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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.

Membrane Group India and Kurita Form Joint Venture to Strengthen Water Infrastructure for India’s Semiconductor Industry

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L-R Peeyush Narang, Managing Director- Membrane Group India Pvt Ltd and Hirohiko Ejiri , President and Representative Executive Officer, Kurita Water Industries Ltd

New Delhi: As India accelerates its ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing hub, reliable water infrastructure is emerging as one of the industry’s most critical requirements. Addressing this growing demand, Membrane Group India and Japan’s Kurita Water Industries have announced a strategic joint venture to deliver advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions for semiconductor … Read more

Qualcomm Unveils AI Data Center Strategy with Meta, Microsoft Partnerships and Modular Acquisition

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Qualcomm

New Delhi: Qualcomm Technologies has announced a major expansion into the artificial intelligence (AI) data center market, unveiling new hardware platforms, strategic partnerships with Meta and Microsoft, and the acquisition of AI software company Modular as it looks to strengthen its position in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure industry. The announcement marks one of Qualcomm’s … Read more

Pristine Logistics Files Confidential DRHP with SEBI for IPO, Strengthens Expansion in India’s Rail Logistics Sector

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Pristine

New Delhi: Pristine Logistics & Infraprojects Limited has taken a significant step toward entering the public markets by confidentially filing its Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) under the regulator’s pre-filing route. The confidential filing marks the beginning of the company’s proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO), allowing … Read more

Exclusive Interaction with Sandeep Arya: Inside Naqi Logix’s Plan to Make Touch, Voice, and Screens Optional

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ENN Exclusive Interview with Sandeep Arya, CBO, Naqi Logix

What if the next interface you use isn’t a screen, a button, or your voice — but a blink, a clenched jaw, or the subtle tilt of your head? That’s the premise behind Naqi Logix, a neurotechnology company that has turned an ordinary-looking earbud into what it calls an “Invisible User Interface” — a way … Read more

Can India’s $60 Billion Home Services Playbook Work in Southeast Asia? Inside the Numbers

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Can India's $60 Billion Home Services Playbook Work in Southeast Asia

In India, booking a plumber, a massage therapist, or a deep-cleaning crew through an app has become routine enough that the market built around it is now worth roughly $60 billion, with three well-funded startups burning real money to fight over the fastest-growing slice of it. In most of Southeast Asia, the equivalent transaction still … Read more

Indian Startup Funding Weekly Report:Startups Raise $1.11 Billion, AI, fintech and proptech dominate funding activity

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Indian Startup Funding this week

India’s startup ecosystem witnessed one of its strongest funding weeks of 2026, with 20 startups raising nearly $1.11 billion across 19 disclosed funding rounds between 21 June and 27 June 2026. The week was marked by a major investment from Meta into CRED, the emergence of a new unicorn, several high-profile executive appointments, acquisitions, and … Read more

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: AI, Fintech and HealthTech Lead Investments

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Asian Startups Funding Roundup

Asian startups continued to attract strong investor interest this week, with venture capital firms and angel investors backing companies across artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, blockchain, healthcare, deeptech, and IoT. Between 21 June and 26 June 2026, startups across Singapore, India, the UAE, Australia, and other Asian markets announced fresh funding rounds aimed at accelerating product … Read more

Singapore AI Startup Samepage Raises $4.85 Million to Expand Product Intelligence Platform

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Samepage

Singapore-based AI startup Samepage has raised US$4.85 million in a funding round led by Craft Ventures, Freestyle VC, and Glasswing Ventures, as the company looks to accelerate the development of its AI-powered product management platform and expand adoption of its flagship solution, Samepage Signals. The round also attracted several prominent angel investors, including Justin Kan, … Read more

Uber India President Prabhjeet Singh Steps Down After Nearly 11 Years; Reportedly Set to Join OpenAI India

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Prabhjeet Singh

Uber India and South Asia President Prabhjeet Singh has stepped down after nearly 11 years with the global ride-hailing company, marking the end of a leadership tenure that oversaw the company’s expansion across mobility, multimodal transportation, and digital public infrastructure initiatives in the region. The development was confirmed by an Uber spokesperson, who acknowledged Singh’s … Read more

Who is Shankh Mitra? Indian-origin CEO becomes the World’s Second-Highest-Paid CEO

