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E-commerce 5 min read

Shein Priced At A Quarter Of Peak While A Robotics Firm Beside It Was 3,842x Oversubscribed

The most informative number in this listing is not Shein's. It is Mech-Mind's. The robotics company ran its subscription in the same window as Shein and debuts on the same exchange on the same day. It was oversubscribed …

02
SaaS & Tech 5 min read

Tim Cook's Last Day As Apple CEO Hands India's Manufacturing Bet To A Hardware Engineer

Cook's India record usually gets filed under supply chain. It reads more accurately as negotiation. Apple became the largest beneficiary of the ₹30,000-crore mobile phone PLI scheme launched in April 2020, producing iPho…

03
E-commerce 5 min read

Truemeds Is Buying DealShare For Roughly What Sits In Its Bank Account

Strip away the headline percentage and the structure says everything. A buyer paying a little over $90 million for a company holding more than $90 million in cash is paying close to nothing for the business itself. This …

04
Funding 5 min read

India Took One Per Cent Of Global Venture Capital While The World's Deal Value Rose 161%

The word doing the most work in that analysis is discipline. Discipline implies a choice to sit out. What the numbers describe is closer to absence. Look at the American split again. Value up 199 per cent, volume up 2 pe…

05
Markets & IPO 5 min read

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Lands After Labor Day, Carrying A Bill For Its Own Red Lines

The float design is the tell. SpaceX's first lockup expiry this month more than doubled its publicly traded share count, with roughly 12.9 billion more shares scheduled to unlock by mid-2027. Every large listing this yea…

06
SaaS & Tech 5 min read

Nvidia Paused The Guarantee Funding The AI Cloud Boom, Two Months After Offering It

Reporting points to two problems, and they turn out to be the same problem. The Journal reported that Nvidia employees raised antitrust concerns with current and prospective customers, and that there were sensitivities a…

07
E-commerce 5 min read

Zomato Shuts Its Hyderabad Support Centre And Cuts 250 Jobs As Vendors And AI Absorb The Work

The sequence matters more than the number. In February 2025, Zomato launched Nugget, an AI-native, no-code customer support platform built internally over three years, which by then was handling more than 15 million supp…

08
Funding 5 min read

YOGa Clean Air Raises Its First ₹20 Crore Sixteen Years In, Led by Info Edge Ventures

The interesting thing about this round is not its size. It is that the company got here without needing one. Filed accounts for YOGAN Solutions for the year to March 2025, as aggregated by Tracxn and reported secondhand,…

09
SaaS & Tech 4 min read

Ford's India GCC Plans 500 Hires In 2027, A Smaller Number Than Its Last Two Pledges

Set against those earlier commitments, 500 is a modest number. Three thousand over three years averages a thousand a year. Two thousand over four averages five hundred. The 2027 plan sits at the lower end of a range Ford…

10
EV & Mobility 5 min read

Ola Electric's ₹95.8 Crore PLI Cheque Arrives As Revenue Falls And Cash Keeps Burning

The PLI cheque works as a cash-flow instrument and very little else. At ₹95.8 crore against a quarterly operating cash outflow of ₹215 crore, it covers under half of one quarter's bleed. It arrives without dilution and w…

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SaaS & Tech 4 min read

India Could Make a Third of the World's iPhones as John Ternus Takes Over at Apple

The relationship worked because both sides were unusually pragmatic about it, and the receipts are specific. During the pandemic, when Foxconn and Wistron needed Chinese technical staff to commission Indian factories and…

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Markets & IPO 4 min read

Zee Falls 15% as Lenders Move Against a ₹6.5 Crore Settlement of ₹22,006 Crore in Claims

The tribunal's reasoning is defensible on its own terms and still deeply unsatisfying. The NCLT held that objecting creditors accounted for under 20 percent of the voting share while the plan carried 80.81 percent, that …

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