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Indian startups raised $297.25 million this week, up 125% WoW, led by Emergent’s unicorn round. Udaan separately closed a $160 million balance sheet fix amid a Singapore insolvency case.

TCS expands its 20-year ABB partnership into a multi-million AI-driven network deal, arriving amid layoffs across Indian IT.

Meta quietly launched Pocket, an AI app that turns text prompts into playable “gizmos,” built on its Gizmo acquisition earlier this year.

From a Karnataka village with no internet to a NASA contract, Awais Ahmed’s Pixxel journey shows what a real deep-tech bet looks like.

Two Indian students built Tsenta, an AI tool that auto-applies to jobs, after facing thousands of internship rejections. Y Combinator just backed them.

At 14, Jainam Jain built AI startup Mengo Engine and works from Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. Here’s the story behind the viral headline.

Kenyan engineer Joseph Nguthiru founded HyaPak after getting his boat trapped in invasive water hyacinth. His water hyacinth biodegradable plastic startup has since won the UN’s top award for young …

Sarvam AI raised $234 million in its Series B round, hitting a $1.5 billion valuation with HCLTech leading. Here’s how the Bengaluru startup became India’s newest AI unicorn.

Aman Sanger started coding at 14. By 25, he’s looking at a $2.7 billion payout after SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor, the AI coding tool he co-built, for $60 billion. …