Nuvah, founded in October 2025 by IIM Ahmedabad alumna Avni Jain, has raised ₹4 crore in a pre-seed round from Amit Jain, Shantanu Deshpande and Ishendra Agarwal to scale its SteadyForm comfort technology for heels.
Pine Labs plans to roll out one million cloud-first soundboxes across India to deepen UPI adoption beyond small-ticket payments, as CEO B Amrish Rau says new monetisation levers justify reinvesting in the ecosystem.
PhonePe plans to engage more than 20,000 frontline staff and deploy over 5 million smart speakers and point-of-sale devices across India within a year, with about half of the devices headed for rural areas and Tier 6 towns.
Policybazaar parent PB Fintech fell as much as 36% and Turtlemint hit its lower circuit after India's insurance regulator proposed hard caps on distributor commissions, wiping out more than ₹25,000 crore in market value in a single session.
As AI agents gain access to enterprise data, systems and tools, they are emerging as a new class of active identity that needs its own permissions, monitoring and governance — reshaping the cybersecurity market.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the White House on September 24 with advanced chips, rare-earth export controls, AI safety and data-centre power among the technology issues shaping the talks.
Cross-border payments company PayGlocal, co-founded by Prachi Dharani, has received IFSCA in-principle approval to set up a payment service provider subsidiary in GIFT-IFSC.
At Zoholics in Chennai, Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu said AI is becoming the new interface for business software as the company launched Zia Chat and industry offerings for seven sectors.
Healthtech startup Rio.ai, which runs WhatsApp-based medicine delivery platform Rio Health, has raised ₹43.08 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Version One Ventures at an estimated ₹170 crore valuation.
Google has opened preorders for Googlebook, a new Android-based laptop line with on-device Gemini features from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo starting at $899, bundled with a year of Google AI Pro and ten years of software updates.