Top 10 Fundraising Terms Every Founder Should Know Before Raising Money
The first time you sit across from an investor, the conversation moves fast, and it moves in a vocabulary built for people who’ve done this dozens of times. You haven’t. That gap is exactly where founders lose leverage — not because their…
Top 10 Business Terms Every Founder Should Know Before Starting a Company
Starting a company sounds simple until the paperwork shows up. Somewhere between the idea and the first customer, you’ll run into a wall of vocabulary — legal terms, financial terms, tax terms — that nobody hands you a glossary for. Most founders…
Apple Pay May Launch In India Next Month With Axis Bank Partnership: Report
Apple is reportedly preparing to launch Apple Pay in India as early as next month, with Axis Bank lined up as its first banking partner, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the matter. If the timeline holds, the launch would cap off…
Hero Motors Raises Rs 300 Cr From Anchor Investors Ahead Of IPO
Hero Motors, the automotive technology arm of the Hero Group, has raised Rs 299.99 crore from anchor investors a day before its initial public offering opened for public subscription on September 16. The Anchor Round The company allotted 3,57,14,284…
Firi Bags $3 Mn To Expand Beauty Quick Commerce Platform
Gurugram-based beauty and personal care quick commerce startup Firi has secured $3 million in a funding round led by 360 ONE Asset, as investors continue to back rapid-delivery models built around a single product category. The Round The round was led by…
VerifAIX Bags $5 Mn To Scale AI-Based Chip Verification Platform
Bengaluru-based VerifAIX, an AI-native semiconductor verification company, has raised $5 million in seed funding, marking a fresh bet on artificial intelligence as a check-and-balance layer for an industry racing to design chips faster than ever. The…
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…
Namma Yatri Launches Namma Santhe: A Retail Platform Built to Save Its Drivers Money, Not Make Any
Every driver on a ride hailing app earns money the same visible way, fare by fare, trip by trip. What almost nobody talks about is the other side of that ledger, what a driver actually spends on the ordinary stuff of running a life, a rain cover before…
RentoMojo IPO Closes With 72.88X Subscription: 158.68 Crore Shares Bid, What Happens Next?
RentoMojo’s IPO received a massive response from investors, with the issue closing with an overall subscription of 72.88 times and bids for approximately 158.68 crore shares, according to the final subscription figures. The Bengaluru-based rental…