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Prosus's $100 Million Navi Investment Clears CCI, and the Valuation Is Still Not Confirmed by Either Side

The Competition Commission approved it on October 30. A reported $1.3 billion valuation would sit 35% below the $2 billion Navi sought in 2024.

Taro NakamuraOct 303 min

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02Mintive Raises a $7 Million Seed Led by Cowboy Ventures to Gate What Company AI Agents Can TouchThe renamed MintMCP says it has over 50 enterprise customers, but TechCrunch and the company's own blog name different ones, and no valuation is given.Oct 30
03Delhivery's ₹40.6 Crore Q2 Profit Swing Is ₹91 Crore, and ₹90 Crore Is the Integration Cost That StoppedRevenue per express parcel fell about 8% as shipments rose 32.1%, per figures reported by Inc42 and Entrackr for the quarter ended September 2026.Oct 30
04Atomberg Clears SEBI for a ₹450 Crore Fresh Issue, and Two Outlets Disagree on Whether Its Loss WidenedEntrackr says the FY26 net loss narrowed from ₹199 crore; Inc42 says it widened 26.8% from ₹117.4 crore. Both print ₹148.9 crore for FY26.Oct 30
05Upwind Announces $400 Million Series C, $100 Million Above September ReportsIsraeli-founded cloud security company Upwind put the round at $400 million on Oct. 28, while Globes and CTech reported about $300 million on Sept. 2, and the valuation appears only in press coverage.Oct 29
06Thrive Holdings Buys ADT for $15.3 Billion, With Apollo PayingADT's own release says the all-cash deal is financed solely by Apollo funds, a detail the OpenAI-backed framing of the buyer leaves out.Oct 29
07Simantic, a YC F26 Startup, Swaps Renode for Its Own Rust Firmware SimulatorThe founders' Launch HN post lists ESP32-S3 and STM32H7 support, but a commenter reading the live cloud API saw neither, and the company's site names one chip.Oct 29
08Dream Raises $17 Million Seed From a16z to Design Buildings With AIThe Palantir veterans' startup says its model learned from more than 100 million square feet of permitted buildings, and has 10 active projects in Texas and California.Oct 29
09Numeracle Raises $28 Million From Edison Alone, 80% of All Capital It Has Taken Since 2018, With No Valuation GivenThe spam-label verification company, profitable in 2026 per Crunchbase News, gives a 70% recurring-revenue growth rate but no base, so the round cannot be priced.Oct 28
10Crunchbase's 185% Robotics Funding Jump Is Nine Months, Not the Quarter, Which Rose About 130% to $9.9 BillionCrunchbase News and The Robot Report count robotics money differently, and one month of the second equals 49% of the first's quarter.Oct 28
11Cognizant Is Reported in Talks for a Sarvam Stake at $3.5 Billion to $4 Billion, Up From $1.5 Billion in JuneThe figure comes from an ET report relayed by Inc42, neither company has commented, and the $300 million target equals the size Sarvam's Series B was meant to reach in June.Oct 28
12Astrotalk Books ₹222 Crore Profit on ₹1,823 Crore Revenue While Advertising Spend Rises to ₹823 CroreEntrackr and Inc42 both report audited FY26 numbers, but the ₹296 crore pre-tax profit Inc42 gives does not follow from the ₹1,576 crore of expenses Entrackr lists.Oct 28
13Meesho's 68% Smaller Q2 Loss Is Flat on Q1, and New Initiatives Lost Three Times MoreRevenue rose 34% to ₹4,132 crore, but ₹109 crore of the year-ago loss was one-off, and Peak XV, Elevation and Y Combinator sold shares in the interim.Oct 28
14Info Edge's Oberoi Steps Down After 16 Years as CEO; Bikhchandani Takes Over December 3The Naukri parent's profit rose 87% in Q2, but ₹428 crore of its income was not from operations, and the founder says he cannot do this for another 20 years.Oct 28
15Hex Raises $100 Million at $1.2 Billion, Led by Peak XV and 137 VenturesThe analytics company's own post gives 2,500 customers and a best-ever quarter, but no revenue, no series name and no word on pre- or post-money.Oct 28
