Sabyasachi Chandra
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Sabyasachi Chandra

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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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Bombay Shaving Company Founder
Markets & IPO · D2C · 28 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Bombay Shaving Company Parent Visage Lines Reports ₹635 Crore FY26 Revenue and ₹9 Crore Net Loss

Visage Lines Personal Care more than doubled operating revenue in FY26 and reported its first positive adjusted EBITDA. The figure is struck after adding back ESOP cost, and the company remains loss-making.
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Narayana Murthy Infosys
Policy · SaaS & Tech · 28 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Infosys Fined €175,000 (₹2 Crore) by French Labour Authority Over Time-Tracking Gaps

France's labour regulator DRIEETS fined Infosys €175,000 over gaps in its working-hours tracking system. The company has not disclosed which employee categories were affected or whether the system needs an overhaul.
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Omega Seiki Mobility Founder
Funding · EV & Mobility · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Omega Seiki Mobility Raises ₹50 Crore From Securocorp Securities And Family Office Investors

The electric commercial vehicle maker takes capital from a securities firm, a family office and two individuals. It was reported this month to be seeking ₹125 crore ahead of a listing.
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Berrylush, Snitch Founders
Lite Updates · D2C · 27 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Snitch Acquires Womenswear Brand Berrylush To Enter India's Women's Fashion Market

The menswear brand takes over a Noida-based women's western wear label and says it will rebuild it over 100 days. Neither company has disclosed what was paid.
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PhonePe CEO
Fintech · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

PhonePe Reports ₹7,920 Crore FY26 Revenue As Net Loss Widens 62 Percent To ₹2,792 Crore

Operating revenue grew 11.5 per cent while total expenses rose 16 per cent, widening the consolidated loss by 62 per cent. The company puts its normalised operating loss at ₹1,377 crore.
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Veefin Founders
Markets & IPO · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Veefin Solutions Board Approves ₹35 Crore Non-Convertible Debenture Issue On Private Placement

The board has cleared up to 3.5 lakh debentures of ₹1,000 each, to be placed privately in tranches. Terms including coupon, tenure and security remain undisclosed.
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Cactus Partners
Lite Updates · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Cactus Partners Targets ₹1,600 Crore for Fund II With Plans for 13 to 15 Investments

The firm has stated a corpus, a cheque size and an investment count for its second fund. It has not announced a first close, an anchor investor or a timeline.
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Amazon CEO
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 27 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Artificial General Intelligence Group After 16,000 January Layoffs

Amazon has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles in the unit that builds its Nova models. The cuts come as the company forecasts $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure.
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Man Left His Job to Open Café
Lite Updates · 26 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Man Quitting ₹1.5 Lakh Mumbai Job for ₹4 Lakh Hometown Income Goes Viral

The post says he sold a ₹3 crore Mumbai flat and split it across land, a house, two restaurants and fixed deposits. None of the figures is independently verifiable.
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Priyank Kharge
Policy · 26 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Karnataka to Form Two AI Working Groups After Minister's Visit to Anthropic's Bengaluru Office

Two groups drawn from the Centre for e-Governance and the Home Department will identify where AI fits state services. No agreement has been signed and no terms disclosed.
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Tech Mahindra Employee Protest
Lite Updates · 25 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Former Tech Mahindra Engineer Alleges Wrongful Termination After Leave to Care for Daughter

A former software engineer says she was dismissed after taking leave for her sick daughter. No FIR has been registered, and Tech Mahindra has not responded on record.
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Zetwerk Founders
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 25 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Zetwerk Secures ₹500 Crore Pre-IPO Funding From Bharat Value Fund Ahead of Planned Listing

The pre-IPO round lands about two weeks after SEBI cleared Zetwerk's confidential draft papers. Zetwerk has not confirmed it, and the reported valuation has moved since March.
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Flipkart food delivery
Lite Updates · E-commerce · 24 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Flipkart to Enter Food Delivery With Bengaluru Pilot and ONDC Integration, Krishnamurthy Confirms

Group chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy said food delivery will be another use case on the main platform, starting with a pilot. The commission structure, rider model and launch date were not disclosed.
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Farm Watt biomass
Funding · 24 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Farm Watt Innovations Raises ₹32.5 Crore Co-Led by IAN Alpha Fund and Rainmatter to Expand Biomass Network

