Coal India has unveiled new CSR healthcare initiatives, including a bone-marrow-transplant programme and the Thalassemia Bal Seva Yojana, extending its decade-long commitment to child healthcare across mining communities.
W Health Ventures has closed its second fund focused on backing women's-health startups in India, adding institutional capital to a category that has historically struggled to attract mainstream venture attention.
Audio-storytelling platform Kuku Technologies plans to hire 1,000 people by the end of the financial year to build out its AI-powered content creation unit, leveraging its AI Storytelling Stack.
Reliance Jio has set a September 2027 target for the first test launch of its planned 1,600-satellite low-Earth-orbit constellation, as India's telecom majors race to build sovereign satellite broadband capacity.
D2C dessert brand SORRY SUGAR has raised $1 million in its first seed round, led by the Dhanuka family and Amishi London, to expand its monk-fruit-sweetened gelato line across North India.
Safebox, a platform helping Indian families track assets, liabilities, insurance and critical records, has raised $1.1 million in a seed round to accelerate distribution through corporate partnerships.
DigitalPaani has raised Rs 22 crore in a round led by Navam Capital, with a wide investor base including a fund dedicated to early-growth women entrepreneurs, to expand its water-technology platform.
Cooling-as-a-service startup Circolife has raised $4.5 million in a pre-Series A round to expand its subscription model for air conditioners, offering households and small businesses an alternative to upfront ownership.
Mumbai-based Fundly.ai has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Accel and Multiply, taking total funding past $7 million, to build an AI-native B2B distribution network for India's Rs 2.5 lakh crore pharmaceutical trade.
Indian space-tech startup GalaxEye has been granted a US patent for OptoSAR, its core architecture that synchronises optical and synthetic aperture radar sensors to deliver aligned Earth-observation data.