16Guidewire Pays $1.7 Billion Cash for Hyperexponential, Funding $1 Billion With DebtThe London underwriting-software startup raised nearly $90 million in total. Guidewire's filing shows a $400 million earn-out and a bank-backed term loan.Oct 28
17Re:Build Announces $2.1 Billion Led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase, With No Valuation GivenThe Slate Auto parent's new pool is 17.5 times General Catalyst's $120 million first check in 2024, and larger than the $1.4 billion its truck spinout has raised.Oct 27
18Live2.ai's ₹130 Crore Round Includes a Secondary of Undisclosed Size, and Two Outlets Name Different CustomersIvyCap led the pre-Series B for the Bengaluru social-listening company; no valuation was given and revenue growth of fourfold has no base.Oct 27
19Disruptive Announces a $10 Billion Fund, Its First Blind Pool, 5.3 Times the Capital It Has Put Into Startups So FarAlex Davis's Dallas firm says it will make at least 10 bets of up to $1 billion each; no limited partner, fee or close date has been published.Oct 27
20Simplismart Raises $14 Million at About $100 Million Post-Money, With Nvidia, Its Own Competitor, on the Cap TableThe Bengaluru inference startup says run-rate revenue grew 14-fold in six months, but gives no base, and the figure is usage-based rather than contracted.Oct 27
21Respan (YC W24) Open-Sources a Rust AI Gateway Built on LiteLLM's Pain, While LiteLLM Moves to Rust TooThe Launch HN post gives no funding figure and no price. It describes a pre-alpha MIT or Apache-2.0 core, with a hosted platform as the product.Oct 27
22Mochatrade Raises $5.5 Million Seed Led by CoinFund to Sell US-Stock Perpetuals to Indian Traders Who Fund in RupeesInc42 and a third-party profile disagree on whether the product has launched, and neither names a regulator's approval for it.Oct 27
23CoinDCX Called It a False Alarm, Then Described a Failed Sweep; MediaNama Puts the Loss at ₹152 Crore, Inc42 Says No Figure Was GivenThe exchange's CEO denied a breach on Oct. 22. Two outlets now report different things about what CoinDCX has confirmed.Oct 27
24Series C+ Tender Offers Hit 44 in a Half-Year, 3.1x the 2023 Count, in a Study by a Firm That Sells ThemNewView Capital's Carta-based data shows who gets to sell: employees in 91% of deals, founders and executives capped at a median 10%, and one in four priced 10% or more below the last round.Oct 26
25Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion on a 1,500-Picks-an-Hour Claim and No Named Customera16z and F-Prime led the Series A for a vision-force-action robot model; every performance figure in the announcement is Eka's own.Oct 26
26Daytona Raises $60 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation and Reports 25x Revenue Growth From an Undisclosed BaseThe agent-sandbox company's Series B was led by FirstMark Growth; its announcement names 14 customers but no revenue figure and no customer count.Oct 26
27Matiks Raises $10 Million Pre-Series A From General Catalyst on 300,000 Daily PlayersThe Indian mental-maths game app grew daily users from 22,000 to over 300,000 in 2026. The round is labelled pre-Series A, and no valuation or revenue has been disclosed.Oct 26
28BioStack Raises $9.5 Million Seed to Sell Hospital Records as Medical-AI Training DataThe Y Combinator Spring 2026 company claims 100 million de-identified patient records across four countries. Neither funding report says how patients consented.Oct 26
29Anthropic's S-1: $16.3 Billion in Six Months, an $80.7 Billion Loss and $72.4 Billion of It AccountingThe public filing shows an operating loss of $693 million for the half. Most of the net loss comes from marking its own convertible notes up as the valuation climbed.Oct 26
30Tonbo Imaging Closes 62 Percent Above IPO Price on Falling ProfitThe founders sold ₹137.2 crore of an all-secondary ₹852 crore issue, in a year when revenue dropped 22.7 percent and the first quarter of FY27 ended in a loss.Oct 25

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