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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Indian Walker Founder
Funding · D2C · 23 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Indian Walker Raises at ₹20 Crore for Bags Built on a Rapido Rider's Commute

The round size is undisclosed and most of it goes into stock. Bags are a forgiving category for that, because a backpack has no sizes and does not go out of season.
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Adani Group Durga Puja Grant
Policy · Spotlight · 23 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Adani Puts ₹2 Crore Into Durga Puja, Aimed at the Artists Rather Than the Banners

Eight committees will receive ₹25 lakh each, with a preview tour from 10 to 12 October. The money is aimed at the making rather than the visibility.
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Fintech · Banking & Finance · 22 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Auxilo's Revenue Rose 28% In FY26 While Its Profit Barely Moved

Finance costs rose faster than interest income, compressing the lender's spread. Net interest income grew about 15 per cent against revenue growth of 28.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 22 Sept 2026 · 5 min

CarDekho's Parent Is Converting To A Public Company Ahead Of A ₹3,000 Crore IPO

The issue is expected to be about 90 per cent offer for sale. With ₹1,177 crore of net cash, the company does not need the money, and its investors want an exit.
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Markets & IPO · Banking & Finance · 22 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Soach Global Is Selling A Fifth Of Its NSE Stake For Up To ₹295 Crore, Five Times What It Paid For All Of It

It paid ₹59.25 crore for its full stake in 2016. The seller then was the state-owned IFCI, and the shares it sold are now worth about ₹1,470 crore.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 22 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Snapdeal's Parent AceVector Has Priced Its IPO At A ₹1,741 Crore Valuation

SoftBank is the largest seller and the founders are selling nothing. The company turned free cash flow positive in FY26 for the first time.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 22 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Spinny Has Confidentially Filed For A ₹3,000 Crore IPO

The used-car retailer converted its parent to a public company in August and has added two independent directors. It sells close to 15,000 cars a month.
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Protein Pantry Founders
Funding · D2C · 22 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Protein Pantry Raises ₹9 Crore to Build the Factory That Makes Chaap Without Maida

Factories turned down the recipes, so the founders built their own. The funding goes into that plant, making soya chaap without the refined flour most brands bulk it out with.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Fujifilm Will Invest ₹800 Crore In A Chip Materials Plant Beside Tata's Dholera Fab

A fab cannot run on imported chemicals indefinitely. The plant is phased, with the first stage due in 2028, and Fujifilm will train Indian chemical suppliers alongside.
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Markets & IPO · Banking & Finance · 21 Sept 2026 · 5 min

NSE's ₹22,562 Crore IPO Closed 5.7 Times Subscribed, Almost Entirely On Institutional Demand

Institutions bid more than twelve times over. Retail barely cleared its quota, and the grey market premium fell by two-thirds while the book was open.
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Uday Narang
Funding · Markets & IPO · 21 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Prime Industries to Raise ₹11.86 Crore From Omega Seiki Mobility Founder Uday Narang

The OSM founder will take about 11.32 percent through a preferential issue at ₹42 a share, and a director from his group has already joined the board.
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MoroMaa Founder with Aviral Bhatnagar AJVC
Funding · D2C · 18 Sept 2026 · 6 min

MoroMaa Raises ₹1.5 Crore for 9%, the Same Terms ajvc Offered Two Days Ago

Three months after launch, and on exactly the terms ajvc gave Slayd two days ago. The fund appears to run a fixed price rather than negotiate one.
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Physioplus Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 18 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Physioplus Raises at an $800,000 Valuation, Less Than a Rival's Single Round

Four years old, valued at ₹7.6 crore, with rivals raising three times that in a single round. The thesis underneath it is better than the numbers suggest.
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Kiddo Founder
Funding · D2C · 17 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Kiddo Raises ₹12.5 Crore on the Best Demand Signal in Retail, a Baby's Age

Its rivals Peeko and OZi have each raised roughly seven times as much. What Kiddo has is a demand signal that no grocery platform can match.
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Ecosys Founders
Funding · D2C · 17 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Ecosys Raises ₹5 Crore, More Than It Raised in Its First Nine Years Combined

Nine years after founding, Ecosys has raised ₹7.94 crore in total. Rivals that arrived later have raised up to twelve times as much.
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Founders · Markets & IPO · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Tata Trusts Says The Board's Reappointment Of N Chandrasekaran Is A Legal Nullity

Both sides read the same Articles differently. The shareholder holds the majority of the company, and the board voted against it anyway.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Scotland Now Requires Environmental Assessment For Every Data Centre Above 50MW

Assessing applications one by one will not answer whether the country has generation for all of them, which is what the moratorium campaign is actually asking.
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SaaS & Tech · E-commerce · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Amazon Has Launched Alexa+ In India, And Hinglish Is The Actual Feature

Hinglish is the feature. Handling a sentence that switches language halfway is harder than handling either language, and it is how Indians actually speak.
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Policy · SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 4 min

The EU Wants Under-15s Off Social Media And AI Chatbots

Age verification would apply to everyone, since a platform cannot confirm a user is over 15 without checking. Platforms would also fund the regulator supervising them.
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SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Meta Says Its Own Chips Cost 44% Less To Run Than Nvidia's, For Workloads It Chose

The claims are Meta's own and apply to workloads its chips were purpose-built for. Training, where Nvidia's moat actually sits, is a 2027 question.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 17 Sept 2026 · 5 min

