Truth & Hair Raises ₹5.4 Crore Seed Led by Inflection Point Ventures for Hair Styling Range
Angel platform Inflection Point Ventures leads the round, which funds distribution and product expansion at the Gurugram brand. Terms, valuation and the fate of its on-air Shark Tank offer are undisclosed.
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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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Aham Housing Finance Raises ₹100 Crore Led by The Sanmar Group to Expand Affordable Home Loans
The Chennai lender will use the equity to widen its branch network and lending capacity across four states. The cheque is roughly twice all the equity it has raised since inception.
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super.money Launches superGift Multi-Brand Gifting Solution With Flipkart, Myntra and Cleartrip
The rewards instrument spans Flipkart, Myntra, Cleartrip, District and Zomato, in digital and physical formats. Razorpay and Pine Labs power redemption, and super.money says more partners will follow.
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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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Apna Mart Raises ₹120 Crore Series C From Existing Backers Accel, Fundamentum and Peak XV
Accel India and Fundamentum have put in ₹55 crore each and Peak XV Partners ₹10 crore. The round is about half the size of the March 2025 Series B at roughly twice the valuation.
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Sid's Farm Raises ₹81 Crore Pre-Series B as Listed Rival Dodla Dairy Takes 2 Percent Stake
The round is led by Omnivore and Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office, with Dodla Dairy, Next Bharat Ventures and LIO joining. Dodla told the exchanges it is paying ₹11.64 crore for 2 per cent.
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Arboreal Bioinnovations Raises ₹230 Crore Series A Co-Led by EAAA and Omnivore to Add Capacity
The Series A is co-led by EAAA Alternatives and Omnivore, with existing investor Rainmatter by Zerodha participating. It is the first investment from Edelweiss's second Discovery Fund, which closed above ₹1,200 crore.
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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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Ferns N Petals Plans 2028 Listing as FY26 Revenue Reaches ₹1,085 Crore on 25% Growth
FNP has set an end-2028 listing target and is guiding to 25% annual revenue growth. The same executive said in 2024 that the company would list in FY27.
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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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Zepto Investors Discuss Revised $3 Billion Post-Money IPO Valuation, Down From $7 Billion Peak
Zepto and its investors are discussing a post-money IPO valuation of about $3 billion, less than half the mark set in October 2025. No decision on pricing or structure has been taken.
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Fixxly Raises $5.5 Million Seed Round From Accel, Fireside and Lightspeed Ahead of September Launch
Fixxly plans 30-minute delivery of building materials to contractors through a network of dark stores in Bengaluru. The company has not yet begun commercial operations.
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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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Hegdinvst Raises ₹11.5 Crore Series A to Fund Sponsor Commitment to Proposed Category III Fund
The company says the bulk of the round funds its sponsor commitment to a proposed Category III hedge fund. That commitment is a SEBI requirement rather than a discretionary show of alignment.
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Terribly Tiny Tales Produces Netflix Series Musafir Cafe 13 Years After Launching as a Facebook Page
The series was produced by a studio that began in 2013 as a page publishing tweet-sized fiction on Facebook. It was acquired by Collective Artists Network two years ago for an undisclosed sum.
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Rapido Integrates Ownly Into Its Main App, Extending Zero-Commission Food Delivery in Bengaluru
Bengaluru users can now order food inside the main Rapido app rather than through the separate Ownly application. The service remains confined to one city, against an earlier plan that envisaged ten by this month.
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BigBasket's Consumer Arm Reports ₹8,223 Crore FY26 Turnover as Losses Widen 66% to ₹3,073 Crore
Turnover at BigBasket's consumer arm rose 7.7% in FY26 while losses widened 66%. The two entities together lost ₹3,175 crore, close to two-thirds of parent Tata Digital's net loss for the year.
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House of Student Raises $2 Million Seed Round Co-Led by Saltwater Sutra and Nirmitsu
The seed round is a mix of equity and debt, co-led by Saltwater Sutra and Nirmitsu Inspirational Ventures. The split between the two instruments has not been disclosed, and neither has a valuation.
