Mumbai based full stack agency, Umanshi Marketing and Branding, proudly announces the onboarding of 5 clients solidifying its sectoral position within the startups and SME space. Its appointment as their strategic partner responsible for spearheading the comprehensive PR and/or marketing initiatives underscores Umanshi s growing influence and expertise within the startup and SME category.

CleanMax Solar CleanMax Solar, a Mumbai based solar energy enterprise, was established in 2011 by the visionary trio of Sushant Arora, Kuldeep Jain, and Andrew Hines. Specializing in cutting edge solar energy solutions, the startup offers tailored rooftop solar installations to clients, aiming to curtail energy expenses, diminish carbon emissions, and assist in the realization of sustainability objectives.

In a highly competitive market environment, narrative craftsmanship emerges as a formidable asset for startups seeking to distinguish themselves. While facts, statistics, and product attributes may fade into obscurity, a compelling narrative that evokes emotions and paints vivid imagery possesses a lasting impact on audiences.

Indian startups are foraying into building large language models (LLMs) to boost generative AI in Indian languages with launches lined up in the coming months, but experts said it may take 3-5 years for India to have its own ChatGPT equivalent. Gurgaon-headquartered startup Soket Labs is eyeing the release of its foundation multilingual large language model (LLM) ‘Pragna’ by Q2 next year, founder and CEO Abhishek Upperwal told ET.

India now has close to 1.16 lakh government recognised startups under the Centre s initiative to boost the country s startup ecosystem. According to the data shared by the commerce and industry minister Som Parkash in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, under the Startup India programme launched on January 16, 2016, to build an ecosystem for nurturing innovation, startups and encouraging investments in startups, the government has recognised 1,14,902 entities as startups as on October 31, 2023.

Om Malviya, President at Tezos India, a blockchain adoption entity: India has emerged as a fertile ground for Web3 startups, with a growing number of entrepreneurs venturing into blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized technologies. This vibrant ecosystem has tremendous potential to transform industries and contribute to India s economic growth.

In tune with its policy to create innovation and collaboration opportunities for startups, the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), Department of Electronics, IT/BT and S and T, has invited proposals from startups for government departments, an official release said

The announcement was made at the formal launch of Phase II of CCAMPKTech s flagship innovation program for scaling up Karnataka s biotech startup community CCAMP DirectorCEO Dr Taslimarif Saiyed said, Agri Grand Challenge I was a grand success when it came to addressing problems at the national scale

How Zomato backer Info Edge s startup bets are shaping up Premium Hitesh Oberoi, CEO at Info Edge India Ltd Entrepreneur Sanjeev Bikhchandani led Info Edge (India) Ltd has added several new startups to its portfolio that already includes more than two dozen companies, apart from Mumbai listed Zomato and Policybazaar, but it has also written off a couple of its well-known investments.

WSO2 has announced a collaboration with Microsoft that will encourage startups to develop cloud native apps on Microsoft Azure with Choreo. This partnership is set to strengthen the Indian startup ecosystem. This will bring Choreo which is WSO2 s cloud native internal developer platform, to the forefront.

Tech giant Google, on December 7, withdrew its appeal against the order of a single judge of the Delhi High Court asking the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to hear applications moved by Indian startups against Google s user choice billing system.