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(Weekly funding roundup July 11-17) Sharp rise in VC inflow led by AI deals
The venture capital funding raised in the third week of July comes as a welcome relief after a subdued inflow in the preceding two weeks.
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(Weekly funding roundup July 11-17) Sharp rise in VC inflow led by AI deals
The venture capital funding raised in the third week of July comes as a welcome relief after a subdued inflow in the preceding two weeks.
Thimmaya Poojary
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No code, no developer, no waiting: How AI is rewriting the rules for India's MSMEs
For small business owners across India, getting online used to mean months of effort and money they didn't have. AI has changed the math entirely.
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Building production agents using AWS’s open source Strands Agents SDK
At DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, AWS Developer Advocate Ashita Prasad walked developers through building a fully functional, production-ready AI agent from scratch using Strands Agents, an open source SDK built to close the gap between knowing and shipping.
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From payments to appointments: The next phase of SMB digitization
Indian SMBs have digitized payments, customer communication, and online discovery. Appointment scheduling, however, remains one of the few remaining processes that still relies on manual effort. But, that's beginning to change.
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No code, no developer, no waiting: How AI is rewriting the rules for India's MSMEs
For small business owners across India, getting online used to mean months of effort and money they didn't have. AI has changed the math entirely.
Gayatri Guha
Building production agents using AWS’s open source Strands Agents SDK
At DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, AWS Developer Advocate Ashita Prasad walked developers through building a fully functional, production-ready AI agent from scratch using Strands Agents, an open source SDK built to close the gap between knowing and shipping.
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From payments to appointments: The next phase of SMB digitization
Indian SMBs have digitized payments, customer communication, and online discovery. Appointment scheduling, however, remains one of the few remaining processes that still relies on manual effort. But, that's beginning to change.
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From battery waste to industrial metals: Inside Metastable Materials' Bengaluru refinery
Metastable Materials believes India's growing battery waste isn’t really waste. The Bengaluru startup extracts lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminium from spent batteries and sells them as refined commodity metals.
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From battery waste to industrial metals: Inside Metastable Materials' Bengaluru refinery
Metastable Materials believes India's growing battery waste isn’t really waste. The Bengaluru startup extracts lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and aluminium from spent batteries and sells them as refined commodity metals.
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From almost nothing to a global pharma empire: The untold Lupin story
In a system that was oppressive to business, Desh Bandhu Gupta (DBG) built a company and enabled an industry that now supplies medicines to the world. His biographer, Manish Sabharwal, shares the story of DBG and Indian pharma.
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From almost nothing to a global pharma empire: The untold Lupin story
In a system that was oppressive to business, Desh Bandhu Gupta (DBG) built a company and enabled an industry that now supplies medicines to the world. His biographer, Manish Sabharwal, shares the story of DBG and Indian pharma.
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