Seed and early-stage funding crossed $609 million between July and August, with investors increasingly backing India's smallest, newest companies even as overall deal counts stay selective.
Months after stepping down from Eternal, Zomato's co-founder is back in the market for fresh capital for Temple, the brain-monitoring wearable he unveiled earlier this year.
The IIT Bombay-incubated appliance maker has filed its draft prospectus with SEBI, combining a ₹450 crore fresh issue with a large offer for sale by early backers.
A coalition of Malaysian NGOs under the Gelombang Saksama banner has put forward three proposals to uplift the country's ethnic Indian community, including a public-private funding vehicle that could raise up to RM100 million in its first year.
Zurich-based Gravis Robotics has raised a $200 million Series A round from sole investor SoftBank Group, one of the largest single-investor early-stage robotics deals of the year and a signal of intensifying capital flows into autonomous physical systems.
Enterprise AI company Skan AI has raised $63 million in fresh funding to accelerate its expansion, as investor appetite for enterprise-focused artificial intelligence platforms continues to outpace broader venture capital market conditions.
Butterfly Learnings has raised INR 65 crore in fresh funding, a deal that industry observers see as a sign that selective investor confidence is returning to India's edtech sector after several years of contraction.
Non-Resident Indians across Bahrain and the wider Gulf have until August 31, 2026 to lock in a 6.5% annual yield on US dollar deposits through BBK India's Foreign Currency Non-Resident scheme, under a temporary window opened by the Reserve Bank of India.
The European Union's Women TechEU programme offers up to €75,000 in equity-free grants plus mentoring for women-led deep-tech startups, part of a broader set of EU funding routes aimed at closing the gender gap in hard-science entrepreneurship.
New data shows all-female founding teams captured just 2.3% of global venture capital in 2024, even as female entrepreneurship rises broadly — a gap that highlights how far the venture ecosystem remains from parity.