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SaaS & Tech 4 min read

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

Accelerator cohorts are announced constantly and most say little. What makes this list readable is that all four Indian entrants are solving versions of the same problem, and it is a measurement problem rather than a cli…

02
E-commerce 4 min read

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

Amazon expands before every festive season, so the announcement itself is a fixture. The composition is what varies, and this year it has changed. A 50 per cent increase in storage capacity, to 64 million cubic feet, is …

03
Founders 4 min read

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

The duration is the detail worth pausing on. Ambarish Raghuvanshi took the interim role on 20 November 2025. Agarwal takes over on 17 September 2026. That is close to ten months during which one of India's larger listed …

04
Fintech 4 min read

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

Returning for capital four months after a public issue looks like a warning sign, and in most industries it would be. In lending it is closer to arithmetic. A non-banking financial company cannot grow its loan book witho…

05
FMCG & Retail 5 min read

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

The sums involved are the first thing to put in proportion. Lenskart earned ₹228.4 crore of net profit in a single quarter. It has paid ₹18.5 crore across three purchases this year for 4.17 per cent of Dimension NXG. Tha…

06
Funding 4 min read

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

The exit assumption is the part worth examining, because it is a forecast rather than a strategy. A fund can choose what to buy. It cannot choose how it will sell, because that depends on conditions five or more years ou…

07
Funding 6 min read

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

The most informative line in this announcement is the dullest one: the money is for working capital and general corporate purposes. Funding announcements almost never say that. They say product development, engineering t…

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