DailyObjects raised INR 332 crore in a Series C round and four more startups closed rounds, as the GST Council scrapped officers' arrest powers and CoreWeave entered India.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 8 October 2026. 24K gold is at ₹149,480 per 10g, up slightly, while silver falls 1.12% to ₹221,100 per kg. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
* Zinara is a design-first lab-grown diamond jewellery brand redefining diamonds as everyday wear for the modern Indian consumer, founded by IIT Delhi alumni Harshit Abrol, Co-founder and CEO, and Sumanyu Vyas, Co-founder and COO. * The funds will be used to build the team and accelerate marketing,
Retail traders oppose introduction of UPI MDR costs from October 15; may be deferred to January 1, 2027. Under the proposed framework, a 0.40% MDR would be charged on qualified UPI merchant transactions exceeding INR 2,000, up to a maximum of INR 300.
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Aravind Sanka is the co-founder and CEO of Rapido, India's leading mobility platforms. Explore his education, career, entrepreneurial journey, Rapido's growth, 2026 valuation, business model, and the story behind his success.
Meta intervened on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content in India in H1 2026, over 97% of which was proactively discovered across Facebook and Instagram. The company has launched new AI technologies to identify dangerous adverts that link to illegal off-platform content.
India’s fast commerce industry is anticipated to touch $90 billion by FY2031 from $13 billion in FY2026, Google and Redseer Strategy Consultants said. Metros will be responsible for more than 60% of incremental growth, with non-grocery categories experiencing strong rise.
Tata Power, partners with Norwegian renewable energy tech firm Ocean Sun for membrane based floating solar equipment in India. The businesses will pilot Ocean Sun’s revolutionary solution in a 300 kWp pilot at Tata Power’s Mulshi reservoir in Maharashtra.
Elon Musk has accused “certain oligarchs” of blocking the introduction of Starlink in India to protect a monopolistic stranglehold on the market. Starlink has made significant investments in India and is awaiting government clearances such as foreign direct investment and security clearance.
Amazon has announced more job layoffs, with the most of the cuts apparently impacting its Stores segment with less than 1,000 white-collar staff across the US, India and UK said to be affected. The layoffs came after Prime Big Deal Days and a broader restructure of Amazon’s personnel.
Google Pay has built a strong digital payments business around UPI, merchant services, financial products, bill payments, partnerships, and advertising. Explore how GPay’s business model works and how the platform generates revenue.
Brookfield has entered India’s logistics space by acquiring a portfolio of 10.5 million sq. ft. of logistics and industrial real estate from ESR India for INR 4,300 cr. The portfolio is spread across 400 acres in 6 metro clusters with 8 Grade A parks in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi-NCR, Chennai and Kolkata.
Quanfluence raised $10 million and seven more startups closed rounds, as Maharashtra told bike taxi platforms to go electric and JioHotstar launched in the Middle East.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 7 October 2026. 24K gold is at ₹149,620 per 10g and silver at ₹225,160 per kg, both down on the day as silver falls more than twice as much as gold. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has got the letter of award to develop the main plant of a 1,600 MW thermal power project in Chandrapura, Jharkhand. DVC CIL Power will have two 800 MW ultra-supercritical units and L&T will be responsible for essential equipment and engineering.
Meta is piloting a new video-first Facebook experience in India that opens the app right into full-screen video and highlights Reels. The new UX is aimed to increase video engagement, with some users given the option to revert to the Feed-first experience.
Paramount Skydance has finalised its $11 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, one of Hollywood’s biggest media giants. The unprecedented merger will combine key franchises including Mission: Impossible and Harry Potter, and Paramount+ and HBO Max, CBS, TNT and other networks.
With nearly two in five public chargers non-functional, Ionage’s platform is turning a fragmented charging landscape into one reliable network
Bike taxi aggregators like Rapido, Ola and Uber have been told by the Maharashtra state to switch to electric vehicles from petrol-powered motorcycles by July 2027. The state transport government has given platforms nine months to comply citing Maharashtra Bike Taxi Rules, 2025.
Uber is buying US workplace catering platform ezCater for $2.3bn in an all-cash deal to boost Uber Eats’ footprint in group catering and company meals. ezCater connects companies with more than 140,000 restaurants, and has more than $2.5 billion in revenue bookings in the last 12 months.
JioHotstar has expanded its international streaming footprint to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, outside of India, the UK, Canada and Singapore. STARZPLAY is now accessible in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Morocco and more regions.
