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 · E-commerce · 5 Oct 2026 · 4 min

AceVector Listed 11.5% Below Its IPO Price After Being Five Times Subscribed

Institutions bid 3.42 times, non-institutional investors 8.53. When the fastest money leads the book, there is nobody left to buy on day one.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 5 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Micron Has Already Sold Most Of Next Year's Memory And Expects Shortages Into 2028

HBM takes roughly three times the wafer capacity per bit of ordinary DRAM. Making more of it is why your laptop costs more.
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QpiAI Founder
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 5 Oct 2026 · 6 min

QpiAI Borrows ₹50 Crore at 13.85%, Due Two Years Before Its 1,000-Qubit Target

The quantum company earned about ₹2 crore in FY25. A year's interest on this debt is roughly ₹6.9 crore, so repayment rests on the next equity round, not on quantum revenue.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 5 Oct 2026 · 4 min

OpenAI Scrapped A Model For Overstepping, Then Launched Always-On Agents A Day Later

The two decisions are not in conflict, and read together they show where the industry thinks the risk sits, and where it does not.
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Scooter Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 5 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Scooter Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Test Salespeople on Selling, Not on Selling Themselves

A sales interview rewards the candidate who pitches themselves best to a friendly buyer. Scooter shows managers how candidates handle real objections before they see the CV.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 4 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Only A Quarter Of AI's $4.7 Trillion Prize Comes From Productivity

Published a month ago and worth revisiting: the cluster Bain expects to be hollowed out is the one Indian IT services occupies.
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Policy · 3 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Reliance Has Announced ₹1 Trillion For Andhra Biogas, Without A Timeline

The hard part of compressed biogas is collecting feedstock from thousands of villages, not building plants. That is where the detail is missing.
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Founders · Policy · 3 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Chandrasekaran's Family Firm Has TVS Deals The Tata Sons Board Was Not Told About

Hanno is not a related party of TVS under Indian law. The question is the Tata Code of Conduct, which the group wrote to set a higher bar than the statute.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 2 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Google Has Put Four AI Chips In Orbit To Find Out If They Survive

The chips run in 15-minute bursts. Google's own paper puts the launch economics at 1,800 Starship flights before any of this competes with a building.
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Fintech · Policy · 2 Oct 2026 · 4 min

UPI Processed 24.07 Billion Transactions In September, Two Weeks Before It Starts Charging

The monthly decline is a calendar artefact. Daily volumes rose, and this is the last clean month before MDR starts on 15 October.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 1 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Kuku's Revenue Rose Sixfold To ₹1,484 Crore, And It Spent ₹1,105 Crore On Marketing

Marketing was nearly four times the prior year, and content cost under ₹200 crore. Making the shows is the cheap part.
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Seeds Fincap Founder
Funding · Fintech · 1 Oct 2026 · 6 min

Seeds Fincap Raises ₹100 Crore to Lend to Businesses Too Small to Have a Balance Sheet

Its 70,000 borrowers average about ₹1 lakh each, assessed on cash flow rather than paperwork. For a lender, this equity is what makes several times as much borrowing possible.
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Unveilr AI Founder
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 1 Oct 2026 · 7 min

Unveilr Raises at ₹16.7 Crore to Do the AI Search Work That Dashboards Only Measure

Profound just raised $180 million selling software that tracks brands in AI answers. Unveilr's founder argues nobody wanted another dashboard, and sells the work itself.
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Gemini 4 Argon
SaaS & Tech · Spotlight · 1 Oct 2026 · 7 min

Google Gives Gemini 4 Argon to Cyber Defenders First, Without the Guardrails

The model reaches trusted cyber defenders first, without the restrictions that stop it helping with security work. Google's own staff reportedly find it better on tests than on real tasks.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 30 Sept 2026 · 4 min

AceVector's IPO Closed 5.07 Times Subscribed, A Day After Moneyview Closed At 102

Non-institutional investors bid 8.53 times, institutions 3.42. A book weighted that way is chasing a listing gain rather than taking a position.
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SaaS & Tech · Funding · 30 Sept 2026 · 4 min

AMD Is Buying World Labs For $8.2 Billion, Seven Months After Valuing It At $5 Billion

Nvidia already sells world models, simulation and robotics tooling to the same customers. AMD is buying research, not a distribution advantage.
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Arivihan Founders
Funding · Spotlight · 30 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Arivihan Raises $10M for Teaching Without Teachers, Priced at Thirty Times Revenue

Revenue of ₹3.14 crore against a loss of ₹4.45 crore, priced near $60 million. The bet is that teaching without teachers holds its margin as it scales.
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Bharat Housing Network
Funding · Cleantech · 29 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Bharat Housing Network Turns Its Mortgage Rails Toward Solar Panels and EVs

This is borrowed money, not equity, and the cost of it is the business. The company named for housing is lending it against solar panels and electric vehicles.
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EV & Mobility · Markets & IPO · 29 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Ola Electric Will Raise Up To ₹1,000 Crore Through A Rights Issue

Three months after a ₹780 crore QIP, and with ₹350 crore of this going to repay debt. The promoter may pledge shares to take up his entitlement.
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Markets & IPO · Fintech · 29 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Moneyview's IPO Closed 101.87 Times Subscribed, Two Weeks After It Cut The Issue

