Eyewear retailer Lenskart and fintech platform Groww have been added to the MSCI Global Standard Index, triggering a wave of institutional stake sales including a ₹1,876 crore BlackRock purchase amid a sharp rally in Lenskart's stock.
New York-based cloud-native clearing and custody platform RQD Clearing has raised $74 million in a venture round led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, extending its total funding to roughly $84 million.
Sydney-founded cybersecurity startup Apate.AI has raised A$11.4 million in seed funding to scale its adversarial-AI platform designed to detect and disrupt AI-powered fraud and scam operations before they reach victims.
Aryan Dalvi and Prannaya Gupta have been named recipients of Singapore's Smart Nation and IMDA SG Digital scholarships respectively, positioning two young Indian-origin Singaporeans among the country's next generation of technology leadership.
A growing number of Indian tech professionals in the United States are choosing to leave well-paid roles and return home, citing H-1B visa restrictions and a desire for greater stability — a trend reshaping how India's booming tech sector thinks about talent.
Microsoft continued working to restore parts of Microsoft 365 on September 1 after a widespread outage disrupted Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft 365 Copilot, tracing the incident to a shared authentication issue.
Espoo-based deep-tech startup S-Transistors has raised €2.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Lifeline Ventures to develop superconducting electronics for next-generation quantum-computing infrastructure.
Brazilian cybersecurity company Vultus has raised R$8 million to accelerate development of its AI-driven security platform Ares, marking a strategic shift from consulting-led revenue toward recurring software income.
Seoul-based aerospace startup Airbility has raised ₩6.5 billion in Series A funding to scale its interceptor drone technology, aiming to make counter-drone defense economically proportional to the cost of the threats it neutralises.
Zurich-based cybersecurity firm xorlab has raised €5 million in Series A+ funding to expand its behavioural-analysis email-security platform across DACH, Benelux and Nordic markets amid Europe's push for sovereign digital infrastructure.