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LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, has been recognized as the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) ‘Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year’ at NVIDIA GTC 2026. The award recognizes LTM’s strong collaboration with NVIDIA and its growing impact in helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to scalable, enterprise-ready adoption.

The NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) brings together a global ecosystem of technology and consulting partners working closely with NVIDIA to deliver advanced AI solutions. Being an NPN partner is about collaborating deeply with NVIDIA to help clients transition from AI pilots to enterprise-scale deployments combining NVIDIA’s advanced AI technologies with LTM’s industry and domain expertise to drive real-world outcomes.

The Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year award highlights LTM’s momentum in delivering AI solutions that are production-grade, secure, and designed for enterprise scale. This NPN award is a significant recognition for LTM and reflects the strength of its collaboration with NVIDIA, as well as shared commitment to delivering AI solutions that create meaningful and measurable value for clients.

“Being part of the NVIDIA Partner Network is extremely meaningful because it places us at the centre of NVIDIA’s innovation ecosystem. Direct collaboration with NVIDIA’s innovators, product leaders, and experts enables us to rapidly build, refine, and scale enterprise-ready AI solutions, significantly accelerating the journey from concept to customer impact,” said Venu Lambu, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, LTM.

As AI becomes foundational to enterprise strategy, solutions built on NVIDIA’s trusted technology are expanding new opportunities for clients to innovate with confidence, while ensuring performance, security, and scalability. Through its collaboration with NVIDIA, LTM continues to support enterprises across industries in adopting AI responsibly and at scale.

Riskified (NYSE: RSKD), a leader in ecommerce fraud and risk intelligence, today announced the release of Dispute Resolve for Shopify. This specialized offering is designed to transform the often-complex, highly manual chargeback management process into a streamlined, automated engine, enabling Shopify merchants to recover revenue with greater efficiency and with less manual effort.

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Many merchants are currently forced to log into multiple payment gateway portals to view fraud and non-fraud chargebacks, manually copy/paste and organize compelling evidence, and build custom reporting to assess win-rate performance. Dispute Resolve provides a single source of truth through a real-time dashboard that automatically syncs with a wide variety of payment gateways, providing instant clarity into dispute performance and significantly improving workflows. The solution includes an AI-driven Compelling Evidence Editor that auto-populates case data into customized templates, reducing the time spent preparing a dispute from over thirty minutes to just five minutes. By moving from a passive management layer to a proactive execution engine, merchants can now submit evidence and accept chargebacks directly within the Riskified platform.

The launch of Dispute Resolve further strengthens the deep integration between Riskified and the Shopify ecosystem, providing a comprehensive security layer that protects every stage of the customer journey. Beyond chargeback management, the Riskified platform offers merchants a suite of solutions to secure the entire lifecycle—from account login and checkout to post-purchase claims. This includes a Chargeback Guarantee that allows merchants to safely approve more orders, alongside Policy Protect, which shields brands from the rising costs of promotion abuse, unauthorized reseller abuse, as well as refund claim and return abuse. By leveraging industry-tailored machine learning models and a vast global merchant network, Riskified helps Shopify brands scale confidently while maintaining a smarter and seamless experience for their customers.

Global lifestyle audio brand Skullcandy is among the many merchants already leveraging the Riskified Shopify App to drive performance. Riskified’s automated tools and recalibrated approval thresholds helped the Skullcandy team achieve a 4x increase in approved revenue while sustaining a negligible 0.06% chargeback rate over a 12-month period.

“We access Riskified via the Shopify app, which makes managing our fraud strategy and monitoring performance easy, and we know the Riskified support team is always there for consistent and reliable problem solving,” said Zach Belles, Director of IT at Skullcandy.

Read Skullcandy’s success story here.

Join the webinar, “Checkout to claims: How Shopify merchants stop fraud and boost revenue with Riskified,” live on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, or on demand. Learn how Riskified’s seamless integration with Shopify helps merchants increase approvals, reduce false declines, and deliver a superior customer experience, and how leading audio lifestyle brand Skullcandy transformed its fraud strategy.

About Riskified

Riskified (NYSE:RSKD) empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by outsmarting risk. Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists, and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Learn more at riskified.com.

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HyperLight Corporation (“HyperLight”), creator of the TFLN Chiplet™ Platform, today announced the availability of 400G-per-lane thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) designed for next-generation AI networking infrastructure. The new PIC family delivers low insertion loss, low drive voltage operation, and exceptional electro-optic bandwidth, enabling energy-efficient and high-performance 400G-per-lane optical links.

