Indian gaming startup Matiks raised $10 million in pre-Series A funding led by General Catalyst. It wants to steer people away from "AI-riddled timelines" with math and logic puzzles. Daily users grew from 22,000 early this year to over 300,000 by September. Arithmetic, it turns out, is the new doomscroll.
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Healthcare data startup BioStack has raised $9.5 million in a seed round led by Peak XV, with Y Combinator, DCVC and others. It builds longitudinal patient records from fragmented clinical data across the US, India, Brazil and Argentina, with access to more than 100 million de-identified records.
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Chennai drone maker Garuda Aerospace has raised $10 million in a pre-IPO round co-led by Dubai's Aditum Investment Management and the Motherson family office, at a $320 million pre-money valuation, per The Economic Times. It is preparing for a possible listing in the first quarter of 2027.
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Pune health-tech company Clinics On Cloud has raised Rs 120 crore in Series A funding at a Rs 600 crore valuation from Dubai-based Model42. Founded in 2018, it grew self-funded to over 3,500 installations and 12 million health screenings. Eight years is a long seed round.
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L Catterton has made a strategic investment, amount undisclosed, in Glance, InMobi's AI shopping platform. "Agentic commerce is fundamentally changing how consumers discover and shop," said L Catterton CEO Scott Dahnke, adding that Glance is "uniquely positioned." The shopping agent has found a shopper.
Read more at Mint →Bengaluru-based Tradl has raised $4.1 million in seed funding from Nexus Venture Partners and Stellaris, sources told Inc42, and an MCA filing confirmed it. Founded in 2025, it uses AI and quantitative analysis to help retail traders screen stocks and test strategies. Retail traders now get their own robots.
Read more at Inc42 →Fintech startup axiTrust is in talks to raise about $5 million in a Series A likely led by Singapore's Argor.vc, with General Catalyst joining, sources told Inc42. The money would build digital infrastructure for surety bonds, insurance-backed guarantees that a business will fulfil its contract.
Read more at Inc42 →Bengaluru-based Karta AI has raised $3 million in seed funding led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital. It builds inbound voice agents for customer service, loan servicing and transactions in more than 25 languages, powered by what it calls a "Predictive Context Engine." The hold music may be in trouble.
Read more at finsmes.com →Bengaluru defence and robotics startup Paar Autonomy has raised Rs 10 crore in a round led by AdvantEdge Founders. It will scale production of AI camera systems and develop navigation that lets drones fly without GPS. It earlier raised Rs 3.5 crore to set up its first manufacturing line.
Read more at Entrackr →ReplyAll, a performance wear brand founded in 2025 by Rushabh Sanghavi, has raised Rs 9.7 crore led by Sadev Ventures and Atom XVII. It makes clothes for people balancing work, travel and sport, and will spend on fabric research. The name suggests it also answers every email.
Read more at Indian Retailer →Travel experiences platform Bucketlistt.com has raised Rs 7.6 crore led by Kairon Capital, with Titan Capital and R for Rabbit founder Kunal Popat participating. Founded in 2025, it will onboard more experience providers and expand to new cities, starting with Manali and Bir.
Read more at The Economic Times →Indian startups raised $10.9 billion across 1,253 rounds between January and 15 October 2026, keeping VC funding roughly flat for three years. The average round rose to $8.6 million from $5.1 million in 2025, and the top 10 startups took nearly 36% of funds. Fewer plates, bigger servings.
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Bedrock Robotics has raised $600 million in a Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, valuing the two-year-old company at $4.1 billion. Its retrofit kit makes construction vehicles autonomous, and excavators now work commercially on sites in Nevada and Texas. It has raised nearly $1 billion digging.
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California companies have raised $385 billion in seed to growth rounds in 2026, more than all US startups raised in any prior year and over three quarters of US funding, Crunchbase data shows. Most came from a handful of San Francisco AI megarounds. The year still has two months left.
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European tech recorded its highest quarterly funding total in Q3, breaking the record for the third quarter in a row, Sifted's data shows. Scaleup capital drove a fifth straight quarter of growth, with Paris and Munich outstripping London. London has been told.
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Nevis, founded by three former Revolut executives, has raised $70 million in Series B funding led by EQT Ventures and QuantumLight, valuing it at $500 million. It sells AI-powered software for financial advisers. Advisers now have advisers.
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San Francisco startup Nirva has raised $25 million in pre-Series A funding, taking its total to $33 million. It makes a $249 AI pendant that "listens only to the person wearing it." Orders open in November, with first units shipping by the end of 2026. Everyone else may continue talking.
