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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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Anduril Funding Hits $5B as Defense Tech Matures
5 min readMay 14, 2026

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 […]

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Origin Lab Raises $8M to Sell Game Data to AI
5 min readMay 14, 2026

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 […]

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Mind Robotics Funding Tops $1B for Factory Robots
5 min readMay 14, 2026

Mind Robotics Funding Tops $1B for Factory Robots

Mind Robotics builds AI-powered industrial robots for factory floors. Its latest funding news is big even by 2026 standards: the Rivian spinout has raised another $400 million just 2 months after landing $500 million, pushing total funding past $1 billion. The bet here is simple enough — factories still rely on people for a lot […]

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upGrad Funding Round Backs Unacademy, AI Push
5 min readMay 14, 2026

upGrad Funding Round Backs Unacademy, AI Push

upGrad is an online higher education and workforce training company, and its latest upGrad funding round brings in ₹360 crore as it lines up the proposed Unacademy acquisition and a bigger push into AI-led learning. The problem it’s chasing is pretty simple: Indian learners and employers don’t want one-off courses anymore — they want outcomes, […]

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Exaforce Raises $125M for Agentic Security Operations
5 min readMay 14, 2026

Exaforce Raises $125M for Agentic Security Operations

Exaforce builds software that helps security teams detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats with AI agents instead of bouncing between a stack of separate tools. The Bay Area startup has now raised $125 million in fresh funding to push deeper into agentic security operations, a category getting crowded fast as enterprises look for faster […]

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