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MobiKwik’s Taku buys shares as insider confidence signal
MobiKwik cofounder and CFO Upasana Taku has acquired 1.07 lakh shares of the company.
Reporting: inc42.com
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NetApp bets on Novus to fix enterprise AI’s data bottleneck
NetApp CEO George Kurian has staked the company’s AI strategy on Novus, a new architecture designed to help enterprises move AI workloads from pilot to production.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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India’s $25B deep-tech fund aims to close US-China gap
India has set aside $25 billion to invest in deep-tech startups, a move that could reshape its position in semiconductors, AI.
Reporting: msn.com
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Maven Robotics eyes public markets after $100M Series A
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth in September with a $100 million Series A, and reports suggest it may be positioning for an initial public offering.
Reporting: roboticsandautomationnews.com
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AI writing tool Sherpa claims major IP co-creation role
Pocket Entertainment founder Rohan Nayak has stated that Sherpa, an AI-powered long-form fiction writing harness.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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AWS embeds DuckDB in Aurora PostgreSQL for live-historical queries
Amazon Web Services has quietly embedded the open-source DuckDB analytical engine inside Aurora PostgreSQL.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Apollo launches AI suite to unify sales workflows
Apollo has rolled out an AI-powered platform designed to pull sales workflows—data enrichment, outreach, and analytics—into a single interface.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Clio acquires judge-focused AI startup to court legal sector
Clio has acquired an unnamed AI startup building tools for judges, the company announced Wednesday.
Reporting: reuters.com
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CScale’s $145M optical interconnect bet splits Nvidia and Intel
CScale has emerged from stealth with a $145 million Series C led by Nvidia and Intel Capital.
Reporting: unite.ai
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Aligator raises $1.2M seed to automate PR with AI agents
Aligator, a startup building AI agents to automate public relations workflows, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.
Reporting: usatoday.com
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Modulate’s $25M round tests voice AI’s scalability beyond LLMs
Modulate has raised $25 million to scale Velma, its "audio-native voice intelligence model," which the company says achieves 95% precision across 76 genres.
Reporting: digitalmusicnews.com
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Instinct’s $1B round cements AI agents as VC’s next frontier
Instinct has raised $1 billion in a Series C round at a $10 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark, with participation from Coatue.
Reporting: techstory.in
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Gong launches AI agents for automated sales workflows
Gong has rolled out AI agents that automatically trigger sales workflows based on third-party data and real-time conversation signals.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Karnataka’s Rs 25L grants aim to turn pilots into purchase orders
Karnataka has launched a pilot funding scheme that will give 100 startups up to Rs 25 lakh each to validate solutions with state departments.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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Temporal tops GeekWire 200 as AI agent reliability takes center stage
Temporal has claimed the number one spot on the GeekWire 200.
Reporting: geekwire.com
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India’s 2026 funding surge shifts to DeepTech and hardware
More than $10 billion in venture capital has flowed into Indian startups in the first nine months of 2026, but the money is now chasing a different kind of risk.
Reporting: cxotoday.com
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Flipkart D2C data shows non-metro demand driving growth
Reports suggest that direct-to-consumer brands may be seeing increased traction in Tier II and III markets.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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ElevenLabs hits $22B valuation in $300M tender offer
ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion in a $300 million tender offer, marking one of the fastest jumps in AI startup history.
Reporting: cryptobriefing.com, sifted.eu, tech.eu
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Tangent Robotics raises $4.5M to fast-track robotic dexterity
Tangent Robotics has raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of robotic fine motor skills, the company announced today.
Reporting: joplinglobe.com
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Kerala’s robotics startups tackle local problems with off-the-shelf tech
Three Kerala startups took the stage at India Today Conclave South 2026 to discuss how they’re addressing manual scavenging, semiconductor challenges.
Reporting: msn.com
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