Sabyasachi Chandra
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Sabyasachi Chandra

Startup Writer & Founder

Sabyasachi Chandra writes about startups, emerging businesses, funding trends, and India’s evolving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Through StartupFox, he focuses on curating clear, credible, and insight-led stories that help readers understand new companies, founders, and market movements.

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22This Week
Markets & IPO · 16 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's Book Is At 0.23 Times On Day One, And Retail Is The Number That Reads

Retail took 0.23 times a quota that is only a tenth of the issue. The book closes on 19 October, two days before Jio opens.
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The Stack Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 14 Oct 2026 · 5 min

The Stack Raises ₹21.5 Crore on a Bet That Indians Will Pay More for Better Magnesium

The Goa brand names its ingredient forms and suppliers and sells only five products. One in three customers reorders within six months, and the top tenth of buyers bring in nearly a third of revenue.
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Circle founders
Funding · D2C · 14 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Circle Raises ₹25 Crore to Take the Risk Out of Buying Second-Hand From Strangers

Classifieds connect buyer and seller and leave the rest to them. Circle verifies the item, holds the payment and moves the goods, which is safer for users and far more expensive to run.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 14 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Infosys Says AI Could Be Half Its Work In Three Years, And Warns The Backlash Is Coming Here

The warning is sharper than the forecast. He said the Western data centre backlash may reach India, which almost nobody here is planning for.
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Adani Jabil Inc Deal
Spotlight · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Adani and Jabil Sign a Non-Binding Deal to Build AI Racks in India, Not the Chips Inside Them

The proposed 50:50 venture would assemble racks, servers and networking gear and make power and cooling systems. The GPUs still come from abroad, and the anchor customer may be Adani's own data centres.
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Wudhomes Founders
Funding · D2C · 13 Oct 2026 · 5 min

wudhomes Raises ₹2.5 Crore to Own Every Step From Inspiration to a Custom Sofa

The Bengaluru startup makes custom sofas in its own factory and sells them through a store, home visits and visualisation software. It is a heavy model for ₹2.5 crore, in a category that has humbled bigger rivals.
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Manus Founder
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Manus Raises $500 Million From Chinese Backers After Beijing Blocked Its Sale to Meta

The AI agent company moved to Singapore, sold itself to Meta for about $2 billion, and was ordered by Beijing to undo the deal. Its new round is led by Boyu Capital and IDG, with Tencent returning.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's IPO Prices It At About 1.6 Times Revenue, Not A Platform Multiple

Against FY26 revenue of ₹15,913 crore that is roughly 1.6 times. Schneider just paid 8.7 times for PTC.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min

IonQ Is Buying Its Way Into Cybersecurity, And Paying In Its Own Shares

Nearly $4 billion of acquisitions in under two years, almost all paid in shares. The strategy works while the currency holds.
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Getty Images Headquarters
Spotlight · Funding · 13 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Getty Images Plans Bankruptcy to Go Private, With the Getty Family and Koch Taking All of It

Revenue hit a record in 2025. The debt, a collapsed $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger and AI's pressure on stock photography did the damage. The new owners would hold all of the reorganised company.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Microsoft Will Run Its Own AI On Its Own Chips From 2027

Microsoft claims 40 per cent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. The comparison it declines to name is Nvidia.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

India Spent A Year Saying It Would Not Regulate AI, And Is Now Writing The Paper

A year ago MeitY declined to propose an AI law. The minister now calls the coming paper the base for regulation that has to come.
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Boldfit Founders
Funding · D2C · 12 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Boldfit Raises ₹400 Crore to Take a Profitable Online Brand Into Stores and Factories

It earned ₹35 crore on ₹304 crore of revenue in FY25 selling fitness gear online. The new money goes into retail, manufacturing and acquisitions, the capital-heavy parts of a sports brand.
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Funding · SaaS & Tech · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

India's Biggest Chip Investment This Week Went To A Company That Does Not Make Chips

Vector Line invests only in chips, and its first India cheque went to an engineering services firm rather than anything that makes silicon.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's Existing Shareholders Want To Sell Half As Much Again As They Did In August

The fresh issue went up by ₹230 crore. The shares existing holders want to sell went up by nearly five crore.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Firmus Wanted Three Times Its August Valuation And The Market Said No

In August investors valued Firmus above $10.5 billion. The IPO asked for $30.6 billion, and the market declined.
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Policy · Markets & IPO · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The US Takes 97% Of India's Solar Module Exports, And Delhi Is Looking For A Plan B

A 126 per cent duty is a price problem. Export credit solves financing problems, which is not the same thing.
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Funding · SaaS & Tech · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

India's AI Funding Rose 265% In Q3, And Four Deals Were 90% Of It

Yotta, Emergent, Sarvam and Freehand took roughly nine-tenths of it. The other 31 deals shared what was left.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Jio's IPO Is Reported At ₹10.3 Lakh Crore, Well Below What The Market Was Told To Expect

Earlier talk put Jio between $130 billion and $170 billion. The reported band lands at about $107 billion, and the gap is the story.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Amazon Has Stopped Making Councils Sign NDAs Before It Builds A Data Centre

Seventy-five projects worth $130 billion were blocked or delayed in one quarter. The secrecy that was supposed to smooth approvals was costing more than it saved.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

