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Premium buying in India is shifting from legacy wealthy areas to Bengalurus tech-led, gated-community clusters, where young professional households are driving higher spends across categories.

Foodtech platform HungerBox saw revenue growth of 26% for FY25, driven by its expansion and entry into newer categories.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Wednesday, November 26, 2025.

Learn how Lenovo Pro helps startups and small businesses save on IT, access expert guidance, and scale smarter with its tiered membership benefits.

The new SaaS offering Horizon is targeted at startups and MSMEs across a range of sectors, including ecommerce, fintech, and health-tech.

From voice agents that tap internal systems, to workflow copilots that eliminate repetitive tasks, to radiology tools that flag critical anomalies in seconds, AI is finally driving measurable outcomes. Across industries, leaders are redefining ROI as accuracy, speed, customer experience, and scalabl

At the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, senior leaders from Naspers Limited and Prosus including Chairman Koos Bekker, CEO Fabricio Bloisi

The Bengaluru-based electric three-wheeler manufacturer said the investment will help scale production capacity, strengthen supply-chain integration, and expand its charging, aftermarket and conversion services division.

AdvantEdge said it has distributed over 3X of the paid-in capital to its Fund I limited partners, a major chunk of which came from its exit from Rapido.

At TechSparks 2025, Devika Mittal, of Ava Labs, explains how open infrastructure and developer support are turning India into a global leader in blockchain-enabled AI systems.

The Bengaluru-based toy tech startup plans to channel the funding toward expanding its manufacturing capabilities to meet rising demand in India and overseas.

British International Investment is looking to double down on its focus on electric mobility, renewable energy, agriculture, and the circular economy. The firm is also looking to make more direct investments into companies in these spaces.

From autonomous hotel escorts to drone ports, Chinas robotics and tech-heavy society holds lessons for Indias next technological leap.

Indias new Labour Codes formalise gig and contract work, redefine wages and benefits, and tighten labour rules. DDM mitigates payment risks in the adoption of electric buses under PM e-Bus Sewa. Zentis AI aims to become a top AI automation player for the BFSI sector.

The company plans to establish an R&D facility to accelerate pilot turnaround. The latest round will also support its collaborations with OEM, EMS, and ODM partners as it moves toward commercialising its product line through pilot projects in emerging data-center infrastructure.

Indias labour overhaul finally brings clarity, but raises the bar for founders. From payroll discipline to gig-worker compliance, this guide shows how to stay ahead, cut risk, and build a company investors can trust.

Indias insurance industry is growing fast but reaching few. At TechSparks 2025, Vishal Gupta, of PhonePe Insurance, outlined how AI, microinsurance, and policy innovation can close the gap for millions.

A panel at TechSparks 2025 decoded the pivots and playbooks behind building resilient, tech-led lending businesses in one of Indias toughest sectors.

Strapline: At TechSparks 2025, leaders from PhonePe and NetApp unpack how AI, data infrastructure, and security innovation are shaping Indias next era of payments and digital services Gayatri Guha How does a nation process billions of digital transactions daily while keeping fraud at bay and bu

Addressing 'ICVA Green Returns Summit 2025', Gadkari further said that in any country or society, three important sectors are ethics, economy, ecology and environment.

The funding comes as the company advances its global expansion plans, with India emerging as a key market amid growing enterprise adoption of digital procurement technologies.

E-Summit, Asias largest business conclave, aims to connect todays leaders with tomorrows innovators through high-impact funding competitions, insightful speakers, networking, and more.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Madhur Makkar, Principal at RTP Globals Asia investment team, shares how RTP Globals self-funded, founder-first approach and global networks are helping Indias next generation of entrepreneurs build with purpose, patience, and long-term value.

Strapline: At a recent YourStory mixer in Bengaluru, industry leaders explored how desktop AI infrastructure is reshaping the developer experience.

Over the past 12 months, Yatra said it has onboarded 148 new corporate clients representing an annual potential business worth over Rs 700 crore.

Googles AI Futures Fund and Accel Atoms have launched a programme for Indias early stage AI startups offering advanced model access, cloud support, mentorship and potential investment.

In this exclusive conversation, TestGrid founder Harry Rao reveals how the companys AI-driven TestOS platform unifies automation, cloud testing, and agentic intelligence to make enterprise software testing faster, smarter, and far more cost-efficient.

The funding will help Morphle Labs accelerate global market expansion and scale manufacturing for its flagship products, RoboTome and MorphoLens.

The framework, introduced in October last year, was designed to mitigate payment risks in the adoption of electric buses under PM e-Bus Sewa. Prior to its adoption, the segment saw rising delays and defaults in payments from state transport undertakings to electric bus OEMs and financing agencies.

From managing early TikTok campaigns to building a global AI marketplace, this startup aims to redefine how creators and brands collaborate.

PayU reported Q2 FY26 revenue of $214 million and positive adjusted EBITDA of $3 million. Quanfluence has developed a scalable approach to building quantum computers using photonics.

Indias new Labour Codes formalise gig and contract work, redefine wages and benefits, tighten labour rules, and shift compliance systems, though many operational details await further notifications.

With specialised AI models, a no-code studio, and early traction across global banks and insurers, Trivandrum-based Zentis AI aims to become a top AI automation player for the BFSI sector.

As part of the MoU, the NSE will conduct outreach initiatives, training workshops, and sessions focused on compliance and listing processes.

The proposed offer consists of a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 1,279.3 crore and an offer for sale of shares valued at Rs 3,620.7 crore by existing investors.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Monday, November 24, 2025

From frontier model builders to enterprise-scale transformers, AI100 celebrates the leaders turning Indias unmatched talent, digital infrastructure, and startup momentum into a trillion-dollar innovation engine.

PayU India swung to a profit in the September quarter, marking a long-awaited break in the companys margin grind as its payments and credit units hit what the firm called an inflection point in profitability. The Naspers-owned fintech reported Q2 FY26 revenue of US$214 million and positive adju

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The Dutch investment company, in September, picked up an additional 5% stake in the ride-hailing company, increasing its shareholding in Rapido to 10.2%.

The WISE Tech India Pitchathon 2025, a premier national platform powered by SPJIMRs Sunil Bhatia Startup Hub, has successfully concluded its Grand Finale, marking the end of a year-long search for Indias most impactful early-stage startups.

Discover 10 powerful lessons from Oliver Burkemans Meditations for Mortals, offering practical reflections on life and what truly matters.

As Ford embraces agentic AI across its global engineering teams, the 100-year-old automaker is rewriting how software gets built: from autonomous code generation and accelerated sprints to modernising legacy mainframes in months, not years. But along with 40% productivity gains come new challenges.

86400 is building AI-driven payment infrastructure that predicts failures before they happen, reconciles transactions in minutes instead of days, and prepares for a world where bots, not humans, initiate payments.

The FMCG major also its expects food & premium personal care to contribute 25% of its India revenue over the next three years.

The Bengaluru-based company said the capital will be used to invest in technology, expand into smaller cities, onboard 50,000 distributors, and push toward managing Rs 1 lakh crore in assets.

In other news, a gold pocket watch belonging to Isidor Straus, who died on board the Titanic when it sank, went for 1.78 million at auction.

Despite valuation worries and sector setbacks, 2025s startup IPOs delivered decisive winsmulti-bagger VC returns, founder-billionaires, strong subscriptions, and renewed public-market faitheven as India still waits for a homegrown startup capable of compounding towards $100 billion.

This partnership will give Rapido, which launched food-delivery platform Ownly in August, access to magicpins extensive base of more than 80,000 restaurants across the country.