Autonomous trucking startup Gatik AI has raised $200 million in its largest funding round to date, led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, bringing total capital raised to about $500 million.
Climate-tech startup CarbonStrong is targeting up to 100,000 tonnes of annual production capacity for its low-carbon cement binder, aiming to replace up to half the cement content in South Indian construction projects.
German chipmaker Infineon is acquiring Peak XV-backed C2i Semiconductors, establishing a new center of excellence for digital power technologies in India as the AI infrastructure buildout accelerates.
Tata Consultancy Services has acquired MHP, the German consulting arm owned by Porsche, for $373 million, deepening its footprint in automotive and digital engineering consulting.
Five Indian startup funding rounds closed on August 25, 2026, spanning aerospace, wealthtech, electric motorcycles, climate tech and spiritual tech, underscoring the breadth of sectors still drawing venture capital.
Nidhi Pant, co-founder of S4S Technologies, has won the 17th Social Entrepreneur of the Year India Award for building solar-powered food processing technology that helps thousands of smallholder women farmers turn agricultural waste into income.
Nvidia has notified major enterprise customers that server systems built around its high-end AI processors will see price increases exceeding 15 percent, driven by rising memory chip costs that are rippling across the broader AI hardware supply chain.
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech venture Navi has raised $100 million from Dutch technology investor Prosus in its first-ever institutional funding round, valuing the company at approximately $1.3 billion as it prepares for a public listing.
Meta is on trial in Oakland federal court against a coalition of US states alleging it designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, in a case presided over by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who also oversaw Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI.
A powerful new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced anonymously on the developer platform OpenRouter, offering a roughly 1 million-token context window and multimodal capabilities for free, even as its creator remains unidentified.