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Puru Rastogi was introducted to real-world entrepreneurship at Shenzhen’s HAX accelerator, and returned to set up robotics startup Mowito in Bengaluru.

Meet the founder who is giving robots wings to fly

5 min read . 12 Jul 2020

Research has shown that face coverings are one of the most effective ways to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Photo: Reuters)

Now, local masks that claim to kill the covid-19 virus

5 min read . 05 Jul 2020

India’s healthtech startups raised a funding of $436 million in the last quarter of 2019. This year, they raised only $72 million in the first quarter, and $103 million in the second, shows data by Tracxn. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Post-covid healthtech funding rebound is leaving India behind

4 min read . 28 Jun 2020

Clover founders (from left) Santosh Narasipura, Avinash B.R., Gururaj Rao and Arvind Murali have switched to selling freshly sourced vegetables directly to consumers during the pandemic.

Bengaluru startup brings produce from greenhouses to plates

3 min read . 21 Jun 2020

$Farmers in India get a tiny fraction of what urban consumers pay for produce because of the ‘mandi’ system. Agritech startups can put competitive pressure on the middleman and help farmers transact directly. (PhotoL PTI)$

Covid, reforms could help agritech startups bypass mandi system

3 min read . 14 Jun 2020

Time was when robots were mostly being made for factories and warehouses. (iStock)

Emerging tech from India for the post-pandemic world

2 min read . 08 Jun 2020

Remote work has taken off in the last two months, and digital enablement is an area rife with possibilities in the post-covid situation, along with distance learning and telehealth. (Photo: iStock)

VCs back startups that pivoted quickly during the pandemic

3 min read . 07 Jun 2020

Sales of all electric vehicles, including the Porsche Taycan, which had high demand in the US overtaking the company’s expectations, have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and the economic slowdown. (Photo: Getty Images)

Power surge for electric vehicle ecosystem

5 min read . 31 May 2020

The travel and hospitality sectors will take the longest time to recover from the slowdown due to covid-19, but the impact will vary depending on the nature of the business. In Germany, travel operators have been gathering at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to demand government support.

Despite tales of doom, India story draws VCs

5 min read . 18 May 2020

Taro Araya, CEO and co-founder of Goama.

E-sports apps aim to hook users into playing the long game

4 min read . 12 May 2020

Former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden (second from left) with Nextwave Multimedia co-founders and siblings Rajendran P.R. and Jayashree P.R. On the right is Rajendran’s wife, R. Kalpana, who handles data analytics

Cricket fans replace sweeps with swipes

5 min read . 10 May 2020

The founders of AV startup Ati Motors (from left), Saad Nasser, V Vinay and Saurabh Chandra, span the spectrum of entrepreneur age and experience.

Autonomous vehicles find a road into hospitals during pandemic

5 min read . 29 Apr 2020

Yellow Messenger founders (from left) Rashid Khan, Raghu Ravinutala and Jaya Kishore Reddy are banking on changes in consumer behaviour to push AI chatbots that can help sell products directly to users via WhatApp

Brands use chatbots to find a direct channel to consumers

3 min read . 19 Apr 2020

The series B funding will enable Yellow Messenger to push more aggressively into Europe, Latin America and the US

AI startup Yellow Messenger raises $20 million funding

2 min read . 16 Apr 2020

Raghu Ravinutala, co-founder and CEO of Yellow Messenger. (Photo: Mint)

AI startup Yellow Messenger raises $20 million funding

2 min read . 16 Apr 2020

Jay Hotti, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Byneri, uses the fundamentals of binary sequences to add layers of complexity and raise encryption levels.

This startup is going back to basics to strengthen encryption

3 min read . 05 Apr 2020

(From left) Nitin Kumar, Harshwardhan Kumar and Dhiraj Choudhary, co-founders of BlinkIn, have created an augmented reality product that helped technicians in Pocking, Germany, install ventilators in Wuhan, China.

How a Bengaluru startup helped contain the Wuhan outbreak

3 min read . 30 Mar 2020

Senseforth founders (from left) Krishna Kadiri, Shridhar Marri and Ritesh Radhakrishnan left Infosys in 2011 to build cutting-edge software products.

Bots in demand as Covid-19 hits the workplace

5 min read . 30 Mar 2020

(From left) Pocket Aces’ Ashwin Suresh, Anirudh Pandita and Aditi Shrivastava are on a mission to fight boredom with their videos. (Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

When Wall Street bankers tell tales for millennials

5 min read . 15 Mar 2020

Ezhil Subbian founded String Bio in 2012 and bootstrapped it through its tech development phase till Vinod Kumar came on board as MD in 2015 (Raj Sam/Mint)

A ‘microbrewery’ to turn methane into fish feed

5 min read . 08 Mar 2020

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