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Startups · Markets & IPO · 31 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Info Edge Had Sixteen Years To Find A Successor And Picked Its Founder

Oberoi grew market capitalisation from ₹2,500 crore to nearly ₹80,000 crore. The board's answer to replacing him was the person who hired him.
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AI · Markets & IPO · 30 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Amazon Burned $42 Billion Of Cash And Microsoft Borrowed $25 Billion In The Same Week

Microsoft's finance chief said on Wednesday it had not tapped the bond market. On Thursday it priced its first deal since 2017.
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Markets & IPO · Startups · 29 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Jio's First Day Pop Was Worth About ₹8,100 Crore, And It Went To The Buyers

The issue raised ₹30,213 crore. By the close those same shares were worth about ₹38,300 crore.
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AI · Markets & IPO · 25 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Nvidia Is Guaranteeing The Revenue Of The Companies That Buy Its Chips

Nvidia has committed to buy CoreWeave's compute if nobody else will. The market is now pricing the chance it has to.
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Markets & IPO · Manufacturing · 25 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's Backers Took Out ₹1,215 Crore, And The Stock Broke Its Issue Price In Forty Minutes

Institutions bought it at 4.7 times. The people who had owned it longest sold about ₹1,215 crore.
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Markets & IPO · Startups · 24 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Jio's Retail Quota Drew About ₹26,000 Crore And Still Only Covered 2.72 Times

Institutions bid 70.55 times. Retail bid 2.72 times, which on a quota this large is close to ₹26,000 crore.
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AI · Markets & IPO · 23 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Barclays Says AI Is Costing 5,000 Jobs, And Developers Are On The List

Sixty per cent of the cuts are support functions. The bank specifically named developers, and a fifth of the total had already happened.
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Startups · Markets & IPO · 23 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Myntra Spent ₹2,326 Crore On Advertising And Earned ₹1,236 Crore Selling It

Revenue fell 13.5 per cent because logistics collections halved. The money did not disappear so much as move upstairs.
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Startups · Markets & IPO · 22 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Eternal Spent ₹28 Crore More Than It Earned, And Still Reported A Profit

Revenue was ₹24,138 crore. Expenditure was ₹24,166 crore. The ₹125 crore profit came from elsewhere.
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Markets & IPO · Startups · 21 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Jio Drew ₹2.5 Lakh Crore Of Anchor Bids For ₹8,110 Crore Of Stock

Anchors bid thirty times what was on offer. The band was still set below what the market had been told to expect.
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Markets & IPO · 20 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk Closed 3.1 Times Subscribed Because Institutions Showed Up And Retail Never Did

Institutions bid 4.7 times. Retail stopped at 0.77. The grey market marked the issue down 90 per cent while the book was being built.
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Startups · Markets & IPO · 18 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Flipkart's Logistics Revenue Rose 2.4 Times While Its Marketplace Commissions Fell 44 Per Cent

Logistics revenue rose 2.4 times as marketplace commissions fell 44 per cent. A third of the reported loss was non-cash ESOP charges.
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Markets & IPO · Startups · 17 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Urban Company Loses ₹279 On An Order Worth ₹114, And Is Raising ₹2,500 Crore To Keep Going

Loss per order fell 19 per cent. Order value fell 17 per cent. The board approved a ₹2,500 crore raise the same day.
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AI · Markets & IPO · 16 Oct 2026 · 4 min

CoreWeave's Bonds Are Being Priced Like Distressed Debt While Its Backlog Says Otherwise

A 9.625 per cent coupon trading at a 15 per cent yield is the credit market disagreeing with the equity market. Oracle, Nebius and Dell fell with it.
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Markets & IPO · 16 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's Book Is At 0.23 Times On Day One, And Retail Is The Number That Reads

Retail took 0.23 times a quota that is only a tenth of the issue. The book closes on 19 October, two days before Jio opens.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's IPO Prices It At About 1.6 Times Revenue, Not A Platform Multiple

Against FY26 revenue of ₹15,913 crore that is roughly 1.6 times. Schneider just paid 8.7 times for PTC.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min

IonQ Is Buying Its Way Into Cybersecurity, And Paying In Its Own Shares

Nearly $4 billion of acquisitions in under two years, almost all paid in shares. The strategy works while the currency holds.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Microsoft Will Run Its Own AI On Its Own Chips From 2027

Microsoft claims 40 per cent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems. The comparison it declines to name is Nvidia.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 12 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Zetwerk's Existing Shareholders Want To Sell Half As Much Again As They Did In August

The fresh issue went up by ₹230 crore. The shares existing holders want to sell went up by nearly five crore.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Firmus Wanted Three Times Its August Valuation And The Market Said No

