FOUNDERS

The Founders section of Entrepreneur News Network showcases the journeys, leadership stories, and strategic decisions of entrepreneurs and business leaders building influential companies. This category highlights founder stories, leadership insights, executive appointments, and the personal journeys behind successful startups and technology companies.

Readers will discover how founders identified market opportunities, built innovative products, raised capital, and scaled their ventures across competitive markets. The section also features profiles of women entrepreneurs, emerging startup leaders, and influential figures in the global technology ecosystem.

Through in-depth storytelling and leadership insights, the Founders category explores the people shaping the future of entrepreneurship and innovation.

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

October 18, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

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

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

October 11, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

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

Top Asian Startup Funding Roundups: 10 Startups Raise Fresh Capital to Scale Across Global Markets

October 4, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Asian startups continued to attract venture capital and strategic investment during the week of September 27–October 2, 2026, with funding flowing into travel technology, fintech, biotech, cybersecurity, edtech, investment technology, infrastructure software, beauty and preventive healthcare. The latest funding activity highlights continued investor interest in businesses building technology-led solutions for regional and global markets. From … Read more

A Big Logo Doesn’t Make a Big Business”: Shipra Dubey on Building India’s Licensing Ecosystem

September 28, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

New Delhi, 28 September 2026: Licensing in India used to mean a cartoon on a school bag or a logo on a jersey. Shipra Dubey wants to change that. As Founder of The Good Old Brands (TGOB) and Director of LMCA India, she has worked with global IPs such as PepsiCo, NBA, WWE, NASA, EMOJI® … Read more

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds: Barq, Tabby, Buildots, dtcpay and More Raise Fresh Capital

September 20, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

September 20, 2026 | 4:50 PM ISTAsia Asian startups continued to attract venture capital and institutional investment during the week of September 13–18, with companies across fintech, artificial intelligence, construction technology, procurement, recycling and workplace technology announcing new funding. The week’s funding activity was led by Saudi Arabia’s Barq, which secured $329.5 million in Series … Read more

Beyond the Brand Deal: How India’s Biggest Stars Became Serious Startup Investors

September 19, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

For years, the arrangement between Indian celebrities and consumer brands was simple. A star got paid, and a brand got a face for its billboard. That arrangement is changing. A growing number of actors and cricketers now take equity in the startups they believe in, and some go back again and again as those companies … Read more

Raksha Bandhan: How Sibling Entrepreneurs Are Building Some of India’s Most Successful Businesses

August 28, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

From technology and fintech to fashion, food, healthcare and family enterprises, sibling partnerships are proving that trust and complementary strengths can become powerful business assets. Raksha Bandhan is traditionally associated with the bond between brothers and sisters. But beyond the rituals and celebrations, the relationship also offers an interesting lens through which to view entrepreneurship. … Read more

Startup Spotlight: Hugging Face, the Teen Chatbot That Became AI’s Most Valuable Open-Source Platform

August 27, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

From a Teen Chatbot to the “GitHub of AI” Few startups pivot as dramatically as Hugging Face did. Founded in 2016 in Brooklyn by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, the company’s original product was a chatbot app aimed at teenagers — its quirky name borrowed from the 🤗 emoji. That consumer app barely … Read more

Women Powering Atmanirbhar Bharat: Top 5 Women Founders Building India’s Future

August 20, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Mumbai, August 20, 2026: When India talks about Atmanirbhar Bharat — the national push toward self-reliance across pharmaceuticals, defence, chemicals, space and agriculture — the conversation tends to default to policy schemes and large industrial houses. But some of the most concrete, on-the-ground progress toward that vision is coming from companies built and led by women. … Read more

How Astrotalk Became a $1 Billion Unicorn Without Raising Fresh Capital

August 17, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Astrotalk, an astrology and spiritual-commerce app, is now worth $1 billion. It got there without taking a single rupee from a new investor. On August 12, the Noida-based company told Entrackr and YourStory it had crossed unicorn status through an ESOP buyback — more than 100 employees selling a slice of their shares back to … Read more

India Startup Funding Weekly: $151.5M Raised as AI, Mobility and DeepTech Lead the Charge

August 16, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

August 16, 2026 | ENN India’s startup funding market saw a sharp slowdown this week, with startups raising $151.5 million across 14 funding rounds between August 9 and August 14, compared with approximately $383.8 million across 28 deals in the previous week. Despite the decline, the week delivered several notable developments across electric mobility, fintech, … Read more

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

August 9, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

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

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

August 5, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

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

August 5, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

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

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: Onyx Security Leads with $113 Million Series B

August 2, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

August 2026: Venture capital activity across Asia remained strong this week, with startups spanning cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, healthcare, e-commerce, and sports technology collectively raising hundreds of millions of dollars to accelerate growth and product development. Leading this week’s funding activity was cybersecurity startup Onyx Security, which secured $113 million in a Series B … Read more

Funding in India: The Definitive 2025–26 Playbook for Founders

July 26, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

From your first angel cheque to Series C and beyond — real data, proven frameworks, and the government schemes most founders leave on the table. India’s startup ecosystem has crossed a quiet but important threshold. It is no longer a market where a handful of headline-grabbing rounds define the year — it is a deep, … Read more

Ashneer Grover Is Betting Your Boss Will Vouch For Your Next Loan

July 25, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

BharatPe’s co-founder wants employers to put their name — not their money — behind employee credit. Here’s how Fund My Staff actually works, and why it’s a very Ashneer way to re-enter fintech. Ashneer Grover doesn’t do quiet launches, and Fund My Staff is no exception. The former BharatPe managing director announced his newest fintech … Read more

The Home That Couldn’t Hold: Why Medial, India’s “LinkedIn for Startups,” Just Shut Its Doors

July 14, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

A Bengaluru platform that once claimed half a million users across 30 countries — and a Shark Tank India feature to its name — has gone dark, raising fresh questions about how sustainable niche professional networks really are. Medial founder and CEO Niket Raj Dwivedi confirmed in a LinkedIn post that read part farewell, part … Read more

Asia’s Startup Funding Roundup: 10 Deals, $92.9 Million, and an AI Funding Wave (July 5-10, 2026)

July 12, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

A breakdown of the top 10 Asian startup funding deals for July 5-10, 2026 — from Velocity’s $27M AI seed round to Onpoint’s $600K pre-seed — with sector trends, total capital raised, and what the week’s data reveals. The Week in Numbers Ten startups across Asia and adjacent markets closed funding rounds between July 5 … Read more

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: Aligned Leads with $60 Million Series B

July 5, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Asia’s startup ecosystem continued to attract strong investor interest during the week of June 28 to July 3, with companies across artificial intelligence, aerospace, robotics, healthtech, enterprise software, fintech, and consumer brands securing fresh capital to accelerate growth. From AI-powered business platforms to aerospace innovations and sustainable consumer products, startups across the region raised funding … Read more