Philadelphia non-profit Upstart Impacts, led by Karina Sotnik, has opened applications for an equity-free Women's Health Innovation Program for 10 early-stage life sciences and medtech startups, building on a 2025 cohort whose companies have raised $7.4 million.
African startups raised $2.49 billion across 315 disclosed deals in the first nine months of 2026, up 7.8% year on year, with a $1.025 billion third quarter as investors wrote fewer but larger cheques, led by Nigeria, Egypt and Benin.
Bengaluru's Spill Games, founded in 2024 by former PlaySimple team members, has raised a $10.5 million Series A led by Elevation Capital to scale its hit titles, launch new games and strengthen the AI tools behind its in-house Compass engine.
IT research and advisory firm Infotech, formerly Info-Tech Research Group, has acquired Bengaluru-based Zluri, whose SaaS management and identity governance products will become core modules of its new CIO Analytics platform.
Foundry, the new venture of former Dyson India and Middle East and Africa managing director Ankit Jain, has raised ₹12 crore from BEENEXT and Kettleborough VC to build premium home appliances, starting with a kitchen range due in the second half of 2027.
Bengaluru-based NuSynth Technologies, founded this year, has raised ₹36.5 crore in a seed round co-led by Avaana Capital and Shastra VC to pair AI-driven predictive synthesis with chemical R&D, starting with pharmaceutical and electronics chemicals.
Chennai-based ThinkMetal, co-founded by Sabyasachi Ghosh and Arushi Sharma, has raised ₹27 crore in a round led by IAN Alpha Fund with 3i Partners to commercialise SistemT1, its compact metal additive manufacturing system built on proprietary FuseX filament technology.
IBM and MeitY Startup Hub have signed an MoU giving Indian deeptech startups access to watsonx, quantum computing, hybrid cloud and IBM's enterprise network, along with mentorship and proof-of-concept projects, with a focus on founders from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
Hamburg-based 1KOMMA5° has raised about €70 million in a round led by b2venture, at a pre-money valuation of $1.35 billion, to expand Heartbeat AI, a platform that controls more than 100,000 home energy systems and trades their power on electricity exchanges.
Bengaluru’s Tonbo Imaging has fixed a ₹665–700 price band for its ₹852.1 crore offer-for-sale IPO, valuing the thermal-imaging and defence electronics maker at about ₹4,010 crore as public investors weigh a falling topline against India’s defence-indigenisation push.