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Vaaree Raises ₹65 Crore in Series A Led by Hero Enterprise and Cap Alpha Ventures

Home furnishing in India has historically forced a choice between imported brands priced for a small audience and unbranded goods of unpredictable quality. The factories that make the first category for export markets si…

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Zoppler Systems Raises ₹6.5 Crore From Finvolve and India Accelerator for RF Sensing Products

The commercial argument Zoppler makes is about what a customer does not have to do. Defence organisations run equipment bought over decades, and the cost of a capability upgrade is rarely the sensor itself but the replac…

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Superleap Raises ₹36 Crore in Pre-Series A Led by Peak XV's Surge to Build AI-Native CRM

CRM is the hardest enterprise software to displace, and the reason has nothing to do with features. A company's CRM holds every customer record, every pipeline stage and every integration built over years, and moving it …

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Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million Series A Led by Seligman Ventures to Scale Real-Time Voice AI

The problem Smallest.ai is attacking is not whether an AI agent can answer a question. It is the half-second before it starts. A large language model receives a complete prompt, then begins generating. In text that pause…

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Profound Launches AI Representative Platform With $1.5 Million Seed From Stellaris and 3one4

The problem Profound describes is one of asymmetry. A person's competence is legible to the handful of colleagues who have worked alongside them and almost invisible to everyone else, who see a title, a company name and …

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Base Power Raises $1 Billion Series D at $13 Billion Valuation and Launches Its Own Home Battery

Most energy storage companies build where the grid connection is: large battery installations on industrial land, close to substations, sized in hundreds of megawatt-hours. Base Power inverts that. It breaks the same cap…

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Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion in Sequoia-Led Round at a Reported $6 Billion Valuation

Conventional nuclear construction is a project business. Each plant is bespoke, built on site over a decade, financed against a schedule that historically slips. The cost of the first unit is close to the cost of the fif…

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Horizon3 Raises $250 Million Series E at Over $2 Billion Valuation Led by NightDragon and NEA

Penetration testing has historically been a consulting engagement. A firm is hired, people spend a few weeks probing a slice of the network, a report arrives, and the exercise repeats a year later. The economics of that …

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