The transition to 400G-per-lane is a critical step for future AI infrastructure, enabling higher interconnect bandwidth and improved system density. HyperLight’s 400G-per-lane TFLN PICs provide the large electro-optic bandwidth and low-voltage operation required to support these next-generation optical links, where bandwidth, signal integrity, and power efficiency are increasingly challenging for electronic ICs to sustain.

HyperLight’s TFLN devices combine high modulation efficiency with extremely low optical loss, enabling transmitter architectures powered by single- or dual-laser configurations. The devices are manufactured using HyperLight’s TFLN Chiplet™ Platform, designed for scalable production of high-performance TFLN photonic devices.

“400G-per-lane is a prime example of where the advantages of TFLN become clear,” said Mian Zhang, CEO of HyperLight. “While 400G-per-lane pushes the limits of many technologies from a bandwidth perspective, TFLN provides ample bandwidth margin while maintaining low drive voltage. This enables excellent manufacturability while significantly reducing module power.”

“As the industry moves toward the 400G-per-lane era, the performance of optical components becomes increasingly critical,” said Vijay Janapaty, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Physical Layer Products Division. “HyperLight’s high-bandwidth TFLN transmitter PIC, combined with Broadcom’s Taurus™ DSP platform, enables exceptional signal integrity and energy efficiency for next-generation optical interconnects.”

“HyperLight’s TFLN solution plays an important role in enabling high-performance and power-efficient 400G-per-lane optical transceivers,” said Richard Huang, CEO of Eoptolink. “The superior performance of the TFLN PIC reduces the need for dedicated external drivers, lowers laser count, and simplifies module integration — ultimately improving power efficiency, cost, and reliability.”

About HyperLight

HyperLight delivers high-performance integrated photonics solutions based on thin-film lithium niobate technology. The company combines the electro-optic advantages of TFLN with scalable manufacturing, test, and integration to enable next-generation optical engines for AI data centers, telecom and metro networks, and emerging photonics markets.

Website: https://www.hyperlightcorp.com

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Sintavia, LLC, the world’s leading all-digital aerospace component manufacturer, announced today that it had integrated NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition to design, simulate, and validate a complex aerospace heat exchanger in only two weeks—a process that would have taken months previously. The resulting heat exchanger demonstrated a 30% reduction in weight and 20% improvement in thermal efficiency for aerospace applications, and was validated using CT scanning and in-house testing.

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Scooped version of representative heat exchanger (Source: Sintavia)

As part of the project, Sintavia adopted a simulation-driven approach, integrating CFD in Siemens Simcenter™ STAR-CCM+™ software and implicit modeling in nTop, leveraging NVIDIA Blackwell architecture to unlock next-level performance on what has historically been a large, compute- and memory-bandwidth intensive workload. By combining all of these features, Sintavia was able to rapidly iterate its simulation without sacrificing fidelity or safety. In Sintavia’s tests, NVIDIA Blackwell GPU ran a 30 million-cell Simcenter STAR-CCM+ conjugate heat transfer simulation with over 300 iterations in just seven minutes—11x faster than on a 24-core CPU—allowing Sintavia to make near real-time adjustments to meet customer performance requirements. The result was a fully optimized heat exchanger that was printable the next day.

“At Sintavia, we’re not just designing heat exchangers, we’re pioneering a new era of thermal management with solutions that are lighter, stronger, and engineered for the most demanding environments,” said Jose Troitino, Principal Design Engineer at Sintavia. “Because we operate in a fully digital environment—from simulation, through manufacturing and inspection—we are always looking at faster and more efficient solutions to reduce span time at each step. We are very proud that we have been able to do so alongside NVIDIA, Siemens, and nTop.”

Additional information on the project is available at: Sintavia Aerospace Component Design with NVIDIA GPUs | NVIDIA Customer Stories.

About Sintavia

Sintavia is the world’s leading all-digital aerospace component supplier. Over the past four years, it has designed and delivered the first metal additive component on: (i) a fighter jet, (ii) a nuclear submarine, (iii) a hypersonic missile, (iv) a piloted aircraft critical safety system, and (v) a military rotorcraft. By combining a fully digital design-print-certify workstream alongside a fully digital additive manufacturing process, Sintavia is redefining the aerospace component supply landscape. For more information visit http://www.sintavia.com.

