Riddhi is a senior startups and VC reporter at Business Insider's London office, where she leads coverage of European VC, and AI and climate startups.
She reports on everything from upcoming funding rounds to layoffs and investigates company culture at tech startups. She also writes about the intersection of Big Tech and VC, and global industry trends in the AI and VC ecosystem.
She received her Bachelor's from UCL, where she studied Comparative Literature.
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Sample of stories:
GoStudent, the $3 billion edtech darling, scaled fast and partied hard. The result was a mess.
AI Forge promised to help founders build their dream startups. Some say the incubator was a chaotic disappointment.
DeepMind's secret mafia: Meet the stealth startups emerging from Google's AI lab
The wildest deal in tech right now is about to turn 6-month-old LLM startup Mistral into a $2 billion unicorn, sources say
Peter Thiel-backed TMRW wants to revolutionize the egg-freezing industry. We visited the startup's new London HQ to experience its tech first hand.
I was laid off from events startup Pollen after it suddenly imploded. I'm furious when I think about missed paychecks and not making rent.
Shock, anger, and confusion: Inside Snap's decision to shut down Zenly, a social app with 40 million users
Climate tech founders in the US say they're pivoting to new markets in light of Trump's tax credit cuts.
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Amid a climate tech funding slump, Climatiq has secured an $11.6 million Series A to help companies automate their carbon emissions calculations.
Station F transformed Paris's startup ecosystem. Here's how it's galvanizing France's AI boom and luring global talent.
Thomas Dohmke says AI can help non-technical founders launch a startup, but they still need developers to scale and attract investment from VCs.
Tech
2025-06-12T16:20:30Z
The Nvidia CEO spent the week in London and Paris meeting world leaders and striking AI infrastructure deals.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Anthropic's Dario Amodei, saying AI will reshape jobs, not erase them, as he claimed last month.
Treefera's AI platform provides data on the first mile of a supply chain to help companies understand their compliance with ESG rules.
Hackathons are becoming a key talent-scouting opportunity for AI startups to attract diverse talent at the early stages of their career.
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Sweep's agentic AI platform automates operations on Salesforce and Hubspot.
Tech
2025-05-20T05:00:01Z
Novisto's ESG tracking platform is used by the likes of Meta and Sanofi.
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Bat VC sees big opportunity in India's tech sector, and has launched a $100 million fund targeting early-stage AI startups in the US and India.
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The startup's AI assistant makes it easier for construction companies to manage their supply chains.
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Y Combinator alumni Alice.Tech offers students a platform where they can access personalized learning materials.
Former Monzo CEO Tom Blomfield offers strategic advice on vibe coding, a burgeoning trend facilitating AI-driven code writing.
Investors poured millions into these startups working in legal tech, cybersecurity, agent testing, and productivity.
Tech
2025-04-23T11:47:04Z
Climate startups are finding new avenues to scale by providing clean energy and services to data centers.
As vibe coding gains traction, investors are rethinking what it means to be a technical founder. Here are three things they are looking for.
Tech
2025-04-09T12:23:12Z
Trump says his executive order "slashes unnecessary regulations that targeted beautiful, clean coal."
Here's how five agentic AI startups formatted their pitch decks to secure VC funding — and three things they had in common.
Tech
2025-04-07T10:33:34Z
The French startup says its AI platform can accurately distinguish between different speakers in an audio recording.