South Korean consumer AI company WRTN Technologies has raised approximately $72.2 million in a Series C round from Coreline Ventures, Goodwater Capital and other investors, pushing its valuation above 1 trillion won.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is nearing completion of a funding round that would value the company at roughly $74 billion before new investment, as it seeks around $7 billion from existing backers including Monolith, Shixiang Capital and CATL.
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik AI has raised $200 million in its largest funding round to date, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $500 million.
PwC India Foundation has stepped up efforts to strengthen sustainable livelihoods and women's economic empowerment in Rajasthan, expanding a programme designed to build durable income-generating opportunities in underserved rural communities.
India's Social Stock Exchange is gaining traction as a mechanism to connect social enterprises with fund providers, promoting transparency, accountability and measurable social impact within the country's growing impact-investing ecosystem.
Sightsavers India CEO RN Mohanty argues that strategic, outcome-driven corporate social responsibility can help close India's persistent eye-health and disability-inclusion gap, building on the country's decades-old blindness-control legislative framework.
Bournvita maker Mondelez India, Amway and several other packaged food companies have dropped or modified health and nutrition claims on their products following action by India's food safety regulator, FSSAI.
The Ministry of Rural Development has launched the second phase of its National Campaign on Entrepreneurship under DAY-NRLM, a three-month drive focused on accelerating farm and non-farm enterprises led by rural women self-help group members.
Karnataka's food safety authorities have suspended the food licences of Amazon, Swiggy Instamart and BigBasket, citing compliance lapses that raise fresh questions about regulatory oversight in India's fast-scaling quick-commerce sector.
Flipkart Minutes has overtaken Swiggy Instamart in both dark-store count and pincode coverage across India's top ten cities, intensifying competition in the country's fast-growing quick-commerce sector.