Haryana has notified rummy and poker as games of skill, clearing physical card rooms in Gurugram and across the state, on conditions that include registration, KYC, CCTV and a bar on taking any rake. The Supreme Court's May ruling on GST leaves a separate question open.
DPDP Act
DPDP is usually called a "2027 law." It actually commences in three phases, and the second one, the Consent Manager framework, lands 13 November 2026, less than two months from now.
ByteAsk has raised $1 million from Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First to build AI coding agents for C and C++ in defence, trading, automotive and semiconductors. On the two programmes' published standard terms, roughly $375,000 of the round came from angels.
Indian Walker, started by a former Rapido captain who could not find a bag that survived Delhi's roads, has raised a pre-seed from Palette Wealth Management at a ₹20 crore post-money valuation. The round size has not been disclosed.
Definedge has raised ₹22 crore in a Pre-Series A, taking total funding to ₹30 crore. The Pune firm built trading tools and an education community before it took a broking licence, and says its Momentify platform has crossed ₹1,000 crore in assets under management.
betterhood has raised ₹11.5 crore led by Sauce for preventive pain care. Musculoskeletal pain affects 53.5% of Indians over 45, but 62.3% of women against 48.9% of men, and the company's 7,000-strong physiotherapist community is the channel that matters.
PhonePe has in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for two payment licences, its first regulatory clearance outside India. It cannot operate yet, and the market it is entering already runs partly on Indian payment technology.
Nuvah has raised ₹4 crore in a pre-seed angel round backed by CarDekho's Amit Jain, Bombay Shaving Company's Shantanu Deshpande and GIVA's Ishendra Agarwal, for heels engineered around a footbed the company redesigned 24 times.
Demoverse has raised $600,000 led by Lumikai for a platform where shoppers redesign brand concepts using AI and earn royalties if their version gets made. The pitch is a demand signal before production, in an industry that made up to 5 billion unsold garments in 2023.
Prime Industries' board has approved a preferential issue that would give Omega Seiki Mobility founder Uday Narang 11.32% of the listed company for about ₹10.5 crore. The total issue raises ₹11.47 crore, and it still needs shareholder approval.
For startups, customer data is more than a record of names, emails, and transactions. It is the foundation for product decisions, marketing campaigns, sales outreach, support experiences, and investor reporting. Still, early teams often collect information in a rush, using disconnected forms, spreadsheets, and tools that create extra confusion and
An admission letter arrives with a fee of ₹28 lakh. The family owns no property, but an uncle does, and he has offered it. The first question everyone asks is whether a bank will even accept it. Usually yes, though the answer belongs to each lender rather than to any
DheyaTech, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech company developing advanced small gas turbine engines has raised INR 43 crore in funding led by Avaana Capital. The company was founded by aerospace engineers with 15+ years of experience at GE Aviation, and Rolls-Royce. Small gas turbine engine design and manufacturing represent one of the
Crowwd, an investing platform built around behavioral personalization, has raised ₹2.5 crore in an angel round at an approximate valuation of ₹50 crore from 30+ investors, including Dr. Ritesh Malik, Founder, Innov8; Three Words Capital; Sachin Panwar; Deepak Raina and Gaurav Nagar, Co-founders, YogaCleanAir; France-based Hexa Startup Studio; Somya
You spent years thinking about the company. The cap table and the runway. Then the deal closes and the problem changes shape overnight. The money is now yours personally, and almost nothing about running a startup prepared you to hold it. StartupTalky covers the sell side in depth, from term
Instagram now runs almost entirely on video, and saving a clip for later has become as routine as liking it. Creators pull a Reel apart frame by frame for inspiration, marketers keep a folder of competitor content to track what is trending, and everyday users save a recipe or a
Online video has become central to how people learn, create, communicate, and consume information. As audiences increasingly move between platforms and devices, the demand for simpler ways to access publicly available media has created opportunities for lightweight, browser-based tools. The Problem Behind Modern Online Video Access * The internet has made
Swish, the full-stack, vertically integrated food delivery platform that delivers fresh food to consumers in 10 minutes, today announced that it has raised $24 million in funding led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), with participation from existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures and Hara Global. The fundraise comes as Swish
QNu Labs has raised ₹200 crore led by the National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest, a single round larger than everything it raised in the previous decade. Filed accounts show ₹40.5 crore of revenue in FY2025, up 64%.
Marmalade has raised ₹6 crore from individual backers including Amrut Distilleries' COO for Brightside Craft Whiskey, a smoother whiskey aimed at younger drinkers. Its ₹5 crore ARR is a run rate, which works out at roughly ₹42 lakh of sales in September.
ARC has raised ₹10.5 crore in pre-seed funding led by Chimera VC and MIXI Global Investments to build ARC X1, a handheld games console with its own operating system. That is roughly $1.2 million to do hardware and software at once.
Cryptocurrency was built around decentralization, but businesses operating in the crypto economy increasingly have to answer a very traditional question: who is the customer? For exchanges, custodial wallets, crypto payment services, lending platforms, and other virtual asset businesses, KYC in crypto has become a central part of regulatory compliance and
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Discover 50 interesting facts about famous brands, from surprising origins and hidden stories to unusual products and business decisions that shaped some of the world’s biggest companies.
India's first kaftan-only brand grows from a single idea to 1000+ SKUs, four categories, a Hyderabad flagship and global fulfilment and now targets the 21–34 "homebody generation"
HerSpace, which builds and runs accommodation for factory workers, says it is in advanced talks for $40 million from Gray Matters Capital. That would take the investor's commitment to $50 million over 30 months, and the two share a founder.
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.
Success Story
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
33 investors passed before Mokobara's first cheque came in. Here's how two ex-Urban Ladder execs turned a broken suitcase into a ₹230 crore D2C luggage brand.
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.
🥇 Gold & Silver Price
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
Deep Dive
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.