Gold and silver rates on Dhanteras, 6 November 2026. 24K gold is ₹141,094 per 10g and silver ₹181,963 per kg before GST, with national rates down 1.44% and 1.62% on the day. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 5 November 2026. 24K gold rises 1.25% to ₹145,570 per 10g and silver gains 0.66% to ₹189,460 per kg, with gold now up 1.97% on the week. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Evaluate a data provider by testing the people your startup needs to reach, checking the returned records, and measuring the cost of usable contacts. An accurate contact finder should fit the way your team researches accounts. Browser lookup and AI-connected search offer different routes into that work, but both
Tools
The best Mermaid tool depends on where your diagrams live. Ten tools compared from their own documentation, with Miro featured first for teams that want to edit Mermaid diagrams together.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 4 November 2026. 24K gold jumps 2.34% to ₹143,170 per 10g and silver surges 3.77% to ₹187,280 per kg as Comex prices rebound. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Japan-based Enrission India Capital has joined Ottonomy's post-seed round of about ₹40.6 crore ($4.2 million). Ottonomy makes Ottobot, an autonomous delivery robot used in hospitals and industrial sites.
Fintech infrastructure company OneStack has raised ₹12.5 crore from Shepherd's Hill, Pentathlon Ventures and AVNM Ventures. It says partner cooperative banks now run UPI directly with NPCI.
Pune-and-Austin robotics company Peppermint has raised ₹100 crore (about $10.5 million) in a pre-Series B led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, part of it secondary.
Bengaluru climate-tech startup ECOPATH has raised ₹2.25 crore from Social Alpha and Gemcorp for its zero-cement concrete. It says its order book tops ₹40 crore, a figure it has not itemised.
Actor Mahesh Babu has joined Mumbai studio Shortgun Games as a strategic investor. The amount and stake are undisclosed; the studio's first title is the PC and console game Project Takedown.
Contact data quality affects the work required to reach an appropriate person and continue a relevant conversation. Measure accepted records, research time, and different error types before judging the return on a data purchase. A complete row or a found email can still leave the team with the wrong person,
Delhi NCR fitness and sports platform OBSESS has raised an angel round from Pushpendra Singh, Amitt Goel and Harshit Vij.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 3 November 2026. 24K gold falls 1.34% to ₹138,780 per 10g and silver drops 3.30% to ₹178,070 per kg, down more than a fifth in a month. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 2 November 2026. Silver rebounds 1.42% to ₹182,010 per kg while 24K gold edges up to ₹138,970 per 10g, but both remain well below last month's levels. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Pune healthtech Clinics On Cloud has raised ₹120 crore (about $12.5 million) in Series A funding from Dubai-based Model42 at a ₹600 crore valuation, to expand from the UAE.
Bitcoin is near $85,000 and analysts are calling a new bull market, but the money is coming from spot ETFs and revenue-earning tokens, not retail traders.
Crypto
Buying Bitcoin changes your portfolio's risk. Here is how to revisit allocation, test diversification, set rules and manage risk without rebuilding your plan.
Crypto
Shiba Inu, Pepe, Floki and AI-linked tokens all compete with Dogecoin in 2026, each on a different front. Here is what each offers and why Dogecoin still holds its ground.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 28 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹144,290 per 10g and silver at ₹196,060 per kg, both dipping slightly as Comex slips. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
A week after its public launch, Maasi has raised ₹6 crore to train and place nannies in Bengaluru. Its website says background checks start after a family selects a caregiver, and the weekly growth rate sits on a base of 1,200 parents.
A Dhanteras gold purchase once meant a visit to a crowded jewellery shop, a long wait at the counter and a careful trip home. This year, the same purchase can be made from your phone in a few minutes, starting with as little as INR 10. The gold you buy
India has managed to build one of the world’s largest digital-asset audiences without giving cryptocurrency the policy welcome that usually follows mass adoption. Chainalysis measured $135 billion in Indian crypto activity between July 2025 and June 2026. The country’s economy in these assets contracted 14.7% during
The founders sold Aldun in January and launched dubdub two months later. The seed backs a trivia app with 20,000 downloads, a retention claim without a number and no stated revenue model.
Rotoris says 2,100 watches sold out in days. At the prices on its website that is roughly ₹13 crore to ₹27 crore of sales, and the round's own figures do not match at today's exchange rate.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 27 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹142,850 per 10g and silver at ₹194,010 per kg, both falling as yesterday's rebound fades. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Cent's Series A is three times its seed and partly debt. The research on scanning people without symptoms is divided, and the company's own scan count has two definitions in circulation.
The seed round backs an Indian quantum dot infrared chip with no public prototype data yet. onsemi has already bought a US rival, and another Indian startup raised on the same import-substitution case four days earlier.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 26 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹143,460 per 10g and silver at ₹196,850 per kg, both rebounding as Comex rises, though Fed rate fears cap gains. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 23 October 2026. 24K gold slips 0.35% to ₹143,130 per 10g and silver falls 2.16% to ₹196,050 per kg, dropping below ₹200,000. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
India's creator economy is no longer a side hustle, it's a whole new industry with its own hiring pipelines, job titles, and increasingly, its own supply chains. Job postings for content-creation roles in India spanning influencers, video producers, and social-media marketers, grew 919% between
If you are running a company and weighing an MBA, the question is rarely whether the content is useful. It is whether you can do the study without taking your hands off the business for two years. In 2026, that trade-off has mostly disappeared, because accredited online delivery now
Gold and silver rates today in India, 22 October 2026. 24K gold falls 1.33% to ₹144,420 per 10g and silver drops 2.80% to ₹203,650 per kg as rising oil prices stoke inflation worries. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 21 October 2026. 24K gold slips 0.16% to ₹146,570 per 10g and silver falls 0.80% to ₹210,250 per kg, now down more than 12% in a month. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 19 October 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹148,130 per 10g and silver at ₹211,590 per kg, both edging lower even as Comex rises, with Dussehra close. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Even's valuation has tripled in 18 months. The company will use the round to scale a model where doctors are rewarded when patients get better, not when hospitals do more.
