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Gupshup rebrands amidst product growth and global expansion
Mumbai: Messaging platform Gupshup has unveiled its new brand identity at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The rebranding consists of new logo colors, revised brand look-and-feel, an updated website, and a new tagline that goes, ‘One-On-One. With Everyone.’
According to the brand statement, these changes reinforce Gupshup’s vision of “transforming the future of business-to-customer conversations and commerce through conversational engagement.”
“This new brand identity is an evolution of our core vision. We remain committed to helping businesses engage one-on-one with consumers, at scale, through conversations that are both real and human,” said Gupshup co-founder and CEO Beerud Sheth. “We are doubling down on our focus to help more and more businesses drive deeper, personalized conversations with their consumers across the world.”
The new tagline underscores Gupshup’s brand promise of creating AI-powered, personalised, one-on-one conversations on messaging and voice channels, for businesses and their consumers, across marketing, commerce, and support workflows, said the statement.
With a refreshed colour palette, the overall design language signifies how conversations are intuitive and natural, and how they have become the digital backbone of brand-to-customer interactions, it added.
The brand has retained the salient features of the original logo. The company’s concept of programmable messaging is reflected in the ‘</>’ symbol embedded in the two chat bubbles that signify conversations. The idea of smart, programmable messages is foundational to conversational engagement.
Gupshup’s conversational engagement push has led to triple-digit business growth with 44,000 customers overall, according to the brand. The technology company has raised $340 million in the last 12 months, made two key acquisitions in the last six months, and expanded into 30+ countries across five continents.
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Time brings TIME100 Next franchise to India with Reliance
List to spotlight 100 emerging leaders, gala set for December 2026 in Mumbai.
MUMBAI: It’s about time India’s next wave got a global spotlight and now, it’s on the list. New York-headquartered Time is expanding its TIME100 Next franchise to India, partnering with Reliance Industries Limited to launch TIME100 Next India, its first international extension of the rising leaders platform. The announcement was made at the Time100 Gala in New York by Jessica Sibley and Nita Mukesh Ambani, signalling a strategic push to tap into India’s growing influence across sectors.
The India edition will recognise 100 emerging leaders from the country and the global Indian diaspora, spanning business, science, sports, arts and social impact. The list will be curated by Time’s editorial team and published online, continuing the franchise’s focus on identifying individuals shaping the future.
The initiative will culminate in a gala event scheduled for December 2026 at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, anchoring the platform within India’s cultural and business ecosystem.
TIME’s broader Time100 franchise has steadily expanded its global footprint since 2021 through events and impact-led initiatives. Executives noted that India’s growing pool of influential voices and innovators made it a natural next step for the platform’s international ambitions.
For Reliance, the partnership aligns with its broader push to support emerging talent and ideas on a global stage. For Time, it marks a timely bet on India not just as a market, but as a talent engine shaping the next chapter of global leadership.
