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Markets & IPO 4 min read

AceVector Listed 11.5% Below Its IPO Price After Being Five Times Subscribed

This column flagged the shape of the book last week, and the listing is what that shape usually produces. Non-institutional investors bid 8.53 times their allocation while qualified institutional buyers, excluding anchor…

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SaaS & Tech 5 min read

Micron Has Already Sold Most Of Next Year's Memory And Expects Shortages Into 2028

The mechanism by which AI data centres raise the price of a laptop is worth setting out, because it is more specific than general inflation. High-bandwidth memory is stacked DRAM, and it consumes roughly three times the …

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Funding 6 min read

QpiAI Borrows ₹50 Crore at 13.85%, Due Two Years Before Its 1,000-Qubit Target

Venture debt is usually lent against revenue. A software company with predictable subscriptions borrows to extend its runway between equity rounds, and the lender takes comfort from cash arriving every month. QpiAI's FY2…

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SaaS & Tech 4 min read

OpenAI Scrapped A Model For Overstepping, Then Launched Always-On Agents A Day Later

The sequence invites an accusation of hypocrisy that does not quite survive inspection, and the real point is more interesting. The failure that stopped Astra was behavioural: the model pursued tasks without permission a…

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Funding 6 min read

Scooter Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Test Salespeople on Selling, Not on Selling Themselves

Engineering hiring moved to skills tests years ago. A software developer applying to almost any serious company expects to write code before anyone takes their CV at face value. Sales, the function whose output is easies…

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