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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.

Scrubsy Raises ₹27 Crore From V3 Ventures to Scale Home-Cleaning Products Business

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Scrubsy

GURUGRAM, India — August 13, 2026: Gurugram-based home-cleaning products startup Scrubsy has raised ₹27 crore (approximately $3 million) from consumer-focused investment firm V3 Ventures, as the young brand looks to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate product development. Operating under BoldChem Science Pvt Ltd, Scrubsy was founded in 2025 by Kartik Sibal, Ishan Suri, Nitin Jain … Read more

“Don’t Let Humans Rubber-Stamp Your AI Agents”: Marsh’s AI Chief On What Enterprise AI Gets Wrong In 2026

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Vijay Morumpadi

In an exclusive conversation, Vijay Morampudi, who leads the Global AI Centre of Excellence within Marsh’s Global Capability Centre (GCC) and drives agentic AI orchestration for the firm’s Risk & Insurance business, on why AI strategy has to start with the business — not the model — and the rollback mechanism every enterprise deploying AI … Read more

India’s GCC Boom Is Making Landlords Rich, Not IT Firms

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India GCC

BENGALURU, India — Thursday, August 13, 2026 – Table Space, a company that leases and fits out office space, just told SEBI it made more profit before tax last year than it reported as a headline loss. That single line in its draft IPO papers, filed on August 11, is a decent summary of what’s … Read more

Lane Raises ₹8.5 Crore to Expand Tech-Enabled Driving Education Platform in India

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Lane_Team

BENGALURU, India, Aug. 12, 2026 — Lane, a Bengaluru-based tech-enabled driving education and mobility platform, has raised ₹8.5 crore in a funding round led by Kae Capital, with participation from DeVC, Antler India, Panthera Peak and prominent angel investors. The company said it will use the funds to expand its instructor network, accelerate development of … Read more

India Doesn’t Have a Data Center Problem. It Has a Jurisdiction Opportunity.

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India data center

“India has 20% of the world’s internet users. It holds 1.5% of global data center capacity. The chips inside cost more than the building and the land combined. Even the largest tech companies lease more than they own, because owning sinks returns. Countries think differently. They need jurisdiction, not hardware. So what happens to a … Read more

Workato Opens Third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad to Accelerate Enterprise AI Innovation

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Workato

Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad, expanding the enterprise automation company’s global network of AI innovation centres and strengthening its investment in India’s growing enterprise AI ecosystem. The new facility, located at Aurobindo Orbit in Hyderabad Knowledge City, HITEC City, joins Workato’s existing AI collaboration hubs in San Francisco and Singapore. … Read more

Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Synthes to Establish Global Capability Centre in Bengaluru

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DePuy Synthes

Bengaluru, India | August 10, 2026: Johnson & Johnson’s orthopaedics business DePuy Synthes has announced plans to establish a new Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Bengaluru, strengthening its technology, engineering and enterprise capabilities in India. The upcoming centre is expected to serve as a global hub for innovation, engineering and enterprise services, bringing together technology, … Read more

Infosys Signs 10-Year Strategic Agreement With Crocs To Drive AI-Led Digital Transformation

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Infosys

New Delhi, India | August 10, 2026: Infosys has entered into a 10-year strategic agreement with Crocs, Inc. to help modernise the global footwear company’s core business and IT systems using AI-first platforms. The long-term collaboration is aimed at simplifying operations, reducing costs and creating a more scalable digital foundation for Crocs as the company … Read more

KühlTherm Launches Liquid Cooling Solutions for High-Density AI Data Centres in India

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KühlTherm

Ahmedabad, India | August 10, 2026: Ahmedabad-based thermal management startup KühlTherm has launched two locally developed liquid cooling solutions aimed at supporting the growing demand for high-density artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in India’s data centre industry. The company has introduced a Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) and a Cooling Distribution Unit (CDU), alongside what it … Read more

CEO’s Screenshot Of AI-Written Cover Letter Sparks Hiring Debate

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AI CV

NEW DELHI ( ENN News) — A Delhi-based startup founder says roughly one in five job applications she now receives contain unedited, AI-generated text, after a screenshot she posted of a botched cover letter drew more than 107,000 views online. Ananya Narang, founder and chief executive of Entourage, a content-as-a-service platform, shared the screenshot on … Read more

