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PhonePe pauses IPO amid Middle East tensions — valuation walkdown from $15B to $9B ArcelorMittal's Mittal family evaluating Rajasthan Royals buyout — enters race against Birla-Blitzer Hard Rock Cafe India terminates franchise with JSM Corporation — all 10 locations closing Zepto wins CNBC-TV18 Startup of the Year at India Business Leader Awards PhonePe pauses IPO amid Middle East tensions — valuation walkdown from $15B to $9B ArcelorMittal's Mittal family evaluating Rajasthan Royals buyout — enters race against Birla-Blitzer Hard Rock Cafe India terminates franchise with JSM Corporation — all 10 locations closing Zepto wins CNBC-TV18 Startup of the Year at India Business Leader Awards
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ZOFF Foods $2M Pre-Series B · JM Financial
Boba Bhai $4.4M Series A · 8i Ventures + Titan Capital
UP&RUN ₹1.9Cr Angel · Community-led
Rotoris $3M Seed · Nikhil Kamath + Tanmay Bhat
Fulva Halwa Undisclosed Angel · Aman Gupta
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Breaking · IPO
From $15 Billion to $9 Billion to On Hold — PhonePe's IPO Retreat Is a Warning Signal for Every Indian Startup Watching the Listing Window
StartupFox Desk · March 17, 2026 · 6 min read
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Exclusive
ArcelorMittal's Mittal Family Now Evaluating Rajasthan Royals Buyout — Pitting Them Against Birla-Blitzer
M&A · March 17, 2026 · 4 min
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Hospitality
Hard Rock Cafe India Is Over — JSM Corporation Franchise Terminated Across All 10 Locations
Business · March 17, 2026 · 5 min
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AI
India Trained Him. France Hired Him. Elon Musk Has Him Now. The Devendra Chaplot Brain Drain Story
Deep Tech · March 14, 2026 · 5 min
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Funding
Shapoorji Pallonji Plans $1B Debut Dollar Bond — The Most Consequential Debt Story in Indian Business Right Now
Finance · March 13, 2026 · 7 min
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Spotlight · Founder Journey
Started with ₹65 a Month at a Timber Depot. Borrowed ₹12,000. Built India's Largest Private Dairy Company Worth ₹22,000 Crore.
R.G. Chandramogan, founder of Hatsun Agro, built Arun Ice Cream, Arokya Milk, and Ibaco across five decades — without a single outside investor. The strategy that made him untouchable when multinationals entered India in 1991.
₹22,000 CrMarket Cap
1970Founded
₹25,000Starting Capital
ZeroExternal Investment
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Policy Telecom
"12 Months. 13 Recharges." Raghav Chadha Just Took India's Biggest Telecom Billing Secret to the Rajya Sabha
125 crore prepaid users. One 28-day billing trick. One extra recharge every year. The math behind India's quietest consumer finance issue.
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Recall D2C
The UK Called It a "Serious Chemical Risk." India Has No Ban, No Review, No Timeline. Pilgrim's Shampoo Recall Story.
Zinc Pyrithione is banned in UK and EU as a reproductive toxicant since 2022. It is freely sold in India. One border seizure reveals a structural gap every D2C brand with global ambitions must reckon with.
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Agritech
A Neighbour Asked for the Harvest from One Tree. That Question Became a Startup. Rent A Tree Is Now Managing 250 Acres of Alphonso Farms.
Kochi-based Rent A Tree lets customers lease a mango tree for ₹10,300 and receive up to 90 kg of naturally ripened Alphonso mangoes. The business model hiding inside a fruit delivery story.
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Markets Exclusive
Backed by a Tata Sons Stake. Rolled Over Four Times. Now Heading to the Dollar Bond Market. Shapoorji's $1B Move Explained.
SP Group completed the largest private credit transaction outside the US in May 2025. Now it is going to dollar bonds — and the global credit market is showing its first serious signs of stress.
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Corporate
Anil Ambani's Third CBI Case. ₹1,085 Crore Fraud. A Farmer Quote That Stopped the Internet.
Third FIR against RCom in under a month. Total loan exposure: ₹40,000+ crore. The structural story behind India's most visible corporate debt collapse.
EnergyCrisis
A War in West Asia Has Put a 5% "Gas Crisis Charge" on Your Mint Lemonade in Bengaluru. India's Energy Dependency in One Bill.
Iran. Strait of Hormuz. LPG shortage. 10% of Bengaluru restaurants received gas supply on Monday. The geopolitical bill has arrived — on a café receipt.
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