Venture capital investment in Indian startups reached $10.9 billion between January and mid-October 2026, up 6.8% on a year earlier, but the number of rounds fell by more than a third to 1,253 as investors concentrated capital in deeptech, AI and infrastructure, according to Tracxn data.
Elon Musk's Starlink, Reliance's Jio Satellite Communications and Bharti-backed Eutelsat OneWeb all hold licences to offer satellite broadband in India, but none has launched commercial service. Security assessments and spectrum assignment remain pending for all three, and the government says they are at broadly the same regulatory stage.
Microsoft has withdrawn from an agreement to use a planned £2 billion AI data centre being built by Nscale in Loughton, Essex, after grid operators reportedly said the site would not get enough power until the early to mid-2030s. Nscale says it remains committed to the project and its relationship with Microsoft is strong.
Bitcoin climbed back above $82,500 on October 19, up about 1% in 24 hours after falling below $80,000 last week. But US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw about $228 million of outflows from October 12 to 16, Ether ETFs lost $320 million, and uncertainty ahead of the Fed's October 27-28 meeting kept the rebound fragile.
India spends about $18 billion a year on research and development, or 0.65% of GDP, and must raise that to at least $100 billion to compete in strategic technologies, Peak XV Partners managing director Rajan Anandan said. He also called for smarter regulation, citing "regulatory cholesterol" that slows founders down.
Chinese perovskite solar maker Microquanta has signed a strategic cooperation agreement worth a planned RMB 1.5 billion with data centre developer Xinpu Tuling Technology to integrate solar panels into rooftops and façades at a green computing project in Xining, Qinghai, which has a total planned investment of about RMB 13 billion.
Indian lenders are moving beyond credit bureau scores to combine GST filings, bank transactions shared through account aggregators and other real-time data, says Ashok Hariharan, founder of identity verification platform IDfy. Digital onboarding has transformed the front end of lending, he says, but back-end processes have changed far less.
Shopify is reportedly preparing to launch its Shop Pay accelerated checkout in India by early 2027, a move that would put it in direct competition with GoKwik, Shopflo, Razorpay's Magic Checkout and other Indian checkout providers serving D2C brands.
Confido Health, founded by Chetan Reddy and Vichar Shroff, has raised $12.5 million led by Z47 to scale AI agents that handle scheduling, insurance verification and care coordination for more than 1,500 US care sites.
Shamrock AI, an enterprise AI startup headquartered in Shillong, Meghalaya, has raised a $5 million seed round led by Endiya Partners to build an "agentic assurance" platform that tests and validates AI agents across critical business processes.
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