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Education financing startup Lorien Finance raises $2.25 million led by FlatIronX

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Education financing startup Lorien Finance has secured $2.25 million in Pre-Series A funding led by FlatIronX, a New York-based early-stage VC firm inve...

Education-focussed lender Varthana raises $15 million from BlueOrchard

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Non-Banking Finance Company Varthana has raised $15 million (about Rs 120 crore) in funding from BlueOrchard Microfinance Fund, managed by BlueOrchard.

OpenAI appoints ex Coursera exec Raghav Gupta as education vertical head for India, APAC

25 Aug 2025, 17:48 PM

AI startup OpenAI has appointed Raghav Gupta, the former Asia Pacific Managing Director at Coursera, as the head of its education vertical for India and...

Eduvanz co-founder Raheel Shah steps down

30 Jul 2025, 15:53 PM

Raheel Shah, co-founder and chief business officer of education-focused NBFC Eduvanz, has stepped down, the Inc42 reported.Sha...

EduFund raises $6 million in Series A funding

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

EduFund, a company focused on education financing, has raised $6 million in its Series A funding round led by Cercano Management.

API infra firm Decentro raises Rs 30 crore in Series B led by Info Edge

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

B2B fintech infra startup Decentro has closed a Rs 30 crore in Series B funding round led by InfoEdge Ventures.The funding rou...

OpenAI acqui-hires Xcode coding assistant Alex

08 Sep 2025, 11:33 AM

OpenAI has hired the team behind Alex, a developer tool that uses AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode.Daniel Ed...

Saudi Arabia to roll out AI curriculum across schools

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Saudi Arabia plans to embed artificial intelligence training throughout its public education system beginning next academic year, marking an ambitious p...

Varthana raises Rs 75 crore in debt funding from OfBusiness, others

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Education-focused NBFC Varthana has reportedly secured Rs 75 Cr (approx. $8.7 million) in debt funding, co-led by OfBusiness and its financial arm Oxyzo...

Money & Machines: Regulators, Reel Stars, Real Money. And 'All Inclusive' — Inside GFF 2025

11 Oct 2025, 13:59 PM

India's payments revolution faces a new test: Securing a growing ecosystem

03 Oct 2025, 13:12 PM

India's payments system has undergone a transformation that few countries in the world have experienced at such scale and sp...

The shadow economy of online gaming: How money moves beyond the screen

16 Sep 2025, 10:59 AM

“I gave a contract to someone to build my house in my village in Odisha. The contractor gave Rs 6 lakh to one of his staff for mater...

NPCI, Cred join PCI Security Standards Council's first India-South Asia regional engagement board

01 Sep 2025, 14:26 PM

PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has set up its first Regional Engagement Board (REB) for India and South Asia region.

At a Glance: AI Data Labeling companies beyond Scale AI

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

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2000 Years of Banking: How India Pioneered Financial Systems

25 Jul 2025, 13:02 PM

After tracing the evolution of currency in India through a historical timeline in the ...

Small businesses say GSUnite duped them with false promises; company denies claims

16 Sep 2025, 13:18 PM

Update: A month after the story was published, we received GSUnite’s responses on April 10. We’ve included them in full at the end of this art...

Student lending platform Kuhoo Finance gets NBFC licence from RBI

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

Student lending platform Kuhoo Finance has received approval for a non-banking financial company licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

InCred Finance acquires TruCap's gold loan business

25 Jul 2025, 12:28 PM

InCred Finance, the lending arm of InCred Group, is foraying into gold loans segment by acquiring the gold loan business of non-banking financial compan...

Exclusive: Razorpay, Cashfree discontinue payment processing via Juspay

25 Jul 2025, 12:26 PM

In a major turn of events, leading payment aggregators Razorpay and Cashfree have severed their partnerships with payment orchestratio...

OpenAI launches ChatGPT built in web browser Atlas

22 Oct 2025, 12:20 PM

AI startup OpenAI has launched a new web browser Atlas with ChatGPT built in, heating up competition against Google."As you us...