Startup Funding
Nivasa Finance Raises ₹25 Cr to Expand Home Loans
Nivasa Finance is a Bengaluru startup that connects underserved home-loan borrowers with banks and NBFCs for affordable housing finance. The company has raised ₹25 crore in seed funding from Prime Venture Partners, Blume Ventures, Whiteboard Capital, and several angel investors. Nivasa Finance wants to help rural and semi-urban borrowers access formal home loans more easily. […]
Dessn Design Tool Raises $6M for Codebase Work
Dessn is an AI-native product design platform that lets teams prototype directly inside an existing codebase instead of mocking things up somewhere else first. The Dessn design tool has now raised $6 million, led by Connect Ventures, as more startups look for faster ways to close the gap between design and shipped software. Founded in […]
Exaforce SOC Platform Raises $125M Series B
Exaforce builds software that uses AI agents to automate security operations work inside the modern SOC. The Exaforce SOC platform just pulled in a $125 million Series B at a $725 million valuation, a big jump that shows investors think security teams will spend serious money on tools that cut through alert noise fast. The […]
Dil Foods Funding: ₹72 Cr for 600-Pincode Push
Dil Foods is a virtual restaurant operator that turns spare kitchen capacity at local restaurants into delivery-first food brands sold on Swiggy and Zomato. It’s chasing a simple problem: lots of neighborhood kitchens have unused capacity, but building a dependable online food brand from scratch is expensive, operationally messy, and brutally margin-sensitive. The Dil Foods […]
HrdWyr Funding: $13M for AI-Native Chips
HrdWyr builds AI-native semiconductor chips for edge devices and power-heavy systems. HrdWyr funding just got a big boost with a $13 million Series A led by Ideaspring Capital, giving the Bengaluru startup room to push its chip roadmap faster. The problem it’s chasing is simple enough: generic silicon still forces a lot of products to […]
Mekr Funding: Avaana Backs ₹67 Cr ODM Push
Mekr is an electronics manufacturing platform that helps brands design and source consumer electronic products, then build them through one managed production stack. A lot of Indian brands still rely on imported finished goods or a messy patchwork of vendors, which makes timelines, pricing, and quality harder to control. Now the Delhi NCR startup has […]
Cowboy Space Raises $275M for Orbital AI Compute
Cowboy Space is building orbital data centers that it eventually wants to launch on its own rockets, and that pitch just brought in $275 million in new funding. The bet is simple: AI compute demand keeps climbing, while power, land, permitting, and launch slots are all getting tighter. Founder Baiju Bhatt started the company in […]
Helsing Funding Nears $1.2B With Dragoneer Lead
Helsing builds AI software and autonomous drones for European militaries. The latest Helsing funding talks point to a $1.2 billion round at about an $18 billion valuation, with Dragoneer expected to lead and existing backer Lightspeed set to co-lead. The pitch is simple: Europe’s armed forces still run too much of modern war through slow […]
Wingreens Safe Harvest Acquisition Follows ₹120 Cr Raise
Wingreens is a Gurugram-based packaged food company known for dips, sauces, juices, and breakfast foods. The company recently completed the Wingreens Safe Harvest acquisition and also raised ₹120 crore in a Series D round led by Ashish Kacholia with participation from Alchemy Fund. The company wants to solve a simple problem. Indian consumers want cleaner […]