Startup Funding

Masters' Union launches ₹100 crore fund to back founders under 25

MU Ventures to invest up to Rs 50 lakh per founder across four tracks, targeting young entrepreneurs and early-stage startups with faster funding decisions

Noon emerges from stealth with $44 million for AI design tool

Startup backed by First Round Capital and executives from Stripe, OpenAI and Apple develops AI-driven design tool integrating code and workflows

India's VC investments reached $16 bn in 2025; deal activity rose 18%

India's VC funding rebounds to $16 billion in 2025, with fintech and wealthtech leading the surge in deal activity and investor interest

IndiaAI Mission startup Gnani raises $10 mn from Aavishkaar, Info Edge

Funding to support global expansion, strengthen generative and agentic AI capabilities, and scale multilingual voice solutions as firm targets a larger share of enterprise voice AI market

Fintech Bachatt raises $12 million in Series A round led by Accel

Startup plans to scale its savings platform and build AI-led wealth and credit solutions targeting India's 300 million merchants and self-employed segment

Startups may get to access 'stalled' capital under new PN3 regime

Revised Press Note 3 policy allows up to 10 per cent non-controlling ownership from land-bordering countries, easing startup funding while retaining oversight

Agri-tech startup Verdant Impact raises $3 mn in seed funding round

AI-driven bovine genetics startup Verdant Impact raises $3 million in a seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures to expand markets, scale its Pashu.AI platform and strengthen tech capabilities

Rozana raises ₹290 cr in Series B to scale rural retail across Bharat

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

Peak XV Partners leads $25 million pre-Series-C round in Stable Money

The Pre-Series C round saw the participation of investors like Z47, RTP Global, and Fundamentum Partnership

IVCA consortium commits ₹500 crore to fund 31 India-built AI startups

Sixteen IVCA-member VC firms have pledged ₹500 crore to invest in 31 homegrown AI startups showcased at MeitY's Impact AI PitchFest, signalling rising confidence in India's deployable AI ecosystem

Olyv raises $23 mn in Series B led by Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum

Online lending marketplace Olyv has raised $23 million in a Series B round led by Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum to expand products across insurance, UPI and business loans

Pet care startup Supertails raises $30 million in Series C funding round

The Bengaluru-based pet care platform will use the funds to expand technology capabilities, strengthen healthcare services and scale up its offline clinics and quick-delivery network

Nivaan Care raises $7 million to expand pain management clinics in India

Series A round led by Sorin Investments backs the rollout of minimally invasive, single specialty centres

SpotDraft raises $8 mn from Qualcomm Ventures in Series B extension round

Funds to deepen AI capabilities and expand enterprise presence across key global markets

SBI Ventures to launch ₹2,000 crore fund for climate-tech investments

Speaking at the second edition of the IVCA Green Returns Summit on Monday, Prem Prabhakar, managing director and chief executive officer of SBI Ventures

IntrCity SmartBus secures ₹250 crore as India's intercity travel booms

Asset-light aggregator plans to double fleet and reach Rs 1,000 crore revenue as sector grows 10-13% annually

AI firm Uniphore secures $260 mn from Nvidia, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks

Uniphore values at $2.5 billion as it boosts its Business AI Cloud platform and ecosystem for enterprise-scale adoption

India's B2C ecom startups raise $1.3 bn in 2025 so far, Bengaluru leads

A new report shows rapid growth in India's B2C e-commerce space, though investment continues to cluster in urban hubs.

AI-first FMCG startup Meolaa raises $6 mn in pre-Series A funding

The Bengaluru-based startup plans to deploy funds into AI infrastructure, brand expansion and supply chain agility to compress FMCG product cycles from years to months

SuperGaming raises $15 mn in fresh funding at 5 times higher valuation

Homegrown online gaming company SuperGaming has raised USD 15 million in a fresh funding round at nearly five times the valuation of its previous round around 4 years ago, a top official of the company said on Wednesday. SuperGaming CEO and Co-Founder Roby John told PTI that the company had raised USD 5 million at a valuation of USD 21 million in 2021. The fresh funds have been raised at an enterprise valuation of about USD 100 million, he added. The fresh funding round was led by Skycatcher and Steadview Capital, with support from global strategic investors such as a16z Speedrun, Bandai Namco 021 Fund and Neowiz, as well as notable Web3 Investors, including Polygon Ventures. The round also saw strong participation from Web3 ecosystem pioneers like Polygon Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Decentralised.co, 4th Revolution Capital, 32-Bit Ventures, Ryze Labs, Ed3n Ventures and Visceral Capital. Existing investors SkyCatcher, AET Japan, and BACE Capital also participated in the new round.