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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.

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

Vertiv Expands Italy Manufacturing to Meet Rising AI Data Center Cooling Demand

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Italy

Padua, Italy: Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has announced new investments at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy, aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and advanced testing capabilities for data center cooling systems. The expansion comes as demand for AI-ready infrastructure and high-density computing continues to surge worldwide. Vertiv expects the investment to double its chiller … Read more

Yotta Launches ₹10,000 Free AI Credits Program on Shakti Studio to Boost AI Innovation in India

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Yotta

New Delhi, India: Yotta Data Services has launched a ₹10,000 Free Credits Program for Shakti Studio, its AI development and inference platform, aimed at helping developers, startups, enterprises, researchers, and Global Capability Centers (GCCs) build and deploy artificial intelligence applications without the upfront cost of GPU infrastructure. The initiative provides complimentary access to serverless GPU … Read more

Dabur Collaborates with Accenture to Accelerate AI-Led Reinvention

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Accenture

New Delhi, India: FMCG major Dabur India Limited has announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with Accenture to accelerate enterprise-wide artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, strengthen data-driven decision-making, and build a future-ready digital business. The partnership marks the next phase of Dabur’s digital transformation journey, with a focus on integrating AI across core business functions to improve … Read more

Exclusive Interview: Abhishek Harshay on AI, Digital Transformation and Building Business-First Technology Solutions

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Abhishek Harshay Exclusive Interaction

In today’s rapidly evolving digital economy, organizations are under constant pressure to embrace artificial intelligence, automation, cloud computing, and digital transformation. Yet many technology investments fail—not because of the technology itself, but because businesses adopt solutions before understanding the problems they need to solve. For Abhishek Harshay, Principal Consultant & Founder of Nyrmiti, technology has … Read more

PUMA Expands India Tech Presence with New Global Capability Centre in Pune

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PUMA

Pune, India: Global sportswear giant PUMA Group is strengthening its technology footprint in India with the launch of a new Global Capability Centre (GCC) TechHub in Pune, reinforcing the country’s growing role as a strategic hub for digital engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), and product innovation. The new centre will support PUMA’s global retail and e-commerce … Read more

Yuvraj Singh Joins Healthtech Startup UN:BLOC as Investor and Founding Team Member

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Yuvraj Singh

Gurugram, India: Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has joined UN:BLOC, the new healthcare venture founded by serial entrepreneur Deepak Sahni, as an investor and a member of the company’s founding team. The partnership marks the second entrepreneurial collaboration between the two after their successful association with healthtech company Healthians. The move highlights the growing interest … Read more