Battery Smart Raises ₹185.5 Crore Series C Ahead of IPO Filing
The battery-swapping startup's estimated $430 million valuation sits below its mid-2025 mark even as revenue climbed 44% and losses narrowed in FY26.
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NeoGeo Raises $20M Series A to Chase Gulf, Americas Push
The Gurugram geospatial integrator's Series A is more than ten times its only prior disclosed round.
Tenet Diagnostics Lands $30M From Tata Capital, Blue Earth
The Hyderabad diagnostics chain's last public revenue figure is a three-year-old target, even as it expands its imaging footprint.
BlissClub raises ₹160 crore Series B led by Singularity AMC
The Bengaluru athleisure brand's largest round yet arrives as it pushes deeper into physical stores, with founder Minu Margeret and Meesho's Vidit Aatrey both writing personal checks.
Bakingo Raises ₹100 Cr Series B From Faering Capital
The step-up comes entirely from the incumbent investor, with losses widening nearly twentyfold even as revenue scaled through FY25.
Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed Led by Lightspeed India
The Y Combinator-backed startup is racing to solve a heat problem slowing down the AI chip build-out — before bigger, better-funded rivals do.
Yulu Raises $93M Series C Led by GEF Capital
The round quadruples the electric-mobility platform's runway to build fleet — but a flat valuation and two absent strategic backers tell a more cautious story than the headline number.
Smallest.ai raises $13 Mn Series A led by Seligman Ventures
The Bengaluru voice AI startup, founded by an IIT Guwahati graduate who bought the domain for $100 in 2022, is chasing enterprise voice contracts against rivals that have raised many times more capital.
Vaaree raises ₹65 Cr Series A led by Hero Enterprise, Cap Alpha
Hero Group chairman Sunil Kant Munjal joins the home décor marketplace's cap table as it bets that AI-led styling tools, not just cheaper products, will be what wins India's fragmented home category.
Arboreal Bioinnovations raises ₹230 Cr Series A led by EAAA, Omnivore
The Lucknow-based ingredients maker's round is among the largest Series A deals yet in India's specialty food ingredients space, and marks the first bet from Edelweiss's freshly closed Discovery Fund.
River Mobility raises $120 Mn Series C led by Elev8, Claypond
The electric two-wheeler maker's first major cheque from Indian institutional investors arrives four years after it launched with a single scooter model, taking its total capital raised to $188 million.
HomeRun raises $12 Mn Series A+ led by Nexus Venture Partners
Six months and three priced rounds after its seed, the Bengaluru construction-materials delivery startup is taking its bet beyond a single city just as a well-funded rival prepares to enter the same category.