Giga Secures $61 million to Advance Voice Based AI Agents for Enterprise

India’s AI startup scene continues to capture global attention as Giga, founded by graduates of IIT Kharagpur, secures 61 million dollars in Series A funding. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus Venture Partners, marking one of the largest earl...

The Billion-Dollar AI Startup Boom: 24 New Leaders Reshape the Tech Landscape

Three years on from OpenAI's ChatGPT launch, the artificial intelligence boom has shifted up a gear. The big players are pouring eye-watering amounts of money into data centres, computing chips, and top talent to build increasingly sophisticated AI systems leading some to worry we might be witnessin...

Scaling Impact, Creating Markets: Chaitra Vedullapalli on the Economics of Inclusive AI Innovation

Chaitra Vedullapalli’s journey reads like a manifesto for inclusive innovation. From being one of Oracle’s youngest directors to co-founding Women in Cloud, she has championed economic access and digital equity across more than 80 nations. In this conversation with AI Spect...
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Bessemer Venture Partners Ramps Up Investments in Indian AI-First Startups Amid IT Services Shake-Up

Bessemer Venture Partners is intensifying its focus on AI-first startups emerging from India, signalling a decisive shift in how global capital views the country’s deep-tech potential. As the US$283 billion IT services sector faces disruption from automation and generative AI, investors are no...

Accel and Prosus Partner to Fund Population-Scale Indian Startups with Early-Stage “Leap Tech” Focus

Two prominent investment firms have formed a strategic alliance to support Indian startups from their earliest days, targeting entrepreneurs developing solutions capable of serving the South Asian nation's 1.4 billion population at scale. The collaboration, announced on Monday, represents the first...

Allied Intelligence: 25 Partnerships Driving AI’s Next Leap

  From tech giants partnering with nimble AI startups to industry incumbents teaming up with academia and government, collaborative ventures are reshaping competitive advantages across sectors. This report profiles 25 of the most significant AI collaborations active or announced in 2025. Each ...

Bharti Airtel Limited and Google LLC Join Forces to Build India’s Next-Gen AI Hub and DataCentre

Bharti Airtel Limited and Google LLC  announced a landmark collaboration that will usher in a major transformation of India’s digital infrastructure. Together they will establish a mega AI hub and data-centre campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, under a multi-faceted investment of app...

Graph AI Raises $3 Million Seed Funding from Bessemer to Revolutionise Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance

California, US — Graph AI, a start-up focused on patient safety and pharmacovigilance, has raised $3 million in Seed funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The investment will support the company’s plans to accelerate product innovation, expand its engineering team, and advance globa...

Drone Startup Airbound Raises $8.65 Million to Revolutionize Ultra-Low-Cost Deliveries

Airbound, a drone technology startup based in India, has raised $8.65 million in seed funding, led by Lachy Groom, co-founder of Physical Intelligence. This investment comes as the company kicks off a pilot drone-delivery programme with a private hospital, while also aiming to achieve one-cent deliv...

Uttar Pradesh Emerges as India’s 4th Largest Startup Ecosystem, With Over 16,000 Recognized Ventures and Expanding Innovation Infrastructure

Uttar Pradesh has been making significant strides in the startup sector in recent years. The Uttar Pradesh Government has launched various initiatives to foster entrepreneurship, such as the "UP Startup Policy," which provides financial support, mentoring, and plug and play office infrastructure acr...

Clodura.AI Unveils India’s First GenAI-Powered All-in-One GTM Platform to Eliminate Sales Stack Chaos

Sales teams burdened by bloated vendor stacks now have a solution: Clodura.AI unifies enrichment, verification, intent signals, AI-driven outreach, and calling into one intelligent platform—dramatically boosting efficiency and slashing GTM costs worldwide. Across India's boardrooms and g...

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