Supply chain company Prozo has opened a 30,000 sq ft fulfilment centre at Serampore in West Bengal, its third facility in the Kolkata network. Linked to Kolkata Port, NH-16, NH-19 and the Dankuni logistics hub, it will serve brands selling across West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and the north-east.
The Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kanpur has opened UpStart 2026, a national business model competition that puts screening and multi-week mentoring ahead of short pitches. Regional rounds run in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai before a finale at IIT Kanpur on January 23, 2027.
Rapido has launched Ownly, its zero-commission food delivery app, in Hyderabad after Bengaluru. The platform has onboarded about 10,000 restaurants in the city at launch and aims for 30,000, betting that lower prices and its fleet of Captains can challenge Swiggy and Zomato.
1312 Interactive, a Hyderabad-based publisher of indie and AA games for PC and consoles, has raised $1 million in a seed round co-led by T-Accelerate Capital and Chimera Venture Capital to expand globally and launch a community feedback programme called 1312 Playground.
San Francisco-based Trebellar has raised an $18 million Series A led by Blossom Capital for its AI-native platform for corporate real estate decisions, already used by Meta, Uber, Merck and Cohesity.
Axya, a Montreal-based AI procurement platform used by manufacturers such as MDA Space and GE Aerospace, has raised a C$17 million Series A led by McRock Capital, with Yamaha Motor Ventures participating, to deepen its AI and expand internationally.
Palo Alto-based Silence Laboratories, co-founded by Jay Prakash, builds multi-party computation and zero-knowledge tools that let organisations work with sensitive data without exposing it — and is planning to raise more capital.
Seattle-based Scowtt, a predictive AI platform that optimises advertising and sales towards future customer outcomes, has appointed Ben Trenda as chief revenue officer after doubling ARR in the first half of 2026.
New York-based ORION Security, an agentic data loss prevention platform, has been named one of 16 SINET16 honorees for 2026, selected from 158 applicants across 10 countries.
San Jose-based Realset AI and Flatkey have announced a $10 million Series A to expand real-world training-data capture for frontier models and embodied agents, and to scale Flatkey’s single-key AI developer platform.