TCS Is Paying ₹1 Lakh For A Best Buy Entity That Turned Over ₹294 Crore

A captive centre bills its parent at cost. It has no customers of its own, so on a standalone basis it is worth almost exactly what TCS is paying.
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Funding · D2C · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

DailyObjects Raised ₹332 Crore, And Some Of It Went Straight Out Again

Part of the money buys out an early backer at eighteen times. The rest funds a move from 350 shelves to 150 of its own leases.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

OpenAI's Revenue Was A Third Smaller Than Reported, And The Whole AI Chain Fell

Nobody lost a customer. The market simply discovered it had been pricing a supply chain off a number that included other companies' revenue.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

HCL Is Spending ₹500 Crore To Add 4,500 Seats In Lucknow

The expansion was announced two days before the US suspended HCL from PERM. Unconnected events, pointing the same way.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The US Has Suspended TCS, Infosys, Wipro And HCL From Its Green Card Programme

No H-1B visa has been cancelled. What has been suspended is the path to permanent residency, which is a retention problem rather than an operational one.
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The Dough Therapy Founder
Funding · D2C · 8 Oct 2026 · 5 min

The Dough Therapy Raises ₹5.25 Crore to Double Its Vegetarian Pizza Chain and Take It Beyond Mumbai

Ten Mumbai outlets become the base for twenty within a year. A quarter of the money goes into supply chain and central operations, because consistency is where pizza chains break as they grow.
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Zinara Founders
Funding · D2C · 8 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Zinara Raises ₹3.6 Crore to Put Real Lab-Grown Diamonds on Gold-Plated Silver

The stones are certified lab-grown diamonds; the metal is 18K gold vermeil, sterling silver under a gold layer. That is how a diamond ring reaches ₹5,000, and what a lifetime warranty has to cover.
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Funding · SaaS & Tech · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Quanfluence Raised $10 Million To Build Four Qubits, And Sells Something Else Meanwhile

Four qubits now, a hundred by 2029. The business that funds the gap is optimisation hardware that runs without a cryogenic refrigerator.
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Funding · SaaS & Tech · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Navya Naveli Nanda Has Launched Naveli Ventures To Back Deep-Tech And Frontier Research

No fund size has been disclosed. The distinctive piece is the academic and IP partnership route, which is where Indian deep-tech is thinnest.
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Zomint Founders
Funding · Fintech · 7 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Zomint Raises ₹36 Crore to Turn a YouTube Finance Audience Into Wealth Clients

Every client so far came from Bekifaayati, its co-founder's 50-lakh-subscriber finance channel. Zomint is a mutual fund distributor, so it earns from the funds those clients buy.
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byteXL Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 7 Oct 2026 · 5 min

byteXL Raises $9M to Teach AI Inside the Engineering Degree, Not After It

The Hyderabad company sells to colleges, not students, building skills into the four-year degree. Its test is placements, in entry-level IT jobs that AI is rapidly reshaping.
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Desible AI Founders
Funding · Fintech · 7 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Desible.ai Raises ₹32 Crore for Bank AI Agents That Can't Ad-Lib a Disclosure

Its voice agents run collections, renewals and claims calls for 40-plus banks, NBFCs and insurers. The conversation can flow; disclosures, consent and escalations follow fixed rules.
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Funding · SaaS & Tech · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

DeepSeek Is Reportedly Raising $12 Billion From Tencent, CATL And State-Linked Funds

A battery maker is among the largest investors. That is less strange than it looks, and it says something about where the constraint has moved.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion For PTC, And Its Own Shares Fell 8%

The seller's shares rose 33 per cent, the buyer's fell 8. Jefferies called it a decade-low valuation that could still weigh on Schneider afterwards.
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Policy · Funding · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The Cabinet Has Cleared A ₹10,000 Crore Fund That Buys Equity In SMEs

Equity, not credit, which is the point and also the difficulty. Indian SMEs have spent decades preferring loans precisely because loans do not dilute.
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EV & Mobility · Markets & IPO · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Bhavish Aggarwal Has Pledged 4.32% Of Ola Electric To Fund His Rights Issue Subscription

In December he sold ₹324 crore of shares specifically to clear a promoter loan and release every pledge. Ten months later the pledge is back.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Paramount Has Closed Its $110 Billion Warner Bros Merger To Form Skydance

The stated case is that a studio must become a technology company. The price already assumes the savings arrive.
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SuperMush
Funding · Healthcare · 6 Oct 2026 · 5 min

India's NDude Labs Leads $3M in SuperMush, Betting on Both Ends of the Supplement Aisle

Three weeks ago the investor bought into a Mumbai maker of clinically studied supplement ingredients. Now it has led the round in a US brand selling shilajit gummies at Target.
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CureMeAbroad Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 6 Oct 2026 · 6 min

CureMeAbroad Raises $1.1M to Send Western Patients to Surgeons in Turkey, Mexico and India

The Pune company is not built to bring patients to India. It sends patients from the US, UK and Australia to whichever country fits, and India is one option among six.
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Kinetic Age Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 6 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Kinetic Age Raises $250K for At-Home Care That Children Buy for Ageing Parents

It brings physiotherapy, training, nutrition and a doctor to older adults at home, with a relationship manager keeping their families informed. The funding pitch widens it to everyone over 40.
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