OpenAI Is Seeking $1.5 Trillion Privately, Days After Ruling Out An IPO On Safety Grounds

A private round carries no prospectus, no risk factors and no quarterly reporting. If safety is the reason not to list, the result is less public disclosure.
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Enlight Metals Founder
Funding · Logistics · 17 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Enlight Metals Raises $1.5M at $10M and Targets Revenue Twelve Times Its Valuation

The company is valued at $10 million and targeting ₹1,200 crore of revenue, which sounds impossible until you understand how metal distribution books its sales.
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VerifAIX Founder
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

VerifAIX Raises $5M for the Part of Chip Design That Eats Most of the Budget

Verification absorbs most of the engineering effort on a modern chip. VerifAIX pairs AI with formal proof, because a verification tool that is only probably right is worthless.
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True Artis Founders
Funding · Healthcare · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

TRUE ARTIS Raises ₹11.4 Crore, Where the Surgeons Are Customers Too

More than 10,000 clients and just over 400 surgeries in nine months. The first centre covers its running costs, which is not the same as having paid for itself.
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Slayd Founders
Funding · D2C · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Slayd Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Sell the Clothes Its Own Data Says Will Sell

The discovery platform now manufactures its own clothes, choosing styles its data says are already selling. That makes it a competitor to the brands it aggregates.
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Firi Founders
Funding · D2C · 16 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Firi Raises $3M on a Bet That 300,000 Beauty Products Is the Problem, Not the Point

The company stocks around 3,000 products out of 300,000 and aims at people who dislike shopping for beauty. Its founders tried the discovery half of this before.
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Bud Ecosystem
SaaS & Tech · Spotlight · 15 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Bud Agent Builds Enterprise AI Systems. The Harder Claim Is That It Keeps Them Running.

Describe what you want and it selects the model, sizes the infrastructure and configures the guardrails. Then it watches the result and corrects it without being asked.
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Fintech · Markets & IPO · 15 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Moneyview Has Halved Its IPO Fresh Issue To ₹750 Crore

Accel, Tiger Global and Ribbit all cut the shares they plan to sell. The founders left theirs unchanged.
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SaaS & Tech · 15 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Oracle Has Begun Another Round Of Layoffs, Days After Reporting 121% Cloud Growth

Logins were disabled before the emails arrived. The restructuring budget now stands at $2.8 billion while cash flow ran $5.4 billion negative.
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SaaS & Tech · Policy · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Four Indian Startups Join Google DeepMind's First AI For The Planet Cohort

Three of the four sell verified environmental outcomes rather than software. The AI is there to make the claim auditable.
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E-commerce · FMCG & Retail · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Amazon Is Adding 20 Fulfilment Centres In India, Seven Of Them Outside The Metros

Seven of the twenty fulfilment centres and all six sort centres are in non-metro cities, with Raipur, Ranchi and Varanasi getting their first.
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Founders · Markets & IPO · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Info Edge Names Himanshu Agarwal CFO After Nine Months Without A Permanent One

The company ran without a permanent CFO for nine months. It has also re-recruited an independent director who left the board in 2023.
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Fintech · Markets & IPO · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Kissht's Parent Will Consider Another Fundraise Four Months After Its IPO

The board is weighing a preferential issue or private placement. The loan book grew 61 per cent, which is the reason the IPO money has not lasted.
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FMCG & Retail · SaaS & Tech · 14 Sept 2026 · 5 min

Lenskart Has Raised Its AjnaLens Stake To 9% Across Three Tranches This Year

Three purchases in seven months, each larger than the last, in a company whose revenue has fallen for two consecutive years.
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Funding · Healthcare · 14 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Tata Capital Healthcare Fund III Targets ₹2,500 Crore And A Mid-2027 Close

The firm expects more than half its exits to come through listings, a departure from earlier funds that leaned on strategic sales and secondaries.
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UniqYou
Funding · D2C · 14 Sept 2026 · 6 min

UniqYou Raises ₹15.8 Crore Months After Founding, and the Money Goes Into Inventory

A company founded this year has given up nearly a quarter of itself. The filings say the money goes to working capital, which in fashion means stock.
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Beijan Founders
Funding · Policy · 12 Sept 2026 · 6 min

Beijan's Founders Are Still in College. Its Software Is Already With Southern Command.

Both founders are still at BITS Pilani. Their swarm ground station software is already running with Indian Army formations, and eight military units have issued letters of intent.
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The Pizza Bakery Founders
Funding · FMCG & Retail · 11 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Popo Global Takes Outside Money for the First Time in Nine Years, at ₹532 Crore

Nine years bootstrapped, profitable on ₹175 crore, and 40 outlets in one city. April reporting suggests much of the ₹532 crore is secondary rather than new money.
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Fit.Zone Founders
Spotlight · D2C · 11 Sept 2026 · 8 min

Fit.Zone Is Building One Fitness Membership That Works Across Bengaluru's Independent Centres

Three fitness operators built a shared membership for independent centres in Bengaluru, starting with their own. No outside capital, and no dates on the next city.
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Swish Founders
Funding · D2C · 10 Sept 2026 · 7 min

Swish Raises $24M for 10-Minute Food, a Category Swiggy and Zepto Backed Away From

Swiggy, Zepto and Blinkit have all pulled back from ultra-fast food. Swish now does a million orders a month in the category they found too hard.
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