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Critical Energy Raises $19M for Geothermal Turbines
Critical Energy builds factory-made geothermal turbines that turn underground heat into always-on electricity. The 2024 startup has now raised $19 million in seed funding because geothermal developers are running into a physical bottleneck: there aren’t enough compatible turbines in the right sizes, especially if they need them built fast instead of assembled on-site over months […]
Pramaana Labs Raises $27M to Verify AI Work
Pramaana Labs builds software that turns messy legal, tax, and scientific rules into machine-checkable logic, so AI systems can show why an answer is valid instead of just sounding confident. On June 17, 2026, the startup raised a $27 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures for that mission. The pitch is simple: enterprise AI […]
Atom XVII Fund Launches ₹75 Crore Consumer Bet
Atom XVII is a new early-stage investment fund built to back India’s consumer startups from pre-seed to Series A. The Atom XVII Fund has launched as a Category II Alternative Investment Fund with a target corpus of ₹75 crore. It’s betting that many fast-growing consumer businesses still struggle to find organised early-stage capital once you […]
CREST Family Office Raises $3.1M for India Wealth Push
CREST is a Mumbai-based wealth management startup building a fractional family office for ultra-rich founders, business owners, and institutions. The CREST family office has raised $3.1 million, or ₹29.3 crore, in a pre-seed round as it tries to turn a very old, very relationship-driven business into something more structured and tech-enabled. Wealthy Indian families increasingly […]
SolarSquare Series C Brings $53M From B Capital
SolarSquare is a residential rooftop solar company that designs, installs, finances, and maintains home solar systems in India. SolarSquare Series C has brought in $53 million led by B Capital, taking the startup’s total funding to more than $100 million. The problem it’s chasing is pretty obvious: for a lot of homeowners, rooftop solar still […]
Probably AI Raises $9M to Fix LLM Hallucinations
Probably AI builds a local-first data analysis agent that answers questions from messy datasets without inventing numbers. Andreessen Horowitz has put $9 million behind that bet in a seed round, giving founder Peter Elias a shot at turning AI reliability into a real product category instead of a perpetual demo problem. Companies want fast answers […]
TruNativ Funding Round Lands $30M for Retail Push
TruNativ is a Mumbai-based clean-label nutrition brand that sells protein, fibre, and sugar-reduction products for everyday health-conscious consumers. Its new TruNativ funding round brings in $30 million from OrbiMed Advisors LLC at a time when Indian nutrition shoppers still deal with confusing labels, processed formulas, and patchy access outside online channels. Founded in 2019 by […]
Sarvam AI Funding: HCLTech Backs $300M Agentic Push
Sarvam builds Indian-language AI models and enterprise tools for voice, text, and document workflows. The Sarvam AI funding round has pushed the Bengaluru startup into unicorn territory after it raised $234 Mn in the first close of a $300 Mn Series B at a $1.5 Bn post-money valuation, with HCLTech leading the round and committing […]
Foodstories Funding: Kamath Backs ₹50 Crore Growth
Foodstories is an omnichannel gourmet food retail platform that sells curated groceries, ingredients, and food-led experiences through stores and digital channels. The Foodstories funding round brings in ₹50 crore, led by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, with participation from existing investor Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office. The gap it’s chasing is obvious: traditional grocery feels transactional, while […]