Read more at aifundingtracker.com →Supply chain platform Epoch has raised $4.25 million in seed funding and launched a tool to automate compliance for small and mid-sized businesses, starting with the EU Deforestation Regulation. The rule applies to large and medium operators from December 30, 2026, and most small ones from June 2027.
Read more at ESG Today →Egyptian logistics startup Turuq Innovations has raised undisclosed seed funding from Den VC to improve its technology and increase fulfilment capacity. Founded by Ahmed Atta and Karim Kamal, it handles warehousing, packaging and last-mile delivery for online retailers that would rather not own warehouses.
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Unacademy co-founders Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini are raising Longshot Capital, a Rs 700 crore fund with about Rs 300 crore committed, The Economic Times reported. It plans 25 to 28 seed and pre-Series A bets. The report comes less than two months after UpGrad acquired Unacademy.
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Revolut co-founder and CEO Nik Storonsky said he gradually removed venture capitalists from the company's board over several funding rounds, calling them potentially "dangerous" to a scaleup's growth. He advised founders to make sure VC backers have "no seat at the table." The VCs presumably kept the shares.
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Helion and Commonwealth Fusion Systems received $260 million from the US Commerce Department under the CHIPS Act, $175 million and $85 million respectively, for reactor semiconductors. In return, both agreed to give the government nonvoting shares. Government support used to mean nondilutive capital. The government is now an investor.
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Core Memory reporter Ashlee Vance asked why Indian VCs are "so afraid to take risk and make money," setting off an online debate about deeptech. He suggested Indian investors overlook high-potential startups such as Ather, valued at nearly $7 billion. Investors replied with threads.
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VC firms such as Antler India and All In Capital have launched programmes to help Indian AI startups set up in the US, Business Standard reports. Winning the first American customers remains the hard part, since US enterprises want a proven track record. Hiring locally is expensive too.
Read more at Business Standard →Indian AI startups get cloud credits and established firms can pay from cash flow, but GPU deliveries can take three to four months, investors and founders say. An engineering team can lose a quarter waiting. Money, it turns out, is the easy part.
Read more at communicationstoday.co.in →Evertrace, a founder detection platform used by more than 300 VC funds, has acquired Veck, which helps early-stage investors discover new startups. Its AI engine identifies stealth startups before they officially launch. Stealth mode now has a detection engine.
Read more at Sifted →The Ladakh administration plans to launch a startup policy next month with Rs 100 crore in funding, aiming to support 1,000 startups. It wants to help local entrepreneurs in a region where geography, limited market access and infrastructure constraints can make business difficult.
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Anthropic's 335-page S-1 filing reports first-half 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion, up 14 times from a year earlier, Crunchbase notes. It also posted a $693 million operating loss, down about two-thirds. The document "wasn't exactly light reading," the publication observed, and it may precede the largest IPO ever.
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Anthropic's IPO filing warns that opposition to AI data centres, rising power and water demand and climate change could raise costs and hurt its reputation. "Data center development has prompted public controversy and regulatory scrutiny," it notes. The risk factors arrived before the shares.
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Nazara Technologies posted a Q2 profit of Rs 35.4 crore against a Rs 33.9 crore loss a year earlier, when it booked Rs 914.7 crore in impairments. Operating revenue rose nearly 52% to Rs 803.2 crore, with BlueTile and BestPlay adding Rs 329 crore since August.
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Paytm's September quarter profit rose to Rs 225 crore from Rs 21 crore a year earlier, as operating revenue grew 28% to Rs 2,648 crore. Software, cloud and data centre costs rose 59% to Rs 211 crore on higher AI usage. The AI bill is growing faster than revenue.
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AceVector, the Snapdeal parent that listed this month after a Rs 420 crore IPO, posted a Q2 net loss of Rs 16.2 crore, up 116% from Rs 7.5 crore. Revenue rose 17% to Rs 151.2 crore. Logistics was the biggest expense at Rs 71.4 crore. Delivering things costs money.
Read more at Inc42 →BSE SME-listed fintech SaaS company Veefin Solutions reported H1 FY27 net profit of Rs 24.9 crore, up 127%, ahead of moving to the mainboard. Operating revenue more than doubled to Rs 238.8 crore from Rs 110.4 crore a year earlier.
Read more at Inc42 →Contract manufacturer Aequs posted a Q2 net loss of Rs 52.4 crore, up from Rs 20.6 crore a year earlier, as operating revenue rose 45.3% to Rs 409.1 crore. Expenses grew faster, by 56.2%. Aerospace brought in 85.9% of revenue. Growth was achieved, and so was the loss.
