Sugar Cosmetics raised fresh capital at a valuation roughly 80% below its 2022 peak. The founders reportedly paid some salaries personally. The cause: an offline retail expansion that outran the revenue to support it.
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Ultrahuman turned its first profit in FY25, on a 5X revenue surge to ₹565 crore, the same year a US patent ruling banned its ring from its biggest market. Here's how a food-delivery founder built a health-tech brand that's now suing Oura back.
Success Story
Rejected by 33 investors before their first cheque, Sangeet Agrawal and Navin Parwal built Mokobara into a ₹230 crore D2C luggage brand — here's the funding timeline, the financials, and the design bet behind it.
India’s solar energy sector is growing at a pace that is reshaping not only how the country generates electricity, but also how domestic manufacturers compete for scale, market share and long-term relevance. For Gujarat-based Rayzon Solar, that shift has translated into a significant milestone. According to JMK Research &
Every SaaS engineering team now has an AI coding assistant in the loop somewhere - generating boilerplate, drafting whole functions from a prompt, refactoring modules in minutes instead of days. Output has genuinely gone up. Pull requests are bigger and more frequent. Founders are proud of how much a small
Pay matters, but employees also look at the wider benefits that come with a job. Healthcare can be one of them. When you offer group health insurance, you add health cover to the package available through the workplace. For employees, that can be one more factor they consider when deciding
Turned off the stove? Checked the plug before leaving? Small checks like these are easy to overlook when you are rushing through your day. Cooking, electrical equipment, heating devices, and open flames are some of the common sources of fire risk at home. Knowing what can cause a fire can
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) commenced the 8th edition of the Business Excellence Summit (BES) 2026, themed “Building Resilient Businesses - Navigating Risk to Shape A Sustainable Future.” The two-day summit brings together industry leaders, faculty, students and alumni to explore resilience, risk, technology and sustainable growth. The summit
Funding will scale xStep’s non-invasive neurorehabilitation platform for people with cerebral palsy, stroke, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis across India and beyond.
Kepler Aerospace, a Bengaluru-based space infrastructure and mission operations company, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Blue Ashva Capital and co-led by Finvolve and India Accelerator, with participation from other investors. The round marks the company’s first external funding since its founding in 2018 and
Commercial traction and strategic investor backing to accelerate manufacturing, R&D and the next generation of indigenous power electronics products.
With AI accelerating software development and enabling leaner engineering teams, Oppex AI is tackling the bottleneck that follows: managing and resolving issues once software is live.
Truemeds is in talks to acquire DealShare for about $90 million in an all-stock deal, 95% below DealShare's 2022 unicorn peak. The real story is how much Truemeds' own valuation had to inflate to make it work.
CHINI KUM has closed its pre-seed at ₹1.64 crore, entirely from individual angels, for a zero-sugar prebiotic drink. It is competing in the category PepsiCo validated by paying $1.95 billion for Poppi.
YOGa Clean Air has raised ₹20 crore led by Info Edge Ventures, with Deepinder Goyal joining. It is the first institutional money the company has taken, and it comes straight after its first profitable year on ₹12.6 crore of revenue.
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026. History says the CEO handoff itself barely moves the stock, what matters is the valuation and AI cycle he inherits.
Paytm
In August 2025, Ant Financial sold its last direct stake in Paytm, and headlines declared the company fully Indian-owned. A separate 2023 arrangement that let Ant retain economic value from a different stake is back in the news now that stake is being sold.
Satvacart has shut down after twelve years, with 28 August its last day. It raised about $2.32 million across its life, roughly a thousandth of what Zepto has raised since 2021, and its founder says capital only ever came in small tranches.
Jio Platforms
SEBI cleared Jio Platforms' public listing on 28 August 2026. The offer itself, up to 270 million fresh shares worth roughly ₹37,700 crore, is the smaller story. The bigger one is how far the valuation has moved since global investors first bought in.
Subhash Chandra
Subhash Chandra has publicly accused Mukesh Ambani's media network of spreading a false narrative about his insolvency case. Reliance denies it. Separately, Chandra says he sold his family home and plans to start over in Switzerland.
NCLT
HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Canara Bank, RBL Bank, Union Bank of India, and LIC Housing Finance all opposed the NCLT-approved plan under which Subhash Chandra pays ₹6.5 crore against ₹22,006 crore in claims. Here is what the tribunal itself said its role was, and was not.
