Sushanth Brahmavar an entrepreneur and vegetable Merchant from the city of udupi and Managing Director of SB traders at A.P.M.C Market udupi and the top graduate of Sri Poorna Prajna Evening College has made remarkable records it might be completing Bhagvadgita in 5.30 or being a youngest member of FKCCI karnataka top Industrial Body,or Winning karnataka Rajyotsava or Bharath Ratna by Karnataka Press club (r)Bangalore, but now he gained a weightage Award by winning Global Startup MSME Award 2026 at HOLIDAY INN Bangalore for his SB Group and making it as Fintech Brand round the globe

Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models. But as the AI model makers add more features, investors are wary of startups that could become so easily unnecessary.

The Karnataka government proposes to set up incubation centres across emerging technology clusters outside Bengaluru, as part of its efforts to strengthen the startup ecosystem in tier-2 cities.

Arguing that the 2026-27 Union Budget is a Yuva Shakti-based Budget, the finance minister stated that it is based on three kartavyas: accelerating growth, capacity building, and inclusive participation in India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat. The speech has highlighted structural changes, technology-based governance, and long-term state investment as components of the economic policy.

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal today urged medtech startups to look beyond the domestic market, leverage India’s expanding trade agreements covering nearly 70% of global GDP, and scale affordable innovations to serve both India and the world.

Pfizer has announced the winners of the INDovation Program 2025 edition. The programme selected 14 promising healthtech startups who will receive grants of Rs 60 lakh each and 18 months of other incubation support.The winning startups delivered robust solutions in the fields of Immunisation, NCDs (non-communicable diseases), Brain Health, Oncology and Maternal and Child Health.

India has preferential or zero duty market access to 70% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through trade agreements and the start-ups should not limit themselves to domestic markets, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Thursday.

Biotechnology firm Pandorum Technologies has raised $18 million (Rs 163 crore) in a Series B round to advance the clinical development of its therapies that target diseases on the surface of the eye.The Bengaluru-based startup, which operates research facilities in India and the US, said Monday the round was led by Vapi, Gujarat-based Protons Corporate Services Pvt Ltd.Drugmaker Galentic Pharma, stock market investor Ashish Kacholia, Noblevast Advisory, early-stage venture capital firm Avinya Ventures, and the Burman family were among the other investors that joined the round.

Founded in 2023, Sarvam AI is developing full-stack generative AI models designed for India’s linguistic diversity. Led by Dr. Vivek Raghavan and Dr. Pratyush Kumar, the Bengaluru-based company focuses on multilingual LLMs, voice technologies and sovereign AI infrastructure, aiming to deliver scalable, India-centric solutions across sectors.

India’s startup story is no longer just about unicorn valuations or headline-grabbing funding rounds. It is increasingly about the quiet but powerful institutions that shape ideas at their earliest stages-incubators, community innovation centres, mentors, policymakers and investors working together to turn raw innovation into scalable impact. That larger, more structural story came into sharp focus at AIM SUMVAAD, the flagship annual incubator conclave organised by the Atal Innovation Mission under NITI Aayog.