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FundingJun 29, 2026

Livspace: How a $487M-Funded Interior Design Unicorn Is Preparing for India's Biggest Home Tech IPO

In 2019, IKEA invested in Livspace. In 2022, KKR led a $180M round that made it a unicorn. In 2025, it completed a reverse flip from Singapore to India and raised INR 427 crore to prepare for an IPO. In December 2025, it acquired Abby Lighting for $23 million. This is the interior design platform that turned a fragmented, trust-broken industry into an e-commerce-grade experience — and is now building toward the public market.

FundingJun 29, 2026

LaundryMate: BigBasket Co-Founder Abhinay Choudhari's ₹50 Crore Bet on India's ₹1 Lakh Crore Laundry Market

He left BigBasket two days after Tata Digital acquired it in 2021. He could have rested. He started LaundryMate instead — targeting the ₹90,000 crore laundry market with machines from Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands and a target of 30 cities in 10 years.

FundingJun 28, 2026

CashKaro Founders Swati and Rohan Bhargava

In 2022, Swati Bhargava's kidney function had dropped to 3 to 4 per cent. She was closing a ₹130 crore funding round simultaneously. She attended investor calls in the evenings, hospital visits in the mornings, and closed the round before checking in for a kidney transplant. Then she got back to running the company.

FundingJun 28, 2026

They Sold Their House to Start a Fridge Magnet Company.

They came back from a trip abroad carrying magnets from Paris and trinkets from Bangkok and asked a simple question: why can't India have something like this? They sold their house to find out. Fifteen years later, Chumbak has raised nearly ₹250 crore, built more than 70 exclusive stores, sells across home decor, fashion, accessories, and personal care, and has stayed fiercely itself through every market cycle and every competitive pressure.

FundingJun 28, 2026

How a Husband and Wife Built SUGAR Cosmetics Into India's Most Rebellious Beauty Brand

Before SUGAR, Vineeta and Kaushik failed twice. Before FAB Bag taught them what Indian women wanted, they built a fashion e-commerce company nobody funded and a consulting firm nobody hired. They bootstrapped SUGAR with personal savings and a loan from Vineeta's father. Their first product insight was that international makeup did not work on Indian skin in Indian weather. Everything they built followed from that one honest observation.

FundingJun 27, 2026

Less Money Spread Wider, More Money Pooled Narrower: India's $7.2 Billion Tech Funding Story Has a Twist

More money. Fewer deals. Faster unicorns. India's startup funding in 2026 isn't bigger — it's narrower, sharper, and moving at a completely different speed than it used to.

FundingJun 27, 2026

MyGate: How an IITian Became a Security Guard

Abhishek Kumar is an IIT graduate. Before building MyGate, he worked as a security guard at a gated community to understand what the job actually required and what was going wrong. That decision — to start at the lowest point in the system and learn it from the inside — explains everything about how MyGate was built, what problem it actually solves, and why 5.7 million households now trust it.

FundingJun 27, 2026

Equal AI Raises $30M Series B Led by Prosus: Keshav Reddy's AI Call Assistant

Equal AI was not supposed to be a consumer product. It was built as identity and consent-driven data infrastructure for banks and insurers. Then Keshav Reddy pivoted in October 2025 to build India's first AI call assistant, targeting the specific pain that every Indian smartphone user knows intimately: the endless stream of spam calls.

FundingJun 27, 2026

Athvik Amith Kumar: The 11-Year-Old Founder of ZOZOconnect

The tycoons on Bharat Ke Super Founders questioned him on margins, technology, and sustainability. He answered with calm precision and held his ground through every question. Suniel Shetty called him a chhota packet, bada dhamaka. Nitish Mittersain gave him ₹11 lakh. And the entire panel committed to mentor him. Athvik Amith Kumar started his company at 10.

FundingJun 27, 2026

They Watched K-Dramas and Found a Business. Now NEWME Is India's Answer to Shein.

Sumit Jasoria was watching Korean dramas with his nieces during the pandemic. They were 10 and 12. They were obsessed — not just with the shows but with the fashion in them. He noticed that Indian Gen Z wanted to dress like what they saw on screen, and that nothing in the Indian market was moving fast enough or affordably enough to give it to them. That observation became NEWME