Sauce's first jewellery bet is backed by the Mokobara co-founders and the family office behind HOCCO, all from its own portfolio. The brand is pre-revenue until November and a 30-store target.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 16 October 2026. 24K gold rises 0.81% to ₹149,000 per 10g and silver gains 1.13% to ₹213,680 per kg as the dollar weakens. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 15 October 2026. 24K gold rises 1.19% to ₹147,830 per 10g and silver gains 1.19% to ₹210,820 per kg, but both remain below last week's levels. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Banaraswala, Ghat se Ghar Tak, known for its Banarsi cuisine, has raised $2 million in Seed funding from Prax Impex Private Limited. The money raised will help the brand enter new markets, innovate its menu and grow through franchises as the company looks to take the flavours and food culture
Kitchen Secret, a preservative-free brand of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook sauces founded by mother-son duo Renuka Kedia and Manav Kedia, has raised INR 1.14 crore in its first external funding round, led by BeyondSeed, with participation from angel investors. The fresh capital will be
GreenCell Mobility raised INR 330 crore and ten more startups closed rounds, as Groww's Q2 profit jumped 54% and the RDI Fund picked its first 19 fund managers.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 14 October 2026. 24K gold slips 0.21% to ₹148,200 per 10g and silver falls 0.89% to ₹217,240 per kg as the dollar strengthens. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Zluri, a SaaS management and identity governance and administration provider, today announced the completion of its acquisition by Infotech. The acquisition creates opportunities for Zluri to scale its capabilities and reach more organisations through Infotech’s global network. Founded in 2020 by Ritish Reddy, Chaithanya Yambari, and Sethu Meenakshisundaram, Zluri
Most people chase zero brokerage first. They open an account, see the low fee, and feel ready. Then the session starts and reality hits. Price moves fast. Charts lag. Orders sit in queue. The cheap fee means little when the fill comes three ticks late. Picture a typical Tuesday morning.
The round follows a 2024 pivot, a seed that fell through in 2025 and about ten months of cut salaries. The filings show why that year was tight, and why an inclusive-finance fund led the round.
Two of the three co-leads also led The Stack's ₹5.5 crore round in January. The new money arrives as the Cipla family's investment firm joins a category whose two biggest exits went to an FMCG giant and a drugmaker.
The grant names The/Nudge, but the programme will be built by the^delta, which already runs an AI-for-impact programme with Meta. At about ₹143 crore, it exceeds the nonprofit's reported annual budget.
The Hyderabad entrepreneurship school raised ₹26.8 crore on the same day Mesa School of Business raised ₹110 crore. Bower's filed accounts show ₹4.28 lakh of revenue and a ₹5.47 crore loss in its first part-year.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 13 October 2026. 24K gold is flat at ₹149,770 per 10g and silver at ₹223,100 per kg, even as Comex gold rises 0.44%. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 12 October 2026. 24K gold falls 1.21% to ₹149,880 per 10g and silver drops 0.98% to ₹223,920 per kg. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Ethereum isn't just a trading play anymore. For Indian founders, it's a base layer for smart contracts, wallets, dApps, and infrastructure, which means there are now several ways to build a real business around it without putting speculation front and centre. That said, market conditions still
With nearly two in five public chargers non-functional, Ionage’s platform is turning a fragmented charging landscape into one reliable network
Healthtech
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.
Success Story
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.
Business Ideas
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
Business Ideas
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.
Success Story
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.
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
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
When you trade through MetaTrader 4, having useful information available at the right moment can make your routine easier to manage. Prices, charts, open positions and account details all compete for your attention, particularly when markets are moving quickly. A well-organised platform can help you keep these elements within
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.
UPI
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.
UPI
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.
UPI
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
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.
Quick Commerce
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.
Gemini
Starter brings Gemini to Gmail and the standalone Gemini app. Standard builds it into Docs, Sheets, Slides and Meet. Here is what each tier unlocks, and how our 15% offer changes the cost.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace costs a solo freelancer ₹3,823 a year on Starter, with GST. Here is the breakeven for a one-person business, and what client collaboration and a professional identity add.
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.
Google Workspace
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.
Taxation
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding how gold loan interest rates and processing fees work can help borrowers assess the overall cost of borrowing against their gold.
Aman Gupta has backed FIG Living through SailThru Ventures. The lighting brand runs on a thirty-year-old export manufacturer that filed ₹16.2 crore revenue and a 2.5% net margin for the year to March 2025.
WEH Ventures has announced the first close of Fund III, targeting ₹250 crore for 20 to 25 seed-stage Indian startups. The fund is 12.5 times the size of the 2017 debut fund that one smallcase exit returned on its own.
Mobile Measurement Partners
Every dollar counts for early-stage mobile startups. Here's how the right Mobile Measurement Partner protects burn rate, fights install fraud, and unifies growth data.
Startup offices have changed. Rows of fixed desks and closed-door rooms are giving way to flexible layouts, shared work areas, meeting zones, and spaces that adapt as teams grow. That flexibility can make collaboration easier, but it can also introduce an often-overlooked challenge: noise. Conversations carry across open
Gold and silver rates today in India, 28 September 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹148,010 per 10g and silver at ₹227,640 per kg, both tumbling as Fed rate hike fears and high oil prices hit metals. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
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