Plazza raises $15 Mn in Series A led by Accel, Elevation Capital, and Nexus
The pharmacy-first quick commerce startup closes its Series A just 10 months after a seed round, as Flipkart, Zepto and Blinkit push deeper into medicine delivery.
Asiya Nayab
Asiya Nayab is Senior Editor at LAFFAZ, covering startups, technology, and business developments across India and MENA. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Delhi. Her reporting spans funding rounds, emerging companies, employment trends, and women-led startups, with a particular eye for ventures that deserve wider attention. She also oversees editorial quality across the newsroom.
Five Workforce Systems to Build Before Your Start-up Doubles in Size
As start-ups add headcount fast, informal habits stop scaling — here's how founders can build workforce systems that hold up as the team grows.
Zostel Seeks SEBI Review Of OYO Parent’s IPO Filing As Delhi HC Disposes Fresh Application
The decade-old dispute over a 7% OYO stake resurfaces on two fronts as OYO's parent PRISM pushes ahead with its IPO.
WizCommerce Raises $8.3 Million In Bridge Extension To Series A
The AI-native wholesale commerce platform returns to existing backers less than a year after its first institutional round.
Koo Co-Founder Shuts Down Second Startup PicSee, Returns Capital To Investors
Mayank Bidawatka is winding down his AI photo-sharing app less than a year after launch, choosing to return investor money rather than pivot again.
Limelight Diamonds Raises ₹275 Crore From Promoter Group
The lab-grown diamond jewellery brand will use the strategic round to expand manufacturing and push retail count past 200 stores by 2027.
When the US Pulled the Plug on Fable 5, India Got the Wake-Up Call It Had Been Ignoring
Anthropic killed access to its most advanced AI models for every non-American on the planet. Two weeks later, the ban is still live, the real reason has changed the story entirely, and India's policymakers are now being asked to respond by name.
Opendoor Shuts India Operations, Fires 250 Employees in AI-Led Overhaul
The San Francisco-based home-buying platform wound down its entire India workforce on June 11, framing the move as the final step of an "Opendoor 2.0" restructuring — and setting off a wider debate about AI replacing offshore operations.
Flo Mobility Raises $2.5 Mn to Put Autonomous Robots on India’s Construction Sites
With 60-plus robots already deployed across L&T, Godrej, and Sobha project sites — and a 45% cost saving claim — the Bengaluru startup is taking construction automation to a sector that has resisted it for decades.
Bombay Banta Raises ₹8 Crore Pre-Series A Led by DSG Consumer Partners
The Haryana-based desi beverage brand, stocked on Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart, is valued at ₹80 crore post the round.
Skyroot Hits $1.1 Billion and Sets Its Sights on the US and Europe
India's first spacetech unicorn is already at the Sriharikota launchpad with Vikram-1 — and its co-founder says 70 to 80 percent of the business will come from overseas, targeting customers that global launch providers can't serve fast enough.
BigEndian Semiconductors Raises $6 Mn to Commercialise India’s First Homegrown SoC
The Bengaluru fabless chip startup — which completed tape-out of its first commercial chip — has raised $6 million to move from test silicon to production-ready SoCs for surveillance, telecom, and IoT markets.