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Funding 6 min read

Kiddo Raises ₹12.5 Crore on the Best Demand Signal in Retail, a Baby's Age

Most quick commerce categories are built on manufactured urgency. Nobody has a beauty emergency, and very few people genuinely need a packet of biscuits in ten minutes rather than thirty. The speed is a habit the platfor…

02
Funding 6 min read

Ecosys Raises ₹5 Crore, More Than It Raised in Its First Nine Years Combined

Indian households buy cleaning products the way they buy salt: on price, out of habit, from a shelf where the same four or five names have sat for decades. It is one of the least romantic categories in consumer goods and…

03
Founders 5 min read

Tata Trusts Says The Board's Reappointment Of N Chandrasekaran Is A Legal Nullity

Strip away the personalities and this is a dispute about what a majority shareholder is entitled to. Tata Trusts is the largest shareholder in Tata Sons by a wide margin. In most companies, a shareholder in that position…

04
Policy 5 min read

Scotland Now Requires Environmental Assessment For Every Data Centre Above 50MW

The direction changes the sequence rather than the answer, and that is the point of it. Before this, a large data centre could be screened case by case, with the developer and the planning authority arguing about whether…

05
SaaS & Tech 5 min read

Amazon Has Launched Alexa+ In India, And Hinglish Is The Actual Feature

Hindi support is not the interesting part. Amazon added Hindi to Alexa in 2019. The difference now is that the assistant handles sentences which change language partway through, without the user selecting a mode or repea…

06
Policy 4 min read

The EU Wants Under-15s Off Social Media And AI Chatbots

The supervisory fee is the quiet structural change in this proposal. Age limits generate the headlines, and most large platforms already claim a minimum sign-up age of 13. The Commission's evident view is that asking use…

07
SaaS & Tech 5 min read

Meta Says Its Own Chips Cost 44% Less To Run Than Nvidia's, For Workloads It Chose

The qualifier at the end of that claim is doing most of the work. Meta's figures apply to the specific workloads its chips were designed around, which at present means ranking, recommendation and similar inference tasks.…

08
Markets & IPO 5 min read

OpenAI Is Seeking $1.5 Trillion Privately, Days After Ruling Out An IPO On Safety Grounds

The two statements are not contradictory in the way they first appear, and the actual tension is more interesting than the obvious one. Altman did not say OpenAI should raise less money. He said it should not go public. …

09
Funding 6 min read

Enlight Metals Raises $1.5M at $10M and Targets Revenue Twelve Times Its Valuation

A company valued at $10 million saying it will do ₹1,200 crore of revenue next year looks like a misprint. It is not, and understanding why explains most of what matters about this sector. Metal distribution is a pass-th…

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