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The second week of November saw venture capital funding into Indian startups drop to its lowest level for the year till now due to weak deal activity.

India and the US finalised the framework for the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement in February.

Business leaders should pick an outcome they can measure, such as reducing the time spent resolving accounting errors or lowering transport costs, said, Natalia Rachelson, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle.

The company is working towards a revised timeline, factoring in the availability of electric vehicles, supporting government policies, and the transportation requirements of its various businesses.

Discover five powerful lessons from Be Delusional by Harinder Singh Pelia on self-belief, ambition, confidence and turning big dreams into reality.

In this photo essay, we showcase more highlights from Chennais Contemporary Now arts festival, along with director insights.

This insightful feature from YourStory tests and strengthens your business acumen! Here are 5 questions to kick off this 258th quiz. Ready?

Discover five powerful lessons from Yoshuku by Azumi Uchitani on gratitude, manifestation, resilience, positive thinking, and intentional living.

Odisha-based BabyCue wins first prize at the Tribal Business Conclave Open Grand Challenge for DiaCue, its rapid test for childhood diarrhoea.

AirEarth.org hosted 28 Indian clean-air startups pitching to VCs like Blume and Rainmatter, pushing year-round pollution fixes.

From a push for better startup support to mentoring 200+ ventures, Prof. (Dr.) Tej Chingtham is helping shape Northeast Indias startup ecosystem through AIC-SMUTBI.

In this photo essay from Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi, we showcase more highlights from its annual national art exhibition.

Problems with Exchange Online spread across Microsoft 365 and external businesses, highlighting how dependent workplaces have become on shared cloud infrastructure.

Problems with Exchange Online spread across Microsoft 365 and external businesses, highlighting how dependent workplaces have become on shared cloud infrastructure.

Paytms subsidiary PPSL has received the RBIs in-principle approval to issue prepaid instruments such as wallets, but it must submit a system audit report within six months.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, November 13, 2026.

A decade after its founder left a 16-year IT career to build a training company, StarAgile has trained professionals across 100+ countries and is now preparing learners for the AI era. Every journey has a starting point. For StarAgile, it began with a simple idea: learning should lead somewhere.

Frammer AI launches its live sports platform with Astro Malaysia, turning match footage into social media clips in under 30 seconds.

The pacts are part of the company's plan to put close to 5,000 EVs into operation within three years.

Most sneaker brands sell shoes. Comet sells a feeling. Started by founders Utkarsh Gupta and Dishant Parashar, Comet was born out of a simple observation: Indian sneaker culture was evolving fast, but homegrown brands still felt like an afterthought. Global labels dominated aspiration, while loca

The kill switch is the ability to cut off, throttle or restrict a satellite network's service, whether for a single terminal, a region or an entire country, from the operator's control systems and ground gateways.

At TechSparks 2026, Stelcores Bharat Mandot, Percy Avari and Navin Mistry explained how brands can turn compliance, tech and supply chain into one growth engine.

Jensen Huangs departure ends a 33-year leadership era at Nvidia, triggering a search for his successor. Names including Lisa Su, Rene Haas and Tim Cook have entered the conversation, with Trumps endorsement of Cook adding an unexpected twist.

AI is letting small Indian teams win global work that once needed a big company. As AI separates capability from headcount, it could shape Indias next export story.

Bodhi Tree Systems is a strategic investment and operating platform founded in 2021 by James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and Uday Shankar, former Star India and Disney executive.

The transition comes at a critical juncture for Nvidia, whose chips have become the backbone of the global AI boom.

Nvidia has appointed chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim chief executive officer. The board will consider internal and external candidates for a permanent successor.

Founded by former HighRadius executives Kiran Rana and Payal Tripathy, Kutlerri.ai charges restaurants a percentage of the revenue its AI agents generate or the costs they save.

Norwests $4 billion fund signals a long-term bet on AI, healthcare and technology, as the investment firm looks to back businesses across markets, stages and sectors.

The firm will focus on deploying capital into selected opportunities across the National Capital Region (NCR), while continuing to build towards its Rs 500 crore target.

Discover five powerful lessons from Kaizen by Sarah Harvey on building better habits, overcoming resistance, and achieving lasting personal growth.

The Keralam government is keen to enhance the value of its startup ecosystem especially with the deeptech segment providing financial and other infrastructure support

Discover five life-changing lessons from The Secret by Rhonda Byrne on positive thinking, gratitude, visualisation, belief, and the law of attraction.

The state could offer support beyond the Centres IndiaAI Mission. It is also considering shared manufacturing space for small companies near Bengaluru.

Spread across a combined 465 acres for Kia and its suppliers, the new facility is expected to generate around 12,000 direct and indirect job opportunities.

At TechSparks 2026, Sagar Kumar of PayU discussed how payment systems can improve accessibility, build user trust, and bring more consumers and small businesses into the digital economy.

At TechSparks 2026, Manish Maheshwari from Stripe India stated that AI, local payments, and smarter cost control are accelerating global expansion for Indian startups.

At a Stripe roundtable at TechSparks 2026, leaders from edtech, commerce, fintech, and consumer hardware shared how to pick markets, localize smartly, and build the payments and compliance spine that makes expansion repeatable

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, November 12, 2026.

At TechSparks 2026, Google Clouds Head of Sales & GTM AI showcased Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Avatar, and showed an AI sales agent negotiating a helmet order in Hindi on a weak mobile hotspot.

The Mumbai-based investment manager is backing three businesses operating in the areas of defence tech, precision engineering, and power infrastructure: Sagar Defence Engineering, TASE Global, and Rational Engineers.

One year after Lenskarts public listing, CEO Peyush Bansal scrapped blue-light lens upsells and pledged free glasses to 100,000 children to target Indias widespread vision accessibility crisis.

At TechSparks 2026, Google Clouds Rajesh Shewani walked through how businesses are using Gemini for voice, agents, and coding, and why the systems built around a model now matter as much as the model itself.

A decade after Quikr bought the real estate portal, Malpani reflects on leaving the startup he had spent years building and why he chose to start again.

DRDO has picked Mangalurus Zupple Labs under its TDF to build Indias first security-audit framework for defence blockchain apps.

Reports say Jensen Huang had another extramarital affair with a senior executive of Nvidia, in addition to the relationship with a Chinese national Alice Huang, who was allegedly recruited as an intelligence asset by the Chinese government.