OORJAA Raises ₹9.7 Crore in First Close of Series A Led by Equentis Angel Fund to Scale Logistics Software
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.
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Salesforce and Anthropic Launch Claudeforce With 37 Prebuilt Sales Skills Inside Claude
The partnership embeds Salesforce CRM data and 37 prebuilt sales skills inside Claude, with actions governed by existing permissions. The plugin is in pilot, with open beta expected in September 2026.
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open-Source AI Platform Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy the open-source AI hub for $12.9 billion, roughly 86 times its revenue. Neither company has confirmed the deal, and the price reflects strategic position rather than financials.
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InspeCity Raises ₹100 Crore in Pre-Series A Co-Led by Speciale Invest and Ashish Kacholia for Satellite Servicing
The IIT-Bombay-incubated startup will use the round to flight-qualify its satellite-servicing technology and run four in-orbit missions. Its valuation was not disclosed.
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AM Intelligence Orders About 9,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for Hyderabad AI Factory in $8 Billion Compute Push
The AI infrastructure firm backed by Greenko's founders placed a binding order for NVIDIA's latest systems for a Hyderabad AI factory. It is the first tranche of a stated $8 billion compute buildout.
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Ringg AI Raises $10 Million in Extended Series A Led by Peak XV Partners to Expand Enterprise Voice Agents
The enterprise voice AI startup will use the extension to expand beyond phone calls into WhatsApp and browser workflows. Its valuation was not disclosed, and it competes in a crowded, fast-moving category.
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Utsav Raises ₹36 Crore in Series A Led by Atomic Capital to Expand Temple Network and Devotional Services
The spiritual platform will use the round to expand its temple network and fulfilment as it scales online puja and prasad services. Its valuation and the round's terms were not disclosed.
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Airbound Raises $37 Million in Series A Led by Greenoaks to Scale Autonomous Delivery Drone Manufacturing
The aerospace startup builds tail-sitter drones designed to weigh less than their cargo, aiming for cost parity with trucking. Its valuation was not disclosed, and its scale-up depends on drone-flight approvals.
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Neuromod Aqua Raises Pre-Seed Round From Sportskeeda Founder Porush Jain to Productise Sewage Treatment
The water infrastructure startup will use the capital to build a factory-manufactured platform for decentralised sewage treatment. The round size and valuation were not disclosed.
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AlgoFET Raises ₹15 Crore in Pre-Series A Round Led by Piper Serica to Build Autonomous Drone Infrastructure
The deep-tech startup builds autonomous docking and charging systems that let drone fleets operate without human intervention. Its valuation and the round's other terms were not disclosed.
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Zenalyst Raises ₹3 Crore in Pre-Seed Round Through Convertible Debentures to Build Agentic AI Platform
The Bengaluru company raised the round through convertible debentures from angel and corporate backers, with no institutional investors. Its valuation and conversion terms were not disclosed.
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NeoGeo Raises $20 Million in Series A Co-Led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital to Fund Expansion
The geospatial system integrator will spend the round on R&D and international expansion into the Middle East and the Americas. Its valuation and the terms of the round were not disclosed.
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Echovane Raises $1 Million in First Funding Round Co-Led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund
The San Francisco startup, founded by IIT-graduate former product leaders, uses AI agents to run market-research studies from brief to answer. It was bootstrapped until this first round and did not disclose a valuation.
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Discovered Materials Raises $9 Million in Seed Round Led by Lightspeed India to Build AI Materials Scientists
The San Francisco deep-tech startup is using swarms of AI agents to find new materials that cool AI chips. It is founded in 2026, pre-revenue, and has not disclosed a valuation.
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FreightFox Raises ₹5 Crore in Pre-Series A Round Led by HighLeaf
The Pune freight-tech startup has raised a small pre-Series A led by HighLeaf, its third round since 2020. It sells an AI transport-management platform to large manufacturers but has not disclosed revenue.
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Mstack Is in Talks to Raise at Least $30 Million from Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Prosperity7
The Houston- and India-based specialty-chemicals startup is reported to be in talks with existing backers and Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7. The round has not closed, and no valuation or final size has been disclosed.
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Naïve Raises $28.5 Million in Series A Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners to Power Autonomous Companies
The AI-infrastructure startup packages incorporation, payments and compute behind one API so agents can run businesses. Its headline traction figures are company-stated and unaudited.
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Volta Infra Raises $300 Million at $2.4 Billion Valuation With $10 Billion Cloud Contract
Volta Infra has raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation and announced a $10 billion six-year cloud contract with an unnamed AI developer
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Superleap Raises ₹36 Crore in Pre-Series A Led by Peak XV's Surge to Build AI-Native CRM
Superleap has raised ₹36 crore led by Peak XV's Surge for an AI-native CRM aimed at replacing legacy systems. Its founders previously worked together at Unacademy.
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Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million Series A Led by Seligman Ventures to Scale Real-Time Voice AI
Smallest.ai has raised $13 million led by Seligman Ventures to build voice models that cut conversational lag. Its competitors in the category have raised considerably more.