The two-year-old startup aggregates crop residue and sells it as feedstock to compressed biogas plants. It runs 15 hubs today and has named eleven states it wants to enter.
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Wiffy
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Wiffy Raises $3 Million Series A Led by Earth Fund to Expand Installation Services Network

The Mumbai company recruits and deploys technicians who install furniture and appliances on behalf of brands. It raised a comparable amount at pre-Series A two years ago.
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CARPL.ai
Funding · Healthcare · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

CARPL.ai Raises $10 Million Series A Led by IFC to Expand Radiology AI Marketplace

The platform lets hospitals deploy and monitor medical imaging AI from many vendors through one integration. It hosts more than 300 applications from over 100 vendors and serves 30 hospitals.
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Tamil Nadu CM Vijay
Lite Updates · Policy · 23 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore

The clusters at Manallur and Pillapaikkam will provide land and shared infrastructure for electronics firms. The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a higher figure.
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UpKraft
Funding · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

UpKraft Raises ₹1.6 Crore Pre-Seed Led by PedalStart to Expand Across Bengaluru and Gurugram

The Bengaluru company sends vetted tutors into gated communities to teach music and other extracurricular subjects. It was founded twelve months ago and has published no enrollment or revenue figures.
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Bioscan Research
Funding · Healthcare · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Bioscan Research Raises $1 Million Seed Led by Unicorn India Ventures for CEREBO Brain Injury Device

The company's CEREBO device uses near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning to detect intracranial bleeding without radiation. It has held Indian regulatory clearance since 2023.
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NeuralKart
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

NeuralKart Raises ₹2.35 Crore Seed Led by Inflection Point Ventures for AI Insurance Platform

The Bengaluru startup sells AI software that reads insurer policy documents to automate underwriting, claims and audits. It is also building a separate computer vision product for industrial sites.
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Pruthviraj P
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 23 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Karnataka Engineer Pruthviraj P Joins NVIDIA Deep Learning Team, Compensation Reportedly ₹2.6 Crore

Pruthviraj P, an electronics graduate from PES University, joined NVIDIA's deep learning group in California. No source has been named for the ₹2.6 crore compensation figure now circulating.
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Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa
Markets & IPO · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Eternal Reports ₹92 Crore Q1 Profit as Blinkit Lifts Revenue 182% to ₹20,211 Crore

Blinkit contributed 77.5% of operating revenue under an inventory-led model that books the full value of goods sold. The 47% sequential fall in profit reflects a higher tax charge, not weaker operations.
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Suminter Founder
Funding · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min

Suminter Raises ₹25 Crore Debt From BlackSoil to Finance Harvest Procurement

BlackSoil’s loan will help Suminter purchase ingredients from its farmer network during the harvest window. The additional liquidity arrives as the company manages subdued profitability, repayment obligations and a Negative long-term credit outlook from Crisil.
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30 Sundays Founders
Funding · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min

30 Sundays Raises ₹61 Crore Led by Bessemer to Expand Its AI Holiday Platform

The Series A was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Info Edge Ventures and Eximius Ventures increasing their stakes. The company claims an annualised gross booking value of roughly ₹200 crore, but has not disclosed revenue, margins, valuation or the round’s primary-secondary split.
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Gurgaon Auto Driver
Lite Updates · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min

Gurgaon Auto Driver Says He Left ₹25,000 Supervisor Job and Now Earns ₹45,000

The auto driver told Zypp Electric co-founder Akash Gupta that he earns approximately ₹40,000–₹45,000 a month while educating three children.
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VERIQUS Founder
Funding · Banking & Finance · 21 Jul 2026 · 6 min

Veriqus Raises ₹387 Crore Led by Norwest to Build an Integrated Wealth Platform

Norwest led the round, with participation from family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Veriqus plans to combine wealth management, asset management, business advisory and lending, although its valuation, round structure and other investors were not disclosed.
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Deloitte Employee
Lite Updates · 21 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Deloitte Senior Consultant Quits After 10 Years, Citing 74-Hour Weeks and 5% Hike

A Hyderabad-based technology professional said he left Deloitte after being denied a promotion and receiving a 5% hike on a ₹35 lakh salary. His account is anonymous and has not been independently verified.
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Plazza Founder
Funding · Healthcare · 20 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Plazza Raises $15 Million to Expand Its AI-Led Pharmacy Network

