Bengaluru's Simplismart has raised $14 million in an all-primary Series B led by Dallas Venture Capital, with Nvidia, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The round values the four-year-old startup at about $100 million. A GPU maker funding fewer GPUs is a confident move.
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Bengaluru's Live2.ai has raised Rs 130 crore in a pre-Series B round led by IvyCap Ventures, including a secondary component giving early investors partial liquidity. Its SaaS platform helps enterprises monitor campaign engagement. "Brands today are drowning in signals and starved of action," it says.
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Gurugram's Rotoris has raised Rs 70 crore in a Series A led by Blume Ventures, with 9Unicorns, Centricity, several family offices and actor Rannvijay Singha. The money goes to R&D, production and Rotoris House stores in India and abroad. Handcrafted watches, now on a VC schedule.
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Gurugram snack brand Troovy has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series B led by Fireside Ventures, with Sharrp Ventures, for R&D, manufacturing and quick commerce and offline distribution. It says its vacuum-cooked potato chips have 10 to 12% oil. The chip has been asked to change.
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Preventive health company Cent, cofounded by Practo founder Shashank ND, has raised a $15 million Series A co-led by Blume Ventures and South Park Commons and bought AI radiology reporting platform Medsee. It says it has completed more than 10,000 scans.
Read more at digitalhealthnews.com →Bengaluru's Nova Spectral AI has raised Rs 21.2 crore in a seed round led by Shastra VC, with Equirus InnovateX Fund. Founded this year by Anish Priyadarshi and Sanjeev Kumar, it builds short-wave infrared sensor chips with quantum dots, so machines can see through smoke and haze.
Read more at Inc42 →Mochatrade has raised a $5.5 million seed round led by CoinFund, with Coinbase Ventures and Zero Knowledge Ventures. Founded in 2026, it is building a platform for perpetual futures linked to US stocks, crypto and commodities. Its waitlist has 25,000 sign-ups and no launch date.
Read more at Inc42 →Bengaluru childcare startup Maasi has raised Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed round led by Better Capital with Antler India, and angels including Rapido's Rishikesh SR. It trains, pays and supports caregivers. It calls this one of the largest pre-seed rounds in India's childcare category.
Read more at Indian Startup Times →Parsec Aerospace, founded by former Pixxel engineer Effy John, is in talks to raise about $10 million in a round led by Nexus Venture Partners, sources told Inc42. The Bengaluru startup develops next-generation aerospace engines and remains in stealth. Details on the engines are also in stealth.
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Re:Build, the Massachusetts manufacturing accelerator that spun out EV startup Slate Auto in 2023, has raised $2.1 billion led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group. It will make hard tech products and launch new industrial startups. Other investors were not disclosed.
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General Compute has raised a $100 million Series A led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, betting on inference chips and rented data centres, while CoreWeave's shares hit a 12-month low. CEO Finn Puklowski is unfazed. The timing, the article notes, is awkward.
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New York autonomous finance platform Hyphenate has raised a $45 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, with B Capital, taking total funding to $54 million. It says revenue grew 86x in 12 months and its agents handle 90% of routine finance work. CFOs, meet your new subledger.
Read more at Sahyadri Startups →Hyperbolic, which helps companies rent compute across hundreds of AI cloud providers, has raised $30 million in a Series A-1 led by Walden Catalyst, the firm founded by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst and Vista Equity Partners joined.
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Seattle's Avante has raised a $30 million Series A led by Frist Cressey Ventures, with Sorenson Capital, Hearst Ventures and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund, taking its total to $40 million. Its AI agents compare vendor contracts against claims and review plan documents.
Read more at GeekWire →London-based 22one, founded by a former senior police officer, has reached a valuation of around $400 million with backing from Sequoia and General Catalyst, according to reports cited by Sifted. It builds AI tools for police forces. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at Sifted →Singapore industrial AI startup Ailytics has raised a $7.4 million Series A led by Tin Men Capital, with SEEDS, Japan's Safie and a Japanese construction company. Since its 2024 pre-Series A, it has grown from 70 projects in four countries to over 400 deployments in 15.
Read more at dealstreetasia.com →Serena Williams' Serena Ventures has led a $3 million seed round for Trace, with Shakti VC. Founded by Katie Pfleger and Ella Rubin, Trace lets shoppers list clothing for resale or rental before buying it. The outfit is now an asset before it is an outfit.
Read more at blackenterprise.com →Harmonic, co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, is extending its Aristotle model from mathematical proofs to software in C and chip designs in Verilog. Backed by Sequoia and Ribbit Capital, it was valued at $1.45 billion last November. It calls its goal mathematical superintelligence.