NCLT
The National Company Law Tribunal has approved a repayment plan under which Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra will pay ₹6.5 crore against admitted creditor claims of ₹22,006.57 crore. Here is what the order actually says, and what each side says it means.
Fintech
Apple Pay is reportedly heading to India this October — without UPI, and asking for a fee it already charges American banks. The fight isn't about a greedy tech company. It's about landing in the one country where the free rail moved first.
Gold and silver rates in India for Saturday, 29 August 2026. City-wise 24K and 22K gold and silver 999 prices, weekly trends, MCX last-traded levels and the global cues behind the moves.
Industrial47 has closed ₹85 crore of a ₹150 crore debut fund to write pre-seed cheques into space, defence and fusion. The companies Rahul Seth backed personally before this have since raised about $189 million between them.
Most satellites do not die because they break. They die because the propellant runs out. The electronics still work, the solar panels still generate, the payload still functions, and the operator pushes the whole thing into a graveyard orbit because there is no way to put fuel back in. InspeCity
Edgeverse has raised ₹30 million, or ₹3 crore, from GVFL to put camera and radar based rider assistance on two-wheelers. Nearly half the people killed on Indian roads are on two-wheelers, and almost none of those vehicles carry the safety tech that has been standard in cars for years.
Three biryani shops in Uttar Pradesh are running at an annual rate of about ₹25 crore between them. That implies roughly ₹8.3 crore per outlet, or about ₹69 lakh a month each, and it is the number behind this raise. Biryani Bees has raised $1 million from the Vivek
Omega Seiki Mobility has raised ₹50 crore twice in six weeks. The second cheque landed on 20 August 2026, co-led by Abhishek Misra of SKG Asset Management and Unistone Capital, with the Sanjeev Agarwal and Brijesh Parekh family offices alongside. The first, in mid-July, came from Securocorp Securities, Sangeeta Pareekh,
S4S Technologies was founded in 2008. It reached its Series B in July 2024. Sixteen years, building a food-processing business around women farmers, before a growth round arrived. That timeline is the entire argument behind TILT, the impact-first investment platform from The/Nudge Foundation, which on 27 August 2026 announced
Most third-party logistics contracts in India bill you for capacity. Trucks on the road, hubs on lease, people on shift, whether or not anything moved through them that day. OORJAA bills for units delivered instead, which means an empty truck is its problem rather than its client's. On
Spalba
As hotels, event venues and planners increasingly look for faster, more efficient ways to discover, evaluate and sell spaces, technology is beginning to reshape an industry long dependent on physical site visits and manual coordination. Spalba, founded by Naveen and his co-founder, has positioned itself at the centre of this
Financial Services
India's financial services sector has been growing for years, but until recently, most of that growth translated into opportunity only for large institutions. That is changing. Rising incomes, a growing middle class, low product penetration, and rapid digital adoption are the same forces creating space for individuals to
FMCG
Mamaearth's parent walked away from buying 58% of Fluence Pharma over an unmet closing condition it hasn't named. The company's stock is near a 52-week high and its profit just nearly tripled, so this reads as discipline, not distress.
Fintech
A digital lender that grew revenue 856% in a year and still lost money got folded into a 30-year-old, profitable NBFC that had been reading its books since month two.
On Sunday, 23 August 2026, gold in India stands at ₹162,800 per 10g and silver at ₹247,520 per kg. Domestic exchanges are shut, so the MCX carries no fresh trades over the weekend. Prices are flat from Friday's close, with no change recorded on either metal.
If you're a small business owner, you've probably built a spreadsheet for the software you'll pay every month and the salaries you'll cover every fortnight. The bit that catches people out is the one-time spend that lands before any of that starts
Navi Limited today announced an investment of USD 100 million from Prosus, marking Navi's first institutional capital raise and an important milestone in its journey to build one of India's leading technology-driven financial services institutions. The proposed investment aligns with Prosus's long standing thesis
Funding marks Japanese VC firm DGDV’s maiden investment in India’s specialty coffee market First Coffee has expanded to 25 stores since its last funding back in 2024, and plans to expand beyond urban markets with the funding With this latest round, First Coffee has raised $2.5 million to date.
The Investment will support Digidukan’s technology, product expansion, and growth across Tier-2 and Tier-3 markets.
The company will use the capital to build a factory-manufactured platform for decentralised sewage and effluent treatment, combining proven process technologies with modular RCC infrastructure and lifecycle service
Gold and silver rates today in India, 15 August 2026. 24K gold holds at ₹154,830 per 10g and silver stays at ₹237,230 per kg, unchanged as MCX is shut for the Independence Day holiday. City wise rates and MCX data are inside.
