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61Entrackr 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
62Carta 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
63Zetwerk Opened 5.5% Above Its ₹151 IPO Price and Closed 8.4% Below ItLightspeed and Peak XV took out about ₹800 crore in the offer for sale, while the company kept ₹2,830 crore of fresh money, most of it for debt.Oct 23
64Firstwork, a Y Combinator Company, Raises $15 Million Series A From Earlybird and Deel VenturesTwo outlets disagree on where the company is based and what the founder did before, and Deel is at once its investor, customer and the founders' former employer.Oct 23
65Daytona Raises $60 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation to Sell Computers to AI AgentsThe sandbox company says revenue grew about 25 times since January, but it has not published a revenue figure, and it closed its source code in June.Oct 23
66Tonbo Imaging Closes Debut 62% Above Issue Price, at About 128 Times Earnings, After a Sale of Existing Shares OnlyRevenue fell 22.7% in FY26 and the company took none of the ₹852 crore raised; the three cofounders sold ₹137.2 crore of stock.Oct 23
67Legora Raises $550 Million at $8.8 Billion, Priced Below Harvey on Revenue MultipleThe Stockholm legal-AI company doubled ARR to over $200 million in six months, and its round priced it at about 44 times that figure.Oct 23
68Garuda Aerospace Reports ₹206 Crore FY26 Revenue Ahead of a ₹1,000 Crore IPO, With Impairments Up 170-FoldThe Chennai drone maker's net profit rose about 41% to ₹25.9 crore while impairment losses jumped to ₹11.1 crore from ₹6.5 lakh.Oct 23
69Alter, a YC S25 Startup, Launches Access Control for AI Agents With SOC 2 Still "In Progress"The Launch HN post promises to pass SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR audits; the homepage lists SOC 2 as unfinished, in a market where rivals have raised $66 million and $120 million.Oct 23
70Kevin Weil’s Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million at $865 Million, Above August TalksLightspeed led a round that came in 43 percent larger than the $150 million Business Insider reported in August, for robots that make and test drug candidates.Oct 22
71Swiggy’s Instamart Slips 80 Basis Points in Q2 as It Promises 80 BackSwiggy said an inventory model could add 80 basis points to Instamart’s contribution margin, the same amount the margin lost between the first and second quarters.Oct 22
72Uber Pays 153 Percent of ezCater’s 2021 Mark While Miro and Airtable Sell for a TenthFive 2021-vintage startups have sold in 2026 at prices from 8 percent to 153 percent of their last valuation, and the Foursquare sale shows what the low end means for shareholders.Oct 22
73Zetwerk's IPO Paid Kae 38.3x and Peak XV 23.9x. One Peak XV Fund Got 3.3xThe ₹5,012 crore offering priced at ₹151, and the seller list shows which cheques did the work: early money made 38 times, later growth money made three.Oct 22
74Blinkit Made ₹184 Crore on 399 Million Orders. Instamart Lost ₹895 Crore on 130 MillionEternal and Swiggy reported the same quarter on the same day. The gap between their quick-commerce units is now a matter of scale per dark store, and both are changing how revenue is counted.Oct 22
75Blacksmith Raises $66 Million at $1 Billion, Up From $550 Million Two Months AgoSequoia led the Series C for the CI-runner company, whose weekly jobs went from 5 million in January to more than 90 million. It has not disclosed revenue.Oct 22
76Mygate and Adonmo Plan Merger, Giving Eternal 4.4% Worth ₹156 Crore Against ₹112 Crore InvestedEternal swaps its entire Adonmo holding for Mygate shares. The stake is up 39.3% on cost after almost four years, and neither company's valuation has been published.Oct 21
77YC Alum Mach9 Raises $34 Million After Dropping Survey Hardware for AI CAD SoftwareFirst Round and Bessemer co-led the Series A. The company has nearly 100 private-beta customers and discloses neither revenue nor valuation.Oct 21
78Legora Raises $550 Million at $8.8 Billion, 44 Times the ARR It Has DisclosedAtreides Management led the Series E seven months after the $5.55 billion Series D. The company says ARR is above $200 million; the valuation lands below the $8.5 billion pre-money Bloomberg reported in September.Oct 21
79AuxoAI Raises $20.7 Million Series A From NTTVC to Hire More Forward Deployed EngineersThe Indian-founded enterprise AI firm will spend on engineers placed inside customers. Entrackr and Inc42 disagree on founders' names and an investor, and neither reports revenue.Oct 21
80Respan Launches a Rust AI Gateway on Launch HN With 36 Stars and No Tagged ReleaseThe Y Combinator W24 company says it outgrew LiteLLM, which is itself moving its gateway to Rust, and the launch post gives no price for the hosted product.Oct 20
81Crunchbase Has Q3 Fintech Funding Down 21%, FinTech Global Up 35%Both trackers record fewer deals, and the gap between $10.6 billion and $27.5 billion comes down to what each counts.Oct 20
82Eric Schmidt's Anthropic Stake Is Estimated at 1%, Worth About $20 Billion at $2 TrillionBloomberg's estimate is half of the 2 percent Reuters reports for chief executive Dario Amodei, and the Series A valuation behind it varies by $162 million depending on the source.Oct 20
83Inspired Capital Closes $450 Million Fourth Fund, 36% Above Its ThirdThe New York firm says 12 of its early investments are unicorns, but it declined to share returns and its announcement names no limited partners.Oct 20
84Even Healthcare Says $50 Million; Its August Filing Shows ₹208 CroreKhosla Ventures led the Bengaluru hospital operator's Series B at a $300 million valuation, but the two public accounts of the round do not agree on its size.Oct 20
85Burma Burma's IPO Filing Shows ₹155.5 Crore Revenue, 52% of Its 2024 TargetHunger Pangs, the restaurant chain's parent, filed a draft prospectus with a ₹15.4 crore loss and 22 outlets, against a 2024 promise of ₹300 crore of revenue at a 20% EBITDA margin before listing.Oct 20
86Town Raises $108 Million at $1 Billion Four Months After Public LaunchForerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the Series B, and the only revenue disclosure is a seven-figure ARR with no baseline for the growth claims.Oct 19
87Tonbo Imaging's IPO Closed 135.9 Times Covered at 79 Times EarningsThe ₹852 crore offer is entirely a sale of existing shares, so none of the money reaches a company whose FY26 profit fell to ₹50.88 crore from ₹72.76 crore.Oct 19
88Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at $6.2 Billion, Months After Takeover TalksTrace Capital and Innovation X led a Series E that values the chip company at 2.4 times the $2.6 billion Bloomberg reported for its December 2024 round, and revenue stays undisclosed.Oct 19
89Laminar's flow-1 Costs 23 Times Less Than GPT-6-sol, Trails Opus 5Laminar, a Y Combinator S24 company, ran the 523-trace benchmark itself, and its own table has Claude Opus 5 ahead on every quality metric.Oct 19
90Zetwerk's ₹5,012 Crore IPO Closed 3.06 Times Covered, With Retail Bids at 73% of Their QuotaQualified institutions bid 4.73 times their allocation, about 83% of all shares bid, while retail fell short and the valuation depends on a revenue period the coverage does not pin down.Oct 19