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Air India Group emerged as the airline group with the highest number of technical defects reported during the year, as per data tabled in Parliament. The disclosure, inclusive of Air India Express, comes in a year marked by a fatal Air India crash and renewed scrutiny in the aviation sector.

The EV startup has reportedly partnered with Chinese EV giant BYD to design and manufacture electric tractors, trucks, buses, and three-wheelers.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, December 18, 2025.

Even Healthcares latest data shows that structured post-discharge care can sharply cut readmissions, admissions, and costschallenging the assumption that expanding hospital capacity alone can fix Indias healthcare strain.

The Bengaluru-based company said the capital will support national expansion of showrooms and service centers, as well as investments in product development.

The firm is the latest among a string of Indian VCs that are stocking up on dry powder to help fund early-stage startups in the country.

WorkIndia said the fresh capital will be used to upgrade its technology platform, sharpen its job matching algorithms, expand into high demand regions and drive product innovation.

Students in India are showing a growing interest in blockchain, and the numbers clearly reflect this trend. This year's Binance Case Challenge saw nearly nine times more participants than last year.

Razorpay has been central to Wow! Momos expansion across 725 stores by streamlining payments, automating workflows, and driving customer engagement. The partnership helped the QSR brand scale smarter, serve faster, and build a strong digital foundation for its ambitious global growth. Amrita Gh

At TechSparks 2025, Kavita Viswanath of Toast revealed how businesses can scale AI responsibly, through ethical intent, transparent systems, human-in-the-loop governance, and environmentally conscious engineering.

Indias startup founders are no longer mere disruptors; theyre the new power centres. With thousands of crores in enterprise value, significant job creation, and growing tax contributions by their companies, new-age entrepreneurs are overtaking legacy wealth and rewriting the

Nothing's community base now stands at around 13,000 investors who have collectively contributed over $16 million to date.

Juneja will lead the companys revenue strategy, sales and business development functions, and customer engagement initiatives.

From cash to QR codes, Indias relationship with money has undergone a quiet revolution. What began as a policy experiment with UPI has evolved into a trusted digital habit, reshaping how Indians pay, save, and think about money.

For India, investing in reducing black carbon can benefit both the climate and health, making it an effective tool to tackle the global climate crisis.

Eternal's Deepinder Goyal tops India's Top 200 self-made entrepreneurs of the millennia 2025 list. Neev Finance manages investments professionally through structured portfolios. A new study shows that young women in India are facing a layered health crisis, shaped by work, stress and inequality.

Healthtech startup EVYA blends non-invasive sensing with AI-led insights to help users understand glucose stability, energy patterns, and long-term metabolic trends.

The seed-stage investment firm has also elevated Venture Partner Vijay Jacob to General Partner to help the firm make bets beyond seed stage in deep-tech companies.

With Strand Life Sciences, Reliance is pushing genetic testing toward the mainstream. Incumbents, regulators and doctors are bracing for what comes next.

Courseras deal to buy Udemy creates a $2.5 billion online learning platform, combining university credentials with instructor-led courses as demand grows for AI-related workplace skills.

A new docu-reel series from YourStory Meta follows early Indian builders using open-source Llama models in practical, sector-specific ways.

The member of the Rajya Sabha argues that blockchain-based fractional ownership could emulate UPI's payments revolution for assets.

The Indias top 200 self-made entrepreneurs of the millennia 2025 list has 88 founders selecting Bengaluru as their residence city, and 52 companies choosing it as its headquarters.

The Gurgaon-headquartered firm intends to use the funds to expand beyond India, enhance its technology platforms and prepare the organisational and regulatory groundwork needed for a stock market listing.

C-DACs dual-core RISCV chip marks a milestone for Indias semiconductor ambitions, with Linux support and a roadmap to Dhanush variants

The launch comes amid rising competition among fintechs and payments firms seeking to tap Indias underpenetrated credit market, particularly among younger consumers and first-time credit users.

