Startup news and updates: daily roundup (November 13, 2026)

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Startup news and updates: daily roundup (November 13, 2026)
YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, November 13, 2026.
From Jensen Huang’s latest affair report to Sachin Tendulkar joining Recykal as a strategic investor, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors.
Latest News
The race to find Nvidia's next chief begins
Nvidia has begun its search for a permanent chief executive officer after co-founder Jensen Huang resigned on November 12, ending a 33-year run at the held. The company board has said it would consider candidates from inside and outside the company.
Meanwhile, the chief financial officer Colette Kress has been appointed the interim CEO.On November 12, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, that Huang also had an intimate relationship with another female Nvidia employee, whose identity it did not disclose.
Fusion CX forays into German market with its latest acquisition
Fusion CX will be acquiring 100% of German call-centre / BPO group Impacx. The company has signed the binding agreement with impacx effective November 1, 2026, and the acquisition is subject to regulatory and statutory approvals. The acquisition marks Fusion CX’s first foray into the German market.
Impacx, which has run AI in live client operations since 2018, recorded about €11.9 million (about $13.2 million) in revenue in 2025 and has around 250 employees, with nearshore partners in Croatia and Greece extending its delivery.
Funding News
Sachin Tendulkar joins Recykal as a strategic investor
Sachin Tendulkar has joined Recykal as a strategic investor, after the startup raised a bridge round of $23 million.
The association aim to inspire a nationwide shift in how Indians think about waste, encouraging every citizen to see it not as something to discard, but as a valuable resource that can be recovered, returned and given a second life.
As the strategic investor, Tendulkar will help champion a nationwide movement to make responsible waste behaviour an everyday habit, carrying forward the spirit of Swachh Bharat into its next chapter.
Other News
Varaha’s community-led biochar project achieves a BeZero Carbon ex ante Rating of A.pre
Varaha announced that its community-led biochar project, Agnisparsh has been assigned a BeZero Carbon ex ante Rating of A.pre, with low project execution risk, as of October 2026.
Set up in Western India, the project at full operation, will run approximately 450 Kon-Tiki kilns across multiple mobile sites, turning biomass from local smallholder farms into biochar. Biomass in the region is commonly burned in the field after harvest. The project instead converts them into biochar, most of which goes back, free of charge, to the smallholder farmers who supplied the biomass.
(This article will be updated with the latest news throughout the day.)

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