Funding

Nine years bootstrapped, profitable on ₹175 crore, and 40 outlets in one city. April reporting suggests much of the ₹532 crore is secondary rather than new money.

Swiggy, Zepto and Blinkit have all pulled back from ultra-fast food. Swish now does a million orders a month in the category they found too hard.

The company is American, the customers are American, and every engineer building it works out of Kolkata. Its real innovation is bypassing the card networks, not the card.

Filings account for ₹56.25 crore of the announced figure. The founders still hold about 65% of a five-year-old company, which says more than the 4.5x step-up does.

This single round is larger than everything QNu raised in its first decade. Its largest backer also sets the 2029 deadline that creates its market.

The company kept about ₹358 of each ₹1,750 bottle in its first 90 days. Pune and Mumbai are two cities but one excise regime, and the second state is the hard part.

Ten thousand units today, forty thousand promised in two years. That means buying thirty thousand air conditioners, which ₹40 crore of equity cannot do on its own.

₹10.5 crore to build a console, an operating system and a supply chain at once. The clearest demand signal is not the waitlist but the 2.5 lakh handhelds India already imports.

The brand did not exist in April and claims ₹1 crore in its first month. That is a venture studio's playbook rather than a standing start.

Ironing costs about ten rupees a garment. Every rupee of hub rent, app and payroll has to spread across that, which is why the hub sits inside the building.

Both leads are existing backers, and headcount fell about a fifth in the year to August 2025. The strategic move from lending into commerce is the right one.

Bob Pattillo founded both the company and the investor. The money is a commitment across 30 months in debt, quasi-equity and equity, not a cheque.

The round is close to three times everything Navana had raised in eight years. Its on-premise model is what cloud voice AI providers cannot offer Indian banks.

The second consecutive round without an uplift. A91 and Tancom Electronics paid different prices per share, and in dollar terms the valuation has fallen.

Filings show under ₹10 crore of revenue for the year to March 2025. The company is targeting ₹100 crore and building its own factory to get there.

India's largest spacetech round takes total funding to $195 million. The India entity's FY25 revenue was ₹39.3 crore, which is not what is being priced.

The new money targets AI, robotics and deep tech rather than games. Delhi switched off PUBG Mobile in 2020 and BGMI in 2022.

The board approved ₹90.66 crore of new shares. Sauce.vc says it alone put in ₹109 crore. The gap is most likely existing shareholders selling.

A91 Partners funded the entire round alone. A valuation report in the filing describes sustained and worsening financial deterioration across two years.

Three times its October valuation, ten months later. The trading firm's $13 billion commitment depends on two contract extensions and an option that have not been exercised.

Its last round was nearly five years ago. The smart crib competes with SNOO in the US, where its rival holds an FDA authorisation Cradlewise does not.

A Hyderabad company making onboard chargers for two-wheelers, three-wheelers and e-tractors. It wants ₹60 crore of annualised revenue by March 2027 on a $2 million seed.

Qualcomm Ventures leads, with Labcorp and Alpha Wave joining. The profit figures everyone is citing come from the year before Ultrahuman lost half its revenue base.

Down from $1.5 billion at its peak, and profitable for the first time. Filings show roughly half the money is existing shareholders selling out.

A licensing and team deal for six engineers, twelve months after founding. Rilo's 10,000 users lose the platform; its investors get an exit on $1 million raised.

Ten deals accounted for 68 per cent of July's investment total. Exit value fell to $1.6 billion, and more than half of that was one fund selling to another.

An angel-led round at a ₹42 crore valuation for the rebuilt version of Casttree. Two of the investors were customers first.

Verlinvest leads with ₹61.73 crore, valuing the sneaker brand at about ₹535 crore. In March, Comet was reported to be seeking ₹140-150 crore.

Equentis led a $2 million pre-Series A into a company that supplies fulfilment to 30-plus health platforms. It wants 100 licensed dark stores in 50 cities.

The all-stock deal closed on Tuesday at ₹1,955 crore. Unacademy held ₹900 crore in cash at the time, which puts a different frame on the discount.

MediaTek will build custom AI accelerators on NVLink Fusion. Every chip designed as an Nvidia alternative now ships with Nvidia's fabric, interconnect and memory inside it.

Over twenty second-level fund managers are due to be appointed within weeks. The governance questions raised by the first ₹2,192 crore round have not been answered.

Magna already owned 51% of Yuma. This round takes its total investment to $87 million, raises its stake further, and dilutes Yulu — which is also Yuma's biggest customer.

Blue Ashva Capital led an $8 million seed into a Bengaluru company that bootstrapped for eight years on roughly $850,000 of revenue. Six defence satellites are due in 2027.

SignalFire and Las Olas VC led a $6 million seed into a Boston startup used by 225 agencies across 25 states. It answers a question every minute.

The proposed share swap values the former unicorn a little above its cash pile of more than $90 million. The operating business is worth close to nothing.

India's deal value grew 5 per cent in the first seven months while volumes fell 13 per cent. The gap is less about caution than about what this cycle funds.

Info Edge Ventures led ₹20 crore into a Gurugram company that was already profitable on ₹13 crore of revenue. It is the first institutional money in sixteen years.

The year-old startup's valuation has climbed from $50 million to $2.5 billion in about four months, before its public launch. Its AI agent has also drawn privacy and security concerns.

The logistics platform raised the first close of a larger Series A to scale its Datashastra software and control-tower stack. Its valuation was not disclosed and the round is not yet complete.