Here's your daily dose of Indian startup funding roundup and key business news for 2 September 2026. DocPharma raises $2 million, JioHotstar launches international streaming in the UK, Canada and Singapore, and Byju Raveendran offers Aakash shares to settle Qatar Holding's $235 million claim.
Every SaaS engineering team now has an AI coding assistant in the loop somewhere - generating boilerplate, drafting whole functions from a prompt, refactoring modules in minutes instead of days. Output has genuinely gone up. Pull requests are bigger and more frequent. Founders are proud of how much a small
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Gold and silver rates today in India, 2 September 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹150,930 per 10g and silver at ₹232,780 per kg, both extending losses for a third straight day. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
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Here's your daily dose of Indian startup funding roundup and key business news for 1 September 2026. Yuma Energy raises $35 million, Unacademy closes its acquisition by upGrad at $200 million, and MS Dhoni joins SpeakX's cap table.
Two chipmakers strengthen their relationship in AI data center technology with Nvidia planning to invest $3.5 billion in MediaTek. Nvidia will purchase convertible bonds that can be converted into MediaTek shares and MediaTek will utilise Nvidia technology.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 1 September 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹152,790 per 10g and silver at ₹235,760 per kg, both falling sharply as Comex slides further. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
upGrad has finalised its acquisition of Unacademy for slightly over $200 million, down significantly from Unacademy’s highest valuation of $3.44 billion during the edtech bubble of the epidemic era. The acquisition comes after the Competition Commission of India greenlit the deal.
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox have been classed as “Very Large Online Platforms” by the European Union under the DSA, which places harsher safety, transparency and accountability rules on them. The designation refers to platforms with more than 45 million monthly active users in the EU.
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Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) commenced the 8th edition of the Business Excellence Summit (BES) 2026, themed “Building Resilient Businesses - Navigating Risk to Shape A Sustainable Future.” The two-day summit brings together industry leaders, faculty, students and alumni to explore resilience, risk, technology and sustainable growth. The summit
OpenAI, the AI company, has attained a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate in its advertising business, a big milestone as the firm gears up for a potential IPO, and under pressure to justify its $852 billion valuation. ChatGPT ads are currently available in more than 40 countries.
Funding will scale xStep’s non-invasive neurorehabilitation platform for people with cerebral palsy, stroke, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis across India and beyond.
UPI processed 24.51 billion transactions worth Rs 29.82 lakh crore in August 2026, its highest-ever monthly volume, NPCI data shows.
Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in federal court in California, saying the AI startup exploited copyrighted songs, lyrics and sheet music to train its Claude AI models. The publishers say Claude can reproduce copyrighted songs verbatim.
Kepler Aerospace, a Bengaluru-based space infrastructure and mission operations company, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Blue Ashva Capital and co-led by Finvolve and India Accelerator, with participation from other investors. The round marks the company’s first external funding since its founding in 2018 and
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The fast-fashion giant, Shein, started trading on Hong Kong’s stock market on September 1 after a long IPO process, with its valuation falling to $26.5 billion from almost $100 billion in 2022, a report said. The Shein Hong Kong IPO comes amid additional US and EU tariffs.
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Welcome to StartupTalky’s 2026 Indian startup funding updates. This article provides a clear and easy overview of the latest startup funding news in India throughout the year. Our weekly funding tables, updated regularly, track how much funding each startup has raised, the sectors they operate in, the key investors
Oracle employees are apparently ready for another wave of layoffs, with September 1 – the beginning of Oracle’s fiscal second quarter – being a likely target date for cuts. Teams are more on edge after surprise “6 AM” termination emails in March.
One funding round closed on 31 August 2026, in the indoor air-quality space. Info Edge Ventures led the round. The raise is YOGa Clean Air's INR 20 crore Series A round, with Zomato/Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal among the investors. Away from funding, Groww AMC closed a INR
Gold and silver rates today in India, 31 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹155,430 per 10g and silver at ₹242,320 per kg, with gold extending its fall from record highs. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Zomato has taken a zero-tolerance approach on imitation paneer and substitute dairy products, eliminating reported listings from the platform and urging eateries to verify ingredient labels. The action comes in the wake of increased scrutiny of fake paneer in India.
Truemeds is in talks to acquire DealShare for about $90 million in an all-stock deal, 95% below DealShare's 2022 unicorn peak. The real story is how much Truemeds' own valuation had to inflate to make it work.
CHINI KUM has closed its pre-seed at ₹1.64 crore, entirely from individual angels, for a zero-sugar prebiotic drink. It is competing in the category PepsiCo validated by paying $1.95 billion for Poppi.
Zomato has laid off up to 250 people in its current round of workforce reorganisation, including close to 240 employees impacted by the shutdown of its Hyderabad Customer Delight operations, reports said. The corporation is centralising remaining in-house support functions in Gurgaon.
Ola Electric has received INR 95.8 crore in PLI incentives from the Ministry of Heavy Industries under the Production Linked Incentive scheme for vehicles and auto components. The recent permission comes on top of INR 367 crore in FY25 and INR 73.74 crore in FY24.