From leaving a successful PayPal career to co-founding MobiKwik, Upasana Taku has built a remarkable fintech journey. Explore her education, career, challenges, MobiKwik's growth, awards, and the lessons behind her success.
AI ROAS tracking tools help marketers measure ad performance, identify wasted spend, and understand which campaigns drive real revenue. Here are 10 AI tools to track ROAS and optimize advertising performance.
A proposed class action says Oura's "95% accurate" sleep-stage claim is closer to a coin flip. It lands weeks after the company added Eli Lilly as an investor and took on a $900 million bank facility — the kind of move companies make right before an IPO.
India's connected TV audience hit 207 million people in 2026, up 3X since 2022, per a WPP Media and Trade Desk report. The ad spend chasing that audience is still a small slice of the total market.
Two IIT Delhi grads noticed men's innerwear hadn't changed in decades, built DaMENSCH into a ₹118 crore modal-fabric brand, and are still losing ₹57 crore a year doing it. Here's the founders, funding, and financials.
ITC has made eight FMCG acquisitions since 2021, not seven since 2023 as first reported here, including a baby-care stake that predates every other deal on the list. Corrected and expanded after a Tracxn cross-check.
Sebi just made it cheaper to become a licensed investment advisor in India. Here's what six different investment businesses actually cost to start, license, and earn.
Twilio's published US rate is $0.0083 per SMS segment, before carrier surcharges of $0.0035 to $0.005 per message. On 100,000 messages a month, that's roughly $830 in base messaging cost alone, before A2P 10DLC fees or Twilio's paid support plans
Most fintech founders think they need a banking license. They don't. Here's what six real fintech business models in India actually cost, license, and pay.
Comet went from launch to a ₹535 crore valuation in two years by treating sneakers as storytelling, not footwear. Here's how Utkarsh Gupta and Dishant Daryani built it, and why it's still losing money on every sale.
Beyond Appliances raised INR 110 crore in a Series B round and six more startups closed rounds, as the Cabinet cleared an INR 10,000 crore SME fund and Swara Baby Products got its IPO nod.
Meesho’s Content Commerce business grew by 152% year-on-year in Net Merchandise Value (NMV) from authors in non-metro Indian cities. Almost 90% of its 1.6 lakh active producers are nano creators and 81% of them are outside the big urban centers.
CurvetAI, an AI workspace that allows users to access and combine multiple AI models from one platform, has raised Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed round led by Merak Ventures. A group of angel investors also participated in the round. Founded in December 2025 by Vivek Dubey and Utkarsh
Reliance Industries has obtained interim relief from the Delhi High Court in its case against FSSAI over the usage of “energy drink” on Campa products. The court questioned the decision making process of the FSSAI and let Reliance Consumer Products to continue selling Campa as an energy drink.
Ordo and WearSynapse win ₹90,000 IDFC FIRST Bank prize pool and earn boarding passes to Draper University’s Hero Training Program in Silicon Valle
A major legal challenge has been mounted against Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee as US district judges in California and Massachusetts have declared that the administration does not have the power to levy the price. Court rulings put fee enforcement on hold affording reprieve to Indian IT firms.
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Huawei and Qualcomm have entered into a multi-year patent licensing arrangement that covers 5G, artificial intelligence, computing and networking technologies. Under the transaction, Qualcomm will purchase a portfolio of US patents from Huawei.
The FBI fired an Accenture contractor after a security lapse exposed sensitive personal data of thousands of FBI workers. The hack apparently involved Oracle PeopleSoft software and a vulnerability that was thought to have been exploited by the ShinyHunters criminal gang.
From heartfelt stories celebrating Shakti to fashion-led festive campaigns, brands are bringing Navratri 2026 to life with fresh ideas. Explore the latest Navratri ad campaigns that blend culture, creativity, emotion, and festive excitement.
India’s frozen food sector is expanding and HyFun Foods, a major supplier of potatoes to McDonald’s and KFC, is set to list through an INR 2,000 cr IPO by 2028. The company plans to launch the IPO in about mid-2027 largely through a fresh share offering.
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Reliance Industries filed a writ suit on October 1 challenging an FSSAI judgement that stopped it from marketing its Campa beverages as ‘energy drinks’. Reliance Consumer Products said the move has interrupted operations and it has also hampered brand's image.
Discover the best AI tools for ad performance analysis in 2026. Compare their key features, use cases, automation capabilities, and limitations to find the right tool for your advertising campaigns.
