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Sunil Bharti Mittal leaves the Airtel Payments Bank board on 30 September after a decade as chairman. His successor's board record is in fraud, risk and technology.

Wispr has tripled its valuation in nine months on the back of its dictation app. Its new speech model also reveals the current one misses three words in ten in noise.

Tenet Diagnostics has raised about $30 million led by Tata Capital's third healthcare fund. Its last public revenue figure is a target from 2023.

DeHaat's pesticide-free consumer brand has raised ₹35 crore led by OTP Ventures. The parent has $221 million behind it and chose outside capital anyway.

Minimalist grew 36% to ₹690 crore in its first full year under Hindustan Unilever. Advertising spending rose 55%, faster than revenue.

Blacksmith runs GitHub Actions workloads on purpose-built compute. Its valuation has risen roughly ninefold in eleven months as AI agents multiply the code that needs checking.

Fymble, which offers pay-per-use gym access starting at ₹99 a session with no long-term commitment, has launched Kyra, a Personal AI Health Companion built into its fitness app.

The Gurugram home-cleaning brand, founded in 2025, has raised ₹27 crore from V3 Ventures to scale its in-house manufacturing. It sells a small range of foam cleaners direct to consumers and has not disclosed a valuation.

The Bengaluru EV mobility platform has raised $63 million in equity and $30 million in debt as quick-commerce demand lifts its fleet. The round is reported to value it at around $170 million, and its strategic backers sat out.

The San Francisco startup, founded by IIT-graduate former product leaders, uses AI agents to run market-research studies from brief to answer. It was bootstrapped until this first round and did not disclose a valuation.

The Bengaluru medtech startup makes portable screening devices for diabetic-foot complications. The round funds commercialisation and manufacturing, but the company has not disclosed revenue or a valuation.

The Bengaluru startup, founded in 2025, builds compliant AI systems for banks and insurers using a forward-deployed engineering model. It has not disclosed a valuation, and the round is small and early.

The San Francisco deep-tech startup is using swarms of AI agents to find new materials that cool AI chips. It is founded in 2026, pre-revenue, and has not disclosed a valuation.

The Pune freight-tech startup has raised a small pre-Series A led by HighLeaf, its third round since 2020. It sells an AI transport-management platform to large manufacturers but has not disclosed revenue.

The Houston- and India-based specialty-chemicals startup is reported to be in talks with existing backers and Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7. The round has not closed, and no valuation or final size has been disclosed.

The Gurugram online bakery has raised its second round from existing backer Faering Capital at a valuation reported to be 2.6 times higher. Its losses widened even as revenue grew in FY25.

RURTECH sends satellite-derived advice for individual farm parcels over WhatsApp. Its live log covers 134 farmers and 1,875 messages across three weeks.

The AI-infrastructure startup packages incorporation, payments and compute behind one API so agents can run businesses. Its headline traction figures are company-stated and unaudited.

The US defense-tech firm has more than quadrupled its valuation in a year, drawing a long roster of institutional backers. The raise funds automated factories that make parts for existing defence hardware, not new weapons.

The Mumbai dosa chain has brought in Ranjan Pai's Claypond Capital as lead of a ₹35 crore pre-Series A. The raise values the three-outlet brand at an estimated ₹364 crore, a figure the company has not itself disclosed.

The Bengaluru startup's first scooter arrives in three variants priced from ₹1,09,999, built around an AI and IoT platform it calls the COMMANDCENTER. Its range and performance figures are company-stated.

The Bengaluru D2C brand's largest round to date brings in a new institutional lead alongside returning backers Elevation and Eight Roads. The company did not disclose a valuation, and its FY26 accounts remain unfiled.

Marmeto has launched Elevate, an analytics platform for Shopify app companies delving into revenue, churn, reviews and installs. It is free for now, with paid plans promised later.

The Noida-based startup has raised its Series A from three funds, two of them returning seed backers, to build a foundational model for claims fraud. No lead investor or valuation was disclosed.

The parking-tech firm's board has cleared ₹40 crore in Series A3 preference shares from existing backer IvyCap Ventures. The raise has not yet closed, and the terms leave the company's valuation broadly unchanged from its previous round.

HomeRun raised $12 million in a Series A+ round led by Nexus Venture Partners, six months after its $6.6 million Series A. Valuation and dilution were not disclosed.

Mitti Labs has raised $9.5 million in a Series A led by Aramco Ventures, the Saudi oil company's first investment in an Indian startup

River Mobility has raised $120 million in a Series C led by Elev8 and Claypond Capital, its first major backing from Indian institutional investors

InRisk Labs has raised $27 million co-led by Bessemer and Northpoint Capital as its EarthRe subsidiary receives a reinsurance licence at GIFT City

Adiabatic Technologies has raised ₹8.3 crore in a seed round co-led by Malpani Ventures and Avinya Ventures to scale battery manufacturing to 100 MWh

Hulp has raised $2.6 million in seed funding co-led by Sparrow Capital and gaming investor BITKRAFT Ventures, four months after being founded

Vingo has raised ₹10 crore in seed funding led by India Quotient for a C2C marketplace in pre-owned goods, five months after being founded

Volta Infra has raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation and announced a $10 billion six-year cloud contract with an unnamed AI developer

Vaaree has raised ₹65 crore led by Hero Enterprise and Cap Alpha Ventures for warehouses and AI-led discovery. Its stated goal of next-day delivery is the expensive part.

Zoppler Systems has raised ₹6.5 crore co-led by Finvolve and India Accelerator for its RF sensing products. The announcement names no customer, contract or trial.

Superleap has raised ₹36 crore led by Peak XV's Surge for an AI-native CRM aimed at replacing legacy systems. Its founders previously worked together at Unacademy.

Smallest.ai has raised $13 million led by Seligman Ventures to build voice models that cut conversational lag. Its competitors in the category have raised considerably more.

Profound has raised $1.5 million from Stellaris Venture Partners and 3one4 Capital to build an AI representative for professionals. The product opened early access on the day of the announcement.

Base Power has raised $1 billion at a $13 billion post-money valuation, more than tripling its price in ten months. It owns every battery it installs, which is why the rounds keep arriving.

Valar Atomics has raised $1 billion led by Sequoia Capital, five months after a round reported at a $2 billion valuation. The company has not disclosed a valuation for either.