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Gold and silver rates today in India, 14 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹152,800 per 10g and silver at ₹234,430 per kg, both slipping on profit booking after a strong rally. City wise rates and MCX data are inside.
When it comes to investing in mutual funds, one of the most common questions investors ask is whether they should choose a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) or make a lumpsum investment. Both investment methods have their own advantages, and the right choice depends on your financial goals, investment horizon, risk
Customer support has always been a balancing act between cost and quality. As ticket volumes grow, companies face a familiar decision: hire more agents or risk slower response times and declining customer satisfaction. In recent years, AI has introduced a third option, one that promises to reduce workload without expanding
Vingo, a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace for buying and selling pre-owned products, has raised Rs 10 crore (approximately $1.2 million) in a seed funding round led by IndiaQuotient. Inuka Capital and angel investor Rishabh Goel, Founder of Credgenics, also participated in the round. The platform is live on the Play
Founded by Pramendra Yadav in 2021, the agency has grown from a single intern to a 30+ member team, expanding its presence from Mumbai to New Delhi while establishing a registered U.S. entity and serving 150+ brands worldwide.
Home equity plays a central role in refinancing approval and potential savings. In simple terms, equity is the portion of your home that you truly own after subtracting your remaining mortgage balance from the property’s current value. The more equity you have, the stronger your position usually is when
Today, Marmeto holds the title of India’s first Shopify Platinum Partner, as do very few in the Shopify ecosystem globally. Being a bootstrapped company, this is a feat to take a pause and admire. Currently Shopify has close to 100 Platinum partners and Marmeto is now part of the
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SNITCH, a ₹900 crore menswear brand valued at ₹2,520 crore, is acquiring Berrylush rather than launching its own women's line. The reason is in both companies' filings: women's fashion is harder than it looks, and buying a stalled but real brand is faster and cheaper than building one.
India's digital economy has transformed the way consumers save, invest, transact, and borrow. Over the past decade, digital payments have moved from being an emerging convenience to becoming an integral part of daily financial activity. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, mobile banking platforms, digital wallets, and online financial
Mumbai's suburban railway is the lifeline of the city, carrying millions of commuters every day. While it is considered one of India's safest public transport networks, ensuring quick assistance during emergencies remains a critical priority, especially for women travellers. Addressing this challenge, Yatri, the official Mumbai
The new influx of capital will enable manufacturing expansion and R&D capabilities.
Emergent, the fast-growing AI software creation platform that enables founders and business owners to build full-stack, production-ready web and mobile applications, has secured $130 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Creaegis, with MNI Ventures - Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global as co-lead investors, and participation from
As India's startup ecosystem evolves, the workplace has become more than just an office—it is emerging as a strategic advantage that influences innovation, talent, investor confidence, and sustainable business growth. Every successful startup is remembered for its breakthrough product, visionary founders, or landmark funding round. Yet behind
When you're bootstrapping, it's all about the cost of doing business versus the growth of your business. Once your company starts expanding internationally, security risks increase as well – securing your digital assets becomes a basic requirement to keep your company in business. In such a setting,
🧾 Taxation
Paying taxes is an important responsibility for every eligible taxpayer. However, many individuals delay the process because they assume it is complicated, requires professional assistance or involves lengthy paperwork. With the growing adoption of digital financial services, that is no longer the case. Today, you can pay income tax online
Due to the rise of digital lending in India, instant loans have increased a lot. These loans are very useful during emergencies as it is available within a few hours. You can easily apply for it online with minimum paperwork. As these loans are easily available, borrowers just focus on
Geneva's global reputation has long been cemented in diplomacy and private banking. However, a significant transformation is underway, repositioning the Swiss city as a premier hub for international business gatherings. This evolution is driven by a unique convergence of strategic location, technological advancement, and an unparalleled professional ecosystem.
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Enterprise prototyping has become a broader community activity beyond the design team. Whether it's product managers, researchers, engineers, compliance teams, executives, or customer-facing teams, they all need a way to test ideas before they become costly builds. The ideal Prototyping tool for enterprise projects should therefore be able
SEBI
SEBI has fined Exfinity Venture Partners and Vistra ITCL ₹10 lakh each for failing to wind up an AIF on time. Here's why a delayed fund closure can create cap table issues, complicate funding rounds, and affect startup shareholders.
