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OpenFX Payment Infrastructure Raises $94M for Asia
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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 […]

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Palmonas Funding: $40M for Retail Stores
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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 […]

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NomadicML Funding: $8.4M for AV Video Search
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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 […]

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Bachatt Funding: Accel Backs $12M AI Wealth Push
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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 […]

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NowPurchase Funding Lands ₹80 Cr for Scrap, AI
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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 […]

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Xovian Raises $2M to Build RF Satellites
5 min readApril 3, 2026

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, […]

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Sycamore Raises $65M for an Agent Operating System
5 min readApril 2, 2026

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 […]

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ScaleOps Funding Lands $130M for Cloud Efficiency
5 min readApril 2, 2026

ScaleOps Funding Lands $130M for Cloud Efficiency

ScaleOps builds software that automatically manages cloud and AI infrastructure in real time. Now the New York-headquartered startup has announced $130 million in a Series C led by Insight Partners, a bet that companies don’t need more compute nearly as often as they need to stop wasting the compute they already have. CEO Yodar Shafrir […]

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Rebellions AI Chip Startup Raises $400M for IPO
5 min readApril 2, 2026

Rebellions AI Chip Startup Raises $400M for IPO

Rebellions is a South Korean fabless semiconductor company building AI inference chips and rack-scale infrastructure for data centers. The Rebellions AI chip startup has now pulled in another $400 million in pre-IPO financing, lifting total funding to $850 million and valuing the business at about $2.34 billion. The pitch is straightforward: training flashy AI models […]

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