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91Zetwerk'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
92Even Healthcare's $300 Million Valuation Is 105 Times Filed Revenue, and Two Outlets Disagree on the RevenueKhosla Ventures led a $50 million Series B into the Bengaluru hospital operator, which cut about 350 jobs in August and reported a FY2025 loss of ₹83 to ₹90 crore depending on the source.Oct 19
93Agent37, a YC F26 Company, Prices Agent Sandboxes at $0.37 for 57 Hours and Builds on gVisorThe Launch HN post claims under 10% of rivals' cost; the comparison table is the company's own, and commenters questioned isolation and the free plan.Oct 19
94Leverage Edu's EBITDA Is ₹2 Crore in Filings, ₹9.5 Crore From SourcesTwo reports on the study-abroad startup's FY26 results differ by ₹7.5 crore on EBITDA, the same gap as between its total income and operating revenue, while a ₹500 crore pre-IPO round is under discussion.Oct 18
95Disney's Estimated Character.AI Payroll Is Three Times Its $20 Million BidA bankruptcy filing reported by Bloomberg puts Disney's offers to at least 60 Character.AI employees at about $60 million a year, while the company's stalking horse bid for its assets is $20 million.Oct 18
96Sebi Clears Cult.fit IPO, Where Sellers Could Take 76% of ₹4,000 CroreThe regulator's Oct. 12 observations let Cult.fit list, but only ₹950 crore of the issue is new money for the company and the full size rests on an unfiled figure.Oct 18
97Benchmark Partners Expect Rival Conflicts as Factory and Cognition FeudThree Benchmark partners told TechCrunch Disrupt that backing competitors is becoming unavoidable, 15 days after Factory accused a board adviser of passing information to Cognition, both of which Khosla Ventures funds.Oct 18
98Urban Company's InstaHelp Lost ₹279 on Each Order While Customers Paid About ₹114 for ItInstaHelp booked ₹20.5 crore of revenue and an adjusted EBITDA loss of ₹174 crore in the September quarter, and the board has approved raising ₹2,500 crore.Oct 18
99Ramp's $60 Billion Valuation Is Pre-Money in Bloomberg's Account and Unqualified in Ramp's OwnThe $1.85 billion round values the corporate-card company at about 30 times the $2 billion in annualized revenue it says it has passed, four months after a $44 billion round.Oct 18
100Ekart Cut Its FY26 Loss by ₹1,482 Crore, but the Flipkart Group Cut Its by Only ₹178 CroreThe first consolidated accounts of Flipkart Internet show a ₹8,468 crore loss, a Cleartrip that spent ₹5.27 for every rupee of revenue, and a logistics growth figure that does not match its own table.Oct 18
101Snabbit Spent ₹16 for Every ₹1 of FY26 Revenue and Earned More on Deposits Than on JobsThe home-services startup lost ₹167.8 crore on ₹12.2 crore of operating revenue, and its ₹14.1 crore of bank interest was larger than the revenue line.Oct 17
102Cybersecurity Startups Raised $6.8 Billion in Q3 2026 on Fewer Deals, With Three Rounds Taking $1.8 BillionCrunchbase counts a 50% jump from the prior quarter and falling round counts at every stage; Visa paid 1.8 times Permira's entry valuation for BioCatch.Oct 17
103Consus, a YC F24 Startup, Sells an ITAR LLM Gateway From $40 a Seat While a Rival Runs Inside the Customer's CloudIts Launch HN post names no customers, leaves one FedRAMP question unanswered and admits AWS can retain flagged requests for up to 30 days.Oct 17
104Battery Smart Adds ₹98 Crore to Its Series C at a ₹4,170 Crore Valuation, 11.6 Times FY26 RevenueThe headline says $10 million and the filing says 18,000 shares at ₹54,407 each; the round is still open and two outlets disagree on total funding.Oct 17
105Modal Raises $750 Million at 15.75 Times Its $1 Billion Run RateAccel led a Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, 3.4 times the May round, while sandboxes for AI agents now carry $300 million of the run rate.Oct 17
106A Week of Indian Startup Funding Totals $236 Million or $303 MillionInc42 and Entrackr both covered Oct. 12 to 16, and the $67 million gap between them is larger than any single deal on Inc42's list, Boldfit's $41.8 million included.Oct 17
107Burma Burma's Parent Files IPO Papers With a ₹15.4 Crore LossHunger Pangs wants ₹150 crore of fresh capital to open 27 more restaurants, after a year in which revenue rose 46.6 percent and the net result went from a ₹50.5 lakh loss to ₹15.4 crore.Oct 17
108Agent37 Prices Agent Sandboxes 35 Times Below Modal's Rate CardThe Y Combinator F26 company is bootstrapped, runs on Hetzner and OVH, and is betting that a sleeping sandbox costs almost nothing to keep.Oct 17
109India Q3 Startup Funding Is $2.2 Billion or $2.9 Billion, Depending on the TrackerInc42 and Crunchbase disagree by $700 million on the same quarter, and Inc42's detail shows four rounds of $100 million or more making up a fifth of its total.Oct 16
110Cult.fit Clears SEBI for a ₹950 Crore Fresh Issue; Two Reports Disagree on FY25 RevenueThe fitness chain can now list on BSE and NSE, but no price band or valuation is public, and the existing-holder sale may be three times the new money.Oct 16
111Zetwerk's ₹5,012 Crore IPO Is 31% Subscribed After Day 2, No Category FullInstitutions had bid for 37% of their quota, and 76% of the fresh issue is earmarked to repay debt.Oct 16
112Urban Company Seeks ₹2,500 Crore as InstaHelp Loses ₹174 Crore a QuarterSnabbit logged ₹72 crore of net transaction value to InstaHelp's ₹71 crore in Q2 FY27, and the loss per order is the number to watch.Oct 16
113RapidCanvas Raises $29 Million Series B Led by Vertex, Claims 8x ARR in Six QuartersThe round takes total funding to $52.5 million; the company gave no revenue figure and no valuation.Oct 16
114CedarDB Opens Its Cloud With 14 Employees and a €5.3 Million SeedTechCrunch calls the launch limited availability; the company's own site says generally available.Oct 16
115Stryker Invests About $400 Million in CMR Surgical and Takes an Option on the RestThe deal is preferred equity plus an acquisition option, and neither company has disclosed a stake, a valuation or the option's price.Oct 15
116Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at $60 Billion, Up $16 Billion in Four MonthsTechCrunch does not say whether the valuation is pre- or post-money; The Paypers, citing Bloomberg, says pre-money, and the difference moves the multiple.Oct 15
117Origin Raises $20 Million From Accel and Zacua for Drywall-Finishing RobotsThe San Francisco startup says its OG-1 robot is working at New York sites and targets 150 deployed by the end of 2027; revenue and valuation were not disclosed.Oct 15
118Groww's Cost to Serve Rose 24% to ₹206 Crore as Orders Fell 8%, and the CEO Points to AIBillionbrains Garage Ventures posted a ₹725 crore profit for the September quarter, while per-order servicing cost climbed by roughly a third on our arithmetic.Oct 15
119Udaan's Auditors Flag Going-Concern Doubt as FY26 Loss Narrows to ₹851.5 CroreRevenue grew 12.6 percent to ₹5,134 crore, but the group has a $170 million note in default and creditors in the Singapore High Court.Oct 15
120Tonbo Imaging's ₹852 Crore IPO Is All Offer for Sale, at 79 Times EarningsThe defence-technology company gets none of the proceeds, and its FY26 revenue fell 22.7 percent before the issue opened on Oct. 15.Oct 15