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KP Tiwari
Lite Updates · Founders · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

K.P. Tiwari's Move From Systems Integration to Building His Own Business Software

After heading business applications at Team Computers, he started building the products he had spent years implementing for others. The newest, MoovMail, is corporate email made in India.
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Salesforce Anthropic Claudeforce
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 28 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Salesforce and Anthropic Launch Claudeforce With 37 Prebuilt Sales Skills Inside Claude

The partnership embeds Salesforce CRM data and 37 prebuilt sales skills inside Claude, with actions governed by existing permissions. The plugin is in pilot, with open beta expected in September 2026.
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Sunil Mittal Shabnam Sinha
Lite Updates · 18 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Sunil Bharti Mittal to Step Down as Airtel Payments Bank Chairman, Shabnam Sinha to Succeed Him

Sunil Bharti Mittal leaves the Airtel Payments Bank board on 30 September after a decade as chairman. His successor's board record is in fraud, risk and technology.
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Minimalist Founders
Lite Updates · D2C · 17 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Minimalist Reports ₹690 Crore Revenue in FY26 and ₹26 Crore Profit in First Full Year Under HUL

Minimalist grew 36% to ₹690 crore in its first full year under Hindustan Unilever. Advertising spending rose 55%, faster than revenue.
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Fymble Founders
Lite Updates · Founders · 14 Aug 2026 · 6 min

Fymble Launches Kyra AI as It Turns From Affordable Gym Access to the Harder Retention Problem

Fymble, which offers pay-per-use gym access starting at ₹99 a session with no long-term commitment, has launched Kyra, a Personal AI Health Companion built into its fitness app.
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RURTECH Founder
Lite Updates · Founders · 10 Aug 2026 · 5 min

RURTECH's Saddam Hussain Is Building Parcel-Level Satellite Advisory for Indian Farmers

RURTECH sends satellite-derived advice for individual farm parcels over WhatsApp. Its live log covers 134 farmers and 1,875 messages across three weeks.
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E3 Electrical
Lite Updates · EV & Mobility · 7 Aug 2026 · 4 min

E3 Electric.AI Launches E3 TRION Electric Scooter Priced From ₹1,09,999

The Bengaluru startup's first scooter arrives in three variants priced from ₹1,09,999, built around an AI and IoT platform it calls the COMMANDCENTER. Its range and performance figures are company-stated.
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Marmeto
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 7 Aug 2026 · 2 min

Marmeto Launches Elevate, an Analytics Platform Built for Shopify App Businesses

Marmeto has launched Elevate, an analytics platform for Shopify app companies delving into revenue, churn, reviews and installs. It is free for now, with paid plans promised later.
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Volta Founder
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 5 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Volta Infra Raises $300 Million at $2.4 Billion Valuation With $10 Billion Cloud Contract

Volta Infra has raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation and announced a $10 billion six-year cloud contract with an unnamed AI developer
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Sarvam Founders
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min

Sarvam AI Board Approves ₹698 Crore Share Issue to NVIDIA, Glade Brook Capital and Others

Sarvam AI's board has cleared an issue of preference shares to raise ₹698 crore, led by NVIDIA. The issue price implies no increase on the valuation set at the June first close.
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UN:BLOC Founder with Yuvraj Singh
Lite Updates · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min

Yuvraj Singh Joins Healthians Founder Deepak Sahni's Stealth Healthtech Venture UN:BLOC

Singh comes in as an investor and founding team member at the Gurugram startup, which is still in stealth. Neither the cheque size nor the product has been disclosed.
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Musafir Cafe Netflix Terribly Tiny Tales
Lite Updates · 28 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Terribly Tiny Tales Produces Netflix Series Musafir Cafe 13 Years After Launching as a Facebook Page

The series was produced by a studio that began in 2013 as a page publishing tweet-sized fiction on Facebook. It was acquired by Collective Artists Network two years ago for an undisclosed sum.
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Rapido Ownly Founders
Lite Updates · 28 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Rapido Integrates Ownly Into Its Main App, Extending Zero-Commission Food Delivery in Bengaluru

Bengaluru users can now order food inside the main Rapido app rather than through the separate Ownly application. The service remains confined to one city, against an earlier plan that envisaged ten by this month.
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Berrylush, Snitch Founders
Lite Updates · D2C · 27 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Snitch Acquires Womenswear Brand Berrylush To Enter India's Women's Fashion Market