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Profound Launches AI Representative Platform With $1.5 Million Seed From Stellaris and 3one4
Profound has raised $1.5 million from Stellaris Venture Partners and 3one4 Capital to build an AI representative for professionals. The product opened early access on the day of the announcement.
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Horizon3 Raises $250 Million Series E at Over $2 Billion Valuation Led by NightDragon and NEA
Horizon3 has raised $250 million co-led by NightDragon and NEA, tripling its valuation in fourteen months. The price works out at roughly 20 times its own claimed recurring revenue.
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Sarvam AI Board Approves ₹698 Crore Share Issue to NVIDIA, Glade Brook Capital and Others
Sarvam AI's board has cleared an issue of preference shares to raise ₹698 crore, led by NVIDIA. The issue price implies no increase on the valuation set at the June first close.
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Hyderabad Police Book Meta India Head Arun Srinivas Over Morphed Content Featuring PM Modi
Hyderabad Cybercrime police have registered two cases naming Meta's India head alongside unidentified Facebook and Instagram account operators. Neither complaint alleges that Meta itself created the content.
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Simile Raises $200 Million at $2 Billion Valuation Five Months After Its $100 Million Series A
Greenoaks led the round, with Index Ventures investing again and CVS Health Ventures returning. Simile says revenue has grown fivefold since February without disclosing the base.
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SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation in First Close of Series F Round
General Atlantic led the first close, with Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates and Capital Group also investing. The round is not complete and no second close has been announced.
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SUIND Raises ₹20.5 Crore Seed Led by Transition VC to Scale Bumblebee Agriculture Drone
The seed round is led by Transition Venture Capital Fund with participation from IIMA Ventures. SUIND was still pre-revenue in FY25, with a filed loss of ₹1.89 crore.
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Revspot Raises $4.8 Million Series A Co-Led by Inflexor Ventures and Info Edge Ventures
Revspot sells AI-driven lead qualification to high-ticket B2C businesses and claims more than 50 customers. Neither revenue nor the round's valuation has been disclosed.
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Yaanendriya Raises ₹15 Crore From Piper Serica to Scale Navigation and Inertial Sensors
Piper Serica has put ₹15 crore into Yaanendriya's navigation controllers and inertial sensors, its first institutional round. Reported FY26 revenue was ₹72 lakh against an FY27 target of ₹5.4 crore.
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Infosys Fined €175,000 (₹2 Crore) by French Labour Authority Over Time-Tracking Gaps
France's labour regulator DRIEETS fined Infosys €175,000 over gaps in its working-hours tracking system. The company has not disclosed which employee categories were affected or whether the system needs an overhaul.
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Amazon Cuts Jobs in Its Artificial General Intelligence Group After 16,000 January Layoffs
Amazon has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles in the unit that builds its Nova models. The cuts come as the company forecasts $200 billion in 2026 capital expenditure.
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Zetwerk Secures ₹500 Crore Pre-IPO Funding From Bharat Value Fund Ahead of Planned Listing
The pre-IPO round lands about two weeks after SEBI cleared Zetwerk's confidential draft papers. Zetwerk has not confirmed it, and the reported valuation has moved since March.
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Wiffy Raises $3 Million Series A Led by Earth Fund to Expand Installation Services Network
The Mumbai company recruits and deploys technicians who install furniture and appliances on behalf of brands. It raised a comparable amount at pre-Series A two years ago.
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NeuralKart Raises ₹2.35 Crore Seed Led by Inflection Point Ventures for AI Insurance Platform
The Bengaluru startup sells AI software that reads insurer policy documents to automate underwriting, claims and audits. It is also building a separate computer vision product for industrial sites.
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Karnataka Engineer Pruthviraj P Joins NVIDIA Deep Learning Team, Compensation Reportedly ₹2.6 Crore
Pruthviraj P, an electronics graduate from PES University, joined NVIDIA's deep learning group in California. No source has been named for the ₹2.6 crore compensation figure now circulating.
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Elite Mindz Launches ZYNO AI Suite to Introduce Natural Language Prompting to Enterprise Software
The New Delhi-headquartered software firm is leveraging 16 years of enterprise experience to deploy a prompt-based AI layer across ERP, procurement, and HRMS networks to capture workflows across 30 countries.
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US Lifts Export Ban on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI Models
The US Commerce Department has restored global access to Anthropic's advanced models, but the abrupt two-week restriction exposes the severe geopolitical risk of building Indian enterprise software on proprietary American infrastructure.
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Lytmus AI Raises ₹5 Crore Pre-Seed Round Led by Boundless Ventures
The Bengaluru-based startup is leveraging fresh capital from Boundless Ventures to build autonomous, hyper-personalized AI mentors for NEET aspirants, aiming to decouple high-quality instruction from human limitations.
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L&T to Invest ₹4,500 Crore in West Bengal Data Centre and Software Park
The engineering giant is allocating massive capital toward a 30 MW Tier-3 data centre and a sprawling software park to transform Kolkata into a major eastern technology hub.
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OpenAI Appoints Prabhjeet Singh as India Managing Director to Lead Enterprise Expansion
The former Uber India President will take charge of the AI giant's local operations in September, tasked with driving commercial adoption, striking infrastructure partnerships, and navigating regional compliance.
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