YOGa Clean Air has raised ₹20 crore led by Info Edge Ventures, with Deepinder Goyal joining. It is the first institutional money the company has taken, and its filed accounts already show a profit on about ₹13 crore of revenue.
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Cashfree Payments unveils Relay, an AI-powered agent that helps merchants streamline payment operations and recoup lost sales. Relay may make retries on unsuccessful payments, follow up on abandoned carts, track failed subscriptions, disputes and validate cash-on-delivery orders.
Meta’s new US teen safety standards have reignited India’s discussion about age verification, child protection and social media regulation. The settlement also requires stronger age detection technologies and sets default limits on screen usage.
Apple may raise India’s share of global iPhone manufacture to 30-35% from about 25% in the next five years, adding to the country’s importance in its global supply chain. Apple’s suppliers and contract manufacturers are likely to be backed up by government incentives and long-term tax benefits.
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Welcome to StartupTalky’s 2026 US funding updates. This article offers a clear and structured overview of the latest investment activity in the United States throughout the year. Our weekly funding tables, updated regularly, track how much funding companies have raised, the industries they operate in, key investors involved, and
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026. History says the CEO handoff itself barely moves the stock, what matters is the valuation and AI cycle he inherits.
In August 2025, Ant Financial sold its last direct stake in Paytm, and headlines declared the company fully Indian-owned. A separate 2023 arrangement that let Ant retain economic value from a different stake is back in the news now that stake is being sold.
Satvacart has shut down after twelve years, with 28 August its last day. It raised about $2.32 million across its life, roughly a thousandth of what Zepto has raised since 2021, and its founder says capital only ever came in small tranches.
SEBI cleared Jio Platforms' public listing on 28 August 2026. The offer itself, up to 270 million fresh shares worth roughly ₹37,700 crore, is the smaller story. The bigger one is how far the valuation has moved since global investors first bought in.
Subhash Chandra has publicly accused Mukesh Ambani's media network of spreading a false narrative about his insolvency case. Reliance denies it. Separately, Chandra says he sold his family home and plans to start over in Switzerland.
HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Canara Bank, RBL Bank, Union Bank of India, and LIC Housing Finance all opposed the NCLT-approved plan under which Subhash Chandra pays ₹6.5 crore against ₹22,006 crore in claims. Here is what the tribunal itself said its role was, and was not.
The National Company Law Tribunal has approved a repayment plan under which Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra will pay ₹6.5 crore against admitted creditor claims of ₹22,006.57 crore. Here is what the order actually says, and what each side says it means.
Apple Pay is reportedly heading to India this October — without UPI, and asking for a fee it already charges American banks. The fight isn't about a greedy tech company. It's about landing in the one country where the free rail moved first.
Gold and silver rates in India for Saturday, 29 August 2026. City-wise 24K and 22K gold and silver 999 prices, weekly trends, MCX last-traded levels and the global cues behind the moves.
Industrial47 has closed ₹85 crore of a ₹150 crore debut fund to write pre-seed cheques into space, defence and fusion. The companies Rahul Seth backed personally before this have since raised about $189 million between them.
Most satellites do not die because they break. They die because the propellant runs out. The electronics still work, the solar panels still generate, the payload still functions, and the operator pushes the whole thing into a graveyard orbit because there is no way to put fuel back in. InspeCity
Edgeverse has raised ₹30 million, or ₹3 crore, from GVFL to put camera and radar based rider assistance on two-wheelers. Nearly half the people killed on Indian roads are on two-wheelers, and almost none of those vehicles carry the safety tech that has been standard in cars for years.
Six funding rounds closed on 27 August 2026, spanning space tech, spiritual wellness, logistics and electric vehicles. Speciale Invest, Ashish Kacholia, Singularity AMC and Artha Venture Fund were among the day's lead investors. The headline raise is InspeCity's INR 100 crore pre-Series A round to fund
ZiiP Foundation’s pioneering Women in Photography initiative follows its international debut in the UK and brings together diverse photographic voices from across India.
The company behind the LLM said an internal inquiry months before a hack on Hugging Face found hostile AI activity, with agents purportedly talking, creating notes and getting illegal internet access. The company said the agents took advantage of security gaps.
Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, expanding its influence in the ecosystem of AI tools and models. Hugging Face allows developers to share, experiment and cooperate on AI models and tools.
Amazon to triple purchases of Nvidia GPUs amid AI demand surge Amazon has agreed to install a further 2m processors across its AWS data centers in 2027 and 2028, on top of tripling its orders for Nvidia GPUs. This is in addition to Amazon's earlier plan to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia GPUs.
