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🚨 ETtech #Top5 | @AnthropicAI IPO rocks Indian #IT; Why Walmart is in no hurry to list Flipkart
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Paytm is targeting a one-third share of India's UPI consumer payments market, with founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma making customer acquisition a key management priority as the fintech company looks to accelerate growth while improving profitability.💸
Paytm currently accounts for about 8.1% of UPI transaction volumes, behind PhonePe's 45.6% and Google Pay's 32.2%, according to September data from NPCI.
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Congratulations to Pallavi Shrivastava on winning the title of ‘Woman Ahead’ at the ET Startup Awards 2026.
Access to credit remains a major challenge for India’s small businesses. Pallavi Shrivastava is working to change that.
After 15 years in SME financing, she co-founded Progcap to help underserved retailers access the funding they need to grow. Today, its data-driven lending platform serves businesses across supply chains nationwide, making finance more accessible.
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Some investors follow the market. Others have a knack for spotting winners early.
Manu Chandra, founder of Sauce, has built his investment strategy around backing promising consumer brands before they become household names. His early bets on The Whole Truth, Mokobara and Innovist reflect the conviction behind that approach.
The successful exit from Innovist to L’Oréal has further strengthened his track record, earning him the ‘Midas Touch’ award at the ET Startup Awards 2026.
Congratulations to Manu Chandra on this well-deserved win!
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SVF II Ostrich (DE) LLC, an investment vehicle of the Japanese SoftBank Group, has sold 5.55 crore equity shares of Ola Electric Mobility through open-market transactions between January 6 and October 22 this year.💸
Following the transactions, SoftBank’s shareholding in Ola Electric declined to 11.7% from 12.9%.
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While the company did not disclose the valuation, the funding round valued the firm at around $100-120 million.💰
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🆕Rajesh Ambati, an Indian-origin software engineer at Apple, is set to become the vice president of engineering at the company. This promotion is part of Apple’s wider leadership transition under chief executive officer John Ternus.
Rajesh Ambati has spent around 17 years at Apple, transitioning from senior director of software engineering to vice-president of the division.
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🚨Microsoft announced on October 26, that it is introducing a voluntary exit programme targeting eligible employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK.
Microsoft is not the only one to cut jobs because of increasing AI use across operations. Here’s a look at a few others.
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The fundraise comes as the company expands medical imaging and diagnostic services aimed at detecting serious illnesses before symptoms emerge.
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🚨 Flipkart’s listing keeps slipping, and the decision now rests with a Walmart that appears in no hurry to take it public, writes @samidhas
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By joining forces with top frontier AI developers, they aim to compress a decade of biological trial-and-error into mere days of computing, explains ET’s Shilpa Ranipeta.
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📢Artificial intelligence models are probabilistic, but robots operating in the physical world cannot be allowed to act unpredictably, particularly when working alongside humans, said Ashutosh Saxena, founder of physical AI startup TorqueAGI.
The Palo Alto based physical AI startup counts Rackhouse Venture Capital and Trucks Venture Capital as early backers and has active collaborations with firms like Nvidia.
According to Saxena, the challenge is to make robots reason through their decisions while ensuring that mistakes do not cause physical harm. “The key is the nature of the mistake,” he said.
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