The order book drew ₹77,843 crore for a ₹1,092 crore issue, after the company cut the offer before opening it.
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Alive Founder
Funding · D2C · 28 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Alive App Raises $1M After Bengaluru Turned Its First Profitable Quarter

Bengaluru turned its first profitable quarter, which means the oldest city is now funding the newest. The harder problem is getting people to come back.
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FMCG · Markets & IPO · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Anmol Industries Filed For A ₹1,800 Crore IPO In Which The Company Gets Nothing

Profit rose roughly fivefold on 28 per cent revenue growth, which is a margin story rather than a demand one. The trust selling holds 84 per cent.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

TakeMe2Space Will Fly Two Orbital Data Centre Satellites On A Falcon 9 In 2028

Two satellites at 1.5 kilowatts each will not replace a data centre. What they could replace is the ground station.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The ED Has Attached ₹442 Crore More In The Gameskraft Case, Taking The Total To ₹2,843 Crore

The attached property sits with family members and private trusts rather than the company. That reflects the shape of what the agency alleges.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Tonbo Imaging Has SEBI Clearance For An IPO That Raises It Nothing

The company owns all its intellectual property and rents its factories. That is rarer among Indian defence suppliers than the IPO itself.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Cars24 Cannot File Its IPO Papers Until April 2027, After The Reverse Flip

The accounting change buried in the disclosure matters more than the date. Wholesale revenue is now recognised as commission, not vehicle value.
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Fintech · Policy · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The Supreme Court Won't Stay The UPI MDR Rollout, But Wants To Know What The Charge Is

The court let the 15 October date stand but asked the government to explain, on affidavit, what the charge legally is.
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Balwaan Krishi Founders
Funding · Logistics · 28 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Balwaan Krishi Raises ₹100 Crore to Stop Importing the Machines It Sells

Most small farm equipment sold in India is assembled from imported parts. The bulk of this round is going into making them in Jaipur instead.
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Amaani Founder
D2C · Funding · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Amaani Has Raised $5 Million For Its Arab-Ingredient Beauty Brand AÏZA

The brand launched in December 2024, so the ninefold growth is measured against a first half-year. What it does track is the move onto shelves it does not pay for.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 27 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The Government Asked Tata Whether Its $14 Billion Chip Plans Survive The Boardroom Fight

The fab's schedule does not depend on who chairs Tata Sons. It depends on whether Tata Sons can keep funding it, which is what the dispute is partly about.
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Funding · Markets & IPO · 26 Sept 2026 · 4 min

India's Tech Funding Rose 7% To $10.3 Billion While The Number Of Rounds Fell 38%

Seed funding fell 37 per cent and first-time funded companies dropped 30 per cent. The pipeline is thinning while the top of the market absorbs more.
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Rivet Founder
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 25 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Rivet Raises $10.5M From Peak XV to Undo What Its Founder Helped Build at Tinder

Taru Kapoor spent eight years at Tinder before building the app that argues swiping was the mistake. Peak XV and Blume are funding it from India.
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Safebox Founders
Fintech · Spotlight · 24 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Safebox Raises $1.11M to Map What Indian Families Own Before Anyone Has to Look

Two founders survived a near-fatal accident and found no product that would have told their families what they owned. ₹86,917 crore sits unclaimed in bank deposits alone.
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Betterhood Founders
D2C · Healthcare · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

betterhood Has Raised ₹11.5 Crore For Preventive Pain Care, Led By Sauce

The money funds two different businesses at once: quick commerce shelves and a community of 7,000 physiotherapists. Only one of them is defensible.
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Fintech · Policy · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

PayGlocal Has IFSCA Approval For A GIFT City Payments Subsidiary

It already holds an RBI cross-border aggregator licence and a US FinCEN registration. The GIFT City unit makes three regulated jurisdictions.
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SaaS & Tech · Funding · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

MathCo's Revenue Grew 24% In FY26 And Its Profit Fell 94%

Employee costs rose 33 per cent to produce 23.7 per cent more revenue. For a firm selling AI efficiency, that is an uncomfortable ratio.
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Fintech · Markets & IPO · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Mastercard Has Sold Its Entire Pine Labs Stake For ₹934 Crore

The buyers were domestic insurers and mutual funds. That is now the standing bid absorbing India's new-age exits.
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Markets & IPO · Banking & Finance · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

NSE Listed At A 0.84% Premium, Which The Grey Market Had Already Predicted

The grey market premium had already fallen from ₹145 to ₹38 while the book was open. The debut simply confirmed what that decline was signalling.
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ONYA Founders
Funding · D2C · 24 Sept 2026 · 7 min

ONYA Raises ₹12.5 Crore Having Doubled Its Stores and Kept the Economics Intact

Eight stores and ₹3.5 crore a month, up from four and ₹2 crore ten months ago. Revenue per store slipped slightly, which is what healthy retail expansion looks like.
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Ultraviolette Founders
Funding · EV & Mobility · 23 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ultraviolette Raises $85M, Taking It to $151M Against ₹32 Crore of Revenue

The round takes disclosed funding to $151 million since August 2025. FY25 revenue was ₹32.3 crore on 547 vehicles, which tells you what is actually being funded.
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