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SolarSquare Raises $53 Million Series C Led by B Capital to Expand Rooftop Solar Operations
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Foodstories Secures ₹50 Crore Led by Nikhil Kamath to Expand Premium Food Retail
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HCLTech Leads $234 Million Series B in Sarvam AI at $1.5 Billion Valuation
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Funding16h ago
DeepSeek Raises $7.4 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation
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Funding
SolarSquare Raises $53 Million Series C Led by B Capital to Expand Rooftop Solar Operations
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Funding · D2C
Foodstories Secures ₹50 Crore Led by Nikhil Kamath to Expand Premium Food Retail
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HCLTech Leads $234 Million Series B in Sarvam AI at $1.5 Billion Valuation
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Satish Kumar — A 17-year-old with zero funding starting a local dairy business. → Built a Rs 2,000 Crore dairy empire processing 1.5 million litres of milk daily.
A 17-year-old with zero funding starting a local dairy business. → Built a Rs 2,000 Crore dairy empire processing 1.5 million litres of milk daily.
17Age when he started the company with zero funding
₹2,000 CrSize of the dairy empire built today
60,000Farmers connected directly with no middlemen
14,000Retail chillers deployed so the cold chain never breaks
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Vir Das Receives Fake ₹50,000 Apple Watch via Zepto; Company Issues Replacement
The quick-commerce unicorn replaced the counterfeit device following public backlash, exposing the operational friction of selling premium hardware through decentralized dark stores.
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26-Year-Old Security Guard Wins Rs 15 Crore in UAE Lottery via Micro-Syndicate Strategy
Nepalese expat Tayab Khan’s Rs 15 crore individual payout highlights the massive, quiet trend of blue-collar syndicates pooling risk to crack the Middle Eastern lottery economy.
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Former Google Engineer Quits High-Paying New York Role After Four Years to Start Her Own Venture
A former Google software engineer's decision to leave a prestigious New York role to start her own venture highlights a growing wave of FAANG engineers choosing to build rather than climb.
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Bengaluru Executive Details Post-Exit Identity Struggles After Resigning from 11-Year Senior Management Career
Stepping off the high-performance treadmill after a long tenure exposes a hidden psychological vacuum, revealing how deeply personal identity blends with institutional validation.
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Six-Figure MNC Software Developer Moonlights as Weekend Rapido Rider to Offset Soaring Bengaluru Living Costs
A viral encounter with a corporate tech professional operating a bike taxi highlights how escalating fixed costs are outpacing standard middle-management salary growth in primary technology hubs.
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India Blocks Telegram Until June 22 Ahead of NEET Re-Exam
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has invoked Section 69A to temporarily suspend the messaging app and disable its edit function, establishing a severe new precedent for platform compliance during national examinations.
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Bira 91 Maker B9 Beverages Faces Rs 8 Crore Legal Notice From Glass Supplier HNGIL
Hindusthan National Glass & Industries Limited has served a Rs 8 crore legal notice to the maker of Bira 91, adding to a growing list of financial and legal pressures facing the craft beer startup.
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AI Startup Emergent Nears $200 Million Fundraise at $1.5 Billion Valuation Led by Creaegis and Amazon
The massive capital injection signals intense institutional interest in "vibe-coding" infrastructure, validating the shift from traditional syntax programming to natural language software generation.
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L&T Signs Rs 18,600 Crore MoU With Tamil Nadu to Create 8,200 Direct Jobs
L&T Chairman and MD SN Subrahmanyan met Tamil Nadu CM C Joseph Vijay at the Chennai Secretariat on June 4 to formalise an investment that spans three projects and promises over eight thousand direct jobs.
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98 Fahren: The Gurugram Startup Building Cooling Vests for India's Outdoor Workforce
Vikkas Singh's bootstrapped Gurugram startup 98 Fahren has sold over a million cooling vests across 20+ countries — and counts Amazon, Royal Enfield, Zomato, and multiple state police forces among its clients.
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OYO Parent Prism Secures SEBI Approval for ₹6,650 Crore IPO with Fresh Equity Issue
Bypassing secondary share sales to ensure all newly raised capital hits the balance sheet, OYO’s parent entity PRISM is strategically doubling down on premium acquisitions and domestic market density to justify its $7-8 billion valuation target.
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HDFC, Axis, IndusInd Adopt Remote Work as the Government Pushes Corporate India to Save Fuel
PrimeInvestor Raises ₹19.5 Crore in Round Led by Zerodha's Rainmatter to Scale Portfolio Management Services
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- Yesterday Lite Updates India Blocks Telegram Until June 22 Ahead of NEET Re-Exam
- Yesterday Lite Updates Vir Das Receives Fake ₹50,000 Apple Watch via Zepto; Company Issues Replacement
- 2d ago Lite Updates HCLTech Leads $234 Million Series B in Sarvam AI at $1.5 Billion Valuation
- 2d ago Lite Updates Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal Targets Five $100 Billion Companies Following Demerger
- 2d ago Lite Updates Razorpay Confidentially Files for $600 Million IPO Following Reverse Flip
- 3d ago Lite Updates Flipkart Warehouse Workers Protest Salary Cuts at Farukhnagar Facility
- 5d ago Lite Updates Meesho Acquires B2B Retail Platform Kirana Club in Rs 202 Crore Deal to Enter Grocery Supply Chain
- 6d ago Lite Updates Deloitte India Inaugurates SAP Delivery Centre in Bengaluru to Build Agentic AI for Enterprises