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The members of the task force are a mix of technocrats and bureaucrats.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Monday, July 27, 2026.

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Omega Seiki Mobility will utilise this funding round for expanding its manufacturing capacity, strengthen R&D and enhance the dealer network.

A total of 576 individuals declared annual incomes of more than Rs 100 crore in FY26, up from 415 a year earlier, according to Finance Ministry data tabled in the Lok Sabha. The government also pushed back against claims that income inequality is widening in India.

The Tamil Nadu company is developing reusable methane-oxygen propulsion, and says it plans to sell engine development and launch services as a single package.

The Bengaluru-based startup makes hardware for smart grids and battery storage. It raised $5.1 million in a seed round co-led by Jungle Ventures and Kae Capital.

The Bhubaneswar biotech has built a patented drug-delivery platform aimed at cancer cells. It is in preclinical testing and raised Rs 3 crore, led by Unicorn India Ventures.

Helionis Labs builds circuit boards that shed heat better and cost less, using a material and process developed in-house.

Bombay Shaving Company aims to touch a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore in FY27 and an EBITDA in high single digits.

Engineer-turned-farmer Sanjeev Kumar built Bihar's largest mushroom spawn lab and trained 50,000+ farmers, creating rural jobs.

As AI begins to reshape how people discover products and services online, Gurugram-based DareAISearch is building tools to help brands stay visible across platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

Fragmented records, unlinked newspaper notices, and manual checks that routinely fail have left India's lending system exposed. Cubictrees AI Property Compliant Report is changing that, one property at a time Gayatri Guha The file was complete. The legal opinion was clean. The sanction letter

Over the last few years, fintechs have been riding the wave of Indias digital transformation through key interventions such as digital lending, small payment banks and Buy-Now-Pay-Later entities.

In 1998, Sameer Mehra came back to India after studying overseas with an idea that made very little commercial sense at the time

At the Snowflake x AWS Mixer, founders, engineering leaders, and investors discussed how startups are using AI-native architectures to accelerate decision-making, improve customer experiences, and unlock growth without proportionately scaling headcount.

As AI reshapes the workplace, career growth is becoming less about accumulating credentials and more about developing the judgment, adaptability and skills that machines cannot replace. Continuous learning is no longer a competitive advantageit's becoming a career necessity.

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Responsive has been profitable since 2018 and has never grown slower than 25% a year, including through the pandemic.

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In this photo essay from Canada, we showcase 25 bands who performed at the legendary Montreal International Jazz Festival.

The BII Founder Wellness Survey understands how founders, investors, and other startup ecosystem participants manage their physical and mental well-being. Meanwhile, VC funding into Indian startups saw a sharp decline this week (July 18-24) due to the absence of large deals.

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Skyroot's success isn't the climax of India's space story but the start of its commercial phase. The next 5 years will be decided by who builds the strongest market, not the best rocket.

Technology is moving at warp speed but the big question is are organisations preparing their people at the same pace?

The most interesting shift I've watched over the last two years isn't in how MSMEs use technology; it's in how technology has started to see them.

In this episode of the Prime Venture Partners podcast, Alon Waks, CMO at SpotDraft, talks about what actually works when Indian founders enter the US, and how AI is changing the shape of B2B buying itself.

The Delhi HC said ANI had not demonstrated that ChatGPT had memorised or reproduced its copyrighted works.

In this photo essay, we feature more highlights from the Kalabimb art exhibition in New Delhi.

The shift in rankings coincided with a leadership change at CRED. During the month, founder Kunal Shah left the fintech company to become WhatsApps global CEO.

The clear absence of large deals resulted in sharp decline in venture capital funding into Indian startups this week.

Agnikul Cosmos co-founder and CEO Srinath Ravichandran on launch economics, the limits of SpaceXs rideshare model and the road to 100 launches a year

BTS 2026 is expected to bring together more than 1,800 exhibitors, 25,000 delegates, 1,000 tech startups, and over 60,000 business visitors from 75 countries and 30 States & Union Territories of India.

OneClickDrive's growth in the UAE offers lessons for Indian mobility startups on trust, liquidity, capital efficiency, and building two-sided marketplaces. India's used car market is still grappling with a fundamental question: should platforms own the vehicles they sell, or simply connect buyers

The joint initiative aims to build senior living assets across six leading cities in the country through both ownership and rental-led formats

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YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, July 24, 2026.

Ganesh Shankar grew up in a two-room house in Coimbatore, decided computer science was not for him, sold mutual funds for a living, and now runs the company that Microsoft, Google, Walmart and Oracle use for tenders.

IIT Madras-incubated startup The ePlane Company has revealed a full-scale electric air taxi prototype in Chennai, marking a key step for urban air mobility in India.

The Pune startup builds liquid rocket propulsion systems for launch companies, and works with ISRO, IN-SPACe and Godrej Aerospace.

The Delhi startup's inspection drones navigate confined spaces without GPS, checking power lines, towers and industrial sites.

The Chandigarh-based startup's AI vision system turns off-the-shelf industrial robots into welders that adapt to changing parts without needing reprogramming.

The defence startup sells only to armed forces. Its systems have been through trials with the Indian Army and the Navy's marine commandos.

Intel Data Centre and AI business grew 59% to $6.3 billion, while Intel Foundry, its contract manufacturing business, recorded 31% revenue growth.

The traditional corporate gift is losing ground to something far more utilitarian: a reward the recipient actually gets to choose. As organizations rethink how they recognize people, gift cards are emerging as both a rewards tool and a distribution lever.

At the 8th edition of Bertelsmann India Investments Rally for Health badminton championship, the firms inaugural Founder Wellness Survey found that nearly 88% of founders and investors work at least 50 hours a week, 71% experiencing burnout, and 41% sleep six hours or less.

The proposal will now be placed before shareholders for approval through a special resolution at the company's 13th Annual General Meeting on August 18.

The report said it expects EV adoption to remain strongest in segments where the economics of electrification are already compelling.

As machines make outputs abundant, human judgment, trust, and creativity become rare and rarity always commands a premium.