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Leanwatts Founders
Funding · EV & Mobility · 4 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Leanwatts Raises $2M for the Charger Inside the Vehicle, Not the One on the Street

A Hyderabad company making onboard chargers for two-wheelers, three-wheelers and e-tractors. It wants ₹60 crore of annualised revenue by March 2027 on a $2 million seed.
Ultrahuman Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 4 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Ultrahuman Raises $70M After Engineering Its Way Around a US Import Ban

Qualcomm Ventures leads, with Labcorp and Alpha Wave joining. The profit figures everyone is citing come from the year before Ultrahuman lost half its revenue base.
Policy · SaaS & Tech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Meta Will Cap Teen Use At Two Hours A Day Under An $18 Billion Settlement

The deal blocks the apps overnight, hides likes on teen accounts and bans cosmetic filters. About $5.3 billion of it is contingent on TikTok and YouTube matching.
Slice Founder
Funding · Fintech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Slice's $450M Valuation Looks Like a Crash Until You Price It as a Bank

Down from $1.5 billion at its peak, and profitable for the first time. Filings show roughly half the money is existing shareholders selling out.
SaaS & Tech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

AMD Will Train 10,000 Delhi University Students On Its ROCm AI Stack

The MoU brings AMD's developer programme, learning resources and GPU cloud credits to the university. It is the first large university tranche of a 100,000-graduate pledge.
Rilo Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Adobe Buys Rilo Twelve Months After Launch, and the Product Gets Switched Off

A licensing and team deal for six engineers, twelve months after founding. Rilo's 10,000 users lose the platform; its investors get an exit on $1 million raised.
KP Tiwari
Lite Updates · Founders · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

K.P. Tiwari's Move From Systems Integration to Building His Own Business Software

After heading business applications at Team Computers, he started building the products he had spent years implementing for others. The newest, MoovMail, is corporate email made in India.
Funding · Markets & IPO · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

India's PE/VC Investments Rose 52% In July, But Exit Value Fell 83%

Ten deals accounted for 68 per cent of July's investment total. Exit value fell to $1.6 billion, and more than half of that was one fund selling to another.
EV & Mobility · SaaS & Tech · 3 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Uber Cuts 3,300 Jobs, About 10% Of Staff, In Its Biggest Layoff Since 2020

Khosrowshahi framed the cuts around management layers and coordination roles, not AI efficiency. Fully remote roles drop to about 1 per cent of the workforce.
Creedom Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Creedom Raises ₹4.1 Crore to Tell Creators Why a Reel Worked, Not Just How It Did

An angel-led round at a ₹42 crore valuation for the rebuilt version of Casttree. Two of the investors were customers first.
GoPro Starman Holding
Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

GoPro Sells for $285M to a Company Incorporated the Day Before the Deal Was Announced

Shareholders get $1.14 a share and keep 10%. The buyer is a one-day-old subsidiary of a phone-case group with a New Jersey factory still under renovation.
SaaS & Tech · 2 Sept 2026 · 4 min

TCS Beats Accenture For Best Buy's Bengaluru GCC In A Deal Estimated At ₹2,000 Crore

The five-year mandate covers the 600-person Bengaluru centre plus data, analytics and AI work. Neither TCS nor Best Buy has confirmed it.
Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

SoftBank's SB Energy Files For US IPO, Says It Is Substantially Dependent On OpenAI

The SoftBank-controlled company is seeking $5 billion to $7 billion on Nasdaq. It has no operational data centres and lost $3.2 billion in the first half of the year.
E-commerce · Policy · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Maharashtra FDA Suspends Blinkit's Akola Licence After Re-Inspection Found Faults Unfixed

A 12 August inspection produced an improvement notice. Blink Commerce filed a compliance report. The re-inspection found the problems still there.
Comet Founders
Funding · D2C · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Comet Is Raising ₹99 Crore at 3.2X, About ₹50 Crore Less Than It Went Looking For

Verlinvest leads with ₹61.73 crore, valuing the sneaker brand at about ₹535 crore. In March, Comet was reported to be seeking ₹140-150 crore.
Docpharma Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

DocPharma Raises $2M to Build the Compliant Backend for India's Medicine Delivery Rush

Equentis led a $2 million pre-Series A into a company that supplies fulfilment to 30-plus health platforms. It wants 100 licensed dark stores in 50 cities.
FMCG · FMCG & Retail · 2 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Reliance Enters India's Ice Cream Market With Bombay Creamery, Priced From ₹10

The range spans cones, cups, tubs, bars and sticks, made with dairy cream rather than vegetable fat. It launches in western India first, against Amul and Kwality Wall's.
Funding · Founders · 2 Sept 2026 · 4 min

upGrad Completes Unacademy Acquisition At $206 Million, 94% Below Its 2021 Peak

The all-stock deal closed on Tuesday at ₹1,955 crore. Unacademy held ₹900 crore in cash at the time, which puts a different frame on the discount.
SaaS & Tech · Funding · 1 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Nvidia Put $3.5 Billion Into MediaTek To Get Inside The Chips Built To Replace It

MediaTek will build custom AI accelerators on NVLink Fusion. Every chip designed as an Nvidia alternative now ships with Nvidia's fabric, interconnect and memory inside it.
EV & Mobility · Policy · 1 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Ola Electric's Market Share Rose In August Because Everyone Else Fell Harder

Electric two-wheeler registrations dropped 16.2 per cent to 1.72 lakh units, a second straight monthly fall. The purchase subsidy was halved this month, and the market noticed.
Policy · Funding · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Twenty More Hands Are About To Allocate India's ₹1 Lakh Crore Deep-Tech Fund