Read more at The Economic Times →Global venture funding to robotics startups reached $9.9 billion in Q3, more than double a year earlier, Crunchbase data shows, and is up about 185% for the year to date. China leads with $13.2 billion this year, ahead of the US at $12.1 billion.
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Dallas firm Disruptive, an early backer of Palantir, Airbnb and Spotify, has a $10 billion fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies with cheques of up to $1 billion, in AI and defence. Ten companies, one billion each. The spreadsheet is short.
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Private equity firm Advent International has raised close to $27 billion for its 11th flagship fund, above its $26 billion target, plus more than $3 billion for a new mid-market strategy. Backers include pensions, sovereign wealth funds and family offices.
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Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth co-investment fund at $320 million, oversubscribed, taking assets under management above $850 million. It backs high-growth technology startups in emerging markets. Past recipients include Bukalapak, Advance Intelligence Group and Carsome.
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TechCrunch found notable funds in October SEC filings. Trust Ventures is raising a $400 million Fund V and Interlagos Capital a $400 million Fund II. Former Benchmark VCs Victor Lazarte and Kris Fredrickson raised $1.252 billion for their debut AI fund, Diffusion ONE.
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The Nclude Fund, advised by DPI Venture Capital, the venture arm of London private equity firm Development Partners International, has closed with commitments above $112 million. It invests in fintech and technology companies in Africa and the Middle East that can scale beyond their home markets.
Read more at innovation-village.com →Canada has launched a C$1.75 billion venture and growth capital investment programme with incentives for pension fund investment, AltAssets reports. The programme is designed to attract pension funds and other investors. The full piece is for subscribers.
Read more at altassets.net →Sifted has tallied the new venture funds launched in Europe in the third quarter of 2026 and finds that the biggest of them are backing growth stage companies, AI and defence. The full data piece is for Sifted Pro subscribers.
Read more at Sifted →The Ken reports venture studios build companies in-house to cut early-stage risk, taking anywhere from EF's 8% stake to The Foundery's 75%. Speed pulls them towards fast AI products for the US. Some have dropped outside founders entirely and hire executives instead.
Read more at The Ken →Tim Chen was not planning a new fund when investors came to him. His Essence VC backed Tabular, which Databricks bought in 2024 for about $2.2 billion. The deal "pretty much returned our whole fund," Chen said. The pitch deck came later.
Read more at The Economic Times →Early-stage firm Unicorn India Ventures has expanded to the US to help its portfolio scale and reach acquirers sooner, founder Bhaskar Majumdar told Mint. "Hopefully, we'll see a shrinking in exit timelines," he said. Indian VCs are moving there so as not to miss AI.
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Jio Platforms debuts on Wednesday after an IPO priced at Rs 1,119 a share. Grey market premiums of Rs 245 to Rs 255 imply a listing near Rs 1,369 and a value of about Rs 12.61 lakh crore, just above Bharti Airtel.
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Insurance software company Guidewire is buying agentic underwriting startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash, with $400 million more tied to revenue targets. Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, it had raised nearly $90 million. Nearly 600 insurers use it.
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Ather Energy reported a Q2 FY27 net profit of Rs 1.3 crore, against a Rs 154.1 crore loss a year earlier, and its first EBITDA-positive quarter at a 4.9% margin. Excluding other income, margins were roughly 0.8 to 1%. Profit arrived, quietly.
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Hindustan Coca-Cola Holdings, parent of Coca-Cola's Indian bottling business, is expected to file a draft prospectus with SEBI this week for a $1 billion IPO, reports say, targeting a valuation of about $10 billion and a listing in 2027. Much of it may be secondary.
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MakeMyTrip reported Q2 FY27 net profit of $1.8 million against a $5.7 million loss a year ago, on revenue of $235.2 million. Its agentic platform Myra handled over 90,000 daily conversations, more than 55% from Tier II and III cities.
Read more at YourStory →WeWork India's Q2 FY27 net profit rose to Rs 20.4 crore from Rs 6.4 crore, after a Rs 4.1 crore loss in Q1. Operating revenue rose 33.6% to Rs 767.8 crore. Total expenses rose 32.4%, which is nearly as fast.
Read more at Inc42 →IndiaMART's Q2 FY27 net profit rose 9.8% year on year to Rs 90.7 crore but fell 47.3% from Rs 172.2 crore the previous quarter. Operating revenue grew 10% to Rs 428.6 crore, while negative other income of Rs 7.6 crore pulled total income lower.
