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Lite Updates 5 min read

Terribly Tiny Tales Produces Netflix Series Musafir Cafe 13 Years After Launching as a Facebook Page

The path from a text page to a streaming production is less improbable than it sounds, because the scarce input in Indian streaming is not capital or crew. It is writing that works. A micro-fiction platform running daily…

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Lite Updates 5 min read

Rapido Integrates Ownly Into Its Main App, Extending Zero-Commission Food Delivery in Bengaluru

Restaurant economics are the pressure point the whole product is built around. A percentage commission scales with the bill, so a platform earns more from a ₹1,200 family order than a ₹200 single meal while doing broadly…

03
Funding 5 min read

Yaanendriya Raises ₹15 Crore From Piper Serica to Scale Navigation and Inertial Sensors

The problem Yaanendriya works on is narrow and real. An autonomous platform has to know where it is and how it is moving before it can control itself, and it has to keep knowing when satellite positioning is jammed, spoo…

04
Funding 5 min read

Hegdinvst Raises ₹11.5 Crore Series A to Fund Sponsor Commitment to Proposed Category III Fund

The constraint on launching a fund in India is rarely the strategy. It is the cheque the manager has to write before anyone else writes one. SEBI requires the sponsor or manager to hold a continuing interest in every sch…

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Markets & IPO 5 min read

BigBasket's Consumer Arm Reports ₹8,223 Crore FY26 Turnover as Losses Widen 66% to ₹3,073 Crore

Scheduled grocery delivery and quick commerce are different businesses wearing the same label. The first aggregates a large basket into a planned trip, which lets fulfilment cost be spread across forty or fifty items and…

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Funding 5 min read

House of Student Raises $2 Million Seed Round Co-Led by Saltwater Sutra and Nirmitsu

Booking a room in another country is one of the least organised parts of studying abroad. Supply is split between purpose-built operators, university halls and private landlords; students are buying sight unseen, often b…

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Markets & IPO 5 min read

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

Bombay Shaving Company sells razors, trimmers, fragrances, skincare and bath products into a category Indian men historically bought on price from two multinationals. The pitch is a premium product at a mid-market price,…

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Policy 5 min read

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

Infosys runs large parts of its European delivery through onsite teams embedded at client locations alongside offshore staff in India, a blended-delivery model that depends on precisely measuring who worked which hours, …

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