Over twenty second-level fund managers are due to be appointed within weeks. The governance questions raised by the first ₹2,192 crore round have not been answered.
SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Mech-Mind's Gross Margin Went From 39% To 65% In Two Years, Which Is The Real Story

The Chinese robotics firm listed in Hong Kong on Tuesday, raising up to $347 million on about $55 million of revenue. The margin curve explains why investors queued.
Yuma Energy Founder
Funding · EV & Mobility · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Magna Puts Another $35M Into Yuma Energy, Diluting Its Joint Venture Partner Yulu

Magna already owned 51% of Yuma. This round takes its total investment to $87 million, raises its stake further, and dilutes Yulu — which is also Yuma's biggest customer.
Kepler Aerospace Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Kepler Aerospace Raises Its First $8M Eight Years In, With a Satellite Swarm to Build

Blue Ashva Capital led an $8 million seed into a Bengaluru company that bootstrapped for eight years on roughly $850,000 of revenue. Six defence satellites are due in 2027.
Fintech · Policy · 1 Sept 2026 · 4 min

UPI Moved Less Money In August Than July, On 850 Million More Transactions

Volume hit a record 24.51 billion while value slipped to ₹29.82 lakh crore. The average payment is shrinking, and the industry's revenue fix depends on the payments that are not.
Blue Voice Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 1 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Blue Voice Raises $6M to Put 15,000 Pages of Police Policy in an Officer's Pocket

SignalFire and Las Olas VC led a $6 million seed into a Boston startup used by 225 agencies across 25 states. It answers a question every minute.
E-commerce · Markets & IPO · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Shein Priced At A Quarter Of Peak While A Robotics Firm Beside It Was 3,842x Oversubscribed

The fast-fashion retailer raised $1.74 billion at the midpoint of its range, about 73 per cent below its 2022 valuation. Hong Kong's appetite has moved elsewhere.
SaaS & Tech · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Tim Cook's Last Day As Apple CEO Hands India's Manufacturing Bet To A Hardware Engineer

John Ternus takes over on 1 September. India expects its share of global iPhone output to reach 30-35 per cent within five years, on a strategy Cook negotiated personally.
E-commerce · Funding · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Truemeds Is Buying DealShare For Roughly What Sits In Its Bank Account

The proposed share swap values the former unicorn a little above its cash pile of more than $90 million. The operating business is worth close to nothing.
Funding · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

India Took One Per Cent Of Global Venture Capital While The World's Deal Value Rose 161%

India's deal value grew 5 per cent in the first seven months while volumes fell 13 per cent. The gap is less about caution than about what this cycle funds.
Markets & IPO · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Lands After Labor Day, Carrying A Bill For Its Own Red Lines

A listing in late September or early October would be the largest ever attempted. The prospectus must also explain what Anthropic's stated limits have already cost.
SaaS & Tech · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Nvidia Paused The Guarantee Funding The AI Cloud Boom, Two Months After Offering It

The AI Compute Partnership let smaller cloud operators borrow against Nvidia's promise to rent unsold GPUs. Some deals are on hold after internal antitrust warnings.
E-commerce · SaaS & Tech · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Zomato Shuts Its Hyderabad Support Centre And Cuts 250 Jobs As Vendors And AI Absorb The Work

Around 240 roles go with the closure of Customer Delight operations in Hyderabad. What stays in-house moves to Gurugram, to sit beside product and engineering.
Yoga Clean Air Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

YOGa Clean Air Raises Its First ₹20 Crore Sixteen Years In, Led by Info Edge Ventures

Info Edge Ventures led ₹20 crore into a Gurugram company that was already profitable on ₹13 crore of revenue. It is the first institutional money in sixteen years.
SaaS & Tech · EV & Mobility · 31 Aug 2026 · 4 min

Ford's India GCC Plans 500 Hires In 2027, A Smaller Number Than Its Last Two Pledges

Ford Business Solutions will recruit around 500 people next year for AI, data and connected-vehicle roles. Its India centre already employs more than 12,000.
EV & Mobility · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Ola Electric's ₹95.8 Crore PLI Cheque Arrives As Revenue Falls And Cash Keeps Burning

The heavy industries ministry has sanctioned a second straight year of auto PLI money for Ola Electric. Its June-quarter revenue was still 45 per cent below a year earlier.
SaaS & Tech · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 4 min

India Could Make a Third of the World's iPhones as John Ternus Takes Over at Apple

Cook hands over on 1 September with India assembling one in four iPhones. The government thinks a hardware engineer in charge could push that toward a third.
Markets & IPO · Policy · 31 Aug 2026 · 4 min

Zee Falls 15% as Lenders Move Against a ₹6.5 Crore Settlement of ₹22,006 Crore in Claims

The NCLT cleared a plan settling ₹22,006 crore of claims for ₹6.5 crore. Lenders now say the family entities that voted it through should never have voted.
EV & Mobility · Founders · 31 Aug 2026 · 5 min

Parth Jindal Takes the Chair at JSW MG Motor as the Group's Auto Bet Widens

The 36-year-old already runs JSW Cement and JSW Paints. Automobiles are a harder problem than either, and he is now running three parallel bets on them.
Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 31 Aug 2026 · 4 min

SoftBank Cuts Lenskart Stake Again as India's Startup Exit Window Finally Opens

SoftBank's second Lenskart sale in two months landed 26% above its June price. Y Combinator and Qualcomm Ventures trimmed listed positions in the same fortnight.