New Jersey, October 5, 2026: LogiNext, the AI-native orchestration platform for modern supply chains, will participate in DELIVER America 2026, taking place October 7–8 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. Attendees can meet the LogiNext team at Booth C57 to explore how AI-powered orchestration and intelligent automation
HUL has bought majority stakes in two D2C brands since 2022, OZiva and Minimalist, and walked away from two others. That mix of buying and selling, not any single deal, is the real strategy.
The government doesn't collect UPI's new 0.4% fee, banks and payment apps do. Here's the actual money math, cross-checked against NPCI's own transaction data rather than taken on brokerage word.
The government says UPI's new fee is about sustainability. Congress says US pressure. A BJP-aligned group says the same. Trade experts blame Walmart and Google. Five competing theories, each attributed to who's actually making the claim.
From 15 October, UPI payments to merchants above ₹2,000 carry a 0.4% fee, capped at ₹300. Consumers are excluded, but traders, a Supreme Court petitioner, and even a group aligned with the ruling party disagree with the move, each for different reasons.
UPI processed 24.07 billion transactions worth Rs 29.37 lakh crore in September 2026, per NPCI data, a 1.8% MoM dip in volume but still up 23% year-on-year.
Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart quote 15-25% commission. The real cost once listing fees, mandatory ad spend, and unsold-inventory returns are added runs closer to double that. Here's who the channel actually works for.
AI can make branding faster and cheaper. But when a brand uses it, customers may also read something else into the decision: how much the company cares about what they’re being offered.
PhysicsWallah’s arm FinZ Finance has agreed to sell a loan portfolio worth INR 95.79 cr to NBFC Auxilo Finserve, with the transfer anticipated to be completed within 60 days. The deal will partially close the lending activities of FinZ Finance.
Honda has teamed with Tata Technologies to create vehicles for the Indian market, with the aim of reducing vehicle prices by 20% and development time by 50%. The alliance comes as Honda retools its India strategy amid increased competition and pressure to bring more inexpensive vehicles.
Google Workspace Starter costs an Indian startup ₹318.60 per user per month with GST, or ₹19,116 a year for five people. But the real cost of staying on free Gmail is not storage. It is who owns the inbox.
Reliance Jio has now introduced the JE6000 AX3000 Wi-Fi extender in India for INR 3,499, offering an economical solution to enhance connectivity in the home. The dual-band Wi-Fi 6 extender offers combined speeds of up to 3,000 Mbps.
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Schneider Electric has agreed to purchase US-based software business PTC in an all-cash deal worth $22.6 billion for the company’s shares and $23.7 billion including enterprise value. The offer of $205 a share is 42.3% over PTC’s most recent closing price.
You've decided Australia is your next market. Before you invoice a single Australian dollar, you need an entity there, and the setup looks nothing like the MCA process you ran to start your Pvt Ltd. Different regulator, different tax office. Most of it is manageable, and a lot
Lockheed Martin is eyeing to scale up its India manufacturing operations with a potential $10.5 billion Indian military aviation deal for 60 medium transport aircraft. The company has teamed up with TASL to bid for the project under which it will build 48 aircraft in India and supply 12 directly.
According to reports, Jio Platforms is all set to issue its long awaited IPO by end of October at an enterprise valuation of $143-146 billion or around INR 12 lakh crore. The anticipated $3.8 billion IPO will be India’s biggest public offer with up to 27 crore new shares.
Welcome to StartupTalky’s 2026 US funding updates. This article offers a clear and structured overview of the latest investment activity in the United States throughout the year. Our weekly funding tables, updated regularly, track how much funding companies have raised, the industries they operate in, key investors involved, and
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From tax year 2026-27, gifts and vouchers from your employer are tax-free up to ₹15,000, three times the old limit, but cash still isn't. At the 30% slab, a ₹15,000 voucher leaves you ₹4,680 better off than the same cash bonus.
Scooter raised INR 1.5 crore in a pre-seed round led by AJVC, as Snapdeal parent AceVector made a weak market debut and Razorpay partnered with OpenAI on ChatGPT ads.