Accel, Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners have backed Plazza’s attempt to combine neighbourhood pharmacies with localised inventory planning. The harder test will be whether deeper availability can justify the working capital and operating cost of a rapid store rollout.
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Bijit Ray NEET
Lite Updates · 18 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Assam Student Bijit Ray Scores 502 in NEET UG 2026, Highlighting Tier-3 Test-Prep Access

Despite severe financial constraints and a lack of legacy institutional knowledge, an e-rickshaw driver’s son has bypassed traditional high-cost coaching hubs, signaling a democratization of competitive educational resources.
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Mitsubishi West Bengal
Lite Updates · Policy · 11 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Mitsubishi Explores Setting Up Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit in West Bengal

The Japanese conglomerate is exploring sites in Durgapur and Panagarh as the state government prepares a new industrial policy to attract advanced supply chains away from established western and southern hubs.
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TCS CEO K Krithivasan
Lite Updates · Policy · 10 Jul 2026 · 5 min

TCS CEO K Krithivasan Says AI Will Not Reduce Overall Headcount Following Strong Q1 Hiring

Despite Chairman N Chandrasekaran recently predicting the deployment of half a million autonomous AI agents, the company's CEO insists the workforce will simply transition into prompt engineering and model management to service a $2.6 billion AI pipeline.
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Jainam Jain
Lite Updates · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min

14-Year-Old Founder Jainam Jain Launches AI Marketing Startup Mengo Engine in Dubai

Operating from the Burj Khalifa, the 14-year-old entrepreneur has launched an AI marketing platform into beta, highlighting how accessible application-layer software development has become.
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Pepsico India CEO Jagrut Kotecha
Lite Updates · 2 Jul 2026 · 5 min

PepsiCo India Opens ₹1,266 Crore Flavour Manufacturing Facility in Ujjain

The 22-acre facility represents a major slice of the FMCG giant’s ₹5,700-crore investment pipeline, aiming to localise the production of its core intellectual property and empower its regional bottling partners.
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I Love Bengaluru
Lite Updates · 2 Jul 2026 · 5 min

Bengaluru Overtakes Mumbai as India’s Top Hub for Under-30 Entrepreneurs

With 21 founders featured on the latest Hurun India list, the southern tech capital has displaced Mumbai by attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs focused on artificial intelligence, space technology, and electric mobility.
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Supply6 Founders Vaibhav Bhandari and Rahul Saji Jacob with Kriti Sanon
Funding · D2C · 1 Jul 2026 · 4 min

Supply6 Raises ₹48 Crore Led by Unilever Ventures to Expand Foundational Nutrition

The Bengaluru-based nutraceutical brand will leverage fresh capital from Unilever Ventures and Kriti Sanon to defend its daily supplement market share against established FMCG incumbents.
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Anthropic CEO
Lite Updates · SaaS & Tech · 1 Jul 2026 · 5 min

US Lifts Export Ban on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI Models

The US Commerce Department has restored global access to Anthropic's advanced models, but the abrupt two-week restriction exposes the severe geopolitical risk of building Indian enterprise software on proprietary American infrastructure.
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Kunal Shah WhatsApp Head
Lite Updates · 30 Jun 2026 · 5 min

WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations Ahead of Global Rollout Under New Head Kunal Shah

The Meta-owned platform is abandoning mobile numbers as its sole primary identity, creating a crucial privacy shield to support its new global head’s mandate to scale high-frequency commerce.
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Ford CEO
Lite Updates · 30 Jun 2026 · 4 min

Ford Rehires 350 Veteran Engineers to Fix Quality Gaps Missed by Automated Systems

After automated systems failed to catch real-world manufacturing errors, the US automaker brought back hundreds of experienced technical specialists to retrain its AI and halt a massive spike in recall costs.
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Lytmus AI Ajit Kumar, Praveen Y., and Naveen Yadav
Funding · SaaS & Tech · 29 Jun 2026 · 5 min

Lytmus AI Raises ₹5 Crore Pre-Seed Round Led by Boundless Ventures

The Bengaluru-based startup is leveraging fresh capital from Boundless Ventures to build autonomous, hyper-personalized AI mentors for NEET aspirants, aiming to decouple high-quality instruction from human limitations.
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Incuspaze Founder
Funding · Real Estate · 29 Jun 2026 · 4 min

Incuspaze Raises ₹150 Crore Led by Bharat Value Fund Ahead of FY29 IPO

The Gurugram-based managed workspace provider is leveraging fresh capital to acquire regional competitors and capture booming real estate demand from Global Capability Centres.
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