Every customer Blurgs AI has was acquired before they raised a rupee of institutional capital. The Indian Navy. The Indian Coast Guard. Bharat Electronics. DRDO Labs. Mumbai Port Authority. Dubai Maritime City. The Nature Conservancy.
A 36-month share subscription facility. A public listing as a trigger. A woman-led deep-tech startup securing $200 million from a $3.4 billion alternative investment group. Instoried's deal with GEM Global Yield is not a typical funding round—it is a commitment that becomes available after a public listing.
She is the wealthiest Indian-origin tech executive in the world—richer than Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai combined. She runs a $200 billion company. And she has been doing it for nearly two decades, longer than most Silicon Valley CEOs last. Jayshree Ullal's story is not about hype.
In deep-tech sectors where women's representation has traditionally been lower, IIT Madras is quietly rewriting the numbers. Of 567 startups incubated under its ambitious "100 Startups a Year" mission, one in four has a woman co-founder. And the percentage has stayed above 25% for two straight years.
The Indian engineer's value proposition for sixty years has been technical depth, reliability, and the willingness to work harder than anyone else in the room. AI is now doing the technical work. The reliability is table stakes. And the room has changed.
From the bustling halls of Seoul's Shilla Hotel to the emerging powerhouse of Vietnamese cinema, women are no longer just participants in the entertainment industry—they are architects of its future. As the 5th Women Entrepreneurs Week kicks off in South Korea with a focus on AI and femtech, and Vietnamese cinema surges to a 70% domestic market share under female leadership, a clear picture emerges: women are using technology not just to build businesses, but to redefine how stories are told, distributed, and experienced across the globe.
Sony Pictures Entertainment India and Qube Cinema have partnered to release Spider-Man: Brand New Day across all 12 EPIQ screens nationwide — marking the first time a Hollywood studio film has been mastered in India's homegrown premium large format. With 170+ films already mastered for EPIQ and the new EPIQ Luxon HDR format pushing technological boundaries, Indian exhibition technology is finally getting its Hollywood moment.
For years, asset servicing in India was the exclusive domain of large banks that also ran asset management and broking businesses. Dovetail Capital offered something different: an independent, technology-first partner with no competing agenda. Now, ₹100 crore in fresh capital and a marquee investor validate what its founders believed in 2017.
Industrial air conditioning is energy-guzzling and carbon-heavy. Albatross Energetics is attacking the problem at its source, pulling moisture from the air before it needs cooling. With $1.05 million in fresh funding, the Mumbai startup is ready to scale its quiet revolution.
Four engineers at Asian Paints kept setting up warehouses for their employer and noticing the same gap: no Indian company was building the automation technology that global warehouses needed. In 2016, they quit and built one.