India's largest discount brokerage has applied to SEBI for a Category-I merchant banking licence, a move that would let it manage IPOs and advise companies on fundraising as its core broking revenue comes under pressure.
Nobel Hygiene, India's largest home-grown maker of absorbent hygiene products, has filed draft papers with SEBI for an IPO comprising a Rs 150 crore fresh issue and a secondary share sale led by backer Quadria Capital.
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech venture Navi has raised $100 million from Dutch technology investor Prosus in its first-ever institutional funding round, valuing the company at approximately $1.3 billion as it prepares for a public listing.
Voice-AI startup Wispr Flow has closed a $280 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures, with India-focused investors Peak XV Partners, Together Fund and Activate also taking stakes, nearly tripling the company's valuation to roughly $2 billion.
SoftBank Group is preparing to issue roughly ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) in bonds targeted at Japanese retail investors, the largest such offering ever by a Japanese company, as Masayoshi Son deepens SoftBank's reliance on debt to fund its AI ambitions.
Alibaba is raising roughly $10.2 billion through the largest-ever primary share placement by a Hong Kong-listed company, with all proceeds earmarked for chips, computing infrastructure and AI model development as it competes for global AI leadership.
Hugging Face, the open-source AI model and dataset repository often called "the GitHub of AI," is reportedly exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more — nearly triple its last disclosed valuation.
Investment in UK financial technology companies fell to its lowest level since at least 2016 in the first half of 2026, as investors increasingly favour companies tied to artificial intelligence over traditional fintech plays.
The Claude maker's annualised revenue has reportedly surged toward $65 billion, and people familiar with its plans say a registration filing could come as soon as the end of August.
A day with no fresh venture rounds but a headline-grabbing IPO filing offers a small but telling window into how Indian founders and investors are increasingly thinking about exits.