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This Tamil Nadu Startup Lets Drivers Keep 100% of Their Fare — And Investors Are Betting It Can Outlast Ola and Uber’s Commission Model

Taxina Founders Story

While millions of Indian gig drivers absorb commissions of up to 40% per ride, a Salem-based startup backed by Tamil Nadu’s taxi unions is betting that the real disruption in ride-hailing isn’t a better app — it’s a fairer business model. For the better part of a decade, India’s ride-hailing economy has run on a … Read more

Exclusive: The Ring That Never Forgets: How Gyges Labs’ Vocci Is Rewriting What a Wearable Can Do

ENN Exclusive Interview

Every day, professionals walk out of meetings with ideas half-remembered, insights half-formed, and conversations that could have changed everything — but didn’t, because nobody wrote it down fast enough. Domingo, co-founder of Gyges Labs, thinks the answer is already on your finger. Gyges Labs is the Silicon Valley-born, Singapore-connected startup behind Vocci — the world’s … Read more

The Inner Engine: What It Really Takes to Earn Antler’s Bet

Exclusive Interaction with Magnus Grimeland, founder and CEO, Antler

The Inner Engine — Magnus Grimeland | BEYOND Expo 2026 Exclusive Interview June 2026  ·  Macau Beyond Expo 2026 Venture Capital  ·  Innovation  ·  Asia The Inner Engine: What It Really Takesto Earn Antler’s Bet Magnus Grimeland — CEO of the world’s most active early-stage VC — doesn’t want your pitch deck. He wants to … Read more

Beyond the Selfie: How This AI Wearable Camera Wants to Become Your Digital Memory

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our daily lives, but one startup believes AI can do more than answer questions or generate content—it can help people preserve and relive their life experiences. At BEYOND Expo 2026, Entrepreneur News Network (ENN) met with Declan, who showcased an innovative AI-powered wearable camera designed to automatically capture … Read more

From Maker’s Desk to 67 Countries: How Makera Is Bringing Industrial-Grade CNC Precision to Everyone

Monica Wurina, Makera

At Beyond Expo 2026, amid a buzzing floor of hardware innovations, one booth kept drawing curious hands and lingering glances. Makera, the Shenzhen-based desktop CNC machine company, had something rare on display — not just a product, but a philosophy. Founded by a maker for makers, Makera has spent over seven years quietly solving a … Read more

Reliable AI Is the Next Big Thing — CloudWise CEO Andy on Powering the Future of AI Infrastructure, Smart Grids & Data Centres

Andy Yin, CEO and Founder of Cloudwise,

Exclusive Interview | Beyond Expo 2026 | Macao – In a world racing to deploy artificial intelligence, one question is rising above the noise: can we trust it? For Andy, CEO of CloudWise, the answer lies not in building more AI — but in making AI reliable, observable, and always on. At Beyond Expo 2026 … Read more

Building a Smarter Macau: How MPass, Ant Bank, and the Alibaba Ecosystem Are Turning a 20-Year Fintech Journey Into an AI-Powered Smart City Vision

Macau Mpass

Exclusive Interview | Beyond Expo 2026 | Macao – Twenty years ago, a simple transit card changed how Macau moved. Today, that same company is helping redefine how an entire city lives, pays, connects, and grows. At Beyond Expo 2026 — held at The Venetian Macao under the landmark theme “AI: Coexistence of the Digital … Read more

The Founders Who Skipped the Pitch Deck — and Still Hit $500K in 7 Months

Optiflux Founders

Exclusive Interview The Founders Who Skipped the Pitch Deck — and Still Hit $500K in 7 Months 8 min read AI · Operations Research · Deep Tech India In an era where every startup races to build an LLM wrapper and survive on investor runway, the founders of OptiFlux made a contrarian bet: solve hard … Read more

The $100 Million Back-Office: How Nithin Reddy Built FinStackk for India’s Global Founders

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In a startup ecosystem where founders often treat compliance as an afterthought and back-office infrastructure as a necessary evil, Nithin Reddy is building the opposite argument — and backing it with numbers. As Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of FinStackk, Reddy has guided over 500 global founders through the complex labyrinth of US incorporation, cross-border … Read more

From COVID’s Rubble to Building India’s Integrated Talent & Workspace Company: The Souraabh Saluja Story

Exclusive interaction with Souraabh Saluja

    EntrepreneurNewsNetwork Startups Founders Interviews Funding Technology ENN Exclusive  ·  CXO Spotlight  ·  EvolveMinds · EevolveX · Talent Strategy · Workspace Management · Gurgaon Ecosystem   Exclusive Interview · Founder & CXO From COVID’s Rubble to Building India’s Integrated Talent & Workspace Company: The Souraabh Saluja Story With over 10+ years in corporate hiring … Read more

From Waste to Wealth: How Caslay’s Founder Is Building India’s Most Scalable Sustainable Fashion Brand — And Eyeing a 2030 IPO