💡 Insights
Every Indian founder's card statement now carries a row of foreign AI subscriptions, and hidden inside each one is 18% GST. Most teams handle it in one of two wrong ways. Here is the single rule that governs all of it, in plain English, and the fix.
Resilience Actions, the social and environmental impact initiative of Re (Re Sustainability), has launched ECOHUB, a sustainability-focused incubator designed to support early-stage enterprises working in climate and clean-tech, pollution management, resource efficiency, circular economy, and sustainability innovation. The initiative is aimed at startups that have progressed beyond the ideation stage
nse ipo
NSE has filed for India's biggest IPO worth around ₹30,000 crore, but it's a 100% offer for sale. Here's why the exchange will list on rival BSE, who is cashing out, what its financials reveal, and how the co-location case delayed the blockbuster listing.
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Forty-eight teams, 104 matches, three countries, one record cheque. The 2026 World Cup is engineered to be the most commercial tournament ever staged, and FIFA expects it to deliver about $8.9 billion. how making the World Cup bigger makes it richer, and what that costs.
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FIFA put up a $1 billion prize pot for a brand-new 32-team Club World Cup, funded by a $1 billion broadcast deal that Saudi money quietly backstopped. Then more than 1.6 million seats sat empty. An expensive gamble that was cleverly de-risked, and what it is really for.
indigo
IndiGo, which now flies 64.8% of India's domestic passengers, has started selling a fare that includes almost nothing. Its new Lite fare, live from 15 July, gives you a seat and one 7 kg cabin bag, and little else. No free check-in baggage, no meal, and no
Long-term company growth is shaped by more than the decisions that get the most attention. Infrastructure rarely gets the spotlight in growth stories. Founders talk about product-market fit, funding, hiring, and customer acquisition first. Yet the systems that support a company, from cloud setup to data storage to power reliability,
In the world of personalized art, custom home decor, and commemorative keepsakes, the ability to preserve a memory with physical permanence is highly valued. While traditional paper photographs can fade or yellow over time, and surface etchings can wear away under physical friction, a unique medium has emerged as a
This article has been shared by Ashok Thombre, Advisor, Focus Academy India is at a pivotal moment of its development trajectory. It is a big world with a large population base and is one of the fastest-growing major economies, and we have a lot of opportunities before us. However, we
A third of every Indian unicorn that exists today was crowned in a single year. We took Tracxn's full list of 132 Indian unicorns, isolated the 44 minted in 2021, and traced where each one stands five years on.
The headline number is ₹6,650 crore. The number that actually matters is the round trip: $10 billion, down to $2.4 billion, now back toward $8 billion. And this time, nobody is selling a share.
Tumbledry markets its laundry franchise on an 80% annual return and profit from the third month. The company itself is real, bootstrapped and profitable. But a profitable franchisor is not the same as a profitable franchise.A pre-investment reality check.
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An oil major as a top FIFA partner. A sovereign fund inside FIFA's broadcaster, its new club tournament and one of its clubs. The men's World Cup heading to Saudi Arabia in 2034. How Gulf capital became central to football's finances, what each side gets, and what it costs.
On 25 June 2026, Apple raised MacBook and iPad prices by 15% to 25%, its first formal move to pass the AI-driven memory shortage on to consumers. The stock fell more than 6%. For years the AI boom was a data-centre story. Today it became a price tag on your desk.
FIFA is a non-profit registered in Zurich. It is also on track to collect roughly $13 billion in four years, almost all of it from a single tournament. Let's Learn how the money is actually made, where it goes, and why the whole machine runs on a four-year clock.
Andy Jassy met Narendra Modi and pledged $48 billion for India through 2030. But every dollar of the new money he announced, $13 billion, goes to AI and cloud, not to retail. Where the money is going tells you Amazon's priorities have shifted.
💳 FinTech
SEBI has proposed a single Common Advertisement Code to replace the patchwork of rules that govern how financial entities advertise. It scraps mandatory prior approval for most ads, lets firms use celebrities again, and classifies big finfluencers, OTT stars, and even AI avatars as "celebrities."
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The man who just took over WhatsApp is also India's most prolific angel investor. Tracxn lists 299 companies in Kunal Shah's portfolio. We pulled the data apart by sector, vintage and outcome. Here is what it reveals about how he wins, where he loses, and what is still unproven.
