n\nAt the same time, we are aware that we represent a progressive idea of UP: women’s cricket at an elite, commercially viable level, in a state where there is still much ground to cover. We want to be part of that journey of change.\n\nWhat is encouraging is what we’re seeing on the ground. Families are increasingly supportive of their daughters’ aspirations, and sport is emerging as a powerful pathway. Our aim is to create more opportunities for girls to participate and move up the ranks.\n\nPlayers like Deepti Sharma embody this shift. Having spent time with her family in Agra over the years, it’s clear she grew up with unwavering support. Through our initiatives, we are seeing more families like hers.\nWe’re also working at key intersections—sport with life skills, education, and health—identifying gaps and trying to close them. \n\nFor instance, we have worked with athletes and coaches in state government academies to address conversations around periods, which still remain taboo but directly impact performance.\n\nThrough school programmes across 11 cities (in UP), college-level women’s tournaments in Lucknow, and partnerships like the one with ITC, we have seen strong participation and infrastructure. What’s needed now are the right programmes delivered in ways that build confidence and keep girls in the game.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"99:T64e,"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"JS: On the cricketing side, one key learning was the need to strengthen our domestic bench and not rely too heavily on overseas players. Having Indian coaches was always a priority. While overseas coaches have been fantastic, their availability is limited. This year, everything aligned—Abhishek (Nayar) was available, he had already been supporting us during off-season camps, and it was also a mega auction year when we were reassessing our approach after inconsistent performances. Bringing him on officially (as the head coach) made sense.\n\nIt has helped players feel more comfortable and has contributed to building the right culture within the team.\n\nOff the field, the intentional brand-building work we started early on is beginning to show results. Grassroots and community-building have often been taken for granted by legacy sports brands, and we saw that as an opportunity. Learning from global sports—especially football clubs with decades of community engagement—we wanted to build something similar with UP Warriorz, and it’s starting to resonate.\n\nSponsors have noticed this intent. A month-long tournament like the WPL isn’t enough on its own; brands need year-round engagement. Our learning has been that to attract the right partners, we need to offer longevity and alignment beyond match days. The groundwork we’ve been laying over the last few years is now paying off.\n\nPerhaps the biggest lesson has been patience. We realised we don’t need to do everything at once. By pacing ourselves and focusing on foundations, the impact becomes more meaningful and sustainable over time.\n"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"9a:T538,From what we have seen with the WPL, there’s a clear opportunity to grow women’s sport beyond cricket as well. One of the missing links has been the lack of pathways for new audiences to discover and follow women’s sport. To build that engagement, we need more commercially structured leagues like the WPL across other sports, so audiences can grow alongside the game.\n\nThe challenge, of course, is the familiar chicken-and-egg situation. Do we have enough teams and depth to justify commercial investment, or does investment need to come first to build that depth? 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