1312 Interactive, an Indian publisher of indie and AA video games, has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Chimera Venture Capital and TAC, as it looks to expand its footprint across emerging gaming markets.
Amazon Now, the company's minutes-based delivery service in India, has surpassed $1 billion in annualised gross sales after expanding to more than 60 cities in under ten weeks, as the e-commerce giant races to defend market share in the country's fast-growing quick-commerce sector.
Bengaluru-founded AI content platform Flam has closed a $40 million Series B led by QED Investors, with actor Shah Rukh Khan among a roster of new backers, as the five-year-old company pushes deeper into enterprise sales and product expansion.
American power systems manufacturer Cummins has made a strategic investment in Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based venture capital firm focused on climate change and sustainability, deepening the industrial giant's exposure to climate technology innovation.
UK-based Certain Energy has closed a £10 million ($13.6 million) Series A round for its manganese flow battery technology, addressing long-duration energy storage needs for renewable energy grid integration, with an active use case under development in India.
MassMutual Ventures has launched its second Climate Technology Fund with $150 million earmarked for early-stage companies developing technology to improve the sustainability of real assets, extending institutional capital's growing role in climate technology investing.
The Female Founders Fund's 2026 annual review found that the top five female-founded startups accounted for 79% of all venture capital raised by women-led teams, with the remaining 87 funded companies splitting just $257 million among themselves.
France's public co-investment programme Bpifrance requires funds seeking state backing to commit at least 30% of capital to female founders, a policy that industry data links to a 35% rise in female-founder funding in France since its introduction.
Saudi Arabia has shut down a critical oil pipeline as tensions deepen across the Gulf region, with talks between Iran and Gulf states postponed, pushing oil prices sharply higher and adding fresh pressure to already volatile global energy markets.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index tumbled 5.9% as Nvidia and Intel led a broad chip stock selloff, with concerns about the pace of AI development and rising Treasury yields combining to trigger one of the sector's sharper single-session declines this year.