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How Airtel Payments Bank Is Bridging The Financial Gap In India With Digital Banking

India, Dec. 9 -- India's banking landscape has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade - from the days of manual passbooks and crowded branches to today's reality of biometric authentication, m... Read More


Lending Tech Startup Fibe Raises $35 Mn To Enhance Product Suite

India, Dec. 9 -- Digital lending startup Fibe has raised $35 Mn (about INR 314 Cr) from International Finance Corporation (IFC) as part of its Series F round. The startup plans to use the capital to ... Read More


Exclusive: Kunal Shah-Backed GenWise Shuts Down Operations

India, Dec. 9 -- Z47-backed GenWise, the lifestyle app built for India's senior citizens, has shut down its operations. The startup, which had a team of around 20 employees, has laid off most of its ... Read More


SEBI Clears LEAP India's INR 2,400 Cr IPO

India, Dec. 9 -- Supply chain solutions provider LEAP India has got Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) go ahead to proceed with its initial public offering (IPO). The regulator issued its ... Read More


GenAI Coding Startup Emergent Bags Funding From Google's AI Futures Fund

India, Dec. 9 -- Agentic AI startup Emergent has secured a strategic investment from Google's AI Futures Fund to develop its agentic vibe-coding platform. Without disclosing the funding amount, the s... Read More


BlackSoil Capital Raises INR 65 Cr To Expand Lending Portfolio

India, Dec. 9 -- Venture debt firm BlackSoil Capital has received an equity infusion of INR 65 Cr from Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO and Caspian Debt founder S Viswanatha Prasad. In a st... Read More


Wakefit IPO Day 2: Issue Subscribed 27% So Far, Retail Portion Fully Booked

India, Dec. 9 -- D2C mattress and furniture company Wakefit's IPO was subscribed 27.4% till 12:38 IST on the second day of bidding. The issue received bids for 1 Cr shares out of the total 3.6 Cr shar... Read More


UGRO Completes INR 1,400 Cr Acquisition Of Profectus

India, Dec. 9 -- Listed non-banking finance company (NBFC) UGRO Capital has completed the acquisition of rival lending platform Profectus Capital in an INR 1,400 Cr all-cash deal. With this, Profectu... Read More


Glitch Made Dummy Data Visible: Starlink On India Pricing Leak

India, Dec. 9 -- Hours after Starlink's website briefly displayed residential tariff plans for India, the satellite communications (satcom) operator has now claimed that an internal "config glitch" ma... Read More


In Memoriam: Founders, Startup Leaders That We Lost In 2025

India, Dec. 8 -- Every now and then the Indian startup ecosystem gets a sobering reality check; founder and employee wellness become hot topics, but the toll of creating a business from scratch is oft... Read More