Under the leadership of its visionary Founder and CEO, Mr. Dhruvin Shah, the dynamic digital streaming platform JOJO App has successfully transformed the regional entertainment industry. Since storming onto the scene, the Ahmedabad-headquartered company has quickly bridged the gap between high-quality storytelling and regional representation, establishing itself as the world&
Startup life can be exciting, but it can also be hard on the body and mind. Long hours, shifting goals, tight budgets, and constant decision-making can leave founders and teams drained. After reviewing current workplace wellness research and common startup work patterns, the clearest lesson is simple: health support works
Deep Dive
Meta is investing $900 million in CRED and making its founder Kunal Shah the global head of WhatsApp, replacing a seven-year messaging veteran. Who Meta picked tells you more about where the world's largest messaging app is heading than any roadmap would.
Assessli says it signed the papers, got no money, and voided the deal — joining Granite Asia, Peak XV and two IITs in disowning a Foxhog announcement. Foxhog's own filings describe a seven-shareholder firm that lost money last year. The company says it is the one being impersonated.
Many startup founders have discovered that artificial intelligence (AI) can be a huge asset to their companies’ early growth. However, they aren’t always ready for the legal, consumer, and social expectations that come with using AI. The problem is that AI has grown quickly in a relatively unchecked way.
You have an idea in your head, a product shot that pops, a short clip for an Instagram Reel, a piece of b-roll to cover an awkward gap in your edit. A few years ago, getting any of that meant a camera, a studio, or hours in complicated software. Today
Goenka Jewellers
Most jewellery brands spend years trying to earn a prime retail address. Goenka Jewellers spent 30 years proving it didn't need one. Operating from a home setup in Kolkata, the business quietly grew to over ₹6 crore in annual recurring revenue before opening its first-ever showroom on Camac
When Gaurav Ajmera's cat Simba fell ill, what should have been a straightforward medical journey turned into an exhausting odyssey. The beloved pet needed somewhere between twenty-five and thirty visits across five or six different veterinarians just to receive the correct diagnosis. That frustrating experience became the catalyst
We pulled the financials of 500+ companies tied to Shark Tank India. The pitch was never the hard part. The profit is.
At first sight, it may come as a surprise that Indian startups are actually benefiting from crypto. But walk into any startup hub in a city like Bengaluru, and you’ll notice a shift in conversations. Founders aren’t just discussing traditional venture capital rounds; they’re exploring token economies,
Factory floors and software systems still don't speak the same language. Machines produce data. Platforms need data. And somewhere between the CNC machine and the ERP dashboard, something disappears. This piece looks at what that gap actually is, why it keeps showing up even in well-funded operations, which
People do hundreds of scrolls on content each day without giving it a second glance. A majority of things they see are completely ignored, not because they are bad, but because they don't cause them to cease. All of these are run-by videos that take less than 2
The company that taught the world to value diamonds shut down its lab-grown business in 2024. Wholesale prices have halved. India just crossed a structural milestone that no analyst had on the cards five years ago. The state of lab-grown diamonds, mid-2026.
121 Finance, a leading NBFC-Factor, has crossed ₹10 crore in cumulative disbursements through GeM Sahay, the credit facility integrated with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM). The company has disbursed over 2,600 loans to more than 400 MSMEs across 173 cities in 27 states, helping small suppliers access working capital against
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HyperNorm AI, an AI-native decision intelligence platform for wealth advisors, has raised $2.2 million in a seed funding round to help advisory firms cut through the complexity of modern, multi-asset portfolios. The round, announced on 10 June 2026, was co-led by Capital 2B and SenseAI Ventures, with co-investment from
Deep Dive
Claude Fable 5 landed yesterday. Two days of dev-Twitter, Hacker News, and the Anthropic subreddit later, here is what the people actually using it are saying, and where the love and the rage are coming from. Simon Willison, in the top-rated Hacker News comment of the launch thread: "I&
If you searched for a list of the best Indian startup sectors in 2021, amidst industries like AI, climate tech, D2C, fintech, and gaming, ‘business compliance’ would not have made the cut. Founders avoid it. Investors don’t care about it. Most competent CAs in charge of this prefer to
The brand scaled from 5 million to 20 million videos in a year as enterprises move from text to video-led communication
An internal vigilance report at India's largest private bank, concluded that money paid to a Maharashtra state agency as "road safety" sponsorship was really interest the bank was not allowed to pay. HDFC Bank rejects any wrongdoing. The timing is what makes the story hard to put down.
Uber
In 2019, Uber made the largest startup-exit deal the Middle East had ever seen. How it was structured, and what Uber did with the pieces four years later, says more about what Uber actually wanted than the headline number ever did.
Brand launches a digital-first film series rooted in the truth that no two periods, and no two women, are alike.