The menswear brand takes over a Noida-based women's western wear label and says it will rebuild it over 100 days. Neither company has disclosed what was paid.
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Cactus Partners
Lite Updates · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Cactus Partners Targets ₹1,600 Crore for Fund II With Plans for 13 to 15 Investments

The firm has stated a corpus, a cheque size and an investment count for its second fund. It has not announced a first close, an anchor investor or a timeline.
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Amazon CEO
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Artificial General Intelligence Group After 16,000 January Layoffs

Amazon has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles in the unit that builds its Nova models. The cuts come as the company forecasts $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure.
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Man Left His Job to Open Café
Lite Updates · 26 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Man Quitting ₹1.5 Lakh Mumbai Job for ₹4 Lakh Hometown Income Goes Viral

The post says he sold a ₹3 crore Mumbai flat and split it across land, a house, two restaurants and fixed deposits. None of the figures is independently verifiable.
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Tech Mahindra Employee Protest
Lite Updates · 25 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Former Tech Mahindra Engineer Alleges Wrongful Termination After Leave to Care for Daughter

A former software engineer says she was dismissed after taking leave for her sick daughter. No FIR has been registered, and Tech Mahindra has not responded on record.
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Flipkart food delivery
Lite Updates · E-commerce · 24 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Flipkart to Enter Food Delivery With Bengaluru Pilot and ONDC Integration, Krishnamurthy Confirms

Group chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy said food delivery will be another use case on the main platform, starting with a pilot. The commission structure, rider model and launch date were not disclosed.
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Tamil Nadu CM Vijay
Lite Updates · Policy · 23 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore

The clusters at Manallur and Pillapaikkam will provide land and shared infrastructure for electronics firms. The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a higher figure.
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Pruthviraj P
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 23 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Karnataka Engineer Pruthviraj P Joins NVIDIA Deep Learning Team, Compensation Reportedly ₹2.6 Crore

Pruthviraj P, an electronics graduate from PES University, joined NVIDIA's deep learning group in California. No source has been named for the ₹2.6 crore compensation figure now circulating.
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Gurgaon Auto Driver
Lite Updates · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min

Gurgaon Auto Driver Says He Left ₹25,000 Supervisor Job and Now Earns ₹45,000

The auto driver told Zypp Electric co-founder Akash Gupta that he earns approximately ₹40,000–₹45,000 a month while educating three children.
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Deloitte Employee
Lite Updates · 21 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Deloitte Senior Consultant Quits After 10 Years, Citing 74-Hour Weeks and 5% Hike

A Hyderabad-based technology professional said he left Deloitte after being denied a promotion and receiving a 5% hike on a ₹35 lakh salary. His account is anonymous and has not been independently verified.
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Bijit Ray NEET
Lite Updates · 18 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Assam Student Bijit Ray Scores 502 in NEET UG 2026, Highlighting Tier-3 Test-Prep Access

Despite severe financial constraints and a lack of legacy institutional knowledge, an e-rickshaw driver’s son has bypassed traditional high-cost coaching hubs, signaling a democratization of competitive educational resources.
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Le'Udhaar
Lite Updates · Fintech · 18 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Le'Udhaar Launches Repayment Automation Suite to Capture Value Across India's $200 Billion Informal Credit Market

Founded by grant-awarded entrepreneur Daya Juwatkar, the Mumbai-based fintech startup is raising up to ₹1.5 crore to layer AutoPay mandates, micro-debit systems, and legal frameworks over the country's vast digital cash transfers.
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EliteMindz Founders
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 18 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Elite Mindz Launches ZYNO AI Suite to Introduce Natural Language Prompting to Enterprise Software

The New Delhi-headquartered software firm is leveraging 16 years of enterprise experience to deploy a prompt-based AI layer across ERP, procurement, and HRMS networks to capture workflows across 30 countries.
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Mitsubishi West Bengal
Lite Updates · Policy · 11 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Mitsubishi Explores Setting Up Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit in West Bengal

The Japanese conglomerate is exploring sites in Durgapur and Panagarh as the state government prepares a new industrial policy to attract advanced supply chains away from established western and southern hubs.
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TCS CEO K Krithivasan
Lite Updates · Policy · 10 Jul 2026 · 5 min