In August investors valued Firmus above $10.5 billion. The IPO asked for $30.6 billion, and the market declined.
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Policy · Markets & IPO · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

The US Takes 97% Of India's Solar Module Exports, And Delhi Is Looking For A Plan B

A 126 per cent duty is a price problem. Export credit solves financing problems, which is not the same thing.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 11 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Jio's IPO Is Reported At ₹10.3 Lakh Crore, Well Below What The Market Was Told To Expect

Earlier talk put Jio between $130 billion and $170 billion. The reported band lands at about $107 billion, and the gap is the story.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

SpaceX Bought Spectrum And Verizon Had Its Worst Day Since 2002

Tower company shares rose on the same news. That tells you what the market thinks SpaceX is actually building.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 10 Oct 2026 · 4 min

TCS Is Paying ₹1 Lakh For A Best Buy Entity That Turned Over ₹294 Crore

A captive centre bills its parent at cost. It has no customers of its own, so on a standalone basis it is worth almost exactly what TCS is paying.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 9 Oct 2026 · 4 min

OpenAI's Revenue Was A Third Smaller Than Reported, And The Whole AI Chain Fell

Nobody lost a customer. The market simply discovered it had been pricing a supply chain off a number that included other companies' revenue.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 7 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion For PTC, And Its Own Shares Fell 8%

The seller's shares rose 33 per cent, the buyer's fell 8. Jefferies called it a decade-low valuation that could still weigh on Schneider afterwards.
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EV & Mobility · Markets & IPO · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Bhavish Aggarwal Has Pledged 4.32% Of Ola Electric To Fund His Rights Issue Subscription

In December he sold ₹324 crore of shares specifically to clear a promoter loan and release every pledge. Ten months later the pledge is back.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 6 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Paramount Has Closed Its $110 Billion Warner Bros Merger To Form Skydance

The stated case is that a studio must become a technology company. The price already assumes the savings arrive.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 5 Oct 2026 · 4 min

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

Institutions bid 3.42 times, non-institutional investors 8.53. When the fastest money leads the book, there is nobody left to buy on day one.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 5 Oct 2026 · 5 min

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

HBM takes roughly three times the wafer capacity per bit of ordinary DRAM. Making more of it is why your laptop costs more.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 4 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Only A Quarter Of AI's $4.7 Trillion Prize Comes From Productivity

Published a month ago and worth revisiting: the cluster Bain expects to be hollowed out is the one Indian IT services occupies.
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SaaS & Tech · Markets & IPO · 1 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Kuku's Revenue Rose Sixfold To ₹1,484 Crore, And It Spent ₹1,105 Crore On Marketing

Marketing was nearly four times the prior year, and content cost under ₹200 crore. Making the shows is the cheap part.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 30 Sept 2026 · 4 min

AceVector's IPO Closed 5.07 Times Subscribed, A Day After Moneyview Closed At 102

Non-institutional investors bid 8.53 times, institutions 3.42. A book weighted that way is chasing a listing gain rather than taking a position.
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EV & Mobility · Markets & IPO · 29 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Ola Electric Will Raise Up To ₹1,000 Crore Through A Rights Issue

Three months after a ₹780 crore QIP, and with ₹350 crore of this going to repay debt. The promoter may pledge shares to take up his entitlement.
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Markets & IPO · Fintech · 29 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Moneyview's IPO Closed 101.87 Times Subscribed, Two Weeks After It Cut The Issue

The order book drew ₹77,843 crore for a ₹1,092 crore issue, after the company cut the offer before opening it.
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FMCG · Markets & IPO · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Anmol Industries Filed For A ₹1,800 Crore IPO In Which The Company Gets Nothing

Profit rose roughly fivefold on 28 per cent revenue growth, which is a margin story rather than a demand one. The trust selling holds 84 per cent.
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Markets & IPO · SaaS & Tech · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Tonbo Imaging Has SEBI Clearance For An IPO That Raises It Nothing

The company owns all its intellectual property and rents its factories. That is rarer among Indian defence suppliers than the IPO itself.
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Markets & IPO · E-commerce · 28 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Cars24 Cannot File Its IPO Papers Until April 2027, After The Reverse Flip

The accounting change buried in the disclosure matters more than the date. Wholesale revenue is now recognised as commission, not vehicle value.
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Funding · Markets & IPO · 26 Sept 2026 · 4 min

India's Tech Funding Rose 7% To $10.3 Billion While The Number Of Rounds Fell 38%

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.
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Fintech · Markets & IPO · 24 Sept 2026 · 4 min

Mastercard Has Sold Its Entire Pine Labs Stake For ₹934 Crore

The buyers were domestic insurers and mutual funds. That is now the standing bid absorbing India's new-age exits.
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