Seed-stage investor WEH Ventures has announced the first close of its third fund, which targets ₹250 crore. The firm plans to back 20 to 25 early-stage startups across AI, healthcare, fintech and advanced manufacturing, with a final close expected by mid-2027.
AssetGro Fintech, the Bengaluru company behind stock market research platform StockGro, has filed confidential IPO papers with SEBI for an issue of ₹2,000–2,500 crore, including a fresh issue of about ₹800 crore.
Portuguese start-up Humanos has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Anthemis for a 'risk passport' that scores AI agents in real time, aiming to help insurers and lenders underwrite a new class of autonomous software.
Riyadh-based erad, which offers Shariah-compliant working capital to small businesses with approvals in about 48 hours, has raised a $22 million Series A led by MEVP to expand across the Gulf and into capital-intensive sectors.
On its 14th test flight, SpaceX's Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time and deployed 26 next-generation Starlink satellites, before the company cut the mission short after losing one of the ship's six engines.
OpenAI has cancelled the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it fell short on staying within scope and authorisation, the latest sign that leading AI labs are slowing down amid mounting safety concerns.
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence start-up founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth about $8.2 billion. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su.
NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore and Maruti Suzuki have launched the seventh cohort of their six-month mobility incubation programme, targeting early-revenue start-ups in vehicle tech, clean tech, infrastructure and smart manufacturing.
Commercial real estate marketplace myHQ is targeting ₹100 crore in revenue from Dubai over its first three years there, betting that Indian companies and global firms setting up Gulf headquarters will need flexible office space.
Odisha-based BonV Aero has supplied 45 heavy-payload unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian Army's Eastern Command for tactical logistics, as the military scales up drone resupply in mountainous border regions.