PlayBlue Secures $2.7 Million Seed Funding to Boost Retail and Online Expansion

Sports retail startup PlayBlue has raised $2.7 million in a seed funding round co-led by Centre Court Capital and MIXI Global, with additional backing from WEH Ventures. The funding will…

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Preventive Wellness Startup Heatronics Raises ₹1.8 Crore in Seed Funding Led by Inflection Point Ventures

New Delhi: Preventive wellness startup Heatronics has raised ₹1.8 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures, as it looks to strengthen its presence in India’s fast-growing health…

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abcoffee Raises Rs 61 Crore Led by Kliff Ventures as India’s Grab-and-Go Coffee Market Heats Up

India’s organised coffee retail market is entering a new competitive phase — one increasingly shaped not by sprawling cafés and long customer dwell times, but by speed, convenience, repeat consumption,…

Opinion

The Rise of Startup Roll-Ups in India: Acquiring Small Brands Instead of Building From Scratch

India’s startup ecosystem spent the better part of the last decade celebrating company creation. Venture capital rewarded founders who could launch quickly, acquire customers aggressively, and scale categories through capital-intensive…

Opinion

How India’s Creator Economy Is Becoming a Startup Distribution Engine

India’s startup ecosystem spent the better part of the last decade optimizing for scale through paid acquisition, app installs, and marketplace subsidies. That playbook is beginning to lose efficiency. Customer…

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Info Edge’s Investments Power Profit Surge as Core Recruitment Business Holds Firm

India’s digital classifieds pioneer Info Edge (India) delivered another quarter that underscored the strength of its two-part business model: a profitable and cash-generating core internet franchise led by Naukri.com, and…

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BlackBuck Reports 52% Revenue Growth in Q4 as India’s Logistics Digitisation Deepens

India’s logistics technology sector is entering a more mature phase, and trucking platform BlackBuck appears to be among the few scaled startups successfully balancing growth with profitability. The Bengaluru-based company…

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Indian Agentic AI Startups Raise $60 Million in Just 4.5 Months as Enterprise Adoption Accelerates

India’s artificial intelligence startup ecosystem is entering a new phase — one that investors increasingly believe could move beyond chatbots and copilots into autonomous software systems capable of executing tasks…

Opinion

Why Indian Venture Capital Is Quietly Moving Away From Consumer Startups

Introduction For more than a decade, consumer startups defined India’s venture capital story. Food delivery apps, e-commerce platforms, social commerce companies, edtech giants, fintech lenders, and quick-commerce players absorbed billions…

Opinion

Why Tier-2 Indian Founders Are Building More Profitable Startups Than Bengaluru’s VC Ecosystem

Introduction For more than a decade, Bengaluru has dominated India’s startup narrative. The city became synonymous with venture capital, unicorns, hypergrowth, and aggressive technology entrepreneurship. It produced some of India’s…