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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicUnicorn startup

Topic: Unicorn startup

India’s start-up funding winter continues, with current quarter seeing lowest investments in 3 yrs

Though India saw funding numbers rise a modest 6% in calendar year 2024 when compared to last year, overall decline since 2021 appears to be a matter of concern for Indian companies.

‘Social justice venture lab’, ‘Shark Tank’ style TV show — what Tamil Nadu’s new start-up policy offers

State's revamped 'Startup & Innovation Policy' aims to make Tamil Nadu one among the top 20 start-up ecosystems of the world in the next 10 years.

New book documents entrepreneurial journeys of India’s unicorn founders

Published by Penguin India, ‘Unlocking Unicorn Secrets’ will be released on 31 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Zepto becomes first startup in India to surpass billion-dollar valuation mark in a year

The grocery startup said it raised $200 million in fresh funding 'in the midst of the deepest downturn in capital markets in over a decade' from US-based investment firms.

WeCrashed, The Dropout, SuperPumped—3 OTT series show there’s a lot of con in the unicorn game

Watching these shows—now streaming on Apple TV, Hulu, and SHOWTIME—is like seeing a pack of cards stacked up perilously and waiting for it to come crashing down.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.