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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 team
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
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.