Read more at Inc42 →Two Baillie Gifford funds have cut the value of their VerSe holdings by around 80%. Schiehallion's mark implies a VerSe valuation of about $576 million, nearly 90% below its $5 billion valuation in 2022. It reflects the fund's assessment, not a new round.
Read more at Inc42 →SoftBank has sold another 1.2% of Ola Electric through open market trades between January 6 and October 22, cutting its holding to 11.7%. It also sold 1.12 crore rights entitlements as Ola seeks nearly Rs 1,000 crore through a rights issue to repay debt.
Read more at Inc42 →Bessemer-backed cybersecurity startup Protectt.ai has taken a majority stake in AIShield, incubated at Bosch Global Software Technologies, through primary and secondary share purchases. AI Shield Private Limited will run as a separate entity, with existing intellectual property moved to it, to secure enterprise AI systems.
Read more at The Economic Times →Amit Agarwal, CEO of EAAA India Alternatives, the Edelweiss alternatives arm heading for an IPO, expects fee-paying assets under management to grow 23% a year. He told CNBC TV18 it is focused on real assets and private credit with returns less correlated with equities.
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After eight years at Meta, former Meta Superintelligence Labs director Rohit Patel has launched Ndoc, pitched as an AI-native replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, TechCrunch reports. It aims to replace Excel, Word, PowerPoint and "ChatGPT copy-paste" with one workspace.
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Deepinder Goyal's Temple wearable has opened pre-orders for early sign-ups ahead of a November 1 launch. An invite reportedly prices it at Rs 85,000, unconfirmed. The pill-shaped device sits against the side of the head and measures changes in cerebral blood flow.
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Some of Europe's best-known fintech founders are back for a second act built on AI, Sifted reports, and almost half of early-stage fintechs raising recently had a repeat founder. One says it feels like "wearing a Superman suit." The full piece is for subscribers.
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HRX launched in 2012 with Exceed Entertainment and partnered exclusively with Myntra in 2013, which helped with distribution, supply chain and pricing. It has expanded into footwear, luggage and fragrances, with reported revenue above Rs 1,500 crore, Mint reports. Roshan brought sweat equity, literally.
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Swiss agtech startup OneSoil, founded in 2017 on satellite imagery for remote field monitoring, had built much of its business in Russia and Ukraine. In early 2022 about 70% of its market was at risk. CPO and COO Katya Kheistver explains the rebuild and its AI bet.
Read more at tech.eu →YourStory looks at five once-hyped AI startups that raised millions before running out of road, from wearables to chatbots. Some failed to deliver on promises, others ran out of capital or lost direction. Funding and visibility, it notes, do not guarantee a sustainable business.
Read more at YourStory →California-based MyPursu, founded in 2025, is an NRI concierge platform covering merchant payments in India, remittances, bills, insurance, elder care and parcel shipping. It says it serves over 15,000 users. Founder Kesava Grandhi built it after struggling to pay Indian merchants himself.
Read more at startuppedia.in →Indian AI startups expanding to the US struggle to land first customers who want track records and tight compliance, alongside high local sales hiring costs and visa hurdles for founders, Rediff reports. Antler India and All In Capital run programmes to help.
Read more at rediff.com →Many drivers in Central and Eastern Europe buy cars outright in cash because banks do not offer them auto loans, Sifted reports, with mortgages making up 70 to 75% of household lending. Spotawheel lets customers buy, sell or subscribe to used cars there.
Read more at Sifted →Pune space startup Astrophel Aerospace has tested an indigenously developed actuator for its reusable rocket programme and plans to sell it to others too. It is targeting early 2027 for the first test flight of a small demonstrator that takes off and lands vertically.
Read more at News9 →Sacramento startup Qnetic has begun low-speed testing of Pulsar, a flywheel energy storage system, at its technology centre in Shanghai. It starts at 200 kWh and can expand to 500 kWh on the same platform. Storage, it turns out, can just spin.
Read more at pv magazine India →At India's first Kachra Cafe, launched with the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, residents exchange old newspapers, plastic packets and cardboard for food, drinks and essentials. It has sent more than 45 tonnes of waste for recycling in eight months. Payment accepted in cardboard.
Read more at Mint →Get Covered runs 16 AI agents across more than 3 million rental units, and its founder writes that the hard question was who each agent reports to. Deloitte found 23% of companies use agentic AI moderately today and 74% expect to in two years.
Read more at news.crunchbase.com →Lenskart founder Peyush Bansal now runs a public company answerable every quarter to shareholders, who track profitability, expansion and technology spending line by line, Business Outreach writes. Running a startup and running a listed company are not the same job, it notes.
Read more at businessoutreach.in →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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