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31Info 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
32Hex 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
33Guidewire 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
34Re: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
35Live2.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
36Disruptive 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
37Simplismart 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
38Respan (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
39Mochatrade 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
40CoinDCX 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
41Series 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
42Eka 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
43Daytona 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
44Matiks 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
45BioStack 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
46Anthropic'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
47Tonbo 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
48Jio Platforms' Record IPO Closes 22 Times Covered, Retail 2.7 TimesInstitutions bid 70.55 times their quota for the ₹30,213 crore issue, and about ₹27,500 crore of it will repay Reliance Jio Infocomm's borrowings.Oct 25
49Uber Paid Up for ezCater While Bending Spoons Paid a TenthezCater sold for 53 percent above its 2021 valuation, while Miro and Airtable went for about a tenth of theirs, and none of the three had raised equity in four years.Oct 25
50Alter (YC S25) Launches a Proxy to Stop Agents Sharing One API KeyThe company offers 10,000 free requests and says SOC 2 Type 2 is still in its observation window, while commenters pressed it on mTLS, spend budgets and source access.Oct 25
51Zetwerk Lists 5.5% Above Issue and Closes 8.4% Below It on the BSEThe ₹5,012 crore IPO filled 3.06 times, but retail took 0.73 times its quota and two Inc42 pages give different FY26 loss figures.Oct 25
52Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million, Led by Lightspeed, for a Robot-Assisted Chemistry LabKevin Weil's company has named no customer, and the $865 million valuation TechCrunch reported does not appear in its own release.Oct 25
53Swiggy Falls 24.5% in a Week as Instamart Loses ₹895 Crore and Blinkit Earns ₹184 CroreMediaNama's side-by-side of the two shareholder letters puts the per-order gap at about ₹74, before differences in how each company counts orders.Oct 25
54super.money Spent ₹341 Crore on Marketing to Earn ₹292 CroreThe Flipkart-backed UPI app's FY26 filing shows revenue tripling while the loss widened to ₹263.8 crore, and 85 percent of revenue came from a loan marketplace rather than payments.Oct 24
55Myntra Swings to a ₹582 Crore Loss as Logistics Revenue HalvesThe Flipkart fashion arm's FY26 filing shows operating revenue down 13.5 percent, with logistics income falling from ₹2,390.5 crore to ₹1,119.2 crore while advertising income rose 35 percent.Oct 24
56Laminar Launches flow-1 to Read Every Agent Trace for ErrorsThe London YC S24 company says its small open model catches agent failures at about one twenty-third of a frontier model's cost, but publishes no benchmark and no pricing.Oct 24
57Eka Robotics Sold About 10 Percent for $150 Million at $1.45 BillionThe MIT-linked startup's Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, prices a grasping model whose 1,500-picks-an-hour claim has no named customer behind it yet.Oct 24
58Warhound Raises $200 Million at a Reported $1.2 Billion to Clone Gene-Edited Military Dogs It Has Not Yet BredThe Colossal and Anduril-linked startup has an In-Q-Tel cheque and no litter, no price list and no named lead investor.Oct 24
59Entrackr and Inc42 Put One Indian Startup Funding Week About $50 Million Apart, and One Page Omits Different's $48 Million SeedThe week of Oct. 19 fell 56 percent on one tracker and 22 percent on the other, because the two disagree on what the previous week held as well.Oct 24
60Carta and NewView Team Up on Tender Offers: 70-Plus in H1 2026, but Only 44 at Series C and LaterThe $3 billion first half is a record, and the biggest tender cited, Wayve's, is 1 percent of its own valuation.Oct 24