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Bombay Shaving Company Parent Visage Lines Reports ₹635 Crore FY26 Revenue and ₹9 Crore Net Loss
Visage Lines Personal Care more than doubled operating revenue in FY26 and reported its first positive adjusted EBITDA. The figure is struck after adding back ESOP cost, and the company remains loss-making.
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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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Omega Seiki Mobility Raises ₹50 Crore From Securocorp Securities And Family Office Investors
The electric commercial vehicle maker takes capital from a securities firm, a family office and two individuals. It was reported this month to be seeking ₹125 crore ahead of a listing.
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Snitch Acquires Womenswear Brand Berrylush To Enter India's Women's Fashion Market
The menswear brand takes over a Noida-based women's western wear label and says it will rebuild it over 100 days. Neither company has disclosed what was paid.
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PhonePe Reports ₹7,920 Crore FY26 Revenue As Net Loss Widens 62 Percent To ₹2,792 Crore
Operating revenue grew 11.5 per cent while total expenses rose 16 per cent, widening the consolidated loss by 62 per cent. The company puts its normalised operating loss at ₹1,377 crore.
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Veefin Solutions Board Approves ₹35 Crore Non-Convertible Debenture Issue On Private Placement
The board has cleared up to 3.5 lakh debentures of ₹1,000 each, to be placed privately in tranches. Terms including coupon, tenure and security remain undisclosed.
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Cactus Partners Targets ₹1,600 Crore for Fund II With Plans for 13 to 15 Investments
The firm has stated a corpus, a cheque size and an investment count for its second fund. It has not announced a first close, an anchor investor or a timeline.
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Karnataka to Form Two AI Working Groups After Minister's Visit to Anthropic's Bengaluru Office
Two groups drawn from the Centre for e-Governance and the Home Department will identify where AI fits state services. No agreement has been signed and no terms disclosed.
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Former Tech Mahindra Engineer Alleges Wrongful Termination After Leave to Care for Daughter
A former software engineer says she was dismissed after taking leave for her sick daughter. No FIR has been registered, and Tech Mahindra has not responded on record.
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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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Flipkart to Enter Food Delivery With Bengaluru Pilot and ONDC Integration, Krishnamurthy Confirms
Group chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy said food delivery will be another use case on the main platform, starting with a pilot. The commission structure, rider model and launch date were not disclosed.
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Farm Watt Innovations Raises ₹32.5 Crore Co-Led by IAN Alpha Fund and Rainmatter to Expand Biomass Network
The two-year-old startup aggregates crop residue and sells it as feedstock to compressed biogas plants. It runs 15 hubs today and has named eleven states it wants to enter.
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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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CARPL.ai Raises $10 Million Series A Led by IFC to Expand Radiology AI Marketplace
The platform lets hospitals deploy and monitor medical imaging AI from many vendors through one integration. It hosts more than 300 applications from over 100 vendors and serves 30 hospitals.
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Centre Approves Two Tamil Nadu Electronics Manufacturing Clusters Worth ₹1,012 Crore
The clusters at Manallur and Pillapaikkam will provide land and shared infrastructure for electronics firms. The same two sites were announced in March 2025 at a higher figure.
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UpKraft Raises ₹1.6 Crore Pre-Seed Led by PedalStart to Expand Across Bengaluru and Gurugram
The Bengaluru company sends vetted tutors into gated communities to teach music and other extracurricular subjects. It was founded twelve months ago and has published no enrollment or revenue figures.
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Bioscan Research Raises $1 Million Seed Led by Unicorn India Ventures for CEREBO Brain Injury Device
The company's CEREBO device uses near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning to detect intracranial bleeding without radiation. It has held Indian regulatory clearance since 2023.
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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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Eternal Reports ₹92 Crore Q1 Profit as Blinkit Lifts Revenue 182% to ₹20,211 Crore
Blinkit contributed 77.5% of operating revenue under an inventory-led model that books the full value of goods sold. The 47% sequential fall in profit reflects a higher tax charge, not weaker operations.
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Suminter Raises ₹25 Crore Debt From BlackSoil to Finance Harvest Procurement
BlackSoil’s loan will help Suminter purchase ingredients from its farmer network during the harvest window. The additional liquidity arrives as the company manages subdued profitability, repayment obligations and a Negative long-term credit outlook from Crisil.
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