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NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the release of the next generation of NetApp EF-Series storage systems, built to power the most performance‑intensive workloads at scale. The introduction of EF50 and EF80 helps enterprises and neoclouds meet the growing demands of AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and transactional databases, including in emerging use cases like sovereign AI clouds and AI-powered manufacturing.

“Data is the key component to delivering business value for enterprises, underpinning performance-hungry workloads like AI or databases,” said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. “As businesses contend with ever-increasing data volumes and performance-intensive applications such as AI model training, AI inferencing and high-performance computing, they need infrastructure that delivers speed, scalability and efficiency without added complexity. NetApp delivers a comprehensive portfolio that addresses every stage of the AI data pipeline from collecting and preparing data to feeding it to GenAI models that produce business insights. With the new EF-Series systems, purpose-built for extreme performance, we’re enabling customers to deploy and scale high-throughput, low-latency workloads quickly and efficiently, while reducing data center footprint and operational overhead.”

Coupled with high-performance parallel file systems like Lustre or BeeGFS, the new EF50 and EF80 systems accelerate HPC simulations and keep GPUs fully utilized with high-performance scratch space, helping organizations unlock new value and competitive advantage at the right price. Customers ranging from neocloud providers driving AI innovation to movie studios managing massive media libraries will benefit from not only performance and scalability but also robust security measures to safeguard sensitive information and prevent data loss.

The new EF-Series storage systems deliver over 110GBps of read throughput and 55GBps of write throughput, a 250 percent improvement over previous generations. With a power efficiency of 63.7GBps per KW and 1.5PB of storage in 2U, the new systems ensure reliable, high-performance with efficient rack density and an affordable cost. With EF-Series, organizations can:

• Achieve high performance for data-intensive workloads, scaling capacity without sacrificing efficiency or latency
• Balance budget requirements with high-performance needs to make better decisions faster
• Simplify management and operational complexity with affordable block storage, streamlined deployment and support from NetApp’s technical experts.

“As we navigate the AI era, many enterprises are finding that they need to maximize their raw performance to extract the most value from their data,” said Clayton Vipond, Senior Solution Architect at CDW. “The refreshed NetApp EF-Series deliver the throughput and capacity businesses need to scale high-powered workloads that transform data into insights and outcomes.”

“NetApp’s EF-Series systems give Teradata the storage performance needed to support our most demanding workloads,” said Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer, Teradata. “We appreciate that NetApp continues to invest in this technology, and with the enhanced performance of the new models, we look forward to exploring opportunities to reduce infrastructure complexity and support the AI and data modernization initiatives our customers care about.”

“By delivering a high-performance storage system that supports parallel file systems like Lustre and BeeGFS, NetApp is making its mark as emerging industries, such as neocloud, emerge to support the AI-Era,” said Simon Robinson, Principal Analyst at Omdia. “Our research validates that AI workloads require a level of raw performance unmatched by any mainstream business workload to date. With the new EF-series systems, NetApp is delivering a solution that addresses the performance needs of large-scale AI projects, whether model training or inference.”

The updated EF-Series builds on decades of durability and reliability from NetApp. With more than 1 million installations, it has a proven track record that customers can rely on.

Additional Resources

• NetApp E-Series Hybrid and EF-Series All Flash: Built for Dedicated, High-Bandwidth Applications
• Power your AI Workloads and Data at the Speed of Innovation

About NetApp

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

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In an industry often focused on what’s in front of the camera, TECNO is turning the spotlight to what stands quietly behind the scenes. Today, the innovative smartphone brand announced the launch of #TECNOGotYourBack, a long-term brand platform that celebrates the resilience, support systems and everyday ‘backbones’ powering India’s progress.

To bring this narrative to life, TECNO has chosen the biggest stage in India: the cricket crease. In a purposeful branding move, the TECNO logo will feature on the back of the helmets of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) throughout the 2026 season.

This goes beyond a traditional sponsorship; it is a reflection of a core mission. TECNO’s mission is to back town dreamers and CSK is a team famously built on the backs of those who made it against the odds – from Sanju Samson in Vizhinjam and Dhoni from Ranchi to Ruturaj from Nagpur.

By backing CSK, TECNO is simply living its mission: supporting those who started small and made it exciting. When TECNO stands behind the team, it sends a clear message to 200 million Indian families: “We back dreamers like you, and we’ve got your back.”

