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Built out of Kolkata, profitable at Series A stage, and growing 65% year-on-year — this men's ethnic wear brand is doing things the mainstream fashion playbook said weren't possible together.
The Erode-based dairy brand that sells no liquid milk just secured Singapore's sovereign wealth giant as a pre-IPO backer. The market debut is now a matter of timing, not if.
The Chennai-based dermo-cosmetic brand, founded by cosmetic dermatologist Dr Renita Rajan, has built a clinic-to-consumer model grounded in over 150,000 dermatologist consultations — and is now eyeing Latin America and East Asia.
The Shark Tank India judge filed suit against unnamed defendants — joining a wave of Indian public figures seeking court protection from AI-generated impersonation.
Nutrition marketplace HyugaLife has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series A led by IvyCap Ventures, with plans to build a dark store network and push into offline retail for the first time.
Quick home services platform Snabbit has raised $56 million in a Series D led by Susquehanna VC, pushing its valuation to $360 million after crossing one million monthly jobs in March 2026.
Dale Vaz's Sahi has raised $33 million in a Series B led by Accel, valuing the year-old trading platform at $200 million — up from $60 million just nine months ago.
The round was led by Inflection Point Ventures and joins a growing wave of Indian deep-tech bets on spatial computing — a category the global XR market projects to exceed $346 billion in 2026.
CEO Ranvir Singh and CFO Krishnan Vishwanathan acquired shares at ₹201 each in March — roughly 18% above Kissht's IPO price band — while Goldman Sachs, HDFC MF, and ICICI Prudential led a ₹278 crore anchor round the day before the IPO opened.
Freepik — the stock asset library that every design student in India has had open in at least one browser tab — has rebranded as Magnific. What looks like a name change is actually a declaration: the era of downloading free vectors is over.
The Shraddha Kapoor-backed demi-fine jewellery brand is building the operational infrastructure to match its ambition
The three-month-old celeb-founded label makes its first bespoke commission for a male figure — a signal of where Indian celebrity D2C brands are heading