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Shankh Mitra

Two engineering graduates from Indian universities now sit inside the world’s most exclusive — and most scrutinised — pay bracket. When the Wall Street Journal published its closely watched annual ranking of the highest-paid chief executives at S&P 500 companies, an Indian-origin name landed in second place globally, trailing only Tesla’s Elon Musk. The executive … Read more

MyRepublic and TP-Link Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver Advanced Connectivity Solutions for Singapore SMEs

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MyRepublic

MyRepublic Broadband Pte Ltd and TP-Link Corporation Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their strategic partnership, strengthening their commitment to providing advanced internet connectivity and enterprise networking solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. The agreement will enable both companies to collaborate on delivering next-generation networking infrastructure, helping … Read more

AI Coding Costs Could Overtake Developer Salaries by 2028—Here’s Why It Matters

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AI Coding Cost

There’s an uncomfortable conversation happening in the war rooms of enterprise IT right now, and it goes something like this: we invested in AI to reduce costs, so why is the invoice getting larger? A new Gartner prediction, published June 2026, puts a hard date on what many engineering leaders already quietly suspect. By 2028, … Read more

India’s Data Centre Ambitions: What the Numbers Reveal About What the Country Still Needs

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India Data Center

India wants to be a global data centre superpower, and on paper, the numbers back that ambition. The country’s installed data centre capacity crossed roughly 1,700 MW by the end of 2025, up from just 950 MW in 2024, and cumulative investment commitments in the sector hit $126 billion by the close of the same … Read more

Zave Raises ₹4.7 Crore to Scale AI Shopping Assistant, Strengthen Product and Platform Capabilities

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Zave

Bengaluru: AI-powered shopping assistant startup Zave has secured ₹4.7 crore in a bridge funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), with participation from Mucker Capital. The fresh capital will help the startup enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities, strengthen platform infrastructure, and accelerate product development as it prepares for its next phase of growth. The … Read more

Amazon to Invest $48 Billion in India by 2030, Expands AI Infrastructure and Quick Commerce Ambitions

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AMAZON with PM Modi

New Delhi: Amazon has announced plans to invest $48 billion in India between 2026 and 2030, reinforcing its long-term commitment to one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies. The investment follows a meeting between Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting the company’s expanding focus on artificial intelligence (AI), cloud … Read more

NTT DATA Partners with Cursor to Accelerate Enterprise AI Modernization and Strengthen AI Governance

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NTT Data

As enterprises accelerate investments in artificial intelligence, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to modernize legacy applications while maintaining security, governance, and operational control. In a significant move aimed at transforming enterprise software engineering, NTT DATA has announced a strategic partnership with Cursor, one of the world’s leading multi-model AI coding platforms. Under the partnership, … Read more

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis Meets Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Invites Fresh Investment in Data Centres and Healthcare

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Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Mumbai on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in a high-profile meeting that underscored the state’s ambition to remain India’s leading destination for technology and cloud infrastructure investment. The meeting, held during Jassy’s first visit to India since taking over as Amazon’s chief executive from founder … Read more

EXL to Acquire iMerit in $310 Million Deal

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EXL to acquire iMerit Technology

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, and organizations are increasingly seeking partners capable of building trustworthy, domain-specific AI solutions. In one of the biggest AI-focused acquisitions of the year, EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire AI model training and reinforcement learning specialist iMerit in a transaction valued … Read more

UK Startup is Making Electricity From Bacteria in the Soil

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Courtesy of Bactery

A University of Bath spinout says ordinary dirt — and the trillions of bacteria living in it — could become a quiet, round-the-clock power source for homes and farms alike. There is a strange kind of alchemy happening under a patch of grass in Somerset. No sunlight, no wind, no moving parts — just soil, … Read more

AI Moves From Pilot Projects to Factory Floors as 68% of Manufacturers Plan Large-Scale Deployment Within a Year: KPMG Report

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KPMG Report

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment across the global manufacturing sector. According to KPMG’s Global Tech Report 2026: Industrial Manufacturing, nearly 68% of industrial manufacturing leaders expect to deploy AI at scale within the next 12 months, highlighting a major shift in how manufacturers are approaching digital transformation. The report, based … Read more