Two-year-old Italian start-up Complaion has raised €13.5 million led by Eurazeo and Italian Founders Fund for a platform that pairs software with human experts to automate ISO certification and new EU rules such as NIS2 and the AI Act.
NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore and Maruti Suzuki have launched the seventh cohort of their six-month mobility incubation programme, targeting early-revenue start-ups in vehicle tech, clean tech, infrastructure and smart manufacturing.
Commercial real estate marketplace myHQ is targeting ₹100 crore in revenue from Dubai over its first three years there, betting that Indian companies and global firms setting up Gulf headquarters will need flexible office space.
Actor Ranbir Kapoor has entered India's FMCG market as founder of Flux Theory, a five-variant shower gel brand built with co-founder Advay Jhunjhunwala and venture studio Think9, targeting a category where most Indians still use soap.
Indian startups raised $203.4 million across 21 deals in the week to 25 September, up 3.4 times from the prior week. Ultraviolette's $85 million and Ema's $77 million led, while five AI startups together raised $89.3 million.
The state-backed, zero-commission Bharat Taxi was meant to empower drivers. In Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, passengers and drivers now allege groups forcing riders to delete Uber and Rapido, and threats and thefts, testing the cooperative model's legitimacy.
WordPress.com parent Automattic has a new board that includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of defunct social app IRL, after chief executive Matt Mullenweg used his voting control to reverse a boardroom attempt to put him on leave.
The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I has reached a first close of ₹450 crore towards a ₹1,000 crore target, and plans to back about 25 deep-tech startups in areas from defence and spacetech to semiconductors, robotics and climate technology.
Indian startups raised $203.4 million across 21 deals between September 21 and 25, more than three times the previous week's total, led by Ultraviolette's $85 million round and Ema's $77 million Series B.
Buy&Ship, a Hong Kong cross-border e-commerce logistics company, is the first Hong Kong start-up admitted to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Asia Startup Hub. The move puts a Tokyo listing on the table as Japan becomes central to its business.