Bucketlistt Raises ₹7.6 Crore by Building the Software Behind the Rafting Trips It Sells
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.
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RapidCanvas Raises $29M on the Bet That AI Pilots Fail for Lack of People, Not Software
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.
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POLICY
Infosys Says AI Could Be Half…
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Infosys Says AI Could Be Half Its Work In Three Years, And Warns The Backlash Is Coming Here
The warning is sharper than the forecast. He said the Western data centre backlash may reach India, which almost nobody here is planning for.
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Adani and Jabil Sign a Non-Binding Deal to Build AI Racks in India, Not the Chips Inside Them
The proposed 50:50 venture would assemble racks, servers and networking gear and make power and cooling systems. The GPUs still come from abroad, and the anchor customer may be Adani's own data centres.
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Manus Raises $500 Million From Chinese Backers After Beijing Blocked Its Sale to Meta
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.
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SAAS & TECH
Zetwerk's IPO Prices It At About…
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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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SAAS & TECH
IonQ Is Buying Its Way Into…
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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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MARKETS & IPO
Microsoft Will Run Its Own AI…
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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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SAAS & TECH
India Spent A Year Saying It…
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India Spent A Year Saying It Would Not Regulate AI, And Is Now Writing The Paper
A year ago MeitY declined to propose an AI law. The minister now calls the coming paper the base for regulation that has to come.
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SAAS & TECH
India's Biggest Chip Investment This Week…
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India's Biggest Chip Investment This Week Went To A Company That Does Not Make Chips
Vector Line invests only in chips, and its first India cheque went to an engineering services firm rather than anything that makes silicon.
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SAAS & TECH
Zetwerk's Existing Shareholders Want To Sell…
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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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SAAS & TECH
Firmus Wanted Three Times Its August…
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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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SAAS & TECH
India's AI Funding Rose 265% In…
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India's AI Funding Rose 265% In Q3, And Four Deals Were 90% Of It
Yotta, Emergent, Sarvam and Freehand took roughly nine-tenths of it. The other 31 deals shared what was left.
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SAAS & TECH
Jio's IPO Is Reported At ₹10.3…
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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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SAAS & TECH
SpaceX Bought Spectrum And Verizon Had…
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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
Amazon Has Stopped Making Councils Sign…
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Amazon Has Stopped Making Councils Sign NDAs Before It Builds A Data Centre
Seventy-five projects worth $130 billion were blocked or delayed in one quarter. The secrecy that was supposed to smooth approvals was costing more than it saved.
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MARKETS & IPO
TCS Is Paying ₹1 Lakh For…
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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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MARKETS & IPO
OpenAI's Revenue Was A Third Smaller…
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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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POLICY
HCL Is Spending ₹500 Crore To…
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HCL Is Spending ₹500 Crore To Add 4,500 Seats In Lucknow
The expansion was announced two days before the US suspended HCL from PERM. Unconnected events, pointing the same way.
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SAAS & TECH
The US Has Suspended TCS, Infosys,…
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The US Has Suspended TCS, Infosys, Wipro And HCL From Its Green Card Programme
No H-1B visa has been cancelled. What has been suspended is the path to permanent residency, which is a retention problem rather than an operational one.
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SAAS & TECH
Quanfluence Raised $10 Million To Build…
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Quanfluence Raised $10 Million To Build Four Qubits, And Sells Something Else Meanwhile
Four qubits now, a hundred by 2029. The business that funds the gap is optimisation hardware that runs without a cryogenic refrigerator.
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SAAS & TECH
Navya Naveli Nanda Has Launched Naveli…
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Navya Naveli Nanda Has Launched Naveli Ventures To Back Deep-Tech And Frontier Research
No fund size has been disclosed. The distinctive piece is the academic and IP partnership route, which is where Indian deep-tech is thinnest.
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byteXL Raises $9M to Teach AI Inside the Engineering Degree, Not After It
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.
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SAAS & TECH
DeepSeek Is Reportedly Raising $12 Billion…
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DeepSeek Is Reportedly Raising $12 Billion From Tencent, CATL And State-Linked Funds
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.
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MARKETS & IPO
Schneider Electric Is Paying $22.6 Billion…
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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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SAAS & TECH
Razorpay Will Help Indian Brands Buy…
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Razorpay Will Help Indian Brands Buy Ads Inside ChatGPT
The launch brands are jewellery, insurance, matchmaking and education, all categories where buyers ask questions before they know what to search for.
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MARKETS & IPO
Paramount Has Closed Its $110 Billion…
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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
Micron Has Already Sold Most Of…
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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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QpiAI Borrows ₹50 Crore at 13.85%, Due Two Years Before Its 1,000-Qubit Target
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.
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POLICY
OpenAI Scrapped A Model For Overstepping,…
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OpenAI Scrapped A Model For Overstepping, Then Launched Always-On Agents A Day Later
The two decisions are not in conflict, and read together they show where the industry thinks the risk sits, and where it does not.
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Scooter Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Test Salespeople on Selling, Not on Selling Themselves
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.
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MARKETS & IPO
Only A Quarter Of AI's $4.7…
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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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POLICY
Google Has Put Four AI Chips…
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Google Has Put Four AI Chips In Orbit To Find Out If They Survive
The chips run in 15-minute bursts. Google's own paper puts the launch economics at 1,800 Starship flights before any of this competes with a building.
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MARKETS & IPO
Kuku's Revenue Rose Sixfold To ₹1,484…
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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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Unveilr Raises at ₹16.7 Crore to Do the AI Search Work That Dashboards Only Measure
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.
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Google Gives Gemini 4 Argon to Cyber Defenders First, Without the Guardrails
The model reaches trusted cyber defenders first, without the restrictions that stop it helping with security work. Google's own staff reportedly find it better on tests than on real tasks.
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FUNDING
AMD Is Buying World Labs For…
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AMD Is Buying World Labs For $8.2 Billion, Seven Months After Valuing It At $5 Billion
Nvidia already sells world models, simulation and robotics tooling to the same customers. AMD is buying research, not a distribution advantage.
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POLICY
TakeMe2Space Will Fly Two Orbital Data…
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TakeMe2Space Will Fly Two Orbital Data Centre Satellites On A Falcon 9 In 2028
Two satellites at 1.5 kilowatts each will not replace a data centre. What they could replace is the ground station.
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SAAS & TECH
The ED Has Attached ₹442 Crore…
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The ED Has Attached ₹442 Crore More In The Gameskraft Case, Taking The Total To ₹2,843 Crore
The attached property sits with family members and private trusts rather than the company. That reflects the shape of what the agency alleges.
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SAAS & TECH
Tonbo Imaging Has SEBI Clearance For…
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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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