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Trackk Trading App Raises $3.7M for Gen Z
5 min readMay 20, 2026

Trackk Trading App Raises $3.7M for Gen Z

Trackk is a Mumbai-based stock discovery and broking app for young Indian investors. The Trackk trading app has raised $3.7 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Info Edge Ventures. The startup wants to make investing simpler for Gen Z users. Many young investors discover stock ideas through creators, communities, and […]

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AI Medical Notetaker Kin Health Raises $9M
5 min readMay 19, 2026

AI Medical Notetaker Kin Health Raises $9M

Kin Health is building an AI medical notetaker for patients. The Los Angeles startup has raised a $9 million seed round led by Maveron. Doctor visits are often packed with instructions, jargon, and follow-ups. But many patients still leave without a clear record they can actually use.Kin was founded by physician brothers Arpan Parikh and […]

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Cellogen Therapeutics Raises ₹20 Cr for CAR-T
5 min readMay 19, 2026

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 […]

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Nectar Social Raises $30M to Build an AI Social OS
5 min readMay 18, 2026

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 […]

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Simple Energy Funding: ₹126.7 Cr Led by Velumani
5 min readMay 18, 2026

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 […]

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Legend of Toys Funding: Singularity Backs RC Push
5 min readMay 18, 2026

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 […]

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Rapido Funding Round: Prosus Leads $240M Raise
5 min readMay 18, 2026

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 […]

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Wirestock Funding Hits $23M for AI Data Push
5 min readMay 15, 2026

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 […]

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Project Garud Lands ₹105 Cr for Dhruva Space
5 min readMay 15, 2026

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 […]

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