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…
How Do Investors Calculate a Startup’s Valuation? The Formulas, Metrics, and Math Explained Simply
Meera had never thought about her company’s “valuation” until an investor asked for her numbers over a Zoom call and said, “We’re thinking ₹15 crore pre-money.” She smiled, nodded, and said she’d get back to him…
10 Legal Mistakes First-Time Founders Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Rohan built his SaaS product with a friend from college. No formal agreement, no paperwork — just a verbal “we’ll split it 50-50” over coffee. Eighteen months later, the product had paying customers, a small team, and an investor…
How to Register a Startup in India: OPC vs Pvt Ltd vs LLP Explained
Aditi had been freelancing as a UI/UX designer for three years when two of her clients asked her to build a small product studio instead of taking one-off projects. She said yes before she’d fully thought it through, and then spent the next two…
Government Schemes for Women Entrepreneurs in India: The Complete 2026 Guide to Loans, Subsidies and Support
Last updated: July 2026 About This Guide: Written by the Financechecks.com Editorial Team, Personal Finance Researchers. This article has been researched using publicly available information from SIDBI, the Ministry of MSME, NABARD, and official scheme…
CGSS Explained: How the Government Is Backing ₹20 Crore Startup Loans Without a Single Rupee of Collateral
Last updated: July 2026 About This Guide: Written by the Financechecks.com Editorial Team, Personal Finance Researchers. This article has been researched using official notifications from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade…
PMEGP (Prime Minister Employment Generation Program) Explained: How the Government Is Quietly Funding Thousands of First-Time Entrepreneurs Every Month
Last updated: July 2026 A few months ago, a friend’s cousin messaged me asking for help “understanding some government loan scheme” she’d heard about from a neighbour who’d just opened a small stitching unit with almost no…