UPI processed 24.07 billion transactions worth Rs 29.37 lakh crore in September 2026, with average daily transactions crossing 800 million for the first time, NPCI data shows.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 2 October 2026. 24K gold is at ₹150,540 per 10g and silver at ₹226,570 per kg, flat on the day with MCX shut for Gandhi Jayanti. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Six years after building a visual-learning browser for Bharat, MagTapp leverages its existing user base and 169Pi’s Alpie AI models to enter its next phase of growth, with expansion across platforms and geographies. MagTapp, the Indian technology company that has crossed 6 million downloads and was among the
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Choosing a Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) requires more than comparing the maturity value shown in an illustration. A ULIP combines life insurance with market-linked investment, so you need to consider both financial protection and investment risk. If you are exploring ULIP, the simplest explanation is that it is
Seeds Fincap raised INR 100 crore in a Series B round and five more startups closed rounds, as Moneyview made a strong market debut and traders called off their 'No UPI Day' protest.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 1 October 2026. 24K gold is at ₹150,350 per 10g and silver at ₹225,940 per kg, both up on the day but still lower than a week ago. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
DoorDash launches new global competence center in Hyderabad, Telangana, expects to create 3,000 jobs in India over next two years The centre’s initial focus will be on customer service, business operations and administration with 500 people planned in the first phase.
Employees are concerned about the IPO timeline and liquidity, and Flipkart is mulling a new ESOP cash-out option that might let eligible staff sell 20-25% of their vested shares in early 2027. Existing investors may fund the proposed initiative.
Google has announced its latest powerful AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, designed for coding, cybersecurity and complex professional jobs. It is said to give high benchmark results for banking, legal work, software engineering and cyber defence.
AI ad budget automation tools help marketers monitor campaigns, adjust budgets, optimize bids, reduce wasted spend, and manage advertising across multiple channels.
Unveilr AI has raised pre-seed funding from AJVC at a ₹16.7 crore valuation. The amount was undisclosed, but AJVC's standard ₹1.5 crore for 9% divides to exactly that number.
Walmart is stepping up its AI effort to change retail shopping with generative AI, agentic commerce, personalised suggestions and autonomous shopping tools. AI-enabled experiences are driving higher add-to-cart rates and repeat purchases, the business says.
Amazon has also increased its Amazon Now ultra-fast delivery service reaches 120+ cities in India doubling its presence in just 2 weeks. The rapid commerce platform has tens of thousands of products, including groceries, fresh fruit, electronics, fashion and household essentials etc.
Zaperon has raised ₹7 crore led by Inflection Point Ventures, its first institutional cheque after five years. It enters a category where Cisco just paid $400 million for a rival.
Jio Finance and Allianz Europe BV have each invested INR 320.05 crore in Jio Allianz General Insurance through a rights issue, making the total funding amount INR 640.10 cr. The funding will be used for the general insurance business in India, including health insurance, by the 50:50 joint venture.
Apple Pay has launched in India with Axis Bank as its first banking partner and qualifying Visa and Mastercard users will be able to make contactless payments through iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The solution works for both in-store and online transactions wherever NFC payments are allowed.
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Gold and silver rates today in India, 30 September 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹150,250 per 10g and silver at ₹226,750 per kg, both extending their rebound for a second straight day. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Simple Energy raised INR 1,750 crore in a Series C round, and five more startups closed rounds, as Apple Pay launched in India and Inox Clean Energy filed for an INR 10,000 crore IPO.
Prodoc AI has raised an undisclosed seed round led by Thyrocare founder Dr A. Velumani's family office. The Bengaluru company reached 100-plus hospitals on about ₹1.7 crore of angel money raised since 2022.
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Bharat Housing Network raised $5 million in green bonds, and FIG Living got backing from Aman Gupta, as ITC completed its Yoga Bar buyout and Subway India's operator filed for an IPO.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 29 September 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹147,570 per 10g and silver at ₹226,280 per kg, with gold steadying while silver slips further after yesterday's crash. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
OpenAI has apparently stopped the publication of their GPT-6.1 Astra AI model after internal safety tests found issues about its ability to stay aligned with human intent. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of powerful artificial intelligence systems.
SEBI has ended its proceedings against Gautam Adani, four Adani Group entities and 13 people for alleged violations of minimum public shareholding (MPS) requirements. The parties paid Rs 1.48 crore to resolve the proceedings without accepting or contesting the conclusions.
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Understanding how gold loan interest rates and processing fees work can help borrowers assess the overall cost of borrowing against their gold.
HCLSoftware, the software arm of HCLTech, has inked an agreement to acquire Robotiq.ai, an enterprise automation business based in Croatia, in a €9 million cash transaction. The acquisition will be made through HCL Technologies Austria GmbH and is expected to close by November 2026.
ITC has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Yoga Bar maker Sproutlife Foods by acquiring the remaining 52.5 per cent interest for roughly INR 645 crore. Sproutlife will be a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC as of September 28.
The Supreme Court has declined to issue an interim stay on the proposed 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) for some UPI merchant transactions exceeding INR 2,000. While reviewing the legal ramifications of the judgement, a three-judge bench requested comments from the Center, RBI and NPCI.