Reflecting on how this partnership aligns with the brand’s deeper purpose, Mr. Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, TECNO Mobile India, shared the vision driving this collaboration: “Most brands want to be the trophy in your hand. We want to be the spine that helps you stand tall enough to reach for it. #TECNOGotYourBack isn’t just a campaign; it’s our commitment to being the ‘Backbone of Bharat.’ By placing our logo on the back of the CSK helmet, we are making a statement: we aren’t just watching the game from the sidelines – we are right there, literally backing the champions who inspire this country. We are building a brand that stands for local champions, ensuring that when they push boundaries, they know TECNO has their back.”

“At Chennai Super Kings, we have always believed that success is built on trust, resilience and the strength of the people who stand behind you. This partnership with TECNO reflects that shared philosophy. We are delighted to welcome TECNO to the Super Kings family and look forward to a meaningful association that celebrates the spirit of backing champions, both on and off the field,” said KS Viswanathan, Managing Director, Chennai Super Kings.

The partnership with CSK serves as the first proof point of this reimagined brand purpose. The “Helmet Strategy” highlights a simple human truth: every champion has a support system that often goes unseen. By claiming the back-of-the-helmet real estate, TECNO transforms a branding slot into a conversation about loyalty and reliability.

As the tournament progresses, #TECNOGotYourBack will expand beyond the pitch, focusing on the “backbones” of Indian society – the dreamers, the entrepreneurs and the everyday heroes who keep the country moving forward.

Smartly today announced it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire INCRMNTAL, a pioneering AI-powered incrementality measurement platform that delivers real-time insights into the incremental impact of marketing investments across channels without relying on user-level data or tracking.

As brands activate across social, commerce, and premium CTV, understanding what actually drives incremental growth has become increasingly complex. By combining INCRMNTAL’s real-time incrementality insights with Smartly’s platform that enables advertisers to turn insights into action across channels, marketers can continuously direct investment to what drives business outcomes. The integration will translate incrementality signals into real-time planning and optimization within Smartly, helping brands and agencies allocate budgets with greater confidence.

“Marketing leaders today are demanding better measurement for performance and accountability,” said Laura Desmond, CEO of Smartly. “Incrementality is becoming increasingly important in a world where traditional approaches are challenged to move at the speed of AI and the changing consumer journey. With INCRMNTAL, Smartly enables marketers to connect what’s happening in their business outcomes in real time with how they optimize media, creative, and campaigns, so they can see performance as it happens and take immediate action.”

INCRMNTAL’s AI-powered always-on methodology analyzes natural fluctuations in campaign activity instead of forcing marketers to exclude audiences, pause campaigns, or run formal experiments. The solution complements marketers’ existing measurement tools, including marketing mix modeling (MMM) and multi-touch attribution (MTA).

With this acquisition, Smartly will reinforce its position as the platform that connects creative, media, and intelligence, helping marketers orchestrate performance with confidence.

About Smartly
Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company ranked as the leader in The Forrester Wave™: Creative Advertising Technologies. Our platform unifies creative and media to produce intelligent creative, dynamic, data-driven image and video assets optimized for seamless activation across channels. Brands manage, optimize, and scale high-performance campaigns in one place, achieving PwC-validated results, including a 5.5x return on ad spend (ROAS) and 42 minutes saved every hour.

We support 800+ brands and manage over $7 billion in ad spend globally. With strategic partnerships across major media platforms, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Snap, Spotify, and TikTok, we help Fortune 500 companies deliver relevant advertising at speed and scale. Backed by deep media expertise and best-in-class customer support, we empower brands to maximize performance and drive real business outcomes. Visit Smartly.io to learn more.

About INCRMNTAL
INCRMNTAL is an AI-powered marketing measurement platform that delivers actionable incrementality measurement for advertising campaigns. The platform provides always-on insights without relying on user-level data or planned experiments, using technological innovation, reinforcement learning, and causal AI to reveal the true impact of marketing across Mobile, Web, TV & CTV, Influencers, OOH & DOOH, Audio, and Podcasts.
Learn more at www.incrmntal.com

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Cushman & Wakefield recently handed over a one-of-a-kind, accessibility first campus to Latika, a Dehradun-based nonprofit, reinforcing the role of the built environment in enabling inclusive social infrastructure.

India is home to over 26 million persons with disabilities (Census 2011), yet educational infrastructure designed entirely around accessibility remains limited. Latika’s new premises address this structural gap by embedding universal design principles from inception, ensuring accessibility is integrated into the core architecture of the campus.