The Hurun-IDFC FIRST list of Indias Top 200 self-made entrepreneurs of the millennia 2025 also features notable names like Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, VSS, and Deep Karla from the Indian startup ecosystem.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Heres the roundup for Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

AI-powered fintech startup, Prodigal, automates loan servicing and debt collection conversations across voice, SMS, and email. The platform analyses customer data to personalise interactions at scale while maintaining compliance.

The Gurugram-based company said the swaps, completed nearly five years after its founding, have enabled about 3.5 billion clean kilometres of travel.

CCI has cleared US-based crypto exchange Coinbases minority stake acquisition in DCX Global, the parent of CoinDCX. The approval follows Coinbases fresh investment announced in October 2025, building on its backing of CoinDCX since 2020.

The Centre has notified a Rs 7,280 crore scheme to promote domestic manufacturing of sintered rare earth permanent magnets. The scheme aims to build an end-to-end value chain, reduce import dependence and support sectors such as EVs, electronics and green energy.

Part of the capital is expected to be used to provide liquidity to employees, while the rest will support product development, acquisitions and AI research.

Founded in 2014, MoEngage provides customer engagement software across web, mobile, email and messaging channels.

Attero's three new e-waste plants will have a capacity of 25,000 tonnes per annum, while its copper recycling unit will add another 25,000 tonnes, bringing the total capacity to 100,000 tonnes per annum.

Avendus was founded in 1999 in Mumbai by Indian entrepreneurs Ranu Vohra, Gaurav Deepak and Kaushal Aggarwal as an internet-focused investment solutions company.

Founded in 2022 by Nirav Kamdar and Soumyadeep Roy, investment platform Neev Finance manages investments professionally through structured portfolios. It is in the process of raising its next institutional round of $3 million, of which it has already closed $1.2 million.

Investors, founders, and the media have too often mistaken paper unicorns for durable businesses. As capital markets recalibrate, it may be time to retire the unicorn metaphor altogether.

The global capability centre (GCC) story of India is now spreading its roots beyond the top metros of the country into Tier II locations, as corporations seek to reap the benefits of their presence in such cities.

By combining LLMs with a secure on-premise deployment model, NineBit is targeting global demand for intelligent document processing.

Aggarwal had previously pledged his shares in the EV-maker to fund his artificial intelligence venture, Krutrim.

Blinq Mobility is redesigning electric vehicles with modular design and battery swapping to cut costs and downtime for urban fleets.

Digantara is also preparing to deploy 15 space surveillance satellites and two missile-warning satellites through 202627, as it moves toward becoming a full-stack sovereign space intelligence provider.

Strapline: Celebrating the real stories from Indias retail frontlines through Locally Yours Gayatri Guha Across Indias bustling streets and quiet corners, women are rewriting the story of retail. Once seen primarily as caregivers within their households, women are now stepping confidently to

Over 2.7 lakh developers registered for the second edition of Google Cloud's Gen AI Exchange Hackathon, which concluded with 40 winning teams showcasing solutions across healthcare, governance, mental wellness, and industrial optimization. Surya Kannoth The second edition of Google Cloud's Gen

Older investors drive a shift toward long-term strategies as the Bitcoin rally and institutional entry reshape the digital asset landscape.

The government has also positioned AI as a key enabler for productivity and inclusive growth, particularly in sectors critical to the economy.

Turtlemint filed for its IPO using a confidential pre-filing route, which allows companies to submit documents to SEBI while keeping draft prospectuses private during initial review stages.

Leading CTOs and CISOs unpacked the realities of protecting data, ensuring compliance, and managing AI-driven risks. Key themes included data quality, access controls, emerging threats, smart storage, and building a culture of resilience. Amrita Ghosh In an era where data fuels innovation and

eVerse.AI helps Indian dairy farmers increase income and reduce methane emissions using affordable AI-powered livestock technology.