Start Ups

The collaboration is aimed at solving such issues faced by direct-to-consumer (D2C) companies

Snabbit has launched Kavach, a platform-embedded safety system that proactively monitors risk and triggers escalation during home-service jobs, strengthening protection for women workers

StrideOne has raised ₹100 crore in equity and structured debt and appointed industry veteran Rajesh Sud as co-founder and chairman as it strengthens governance and scales its MSME credit platform

Arnya Real Estates Fund Advisors raises ₹1,030 crore in the first close of its real estate equity fund with Supreme Universal to back redevelopment-led housing projects in Mumbai and Pune

In terms of products, Euler Motors has both electric four-wheeler and three-wheeler commercial cargo vehicles, which are covered under the PLI scheme

Founded by Practo's Shashank ND with Arpit Garg and Anshul Khandelwal, Cent combines advanced imaging, 120+ biomarkers and AI to detect cancer and cardiac risks before symptoms appear

Round led by Bertelsmann India Investments with participation from Fireside Ventures, Spark Growth Ventures, Bikaji Family Office, FE Securities

The programme offers startups up to 12 months of API credits, access to Sarvam's language AI tools, and direct engineering support

Fashion quick commerce startups are shifting focus from speed to experience-led shopping, offering features such as discovery, personalisation, try-at-home options to tackle online shopping challenges

Nitin Sharma, partner at venture capital firm Antler India, discusses where Indian AI startups can compete globally and why founder quality matters more than age

Renewal of Uber's aggregator licence under Karnataka's mobility rules provides regulatory certainty for the firm, allowing operations until December 2026 in a key Indian market

Epiq Capital leads the round; Pronto's daily bookings surge to over 18,000

The current capital-raise will be deployed to significantly expand manufacturing capacity over the next two years

Seedcamp-backed Tattvam AI is building a reasoning-driven AI system to automate complex semiconductor design tasks, aiming to compress multi-year development cycles into weeks

Seed round led by Bessemer backs MeltPlan's AI 'planning engine' to optimise preconstruction decisions across code, cost, schedule and value systems

Wootzwork is scaling a new manufacturing model that gives global OEMs a single, accountable partner for complex industrial programmes across India and Southeast Asia

Kapil Thirani, vice president for Shopsy and Flipkart Marketplace, shares insights about Flipkart's zero-commission push to capture India's value-conscious Gen Z and first-time rural shoppers

General Catalyst leads Xflow's $16.6 mn Series A at an $85 mn valuation, as the fintech backed by Stripe and PayPal Ventures plans expansion after a breakout year

TryfactaConnex has signed an MoU with the Uttar Pradesh government to launch a large-scale India AI infrastructure platform, investing $7.7 bn to build a 1-GW hyperscale data centre campus

Valuation reset, tax uncertainty slow their homecoming to India