IIT Bombay graduates Aishwarya Ramakrishnan and Kedar Gokhale left senior jobs at Mahindra and Swiggy to build Balisto Agritech, a Pune startup making electric farm machines. It has reported ₹70 lakh revenue in about 15 months.
Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old student from Altamira, Mexico, won gold at the International Science and Invention Fair (ISIF) 2026 in Indonesia for Vortex Tech, a prototype that puts out small flames with low-frequency sound.
Ravi Tamta, a Bachelor of Arts graduate from Almora, Uttarakhand, has built HAPIDA SKYNeX, a single-seat electric flying vehicle prototype, after 13 years of self-learning. It made its first test flight in August.
Bengaluru Class 12 student Divit Garg has built The Unboxed School, a portable classroom inside a 40-by-8-foot shipping container for 20 to 25 children of migrant construction workers.
In 2014, NID Ahmedabad student Rahul Agarwal redesigned the measuring spoon. His flat spoon Polygons raised $1,022,120 on Kickstarter and later won a deal on Shark Tank USA.
CCMB geneticist Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj showed that Andaman tribes descend from the first humans to leave Africa, about 65,000 years ago. In 2026 he received the Padma Shri.
Rapid Organic started in 2010 with 7 farmers. Today it works with 12,000+ farmers on 60+ organic crops, and its Organic Cumin Tisane is on Amazon, Flipkart and JioMart.
YourStory's Tech30 2026 list picks 30 Indian startups building core technology: drones, chips, space, robotics, health and clean energy.
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, the startup Ashoka Rajendra built to help pharma teams run drug development. Rajendra joins OpenAI's Life Sciences team.
Sagar Suhag’s MyHELPR brings cleaning, cooking, laundry, repairs, babysitting, elder care and car wash onto one app, with help arriving in 10–30 minutes depending on availability.
Rojgar Suvidha puts government job notifications, admit cards and results in one place, and its Apply For Me feature lets students upload documents while the team fills the form.
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