Startup Funding News
Aquapulse Raises ₹25 Cr to Scale Aquaculture Processing and AI Farm Platform
Aquapulse is an aquaculture tech company that helps shrimp and fish farmers monitor ponds, manage harvests, and sell produce with fewer middlemen. Aquapulse has raised ₹25 Cr, or about $2.7 Mn, in an ongoing Series A round led by NABVENTURES through its AgriSURE Fund. Aquaculture still loses a lot of value between pond and buyer, […]
OpenAI Raises $122B to Build AI Superapp
OpenAI builds AI products for chat, coding, research, and task execution. Its new OpenAI funding round is meant to pull those pieces into one product. The company has closed a staggering $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation. The real pitch here isn’t just scale. It’s solving the mess of disconnected AI tools people […]
OpenFX Payment Infrastructure Raises $94M for Asia
OpenFX builds payment infrastructure for instant cross-border FX, treasury flows, and payouts, and it has now raised $94 million in a Series A round as it pushes deeper into Southeast Asia and Latin America. The deal values the company at about $500 million. The old way of moving money across borders still leaves businesses stuck […]
Palmonas Funding: $40M for Retail Stores
Palmonas is a Pune-based omnichannel demi-fine jewellery brand selling daily-wear pieces made from surgical stainless steel, sterling silver, and gold-finished materials. It’s chasing a clear gap: buyers want jewellery that looks premium without fine-jewellery prices or throwaway imitation-jewellery quality. That’s why Palmonas funding is worth watching right now. The startup has secured $40 Mn, or […]
NomadicML Funding: $8.4M for AV Video Search
NomadicML builds software that turns autonomous vehicle and robotics footage into searchable training data. The NomadicML funding news is that the San Francisco startup has raised an $8.4 million seed round to attack a very real bottleneck: companies collect absurd amounts of fleet video, but a lot of the most useful footage still sits in […]
Bachatt Funding: Accel Backs $12M AI Wealth Push
Bachatt, a fintech app built for self-employed Indians to save and invest in small-ticket products, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel. The Bachatt funding news matters because most savings apps still assume fixed monthly salaries, while millions of merchants and non-salaried workers deal with uneven cash flow and need […]
NowPurchase Funding Lands ₹80 Cr for Scrap, AI
NowPurchase is a Kolkata-based manufacturing materials marketplace that helps metal factories source scrap, alloys, and additives more efficiently. For a lot of foundries, raw-material buying is still opaque, fragmented, and painfully manual. That mess shows up on the shopfloor fast. The new NowPurchase funding round brings in ₹80 Cr, led by Bajaj Finserv, to push […]
Xovian Raises $2M to Build RF Satellites
Xovian is a Bengaluru startup building RF satellites that turn radio signals from space into real-time intelligence. It has now raised $2 million in fresh funding led by Ashish Kacholia, with existing investor Inflection Point Ventures joining in. The pitch is simple: when ships or aircraft go dark, optical satellite imagery often can’t keep up, […]
Sycamore Raises $65M for an Agent Operating System
Sycamore builds an agent operating system that lets large companies create, govern, and run autonomous AI agents inside real enterprise workflows. On March 30, 2026, the Palo Alto startup closed a $65 million seed round led by Coatue and Lightspeed — a huge first round for a company launched by founder and CEO Sri Viswanath […]