Developed over a three-year construction timeline, the 56,000 sq feet of built-up space has been designed to support over 1,500 disabled children and their families. The facility integrates accessibility at every level, including a multi-storey ramp system, barrier-free circulation, inclusive classrooms, therapy facilities and thoughtfully planned family support spaces. Every element of the campus has been planned to support safe mobility, learning and participation for children with diverse physical and developmental needs.

Latika’s new premises represents a significant milestone in its 30+ year history of inclusion, grassroots engagement and specialized support for disabled children in Uttarakhand.

Cushman & Wakefield partnered with Latika to help realise this vision. The firm provided CSR seed capital and delivered comprehensive pro-bono project management services through its Project & Development Services team.

This included construction oversight, cost and timeline management, quality control and execution coordination, reflecting the standards typically deployed in large-scale commercial developments. By applying disciplined project management practices, the firm supported the timely delivery of a campus built to high accessibility standards.

The project also incorporates sustainable design principles, including the use of local materials, local craftsmanship, and low-maintenance, energy-efficient construction techniques, ensuring the campus remains environmentally responsible and easy to maintain over the long term.

Anshul Jain, Chief Executive, India, SEA, MEA and APAC Office and Retail, Cushman & Wakefield, said, “We firmly believe that buildings drive culture. They shape opportunity, enable participation, and have the power to drive inclusion in the way we live, work, learn, and play. Through our partnership with Latika on their inclusive and accessible building, we aim to demonstrate how thoughtfully designed infrastructure can help move the conversation on disability forward in India.

Our teams approached this project with the same discipline, advisory expertise and integrated project delivery standards that we apply to large-scale developments. It was also our privilege to bring like-minded organizations within the real-estate fraternity, to come together to support this initiative.

When accessibility is embedded into infrastructure from the beginning, it expands opportunity and enables children with disabilities to learn, grow and participate with confidence. We hope this campus contributes to a broader shift towards more inclusive design in India’s built environment.”

Jo Chopra, Founder and Executive Director, Latika, said, “Every child, regardless of ability, deserves to grow up in a place where they’re valued and able to participate fully in community life. Our new campus gives concrete shape to that vision. Designed for accessibility, learning and community through everyday experience, it’s an important milestone for us as well as for inclusive education in India. We hope it’ll serve not only the children and families in our programmes, but also demonstrate what a truly inclusive environment looks like, and what becomes possible when inclusion is built into the environment from the start. We’re grateful to Cushman and Wakefield for helping make it possible.”

Aksigen IVF has been honoured with two prestigious accolades at the National Fertility Awards 2026, organised by ET Healthworld to recognize excellence and innovation in the fertility industry. The awards were announced at a ceremony held on March 7 in Mumbai.

Aksigen IVF received two significant recognitions: “IVF Clinic of the Year – West Zone” and “Excellence in Digital Innovation – National Level.” These awards highlight the organisation’s commitment to advancing fertility care through clinical excellence, innovation, and the effective use of digital platforms to improve patient engagement and access to fertility information.

The IVF Clinic of the Year – West Zone award acknowledges Aksigen IVF’s consistent efforts in delivering high-quality fertility treatments backed by strong clinical protocols and patient-centric care. Meanwhile, the Excellence in Digital Innovation – National Level award recognizes the organisation’s initiatives in leveraging digital tools and platforms to enhance awareness, patient education, and communication across the fertility care journey.

Dr. Gautam Daftary, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Aksigen IVF, expressed his excitement by stating, “These recognitions are a testament to our team’s commitment to delivering science-driven, patient-centric fertility care. At Aksigen IVF, we believe that combining clinical excellence with digital innovation can significantly improve access to reliable fertility information and treatment pathways. This recognition further motivates us to continue advancing fertility care and supporting individuals and couples on their journey to parenthood.”

Aksigen IVF is a science-led fertility care platform built on a strong legacy in reproductive medicine. The organisation combines over 40 years of reproductive science expertise with more than 15 years of focused IVF practice, having managed over 30,000 fertility treatment cycles across IVF, ICSI, and allied assisted reproductive technologies.

Aksigen IVF integrates pharmaceutical research rigour with clinical fertility expertise. The organisation focuses on personalised, evidence-based treatment frameworks, advanced embryology, integrated diagnostics, and patient education to deliver transparent and high-quality fertility care.

