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Nykaa's profits surged behind a record festive season and high-margin beauty brands as net profit jumped to Rs 67.7 crore as revenue rose 27% to Rs 2,873 crore. Growth was led by a record quarterly GMV, margin expansion in beauty biz and growth in fashion.

Discipline feels uncomfortable before it becomes automatic. Learn why resistance is part of growth and how consistency rewires habits over time.

Founded by Ankur Goyal and Pritam Roy, Fibr AI aims to turn each web page into an autonomous system that can tailor content in real time based on signals such as audience, channel and intent.

In a narrow residential pocket near the Billa Mandir area of the Mathura district, a small home-based unit quietly produces pagdis

For over three decades, sports goods trader S.P. Gupta of Etawah district has run a business shaped by routine travel, steady learning

The fresh capital will be deployed to strengthen Material Depots technology backbone across supply chain, inventory planning, and in-store assisted selling, expand its curated product portfolio and exclusive collections, and scale its offline presence across cities.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, February 5, 2026.

Indias telecom market has narrowed to a JioAirtel duopoly. Heres how price wars, scale, 5G and strategy reshaped competition and locked it in.

Agarwal, currently Senior Vice President for International Emerging Stores, will continue to oversee Amazons marketplace operations across a group of high-growth countries while taking on leadership of SPS.

How Urban Company solved fraud, safety and pricing fears to build trust in Indias home services market through verification, training and accountability.

Krishnamurthy has been with Uber for more than six years and will assume his new role from February 16, following the resignation of the present chief financial officer Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah.

After importing 100% agave tequila since 2018, Monika Alcobev is now betting big on Korean soju and Spanish coffee liqueur.

For the full financial year, Alphabet reported revenue of $402.8 billion, up 15% year on year, while net profit for FY25 rose 32% to $132.2 billion.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing your mind. The line is often attributed to Plato, and whether or not it comes

Mumbai-based InvestorAi has built its own specialised AI stock picking platform to help retail investors navigate through the turbulent world of markets.

Originality is usually described as a lightning strike, a rare gift, a sudden arrival of something never seen before. But the attached note offers a calmer

PACs early years under Bonish Jain's leadership focused on careful expansion rather than rapid scale. While its core strength remained makeup tools, the company began experimenting with colour cosmetics designed for both professionals and regular makeup users.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said India will build its own AI systems, data centres and chips, calling artificial intelligence as essential to nations as electricity and the internet.

The US-structured VC firm noted that it has received over half of the funds commitments and intends to back 22 companies at pre-seed and seed stage.

On a warm, sultry evening in Mumbai, two of the worlds most influential capital allocators sat down to discuss what investing for a new era

The fund was launched in 2023 with a target corpus of Rs 1,000 crore and a greenshoe of Rs 200 crore.

Cosmix's co-founder Vibha Harish shared that the brand chose Marico for its operational ourishmentprioritising support in R&D, manufacturing, and logistics over capital.

InBadaun, Uttar Pradesh,zarizardozi is more than decorative embroideryit is a livelihood-driven craft rooted in homes and small workshops.

Nafeesa Bano lives in Sajehri, the gram panchayat of Mahoba district, near Kabrai, where her days were earlier divided between household

In Sultanpur, a modest juice shop near Baje Stop has become a daily stop for customers looking for fresh fruit juices and shakes.

Inside Varanasis Wooden Lacquerware & Toys Craft, Where Heritage Finds a Market In the older lanes of Varanasi, wooden lacquerware

What began as a personal struggle to dispose of e-waste has grown into one of Indias most integrated recycling companies. Built from Assam, the venture is turning discarded electronics into resources with the help of early government backing.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Wednesday, February 4, 2026.

Strapline: A Brand New India: Powered by Shiprocket is a multi-episode series that will take a closer look at founders and the systems powering Indias next phase of commerce. Gayatri Guha In Bharat's e-commerce landscape, growth is unpredictable. An artisan in Jaipur may receive unexpected o

Former CEO Deepinder Goyal admits Zomato's parent company, Eternal, is more organised, a little less chaotic, and urges ex-employees to email directly for suitable roles.

AP already operates six seaports; four greenfield ports expected operational within two years. Visakhapatnam projected as IT, GCC and an AI cluster.

TWT will use the Series D capital to expand in-house manufacturing and stabilize working capital. The round serves as a strategic bridge to profitability, establishing the corporate governance and scale required for a planned public market debut.

The funding is part of the climate-tech firms larger Series B round in which it aims to raise around $45 million.

Writing goals in ink and strategies in pencil is a simple line, but it carries a modern truth about ambition: clarity matters, and so does flexibility.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes, wrote Carl Jung, and the line feels like a clean split between two ways of living.

As India's older population grows, age-tech startups are emerging as crucial allies in the fight against fraud and bridging the gap between technology and trust.

Fractal Analytics aims to fund operations while allowing early investors to monetise holdings without promoter dilution. The Istri Project is helping roadside ironing vendors go green. We look at five community-led organisations addressing the realities of cancer care.

Five practical, low-capital side income ideas for salaried Indians that fit evenings and weekends and help reduce reliance on one salary.

As AI workflows grow more complex, developers are being forced to rethink where and how they build. This webinar, hosted by Dell Technologies, in association with YourStory, explores why infrastructure is becoming the defining constraint for AI teams.

These exits are the latest in a string of top-level churn at one of Indias largest VC firms, at a time when PeakXV is looking to raise its first independent fund since parting ways with Sequoia.

A major construction and real estate company, BCD Group, appointed Ashwinder R Singh in August 2024 as Co-Promoter, Vice Chairman, and CEO.

Deepak Kumar runs a small glass fitting and mirror workshop in Aligarh district, where he fabricatinges and installings tables, mirrors, designer mirrors

In Karvi town of Chitrakoot district, a small bakery has taken shape through a gradual, trial-and-error journey rather than a single decisive leap.

In an AI-driven economy, personal branding builds trust, credibility, and differentiation. Heres why your reputation now matters more than ever.

As travelers, particularly Gen Z, seek unpredictable, nature-rich experiences, the government is looking to back the infrastructure to unlock Indias ecological treasures.

Announced in the Union Budget, the STT rate increase is framed as a measure to add friction to speculative activity without imposing outright restrictions on participation.

The return to profitability marks a turnaround for MobiKwik, which has struggled with sustained losses since its stock market listing in 2024.

Explore how burnout reshapes your idea of success, shifting focus from constant achievement to balance, meaning, and sustainable growth.

Loop AI's enterprise AI platform focuses on back-office operations of restaurants and retail businesses. The fresh capital will be used to expand the company's product offerings and increase headcount across its offices in New York, San Francisco, Tampa, and Bengaluru.

Indian industry leaders hail the India-US deal as a watershed moment for Made in India, boosting manufacturing and innovation within the country.