- Swiggy Narrows Losses to Rs 791 Crore as Revenue Jumps 37% in Q1 FY27: Inside India's Quick-Commerce Turnaround Story
Instamart hits contribution breakeven, food delivery margins strengthen, but a Bengaluru restaurant boycott threat and cautious brokerages cloud the road ahead
- Zepto Pauses Its IPO Amid a Sharp Valuation Cut: Inside the Story Everyone in Indian Startup Circles Is Talking About
The 10-minute delivery unicorn is stepping back from Dalal Street for now, opting instead for a Rs 1,000 crore pre-IPO round at roughly $4.5 billion — a steep markdown from the $7 billion price tag it commanded just nine months ago. Here is the full story, explained simply.
- Emergent Hits Unicorn Status: AI Coding Startup Closes $130 Million Series C, Becomes India's 7th Unicorn of 2026
Founded just a year ago by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, the Bengaluru-and-San-Francisco-based "vibe coding" platform saw its valuation quintuple to $1.5 billion in under six months, as global investors race to bet on AI's takeover of software development.
- SEBI Rolls Out the Closing Auction Session: India's Stock Market Closing Bell Just Got a Major Rewrite
Starting August 3, 2026, F&O-eligible stocks will stop continuous trading at 3:15 PM for a new 20-minute auction window, while derivatives trading gets a 10-minute extension, as SEBI moves to shut the door on end-of-day price manipulation.
- The $1.5 Billion Coup: How an Under-the-Radar Startup Just Poached Elon Musk’s Top AI Brain to Take on OpenAI
Armed with $234M in fresh funding and a bold plan to build a 1-trillion-parameter model from scratch, Sarvam AI is proving that the next frontier of artificial intelligence won’t be built in Silicon Valley alone.
- Robust Capital Inflows Highlighted by $1.08 Billion Week in Late June/Early July
Diverse sectors from SpaceTech to Agritech attract significant venture capital as investor confidence returns.
- Flipkart Partners with Netflix to Offer Free Mobile Plan for Loyal Shoppers
Subheading: E-commerce giant aims to boost frequent purchases by rewarding Plus members with streaming access.
- Record July UPI Volumes and AI Funding Surge Underscore Resiliency in India’s Tech Sector
India's fintech ecosystem secured $2 billion in the first half of 2026 as July UPI transactions hit an all-time high, coinciding with aggressive capital deployment in domestic AI and deep-tech ventures.
- Fireworks AI Raises $1.5 Billion as Enterprise AI Bets Shift From Renting Intelligence to Owning It
The startup built by the team that created PyTorch at Meta has jumped from a $4 billion to a $17.5 billion valuation in nine months, crossing $1 billion in annualized revenue along the way — on a wager that the future of enterprise AI is thousands of specialized models running cheaply in production, not one general-purpose model everyone rents from the same handful of labs.
- Freehand Secures $75 Million to Scale Autonomous AI Supply Chain Agents
Freehand has raised $75 million co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital to deploy autonomous AI agents across Fortune 500 supply chains — and to press an unusually direct wager that software can now replace, not just assist, the people who decide which invoices get paid.
- Federal Reserve Holds Rates at 3.50%–3.75% in Divided 9-3 Vote Under Chairman Warsh
The FOMC paused for a fifth consecutive meeting amid sticky inflation and geopolitical oil shocks, though three regional presidents pushed for an immediate quarter-point hike.
- Cyera Signs $1B Letter of Intent to Acquire Oasis Security to Secure AI Agents
The cybersecurity unicorn is using its massive cash reserves to buy the identity management startup, aiming to bridge the gap between data security and autonomous machine identities.