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Pine Labs appoints Avendus Capital's Sameer Kamath as CFO

08 Aug 2025, 10:12 AM

Pine Labs has appointed former Avendus Capital executive Sameer Kamath as its chief financial officer. In this role, Kama...

Rainmatter invests in former Zerodha advisor floated company

07 Aug 2025, 17:50 PM

Rainmatter Capital, Zerodha's investment arm, has invested in the Series A funding round of Capitalmind Financial Services, a SEBI-registered portfolio ...

DPDzero secures $7 million in Series A led by GMO Venture Partners

08 Aug 2025, 12:35 PM

Digital debt recovery platform DPDzero has raised $7 million in a Series A funding round led by Japanese investment firm GMO Venture Partners, SMBC Asia...

Clear cuts software engineers and IIT freshers in major restructuring

07 Aug 2025, 10:39 AM

Clear, a venture capital backed online taxation and fintech software provider, has laid off around 25%, or 150-200 of its workforce, two people aware of...

Mistral in talks to raise $1 billion

04 Aug 2025, 12:52 PM

AI startup Mistral is in talks with investors to raise $1 billion at a valuation of $10 billion, according to the Financial Times.

Apple creates new team to build ChatGPT-like app

04 Aug 2025, 12:15 PM

Tech giant Apple has created a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app called Answers, Knowledge and Information, according to Bloomberg.

SiMa.ai raises $85 million led by Maverick Capital

01 Aug 2025, 21:48 PM

SiMa.ai, a company delivering hardware and software solutions for Physical AI, has raised $85 million in an oversubscribed round, bringing total capital...

Shark Tank startup Plus Gold shuts shop

01 Aug 2025, 17:57 PM

Digital gold investment platform Plus Gold has shut down its operations, the Inc42 reported, citing its co-founder and ex-CEO Veer Mishra.

Thinking Machines Lab employees rebuff Meta's offer as high as $1 billion

31 Jul 2025, 10:35 AM

Meta made an attempt to lure a handful of senior researchers from a one-year-old startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, signalling the Mark Z...

Dhoni's investment firm backs insurtech startup Acko

30 Jul 2025, 15:02 PM

Former Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni has made a strategic investment in digital insurance company Acko through his family office, Midas Deals. 

Groq nears $600 million funding at around $6 billion valuation

30 Jul 2025, 14:37 PM

AI chip startup Groq is close to raising $600 million in a new funding round at about $6 billion valuation, the Bloomberg reported....

Anthropic close to raising fresh funding at $170 billion valuation

30 Jul 2025, 14:18 PM

AI startup Anthropic is close to raising a fresh funding round of $3-$5 billion at a valuation of $170 billion, according to a Bloomberg report.

At a Glance: Global bipedal robot race accelerates as Chinese firms make bigger strides

29 Jul 2025, 15:47 PM

When Elon Musk asserted Tesla's dominance in the humanoid robots space earlier in April, he also displayed a show of humility which was not very America...

China's Unitree prices new humanoid robot at under $6,000

26 Jul 2025, 20:18 PM

China robotics company Unitree Robotics has launched a new humanoid model at a starting price of just under $6,000, underlining the Asian country's ambi...

OpenAI's Shengjia Zhao named as chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs

26 Jul 2025, 19:36 PM

Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, one of the original developers behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, as the chief scientist for its newly set up Meta Superintellig...

BNPL startup Simpl under ED scanner over Rs 913 crore FDI violation

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a complaint under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) against One Sigma Technologies Pvt Ltd, whi...

In Charts: Amrish Rau's startup bets

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

Amrish Rau, CEO of initial public offering (IPO) bound fintech unicorn Pine Labs, has been a prominent angel investor, having invested in around 50 star...

AI supremacy: Taiwan follows US with mega global hub plan

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Taiwan is all set to launch 'Ten Major AI Infrastructure Projects' initiative as it aims to become a global leader in artificial intelligence. This init...

Digital lender KreditBee converts into public entity ahead of IPO

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

Bengaluru-based digital lending platform KreditBee has received approval from its board to convert into a public entity ahead of its initial public offe...

IPO-bound digital lender Ring (Kissht) sees FY25 profit dip, disbursements halved

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

OnEMi Technologies Pvt Ltd, the parent entity of IPO-bound fintech startup Ring (earlier known as Kissht) and systemically important non-deposit taking ...