Funding Wrap Of The Week: Asian Startups, August 2–7

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Top 10 Funding Wrap

Asia’s startup ecosystem closed the first week of August with a burst of activity, led by a handful of large late-stage rounds and a long tail of early-stage bets across fintech, mobility, AI and insurtech. Ten deals stood out across the region, and in India specifically, the week marked a sharp rebound from a quiet … Read more

How AI That Predicts Cancer Drug Response Could Let India Skip Ahead in the Race

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India 60 billion plan

THE $60 BILLION GUESSING GAME How AI That Predicts Cancer Drug Response Could Let India Skip Ahead in the Race A data-driven look at why the world’s most genetically diverse, fastest-growing cancer population may also be its smartest testing ground Every oncology drug that enters a clinical trial is, in a very real sense, a … Read more

Microsoft Opens Largest Data Centre in Hyderabad

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Microsoft

New Hyderabad cloud region reinforces Microsoft’s long-term India strategy as demand for AI, cloud computing, and digital infrastructure continues to accelerate. Microsoft has expanded its cloud infrastructure in India with the launch of its India South Central Azure cloud region in Hyderabad, taking the company’s total number of cloud regions in the country to four. … Read more

From Intel’s Cleanrooms to Kerala’s Coast: The Chip That Wants to Keep AI Off the Cloud

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Jyothis Indirabhai

At 23, Jyothis Indirabhai left India for Japan to work as a design consultant for Hitachi. Two decades and several semiconductor companies later, including a nearly ten-year stint at Intel from 2005 to 2014 as a design manager and micro-architect, he made the opposite journey: back to Thiruvananthapuram, the city where he once studied electronics … Read more

Visa Appoints Adrija Banerjee as Head of AI Practice for North America

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Adrija-Banerjee

  BENGALURU, Aug. 7 — Global payments technology company Visa has appointed Adrija Banerjee as Head of AI Practice for North America (Senior Director), strengthening its leadership team as the company accelerates the adoption of artificial intelligence across its payments and financial services business. Banerjee brings more than a decade of experience spanning artificial intelligence, … Read more

HCLTech Achieves OpenAI Advanced Partner Status to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

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HCLtech

NEW YORK and NOIDA, India, Aug 7, 2026— The race to industrialize artificial intelligence across enterprises is entering a new phase, and partnerships are becoming as important as the technology itself. HCLTech has announced that it has achieved OpenAI Advanced Partner status within the OpenAI Partner Network, reinforcing its position as one of the global … Read more

Reliance Retail Acquires Fashion Discovery Platform Furrl

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Esha Tiwary, Founder and CEO, Furrl.

BENGALURU, Aug 6 (ENN) – Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), India’s largest retailer, said on Wednesday it has acquired Furrl, a Bengaluru-based fashion discovery startup, in an all-cash deal for an undisclosed sum, as it looks to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities in fashion e-commerce. Furrl’s entire team, its proprietary AI styling platform and its … Read more

India’s GCCs Will Hire 510,000 People This Year. 64% of Those Roles Need a Skill No Certificate Fully Teaches.

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India GCC

MUMBAI, Aug 6 ( Entrepreneur News Network): The headline number tells you how many jobs are coming. It does not tell you which skill to build, or how the people already inside these companies are quietly getting there first. The Number: 510,452 India’s Global Capability Centres are on track to cross half a million new … Read more

From Startup India to Atmanirbhar Bharat: 5 Founders Leading India’s Next Growth Story

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Startup India

A decade ago, Startup India was a bet that the country could build companies, not just consume products. Today the bet has matured into something more ambitious: Atmanirbhar Bharat, a push to build the sovereign capability — in chips, rockets, batteries, and quantum machines — that a rising power can no longer afford to import. … Read more

The Founder Who Held a Funeral for the SIM Card—and Built a Billion-Dollar eSIM Unicorn

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Ahmet Bahadir Özdemir

WhatsApp had just killed his last business. So when Ahmet Bahadir Özdemir walked into an investor pitch, he didn’t bring a deck — he brought a eulogy. That single unconventional pitch, backed by Antler, became the origin story of Airalo, now the world’s largest eSIM marketplace. The Pitch That Wasn’t a Pitch Picture a standard … Read more