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Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Tangent Robotics has raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of robotic fine motor skills, the company announced today.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Three Kerala startups took the stage at India Today Conclave South 2026 to discuss how they’re addressing manual scavenging, semiconductor challenges.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
Jeeves has raised $110 million in equity funding to build a stablecoin-native banking platform for global enterprises, with payouts across 190 countries.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
The Indian government has told the Supreme Court it will amend the IT Rules to block children under 18 from social media, Inc42 reported.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
A widely discussed work on financial behavior has re-emerged in startup discussions.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
A Gandhi Jayanti book recommendation list has turned into an unexpected focal point for startup founders and early-stage investors.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
Walapay has raised $4.6 million in a seed round led by Generative Ventures, with participation from Commerce Ventures, Rally Cap VC, Polygon.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
The fund, reportedly managed by the European Investment Fund (EIF), is expected to launch in the coming months.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Kanu AI has emerged from stealth with $11.7 million in funding to address inefficiencies in enterprise operations.
Reporting: msn.com, geekwire.com
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Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Andrew Feldman, CEO of AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
SatLEO, a startup based in Bengaluru, has booked a spot for its thermal imaging payload, TAPAS-1, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
PhonePe has reportedly shortened internal audit processes from four days to just two hours by deploying AI, according to Inc42.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
A list of seven books recommended for Gandhi Jayanti has unexpectedly become a talking point among startup founders and early-stage investors.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
The increase isn’t just volume; AI-driven discovery tools appear to be surfacing a different class of flaws, with half allowing remote code execution.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
Inc42’s latest report lays bare the unglamorous truth about bringing AI to India’s hundreds of millions of users.
Brief Sep 30 · 3 min read
Six business-school teams presented a 2035 innovation roadmap for Maharashtra directly to state leadership at the TGC 2026 summit this week.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2026 will stop selling exhibit tables this Friday at 11:59 p.m.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Restate, a Berlin-based startup building infrastructure to keep AI agents and modern applications running through failures.
Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
SiMa.ai has raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation, a figure that pales next to the $5 billion and $10 billion valuations recently secured by cloud AI startups.
Reporting: digitalmarketreports.com
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Brief Sep 30 · 2 min read
Epigamia’s cofounder has launched Kokasa, a deep-tech venture building electromechanical, electrohydraulic, sensing and control systems for defence, aerospace and space.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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