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The Bengaluru brand sells nose studs, rings and necklaces for a few hundred rupees through Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra and Blinkit. The money goes into watches, bags and the harder job of becoming a name shoppers ask for.

The singer co-founded the brand with a Korean partner and two operators. It sources ingredients from Korea, formulates in India and leads with skin-barrier care. Attention is easy for her; repeat buyers are the test.

The Indian watch brand sells limited, numbered runs through an invitation-only Registry. Scarcity built its first year. Venture growth now asks for more of everything a luxury brand rations.

The YC-backed platform offers contracts on Nvidia, Tesla and Apple with up to 50x leverage, funded through UPI and settled on crypto rails. Its Indian registration is for virtual digital assets, not securities.

Its first 100 customers came from posters handed out in Rishikesh. Its operator software has since served more than four times as many customers as the marketplace itself.

Two former Razorpay executives build AI agents for the complex inbound calls lenders and insurers receive. They say 70% of borrower queries are resolved end to end, across 2 million calls a month.

The managed-care company is paid through memberships, so shorter stays and fewer readmissions help its margins. It plans five new Bengaluru hospitals after losing ₹90 crore on ₹25 crore of revenue in FY25.

The Simility founders pair an AI platform with field engineers who build each customer's applications and stay responsible for the results. Recurring revenue has grown eightfold in six quarters.

The Goa brand names its ingredient forms and suppliers and sells only five products. One in three customers reorders within six months, and the top tenth of buyers bring in nearly a third of revenue.

Classifieds connect buyer and seller and leave the rest to them. Circle verifies the item, holds the payment and moves the goods, which is safer for users and far more expensive to run.

The Bengaluru startup makes custom sofas in its own factory and sells them through a store, home visits and visualisation software. It is a heavy model for ₹2.5 crore, in a category that has humbled bigger rivals.

The AI agent company moved to Singapore, sold itself to Meta for about $2 billion, and was ordered by Beijing to undo the deal. Its new round is led by Boyu Capital and IDG, with Tencent returning.

Revenue hit a record in 2025. The debt, a collapsed $3.7 billion Shutterstock merger and AI's pressure on stock photography did the damage. The new owners would hold all of the reorganised company.

It earned ₹35 crore on ₹304 crore of revenue in FY25 selling fitness gear online. The new money goes into retail, manufacturing and acquisitions, the capital-heavy parts of a sports brand.

Vector Line invests only in chips, and its first India cheque went to an engineering services firm rather than anything that makes silicon.

Yotta, Emergent, Sarvam and Freehand took roughly nine-tenths of it. The other 31 deals shared what was left.

Part of the money buys out an early backer at eighteen times. The rest funds a move from 350 shelves to 150 of its own leases.

Ten Mumbai outlets become the base for twenty within a year. A quarter of the money goes into supply chain and central operations, because consistency is where pizza chains break as they grow.

The stones are certified lab-grown diamonds; the metal is 18K gold vermeil, sterling silver under a gold layer. That is how a diamond ring reaches ₹5,000, and what a lifetime warranty has to cover.

Four qubits now, a hundred by 2029. The business that funds the gap is optimisation hardware that runs without a cryogenic refrigerator.

No fund size has been disclosed. The distinctive piece is the academic and IP partnership route, which is where Indian deep-tech is thinnest.

Every client so far came from Bekifaayati, its co-founder's 50-lakh-subscriber finance channel. Zomint is a mutual fund distributor, so it earns from the funds those clients buy.

The Hyderabad company sells to colleges, not students, building skills into the four-year degree. Its test is placements, in entry-level IT jobs that AI is rapidly reshaping.

Its voice agents run collections, renewals and claims calls for 40-plus banks, NBFCs and insurers. The conversation can flow; disclosures, consent and escalations follow fixed rules.

A battery maker is among the largest investors. That is less strange than it looks, and it says something about where the constraint has moved.

Equity, not credit, which is the point and also the difficulty. Indian SMEs have spent decades preferring loans precisely because loans do not dilute.

Three weeks ago the investor bought into a Mumbai maker of clinically studied supplement ingredients. Now it has led the round in a US brand selling shilajit gummies at Target.

The Pune company is not built to bring patients to India. It sends patients from the US, UK and Australia to whichever country fits, and India is one option among six.

It brings physiotherapy, training, nutrition and a doctor to older adults at home, with a relationship manager keeping their families informed. The funding pitch widens it to everyone over 40.

The quantum company earned about ₹2 crore in FY25. A year's interest on this debt is roughly ₹6.9 crore, so repayment rests on the next equity round, not on quantum revenue.

A sales interview rewards the candidate who pitches themselves best to a friendly buyer. Scooter shows managers how candidates handle real objections before they see the CV.

Its 70,000 borrowers average about ₹1 lakh each, assessed on cash flow rather than paperwork. For a lender, this equity is what makes several times as much borrowing possible.

Profound just raised $180 million selling software that tracks brands in AI answers. Unveilr's founder argues nobody wanted another dashboard, and sells the work itself.

Nvidia already sells world models, simulation and robotics tooling to the same customers. AMD is buying research, not a distribution advantage.

Revenue of ₹3.14 crore against a loss of ₹4.45 crore, priced near $60 million. The bet is that teaching without teachers holds its margin as it scales.

This is borrowed money, not equity, and the cost of it is the business. The company named for housing is lending it against solar panels and electric vehicles.

Bengaluru turned its first profitable quarter, which means the oldest city is now funding the newest. The harder problem is getting people to come back.

Most small farm equipment sold in India is assembled from imported parts. The bulk of this round is going into making them in Jaipur instead.

The brand launched in December 2024, so the ninefold growth is measured against a first half-year. What it does track is the move onto shelves it does not pay for.

Seed funding fell 37 per cent and first-time funded companies dropped 30 per cent. The pipeline is thinning while the top of the market absorbs more.