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…
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…