Read more at Inc42 →Elon Musk said SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt financing for GPUs, crediting its investment-grade status and Starlink revenue. "Not a major factor this quarter," he posted. It was unclear what "closed" meant or whether pricing was agreed. SpaceX expects $35 billion to $40 billion in fourth-quarter capex.
Read more at BusinessLine →Edtech startup Imarticus Learning plans to file its DRHP confidentially within two to three months for a Rs 1,000 crore IPO, up from Rs 750 crore planned earlier, sources told Inc42. Proceeds would fund expansion and acquisitions. It recently bought Singapore's BELLS Institute for Rs 800 crore.
Read more at Inc42 →The Rs 1,200 crore IPO of Edelweiss-backed EAAA India Alternatives opened on October 26 and closes on October 28. It is entirely an offer for sale, so the company receives none of the proceeds. The price band of Rs 1,585 to Rs 1,665 values it at Rs 10,765 crore.
Read more at cnbctv18.com →Tech publication Rest of World may shut as a standalone outlet at the end of January amid falling readership, Semafor reported. Founder and backer Sophie Schmidt has held talks with institutions about absorbing it, and told donors it would "cease publishing as a standalone entity."
Read more at Storyboard18 →Nigerian fintech Klump, an early buy now, pay later company in the country, is shutting down, co-founder and CEO Celestine Omin said in a blog post. He described the decision as emotional and difficult, and said he was proud of the brand the team built in Nigeria's digital commerce market.
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Startups often believe their tech will sell itself, says Databricks co-founder Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, who helped land its first big deals. The tech must work, he says, but that is not enough. Databricks is now valued at $190 billion with more than 70% of the Fortune 500 as customers.
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Anjali Sardana, founder of instant househelp startup Pronto, has set up Provision Labs in San Francisco, people familiar said. It will collect data to train and test AI systems that perform real-world tasks with robots. From sending people to do chores to teaching machines to do them.
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A Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research study found AI models need far more tokens for some languages, a hidden "tokenizer tax." Among the 20 most popular web languages, the most expensive used 1.5 to 5 times more tokens than the cheapest. Brevity is now a currency issue.
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Flipkart plans to launch Flipkart for Earth, a premium line of environmentally friendly products, people familiar told ET. It has started onboarding brands in beauty, snacks, home decor, fashion and appliances. Saving the planet will be available with same-day delivery.
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General Catalyst-backed Strawberry has launched Strawberry 1.0, pitched as "the European alternative" to US AI agents, Sifted reports. Founder Charles Maddock once did a work trial at Lovable when it was a two-person company and wanted to build agents. The full interview is for Sifted Pro subscribers.
Read more at Sifted →Joonko founder Ilit Raz raised about $27 million after telling investors about customers and revenue that did not exist, and pleaded guilty to securities fraud last month. Plaintiffs filed 15 AI-related securities class actions in the first half of 2026, nearly matching all of 2025, Cornerstone Research says.
Read more at news.crunchbase.com →Mallikarjuna Iytha was told in Class XI to drop science because of his 88% locomotor disability. The National Award winner founded IDEA to help persons with disabilities become entrepreneurs and job creators, and more than 2,000 have now been supported, YourStory reports.
Read more at YourStory →IIT Madras student Kuldeep Rathore, who did not clear JEE Advanced after a drop year, has raised $1.1 million, about Rs 9 crore, in pre-seed funding for SamanNow. The quick-commerce startup aims to make shopping faster and more affordable in smaller Indian cities.
Read more at Hindustan Times →E-waste recycler Attero uses AI to standardise scrap pricing and automate compliance, Head of Product and Technology Ayush Agarwal said at TechSparks 2026. A washing machine's value depends on what is inside and what is missing. Every appliance is a negotiation.
Read more at YourStory →Meta ads and discounts can attract attention, but a first purchase only shows the marketing worked, Soulflower founder Natasha Tuli said at TechSparks 2026. Transparency, product quality and listening to customers bring them back, she said. Her session asked how many brands can build a belief.
Read more at YourStory →Pocket FM's co-founder said in September that annualised revenue had doubled to $500 million, crediting AI. The Ken reports the company has tried and dropped several formats, and former employees and investors say some numbers rest on flattering assumptions. The full story is for subscribers.
Read more at The Ken →Startup roles in India first, then global and remote, checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. Equity is between you and the cap table.
Founder meetups and demo days coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Bring a one line pitch, then shorten it.
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