[Funding alert] Northern Arc raises $50M debt from US DFC

Chennai-based digital debt platform Northern Arc on Tuesday announced it has received $50 million in debt financing from US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).  The first tranche of $25 million was…

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[Funding alert] Mumbai-based drone startup ideaForge raises Rs 15 Cr from BlackSoil

Mumbai-based drone startup ideaForge has raised Rs 15 crore from BlackSoil. This announcement comes in right after IT services major Infosys announced its investment of $1 million in the company.According…

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‘Human-centred design is now humanity-centred design’ – 25 quotes from India’s COVID-19 struggle

Launched in 2014, StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week. This special series of compilations focuses on India’s COVID-19…

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This Chennai-based startup builds unmanned underground vehicles for the Indian Army

The Indian government has been calling for innovators to leverage technology to build solutions for the defence sector. Earlier in February, at an industry event, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh revealed…

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How EV startup Earth Energy is focussing on Made in India product to disrupt the segment

Since childhood, Rushi Shenghani has been passionate about designing and developing vehicles from scratch. Driven by a tremendous zeal towards the EV industry, Rushi began his current venture, Earth Energy,…

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[Techie Tuesday] Meet Archie Agarwal, who went from Indore to Seattle to build systems for BofA, Microsoft, an

For Archie Agarwal, getting into engineering and tech was anything but the norm. Hailing from Indore, Archie’s father is a chartered accountant and mother a homemaker. Technology didn’t really have a…

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