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Hyderabad has spent the past decade building one of India's strongest startup ecosystems. Today, founders have access to engineering talent, quality infrastructure, research institutions, and a growing network of Global Capability Centres (GCCs). But as the ecosystem matures, the question is no longer whether startups can be created
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Salesforce, a customer relationship management (CRM) software company, has partnered with Kolkata-based Vivekananda Hospital Pvt. Ltd. (VHPL) to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered patient engagement platform aimed at connecting patient interactions, clinical information and outreach programmes on a single digital system. Built on Salesforce's Agentforce 360 Platform
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Swiggy appoints former Myntra Chief Executive Officer Nandita Sinha as the Chief Executive Officer of Instamart, its quick commerce business, marking a leadership transition as competition in India's fast-growing rapid delivery market continues to intensify. She will assume the role on August 3, succeeding Amitesh Jha, who is
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Nykaa has appointed former Instamart Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ankit Jain as Head of Business, Nykaa Now, and Executive Vice President, Supply Chain, Nykaa Beauty. The update is visible on his LinkedIn account. Jain's appointment comes just weeks after he exited Instamart, where he oversaw end-to-end operations for
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India's AI startup landscape is evolving quickly, but the way from building foundation models to running a sustainable AI business is proving challenging. As companies sharpen their focus on commercial opportunities, several are reworking teams and priorities along the way. Bhavish Aggarwal-led AI startup Krutrim has reportedly laid
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The travel industry has been moving steadily towards faster, app-based payments, but airlines have been cautious about which new payment rails they let into checkout. For carriers, the issue is not just convenience. It is also about compliance, settlement, customer trust, and whether a payment method can work at scale
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The London startup is buying independent lettings firms and folding them onto an AI platform, with EQT Growth leading the equity and Trinity Capital supplying the debt. The UK lettings business still runs on phone calls, paperwork, and the slow choreography of getting a boiler fixed, and Dwelly is betting
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TL;DR Mate Security has closed a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners with Insight Partners, Team8, and M12. Total funding now exceeds $50M, less than a year after stealth. The company’s bet is that AI security agents need organizational context, not just alert data, to make trustworthy
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Meta has folded its half-built El Paso data centre into a joint venture with BlackRock, formalising a structure that keeps most of a $14bn project off its own books. Under the agreement, funds managed by BlackRock will own 80% of the Texas campus and Meta the remaining 20%, though Meta
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Nine months after its own shareholders torpedoed a roughly $9bn takeover by CoreWeave, Core Scientific has found a far larger partner in the chipmaker trying to loosen Nvidia’s grip on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday the former bitcoin miner said it had signed a data-centre agreement with AMD that could
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Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the market’s quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible AI market correction is now emerging as one of the biggest credit risks facing the global economy. The judgement comes in the agency’s third-quarter Global Risk Outlook, published this
