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 its filed accounts already show a profit on about ₹13 crore of revenue.
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
Five funding rounds closed on 11 August 2026, spanning deep tech, medtech, logistics and AI-for-BFSI, with Lightspeed India and Inflexor Ventures among the day's lead investors. The headline raise is Discovered Materials' $9 million (~₹75 crore) seed round for AI-driven semiconductor materials. Away from funding, managed workspace