TCS CEO K Krithivasan Says AI Will Not Reduce Overall Headcount Following Strong Q1 Hiring

Despite Chairman N Chandrasekaran recently predicting the deployment of half a million autonomous AI agents, the company's CEO insists the workforce will simply transition into prompt engineering and model management to service a $2.6 billion AI pipeline.
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Jainam Jain
Lite Updates · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min

14-Year-Old Founder Jainam Jain Launches AI Marketing Startup Mengo Engine in Dubai

Operating from the Burj Khalifa, the 14-year-old entrepreneur has launched an AI marketing platform into beta, highlighting how accessible application-layer software development has become.
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Pepsico India CEO Jagrut Kotecha
Lite Updates · 2 Jul 2026 · 5 min

PepsiCo India Opens ₹1,266 Crore Flavour Manufacturing Facility in Ujjain

The 22-acre facility represents a major slice of the FMCG giant’s ₹5,700-crore investment pipeline, aiming to localise the production of its core intellectual property and empower its regional bottling partners.
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I Love Bengaluru
Lite Updates · 2 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Bengaluru Overtakes Mumbai as India’s Top Hub for Under-30 Entrepreneurs

With 21 founders featured on the latest Hurun India list, the southern tech capital has displaced Mumbai by attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs focused on artificial intelligence, space technology, and electric mobility.
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Anthropic CEO
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 1 Jul 2026 · 5 min

US Lifts Export Ban on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI Models

The US Commerce Department has restored global access to Anthropic's advanced models, but the abrupt two-week restriction exposes the severe geopolitical risk of building Indian enterprise software on proprietary American infrastructure.
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Kunal Shah WhatsApp Head
Lite Updates · 30 Jun 2026 · 5 min

WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations Ahead of Global Rollout Under New Head Kunal Shah

The Meta-owned platform is abandoning mobile numbers as its sole primary identity, creating a crucial privacy shield to support its new global head’s mandate to scale high-frequency commerce.
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Ford CEO
Lite Updates · 30 Jun 2026 · 4 min

Ford Rehires 350 Veteran Engineers to Fix Quality Gaps Missed by Automated Systems

After automated systems failed to catch real-world manufacturing errors, the US automaker brought back hundreds of experienced technical specialists to retrain its AI and halt a massive spike in recall costs.
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Kolkata L&T
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 28 Jun 2026 · 5 min

L&T to Invest ₹4,500 Crore in West Bengal Data Centre and Software Park

The engineering giant is allocating massive capital toward a 30 MW Tier-3 data centre and a sprawling software park to transform Kolkata into a major eastern technology hub.
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Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr
Lite Updates · 27 Jun 2026 · 5 min

Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr Erase $550 Million in Medical Debt for 261,000 Californians

By purchasing unpaid hospital bills on the secondary market for pennies on the dollar, the Snapchat CEO and his wife achieved a massive 100x multiplier on their philanthropic capital.
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Prabhjeet Singh OpenAI
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 26 Jun 2026 · 4 min

OpenAI Appoints Prabhjeet Singh as India Managing Director to Lead Enterprise Expansion

The former Uber India President will take charge of the AI giant's local operations in September, tasked with driving commercial adoption, striking infrastructure partnerships, and navigating regional compliance.
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Calcutta Stock Exchange
Lite Updates · Policy · 26 Jun 2026 · 5 min

West Bengal Government Announces Plan to Revive Calcutta Stock Exchange

After thirteen years of dormancy, the newly elected state government has proposed backing the historic regional exchange in its 2026-27 budget to decentralise India's financial ecosystem and unlock local public-sector value.
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BYJU's  Aakash
Lite Updates · 25 Jun 2026 · 5 min

MEMG and GLAS Trust Near Final Settlement Over Aakash Shareholding

Manipal Education and Medical Group and the US lenders’ representative are finalising documentation to divide the remaining value of the collapsed edtech empire’s crown jewel.
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Oracle
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 23 Jun 2026 · 4 min

Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs in Fiscal 2026 as AI Restructuring Costs Hit $1.84 Billion

The cloud-computing giant has slashed 13% of its global headcount, absorbing massive severance costs to aggressively pivot its capital toward artificial intelligence infrastructure and hyperscale data centers.
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