Honasa Consumer, the parent of Mamaearth and The Derma Co, has called off its proposed ₹135 crore acquisition of Fluence Pharma, saying it remains committed to its nutraceuticals strategy and will continue to evaluate other opportunities in the category.
Pet-care startup Scooby's Club has raised $250,000 in a pre-seed round led by TDV Partners, funding that will support its expansion to two new properties across Bengaluru and the hiring of additional canine coaches.
Purple Style Labs has fixed a price band of ₹546 to ₹575 per share for its ₹680 crore initial public offering, valuing the luxury fashion platform at up to ₹4,604 crore as it prepares to open the issue for subscription on August 31.
Purple Style Labs, the parent of luxury fashion platform Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, has raised approximately $40 million in a Series E round from SageOne, Alchemy Long Term Ventures, Bajaj Holdings & Investment and other investors, days ahead of setting its IPO price band.
Bengaluru-based Ringg AI has raised a $10 million Series A extension from Peak XV Partners, Arkam Ventures and Capital 2B, taking the enterprise voice-AI and agent startup's total Series A funding to roughly $15.5 million.
Runable has raised $21 million in a Series A round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, capital the AI-agent startup will use to expand its automated marketing and customer-acquisition tools for small businesses.
Anthropic's IPO filing is set to disclose public backlash against AI as a formal risk factor, according to sources, reflecting growing sensitivity among leading AI companies to public sentiment ahead of major listings.
Amazon has raised prices across its device line-up as rising component costs, driven partly by surging memory chip prices, ripple through the consumer electronics supply chain.
A data center flexibility startup has raised $150 million to help turn power-hungry AI data centers into flexible grid partners, addressing growing concerns about the sustainability of the AI infrastructure buildout.
Nvidia is reportedly putting billions of dollars behind an open-weight AI push, part of a broader strategy of deepening its investment footprint across the AI application and infrastructure landscape.