Dinesh Agrawal, CEO and Co-founder of Caslay

  Exclusive Feature Interview Entrepreneurship · Sustainability · Innovation E Entrepreneur News Network ● In Conversation Building Sustainable Empires from the Ground Up Caslay · EcoJay · A 2030 Vision From corporate gifting to sustainable fashion — ENN sits down with the founder of Caslay for an in-depth conversation on data-driven pivots, the EcoJay advantage, … Read more

How Two Childhood Friends Built India’s First Science-Backed Curly Hair Brand — With Just ₹5,000 a Month in Ads

Isha and Rutvika

  Entrepreneur News Network Exclusive Interaction Exclusive Interaction  ·  D2C Beauty  ·  Women Founders  ·  Bootstrapped How Two Childhood Friends Built India’s First Science-Backed Curly Hair Brand — With Just ₹5,000 a Month in Ads Isha Mahabal and Rutvika Charegaonkar, co-founders of The Curl Co., share the exact numbers, the formulation science, and the philosophy … Read more

Exclusive Interview | From Small Town to Multi-Career Success: Priya Sachdeva Shares Lessons on Entrepreneurship and Women Leadership

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In an exclusive interaction with Ankitt Y., Editor at Entrepreneur News Network, Priya Sachdeva — Host and Founder of the Trending Diary Podcast — shares insights into her journey across corporate leadership, podcasting, hospitality entrepreneurship and content creation. Priya represents a new generation of professionals who refuse to be defined by a single career path. … Read more

Exclusive Interview: RenewCred Founder Abhimanyu Rathi on Climate Startups, ESG Culture, and the Next Big Opportunity in Carbon Markets

Abhimanyu Rathi, founder of RenewCred

Climate change, sustainable innovation, and carbon markets are rapidly becoming central to global business conversations. Yet very few entrepreneurs are building companies at the intersection of climate technology, social impact, and finance. In an exclusive interaction with Ankitt Y, Editor, Entrepreneur News Network, Abhimanyu Rathi, founder of RenewCred, shares insights from his journey—from traveling across … Read more

Women’s Day Special: From 0 to 50,000 Shipments a Day, Zaiba Sarang’s Journey Building iThink Logistics

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India’s logistics ecosystem has rapidly evolved alongside the explosive growth of e-commerce and quick commerce. At the centre of this transformation are platforms that make shipping smarter, faster, and more reliable for businesses across the country. One such company is iThink Logistics, co-founded by Zaiba Sarang, which today connects brands to logistics partners across 26,000+ … Read more

Women’s Day Special: “Don’t Be Hesitant” — Kresha Gupta on Building a Fund House at 24 and Betting on India’s Growth Story

Kresha Gupta, Fund Manager & Director at Steptrade Capital

At 24, Kresha Gupta was doing something most finance professionals spend decades preparing for — managing investor money. But the journey to that moment didn’t begin with a fund launch. It started much earlier — in conversations around capital markets at home, long hours during her articleship working on SME IPOs, and later in the … Read more

“In FMCG, the Product Is the Strategy”: Peeyush Rungta on Scaling Rungta Tea with Discipline and Trust

Peeyush Rungta, Marketing Head, Rungta Tea

In a virtual discussion with Ankitt Y, Editor at Entrepreneur News Network, Peeyush Rungta, Marketing Head, Rungta Tea, shared his perspectives on building a resilient FMCG brand in India’s highly competitive tea market. From identifying pivotal inflection points in his career to balancing tradition with modern consumer expectations, he reflected on the realities of scaling, … Read more

Exclusive Interaction with Umang Shukla, Co-founder, Edgistfy: How AI and Quick Commerce Are Transforming India’s Supply Chain

Umang Shukla, Co-founder, Edgistfy

In an exclusive discussion with Ankitt Y from Entrepreneur News Network, Umang Shukla, Co-founder of Edgistfy, shares deep insights into the evolution of India’s supply chain ecosystem, the critical gap between technology and operations, the rise of quick commerce, and how AI is fundamentally changing warehouse execution. From building a B2B engine contributing 60% of … Read more

Exclusive | Founder of Sekel Tech explains how hyperlocal data, inventory orchestration, and AI are transforming online-to-offline retail in India.

Rakesh Raghuvanshi, Founder and CEO, Sekel Tech

Friday, 6th February, 2026 –  As India’s retail ecosystem expands deeper into Tier-2 and Tier-3 markets, the gap between online discovery and offline commerce execution has become one of the most persistent challenges for multi-location brands. While digital ads, listings, and visibility continue to grow, translating that attention into measurable footfall, inventory-led fulfilment, and real … Read more

Exclusive Interview | How Dvara KGFS Is Redesigning Rural Finance for a Climate-Stressed India

Rahul Tripathi, Chief Product Officer, Dvara KGFS

New Delhi, India, 2 February, 2026: In an in-depth virtual interaction with Entrepreneur News Network, senior journalist  spoke with Rahul Tripathi, Chief Product Officer at Dvara KGFS, to examine how climate risk is reshaping rural finance in India. The discussion explored Dvara KGFS’s evolving role as a medium-tier NBFC operating deep in rural and semi-rural … Read more