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Ruchi Kumar

Ruchi Kumar is the associate editor at  Entrepreneur News Network and TVW News India, where she leads editorial strategy, brand storytelling, and startup ecosystem coverage. With a strong focus on innovation, business, and marketing insights, he curates impactful narratives that spotlight India’s evolving entrepreneurial landscape. She has written extensively on fintech, AI and emerging startups.

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Deals: AI, Cybersecurity and Consumer Tech Lead the Way

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Top 10 Asian Startup

Startup News | October 4–9, 2026 – Asian startup funding activity during October 4–9, 2026, featured developments across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced energy, consumer technology and biotechnology. From companies raising fresh capital to businesses reportedly exploring large fundraising plans, the week’s updates reflect the range of opportunities attracting investor attention. Among the notable developments were … Read more

OPINION — The New Cyber Battlefield: How AI, Geopolitics and Social Media Are Reshaping Cybersecurity

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The New Cyber Battlefield Feature

By Narendra Yadav For cybersecurity entrepreneurs and startups, the next frontier is not simply preventing attacks. It is building trust, anticipating intelligent adversaries and securing an increasingly connected digital world. The cybersecurity industry is entering a defining era. Artificial intelligence is transforming how businesses operate, how people communicate and how startups innovate. At the same … Read more

IBM and MeitY Startup Hub Partner to Accelerate India’s Deep Tech Startup Ecosystem

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IBM

October 13, 2026, New Delhi, India – IBM and MeitY Startup Hub (MSH), an initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the growth of India’s deep technology startup ecosystem. The collaboration aims to help emerging technology companies access IBM’s enterprise … Read more

Microchip Expands Data Center Portfolio to Meet Evolving AI Infrastructure Demands

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Data Center

October 13, 2026, Bengaluru, India – Microchip Technology is strengthening its data centre technology portfolio with new connectivity, storage and acceleration capabilities designed to address the growing infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) and enterprise workloads. The company, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker MCHP, is introducing enhancements across its Switchtec PCIe … Read more

Trackon Appoints Chandra Prakash as Chief Executive Officer

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Chandra Prakash

12 October 2026, India – Trackon Couriers Pvt. Ltd. has elevated Chandra Prakash, also known as CP, to the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2026. He will lead the company’s next phase of growth, with priorities spanning network expansion, technology adoption, channel partnerships and service reliability. A key focus of the new … Read more

HCLTech Partners With Anthropic to Scale Enterprise Agentic AI

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HCLtech

12 October 2026, India / Global – HCLTech has announced a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic to accelerate the adoption of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) across enterprises, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance. Under the partnership, HCLTech’s services teams will develop industry-specific solutions and offerings powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Cowork and Claude Code. … Read more

The Wealth Company’s Bharat Value Fund Invests ₹400 Crore in Boldfit’s Series B Round

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The Wealth Company

12 October 2026, India –  Bharat Value Fund Backs Boldfit With ₹400 Crore Investment. The Wealth Company Alternates’ Bharat Value Fund, a Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF), has invested approximately ₹400 crore in Boldfit, an Indian sports and fitness brand, as part of the company’s Series B funding round. According to a statement, the … Read more

Nazara Technologies Founder Nitish Mittersain to Step Down as MD; Mithun Sacheti to Become Executive Director

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Nazara Technologies

12 October 2026, India –  Nazara Technologies founder Nitish Mittersain is stepping down as Managing Director (MD) and will be redesignated as Founder and Non-Executive Director, marking a significant leadership transition at one of India’s oldest gaming companies. Mithun Sacheti, co-founder of jewellery retailer CaratLane and a co-promoter of Nazara Technologies, will take over as … Read more

Asian Startup Funding Roundup: DeepSeek, Supabase, DailyObjects and 7 Other Startups in Focus

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Weekly Funding Report_ Asia’s Startup Boom (1)

11 Oct 2026 – The Asian startup ecosystem recorded another week of fundraising activity from October 4 to October 9, 2026, with companies across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, consumer technology, deeptech, healthcare and clean energy attracting investor interest. The week’s funding announcements highlighted a broad range of business priorities, from building infrastructure for AI-powered software to … Read more

GCC CSR spending in India hits ₹3,661 crore, but only 4% backs innovation

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GCC Funding

By Ankitt Y, ENN World | 9 October 2026 – Global capability centres now fund 9% of India’s corporate philanthropy. A new Sattva study shows the money is growing fast, staying in big cities, and rarely tapping the tech skills these centres are built on. India’s global capability centres are among the country’s most technology-rich … Read more

