China's humanoid robot marathon showcased the growing importance of physical AI, highlighting how robotics is becoming the next major frontier in global technology competition.
In a tiny hamlet in Assam, a 32-year-old former homemaker now commands a fleet of agricultural drones. In the mountainous terrains of Himachal, a “Drone Didi” delivers life-saving medicines to villages cut off by landslides—in 12 minutes instead of 6 hours. India’s Drone Didi scheme is not just a welfare program; it is a logistics revolution powered by rural women. TIGI reports from the frontlines of the world’s most unexpected drone workforce.
This month in Paris, a tourist from Mumbai paid for a croissant by scanning a QR code with their phone—no chip, no signature, no foreign transaction fee. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, many Americans are still waiting for 3-5 business days for a check to clear. India’s UPI isn’t just a faster way to pay; it’s a public infrastructure revolution that has overtaken Visa in daily transactions. Here’s what the world can learn from the world’s most successful payment rail.
India’s e-commerce and D2C revolution is no longer a metro-story. With 66% of new orders flowing from Tier 2 and 3 cities, this is a structural shift. We decode the "Bharat" consumer boom, space-tech unicorns, and why global giants are now looking at small-town India for their next billion users.
Piper Serica’s ₹800 crore Bharat Tech Fund reflects a growing shift in venture capital toward AI, enterprise software and deep-tech startups as investors search for India’s next wave of innovation.
For decades, quantum computing has been the tech industry's most tantalizing promise – and its most frustrating tease. Every few years, a headline would scream: "Quantum Breakthrough!" Then, nothing. The machines remained too noisy, too expensive, too impossible to program. Skeptics called it a forever‑away technology.
For decades, there was an unwritten rule in Silicon Valley: don't do defense. The Pentagon was slow, bureaucratic, and morally suspect. Top engineers wanted to change the world with social media and self‑driving cars, not missiles and drones. Venture capitalists who funded weapons makers were seen as pariahs. That rule has been incinerated.
Neobanks like Chime and Nubank promised to replace traditional banking. Robinhood made trading free. Stripe made payments invisible. The narrative was simple: fintech startups would eat the legacy financial system one vertical at a time. But that war is over. And neither side won.
Three years ago, biotech was the hottest ticket in venture capital. Startups with names like Grail, Tempus, and 23andMe raised billions to sequence the world's DNA. The promise was intoxicating: big data would unlock the secrets of cancer, aging, and every rare disease. Investors threw money at anything with a sequencer and a cloud platform.
For a brief, feverish moment between 2021 and 2023, climate tech was the wild west of venture capital. Founders with PowerPoint decks about “revolutionary carbon removal” raised nine‑figure rounds. Investors threw money at anything with a leaf in its logo. The mantra was simple: save the planet first, ask about revenue later. Then the hangover hit.