Piston Raises $15 Million Series A Led by FPV Ventures: How Its Cardless Payment Network Is Changing Fleet Fuel Payments
Piston, a US-headquartered fintech startup with an engineering hub in Kolkata, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by FPV Ventures. Existing investors Spark Capital and Pear VC also participated in the round. The latest funding takes…
Pizza Bakery Founders’ Popo Global Raises ₹532 Crore From Artal Asia: Expansion Beyond Bengaluru Next
Bengaluru-based restaurant company Popo Global, the parent of The Pizza Bakery, Paris Panini and Smash Guys, has raised ₹532 crore from global investment firm Artal Asia for a significant minority stake. The investment marks an important milestone for…
Ultraviolette to Raise ₹373 Crore as BIGGA Factory Takes Shape
Ultraviolette Automotive is raising ₹373 crore as the Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler maker moves ahead with its new BIGGA manufacturing facility in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. The development comes at a crucial stage for the company. Ultraviolette is…
Theater Raises ₹75 Crore to Expand Offline Presence: What the D2C Fashion Startup Plans Next
India’s direct-to-consumer fashion market is seeing another significant funding deal. Fashion and lifestyle startup Theater has raised ₹75 crore as it looks to scale its business and strengthen its offline presence. The funding comes at an important…
Swish Raises $24 Million to Expand Its 10 Minute Food Delivery Network Across Bengaluru and NCR
Six months ago Swish closed a $38 million round and told everyone it was going to chase multi city expansion. Now it’s back at the fundraising table again, this time pulling in ₹224.54 crore, roughly $24 million, in an extended Series B led by…
QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Cr to Scale Quantum Cybersecurity R&D
Every encryption system protecting your bank transactions, government records, and private messages today relies on a mathematical assumption: that certain problems are too hard for computers to solve quickly. Quantum computers, once powerful enough, are…
Circolife Raises $4.5 Mn to Scale Subscription-Based Air Conditioning Across India
Every April, thousands of houses across India face the same expensive decision: buy an air conditioner outright for a season that’s only getting hotter and longer, or keep limping along with an old, inefficient unit that’s costing a fortune…
D2C Pet Food Startup Lickicious Raises ₹19 Crore to Expand Manufacturing and Distribution
Lickicious, a digital-first pet food and nutrition brand for dogs and cats, has raised ₹19 crore (around $2.1 million) in growth capital, led by Prath Ventures, in a round combining equity and institutional debt. The founders of consumer appliances brand…
Pixxel Raises $100 Million: India’s Biggest-Ever Spacetech Funding Round, Explained
Bengaluru-based Pixxel has closed a $100 million Series C round, and it’s now officially the largest single funding round ever raised by an Indian space-technology company. The round was co-led by Temasek, Singapore’s state investment…
Nua Raises $50 Million in Series C: What This Funding Round Actually Signals About India’s Women’s Wellness Market
When Ravi Ramachandran co-founded Nua in 2017, period care in India was still a category most consumer brands treated as an afterthought, a single aisle of largely interchangeable sanitary napkin brands with little innovation and even less conversation…