CoreWeave Enters India With 240 MW AI Data Center Campus in Navi Mumbai

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CoreWeave

October 8, 2026, Mumbai, India – AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave has announced its entry into India through a collaboration with AdaniConneX, with plans to develop 240 megawatts (MW) of data center capacity in Navi Mumbai. The expansion will extend CoreWeave’s AI Cloud platform into one of the world’s fastest-growing AI and digital infrastructure markets, … Read more

CRMIT Solutions Acquires Brooke Global to Strengthen Public Sector Consulting in Australia

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Credit: L-R: Bruce McGregor (Brooke Global), Vinod Narapa Reddy (CRMIT Solutions)

October 8, 2026, Bengaluru, India / Australia – Bengaluru-headquartered CRMIT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has announced that its Australian subsidiary, CRMIT Australia Pty Ltd, has acquired Brooke Global, an Australian consulting firm specialising in business process transformation, service redesign and digital consulting for public sector and regulated organisations. The all-cash acquisition will add Brooke Global’s 40-member … Read more

Birlasoft Named OpenAI Select Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

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Birlasoft

October 8, 202, India – Birlasoft has announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, strengthening its collaboration with OpenAI to help enterprises build, deploy and scale artificial intelligence solutions. The OpenAI Partner Network is designed to bring together organizations with industry expertise, technology delivery capabilities and established customer … Read more

Cognizant Extends Gilead Sciences Partnership for Five Years to Advance DevOps and Agentic AI

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cognizant

October 8, 2026, India –  Cognizant has announced a five-year extension of its collaboration with Gilead Sciences, expanding its role in supporting the biopharmaceutical company’s technology environment, DevOps capabilities and selected applications of agentic artificial intelligence. Under the extended agreement, Cognizant will support Gilead’s continued development of DevOps capabilities and the responsible use of agentic … Read more

CDK Names Sudhakar Ramakrishna as President and CEO

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Sudhakar

October 5, 2026 CDK has appointed Sudhakar Ramakrishna as President and Chief Executive Officer, as the automotive technology company prepares for its next phase of growth. Ramakrishna will also join the CDK Board of Directors, effective October 5. He succeeds Brian MacDonald, who is retiring from his role and will continue supporting Brookfield and CDK … Read more

HCLTech Announces AI Upskilling for 1,000 UP Students, HCL Group Plans ₹500 Crore Lucknow Expansion

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HCLtech

October 6, 2026, Lucknow and Noida, Uttar Pradesh –  HCLTech has announced a major talent development and infrastructure expansion initiative in Uttar Pradesh as the technology company marks 10 years of operations in Lucknow. The company plans to train 1,000 students across Uttar Pradesh in artificial intelligence and allied technologies during FY27 through its LITMUS … Read more

LTM Expands Google Cloud Collaboration to Accelerate Gemini Enterprise Adoption

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LTM

Mumbai, 7 October 2026: LTM has announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud aimed at helping enterprises accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise and scale AI-powered solutions across their organizations. The collaboration combines Gemini Enterprise’s AI capabilities with LTM’s industry expertise, engineering talent and global delivery capabilities to help businesses move from experimental … Read more

Gradiant Expands India Operations With New Leadership and Five Water Infrastructure Contracts

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(L-R) Govind Alagappan, COO, Gradiant; Ravichandran Nachiappan, Director of Global Operations, Gradiant; and Hari Prasad, Managing Director – India, Gradiant, at the inauguration of Gradiant's expanded Global Engineering

7 October 2026 – Water technology company Gradiant is expanding its presence in India with a new country leadership appointment, five new design-build contracts across semiconductor, printed circuit board (PCB) and solar manufacturing, and plans to increase its India workforce by more than 40% this year. The company has appointed Hari Prasad as Managing Director, … Read more

EXCLUSIVE INTERACTION | TechNode Founder Dr. Gang Lu on BEYOND Expo, AI, Robotics and Why India Is Asia’s Missing Link

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TechNode and BEYOND Expo Co-Founder Dr. Gang Lu

7 October 2026 | India – In an exclusive interaction with Ankitt Y, Editor, ENN, Dr. Gang LU  — Founder & CEO, TechNode Group, and Co-Founder, BEYOND Expo — shared the thinking behind one of Asia’s most ambitious technology platforms, and was refreshingly candid about what it has not yet achieved. Dr. Lu started TechNode in … Read more

Trentar Plans ₹30,000 Crore Green Integrated Hyperscale Data Centre in Maharashtra

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Trentar

Mumbai, Maharashtra | October 6, 2026 – Trentar, the technology and infrastructure arm of Dorf Ketal Group, plans to develop a 500 MW green integrated hyperscale data centre project in Maharashtra with a proposed investment of ₹30,000 crore ($3.3 billion). The company recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Maharashtra for … Read more