Startup Funding News
Cellogen Therapeutics Raises ₹20 Cr for CAR-T
Cellogen Therapeutics is building lower-cost CAR-T and gene therapies for cancer and blood disorders, and it has now pulled in ₹20 crore from Kotak Alternate Asset Managers. The big problem it’s chasing is brutally simple: existing CAR-T treatment can cost $500,000 to $700,000, which puts it out of reach for most patients. Founded in 2021 […]
Nectar Social Raises $30M to Build an AI Social OS
Nectar Social builds software that helps brands handle community management and social listening. It also covers creator workflows and commerce conversations in one place. That AI social OS just brought in a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and the Anthology Fund, which Menlo created alongside Anthropic. The pitch is simple: buying conversations […]
Simple Energy Funding: ₹126.7 Cr Led by Velumani
Simple Energy builds premium electric scooters for Indian riders. The latest Simple Energy funding round brings in ₹126.7 Cr at a moment when the Bengaluru startup is trying to prove it can scale faster than the delays and skepticism that followed its early years. India’s EV market is crowded, capital intensive, and brutally unforgiving when […]
Legend of Toys Funding: Singularity Backs RC Push
Legend of Toys, a Bengaluru-based D2C toy brand selling story-led RC cars and collectible play products, has raised ₹21 crore in a pre-Series A round. The Legend of Toys funding news matters because most mass-market RC toys are still built like disposable impulse buys, while this company is trying to make them serviceable, collectible, and […]
Rapido Funding Round: Prosus Leads $240M Raise
Rapido is an Indian ride-hailing platform that started with bike taxis and now spans autos, cabs, parcels, metro tickets, and other travel bookings in one app. The Rapido funding round disclosed on May 15, 2026 brings in $240 million from Prosus, WestBridge Capital, Accel, and other investors as part of a larger $730 million mix […]
Wirestock Funding Hits $23M for AI Data Push
Wirestock has raised a $23 million Series A to expand its creator-made multimodal training data business. The tough part in this market isn’t just collecting more files. It’s packaging legally cleared, human-made content into something model builders can train on without a rights mess later. Co-founder and CEO Mikayel Khachatryan launched Wirestock in 2018 with […]
Project Garud Lands ₹105 Cr for Dhruva Space
Dhruva Space builds satellites, ground stations, and launch support for customers that need one company to take a mission from hardware to orbit operations. That’s why Project Garud matters: the Hyderabad startup has secured ₹105 crore in grant support under the Centre’s Research, Development & Innovation Fund to build a standardised 500 kg-class satellite platform […]
Anduril Funding Hits $5B as Defense Tech Matures
Anduril builds autonomous military hardware and the software layer that ties those systems together. The new Anduril funding round is huge: $5 billion in Series H financing at a $61 billion valuation, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The pitch to customers is blunt — governments still buy too much custom defense […]
Origin Lab Raises $8M to Sell Game Data to AI
Origin Lab is building a platform that turns licensed video game worlds into training data for AI systems that need to understand movement, physics, and 3D space. The startup has raised an $8 million seed round as demand grows for better data for world models and physical AI. That matters because labs working beyond text […]