The National Fertility Awards by ET Healthworld celebrate excellence across India’s fertility ecosystem, honouring clinics, specialists, and organisations that are setting new benchmarks in reproductive healthcare. Receiving these dual honours underscores Aksigen IVF’s growing reputation as a trusted name in fertility care, driven by science, innovation, and a commitment to improving fertility outcomes for patients across India.

Website: https://www.aksigenivf.com/

The second edition of the landmark programme is being organised with support from Google Cloud. Applications open nationwide on 17th March. Prizes include up to $1 million in investment from Campus Fund, Google Cloud credits, and exclusive workshops. Apply here – https://yourcampusfund.com/futurex/.

Campus Fund, a $100M fund investing exclusively in student-led/dropouts/recent graduate startups, today announced the launch of FutureX – AI. The second edition of India’s premier platform for young innovators, FutureX, doubles down on Artificial Intelligence across the full stack – from foundational to applied – inviting the country’s most ambitious student founders, college dropouts and early graduates to compete for investment, infrastructure, and a platform to build what’s next.

Applications are now open and will close on 10th April 2026. The programme runs through May, culminating in a grand finale at Google’s Bengaluru office on 29th May 2026, where the top 10 shortlisted startups will pitch to an esteemed panel of investors, founders, and industry leaders.

“FutureX began with a simple conviction – that some of India’s most consequential companies will be built by people still on campus or who just left it. The first edition proved that. FutureX AI goes deeper into AI, the single most transformative technology of our times, and gives young innovators the capital access, infrastructure, and community to build something that lasts.”

– Richa Bajpai, Founder and CEO, Campus Fund

Building on a Strong First Edition

FutureX – DeepTech 2025 set a high bar. The winners were:

• Winner – Folium Sensing – Fiber optic based distributed sensing technologies from IIT Madras

• First Runner-Up – NCF Labs – Discoverers of a new material that has an exceptionally high solar to thermal efficiency of 87.9% from IIT Bombay

• Second Runner-Up – Climitra – vertically integrated ecosystem for waste biomass-driven industrial decarbonization also from IIT Bombay

The inaugural edition was evaluated by a distinguished jury:

• Bharat Shah – Co-Founder, HDFC Bank

• Aprameya R – Co-Founder & CEO, Koo

• Mohit Saxena – Co-Founder & Group CTO, InMobi

• Raghunandan G – Founder, Zolve

• Mekin Maheshwari – Founder, Udhyam

• Shanti Ekambaram – Deputy MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank

• Yatin Shah – Co-Founder, 360 ONE

• Akarsh Hebbar – President, Vedanta, Spark Startups and Display Glass

• Arun Chittilappilly – Co-Founder & MD, Wonderla Holidays

• Sandeep Cashyap – Head of Startup Business, India, Google Cloud

The jury for FutureX AI will be announced soon.

What We’re Looking For

FutureX AI is exclusively focused on AI startups. We’re in search of the best student-led startups/dropout/graduates within 3 years across Undergrad, Masters and PhD building in AI – including but not limited to:

• Generative AI & Large Language Models

• AI Agents, Copilots & Workflow Automation

• AI Infrastructure (MLOps, Model Serving, Training)

• Vertical AI (Healthcare, Legal, Finance, Education, Marketing)

• AI + Hardware (Robotics, Edge AI, Embedded Systems)

• Foundational AI Research (Novel Architectures, Safety)

What Participants Get

Every startup accepted into FutureX AI gets a platform to accelerate them:

• A direct path to Campus Fund’s Investment Committee, with investment opportunities of up to $1 million

• Access to Google Cloud credits, technical guidance, and hands-on AI tooling via the Google for Startups Cloud Program to build and scale with confidence

• Exclusive workshops and sessions covering AI product building, fundraising for AI startups, and scaling from MVP to market

• The Top 10 get an opportunity to present to Industry veterans on the Grand Finale on 29th May 2026 in Bengaluru

Additional participant benefits will be announced soon.

Who Should Apply

FutureX AI is open to current students (UG, PG, or PhD) and graduates or dropouts from 2023 onwards who hold at least 25% equity in their startup. This edition is laser-focused on AI – whether you’re working on foundational models, applying AI in healthcare, climate, fintech, or agritech, building AI-enabled hardware, or solving hard problems with AI at the core. This is your platform.

Applications close 10 April 2026. Apply now https://yourcampusfund.com/futurex/