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From turning surplus food into animal feed to scaling gaming incubators, digital healthcare, and AI-driven customer experiences, here are the stories making waves this week.Featured StoriesWasteLink is turning India’s food surplus into nutritious animal feedIndia wastes as much as 74 million tonnes of food every year, amounting to 22% of its foodgrain production, according to data from the United Nations Environment Programme 2021. Much of this food, while still edible, ends up in landfills or compost pits. Meanwhile, the country’s dairy and poultry industries are grappling with rising costs for raw materials like maize and soya. What if one problem could…
Online investment platform Groww is reportedly set to file its updated draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India this week, according to reports in Moneycontrol and The Economic Times. The company is targeting a November listing, with an IPO size of $800 million to $1 billion.Groww is preparing to go public at a valuation of around Rs 80,000 crore ($9 billion), higher than its earlier $7–8 billion target, on the back of a strong financial performance, Moneycontrol reported.Groww was last valued at $3 billion in 2021 during its Series E round. The proposed listing…
Inflection Point Ventures (IPV)-backed MyPickup is winding down its operations after about three years after it struggled to find a product-market fit for the company’s offerings during non-peak times. The subscription-based mobility startup offered electric auto-rickshaw services that can be subscribed on a weekly and monthly basis with zero cancellations and zero surge pricing for commuters. MyPickup’s founder Abhijeet Jagtap took to LinkedIn to note that the company struggled to get access to patient capital—long term investment money that does not expect quick returns—that was required for the company to achieve product-market fit. “As a founder, I underestimated the time…
What began as a college side project between two students passionate about robotics at a modest lab in Jamshedpur has grown into Rosa Tech, a deeptech startup redefining industrial safety and automation with intelligent, human-collaborative robots. Runner-up at the Dell Entrepreneur Challenge, Rosa Tech is designing intelligent machines to collaborate with humans, not replace them, and enabling a safer, more efficient future for sectors such as manufacturing and defense. Rosa Tech’s journey accelerated when one of its early prototypes caught media attention and opened doors to present directly to the top management of Tata Steel. Though the project didn’t materialize due to…
In 2021, Prosus, among the world’s biggest tech investors, led a $188-million funding round in Urban Company, doubling its valuation to $2 billion—on the promise of bringing order to the chaotic home services market in the country. Four years later, that bet seems to have been delivered. The home services platform’s Rs 1,900-crore IPO last week drew overwhelming demand, getting fully subscribed in under three hours and closing with subscriptions over 104 times—among the strongest issues by a new-age Indian tech firm. As of the third and final day of the issue, stock market investors had subscribed 103.63 times to Urban…
Hello,Vatican may be the focal point of Christianity, but last week, it was also the venue to discuss the ethical use of AI!In a summit held on Friday and Saturday on “human fraternity”, Nobel prize winners, eclectic thinkers, and artists convened in Vatican City to discuss everything from agriculture to the economy to sport.Not just that. The event wrapped up with a historic concert in St. Peter’s Square, directed by American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams and celebrated Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.Speaking of ethical use of AI, Penske Media—the owner of media outlets Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety—sued Google, alleging the technology…
Robotics and AI, once considered science fiction, are very much our reality now—moving beyond research labs into industries to tackle some of the most pressing real-world challenges. From reimagining industrial automation and water management to transforming farming, healthcare, transport, and even digital workflows, deeptech startups are pioneering solutions that blend AI, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and automation in novel ways. By enabling machines to perceive, reason, and act with greater autonomy, these technologies are reshaping industry operations, bringing adaptability, precision, and scalability to diverse fields, including agriculture, manufacturing, logistics, diagnostics, and autonomous mobility. The following startups represent this new…
India wastes as much as 74 million tonnes of food every year, amounting to 22% of its foodgrain production, according to data from the United Nations Environment Programme 2021. Much of this food, while still edible, ends up in landfills or compost pits. Meanwhile, the country’s dairy and poultry industries are grappling with rising costs for raw materials like maize and soya. What if one problem could help solve the other?That thought sparked the creation of Wastelink, a Delhi startup founded in 2018 by Saket Dave, a chemical engineer who was later joined by Krishnan Kasturirangan, his former colleague at cloud…
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Walmart-owned ecommerce giant Flipkart saw a widening of consolidated losses to Rs 5,189 crore in the financial year ended March 2025, according to data accessed by business intelligence platform Tofler.Flipkart India’s losses stood at Rs 4,248.3 crore in the preceding financial year.The company recorded a 17.3% increase in consolidated revenue from operations, rising from Rs 70,541.9 crore in FY24 to Rs 82,787.3 crore in FY25.The company’s total expenses for the fiscal year swelled 17.4% to Rs 88,121.4 crore.The primary driver of the company’s expenses was the purchase of stock-in-trade, which surged to Rs 87,737.8 crore in FY25 against Rs 74,271.2…