Gold and silver rates today in India, 27 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹159,430 per 10g and silver at ₹240,910 per kg, holding roughly steady ahead of Rakhi shopping tomorrow. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
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Three biryani shops in Uttar Pradesh are running at an annual rate of about ₹25 crore between them. That implies roughly ₹8.3 crore per outlet, or about ₹69 lakh a month each, and it is the number behind this raise. Biryani Bees has raised $1 million from the Vivek
Omega Seiki Mobility has raised ₹50 crore twice in six weeks. The second cheque landed on 20 August 2026, co-led by Abhishek Misra of SKG Asset Management and Unistone Capital, with the Sanjeev Agarwal and Brijesh Parekh family offices alongside. The first, in mid-July, came from Securocorp Securities, Sangeeta Pareekh,
Salesforce and Anthropic have announced the launch of Claudeforce, which will expand their cooperation to incorporate Salesforce CRM capabilities directly into the Claude AI. The interface allows users to view, edit and act on real-time CRM data without accessing Salesforce.
S4S Technologies was founded in 2008. It reached its Series B in July 2024. Sixteen years, building a food-processing business around women farmers, before a growth round arrived. That timeline is the entire argument behind TILT, the impact-first investment platform from The/Nudge Foundation, which on 27 August 2026 announced
Most third-party logistics contracts in India bill you for capacity. Trucks on the road, hubs on lease, people on shift, whether or not anything moved through them that day. OORJAA bills for units delivered instead, which means an empty truck is its problem rather than its client's. On
Meta has agreed to a historic $18 billion settlement with US states on charges that Facebook and Instagram fuelled underage social media addiction. The deal includes improved child-safety measures, such as default time limitations and the ability to turn off features like “like” counts.
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AESL has bagged a INR 4,700 crore transmission project in Maharashtra to carry 4,500 MW of renewable power from Karnataka to key consumption centers. The Satara project would enhance grid connectivity, enable pumped storage projects and accelerate India’s sustainable energy transformation.
As hotels, event venues and planners increasingly look for faster, more efficient ways to discover, evaluate and sell spaces, technology is beginning to reshape an industry long dependent on physical site visits and manual coordination. Spalba, founded by Naveen and his co-founder, has positioned itself at the centre of this
Bournvita producer Mondelez India, Amway and several other food companies have dropped or modified health and nutrition claims after action by India’s food safety regulator FSSAI. Mondelez pulled Bournvita claims and ads listed as misleading.
Buried in Note 62 of Purple Style Labs' restated financials is a sentence most readers will skip past: as of March 31, 2026, the company's current liabilities exceeded its current assets by ₹255.12 crore. That is a working capital gap, and it sits right next to
Three funding rounds closed on 26 August 2026, spanning AI agents for small businesses, voice AI and pet care. Susquehanna Venture Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners and TDV Partners led the day's rounds. The headline raise is Runable's $21 million Series A round to
Gold and silver rates today in India, 26 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹162,500 per 10g and silver at ₹244,610 per kg, both easing further as Comex slips for a second day. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, AI-powered automation tools, specialist plug-ins and AI agents for law firms and legal departments. It’s a platform built to make legal workflows — contract review and negotiation, data discovery and more.
Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle a US government probe into its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. Deloitte took race and sex into account when making recruiting and promotion decisions and had internal targets for diversity, the US Department of Justice said.
When Purple Style Labs pulled its shareholder register on August 21, 2026, the BENPOS date behind its IPO filing, the list ran to thirteen names holding more than 1% of the company, led by founder Abhishek Agarwal's 26.09% stake. What stands out isn't who made
Air India’s losses are mounting as the airline continues its recovery and is said to be seeking about $1.5 billion in fresh equity capital from owners Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines. Air India and Air India Express together had a loss of $2.33 billion for the fiscal year ended March.
India's financial services sector has been growing for years, but until recently, most of that growth translated into opportunity only for large institutions. That is changing. Rising incomes, a growing middle class, low product penetration, and rapid digital adoption are the same forces creating space for individuals to
Mamaearth's parent walked away from buying 58% of Fluence Pharma over an unmet closing condition it hasn't named. The company's stock is near a 52-week high and its profit just nearly tripled, so this reads as discipline, not distress.
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Honasa Consumer has called off its proposed acquisition of 58% share in nutraceuticals firm Fluence Pharma for INR 135 crore as some critical closing criteria were not completed. Mamaearth’s parent firm is dedicated to growing its nutraceuticals business both organically and inorganically.
Purple Style Labs, the company behind luxury fashion platform Pernia's Pop-Up Shop, opens its INR 680 crore IPO on August 31. Here is the full snapshot, sourced from its Red Herring Prospectus.
SpaceX has plans to spend at least $100 billion on a new Starbase Louisiana spaceport to enable thousands of Starship flights annually. The Vermilion Parish project is estimated to produce more than 3,000 employment, with development expected to begin in 2027.
The Bombay HC will again take up Volkswagen’s $1.4-billion customs tax challenge, after an earlier bench had freed the matter following a delay of 18 months in pronouncing its verdict. The disagreement relates to Skoda Auto Volkswagen India’s import of automobile parts for its Aurangabad facility.
Flipkart is India’s leading e-commerce platform, offering a wide range of products through its marketplace. Explore its business model, revenue sources, financial performance, and latest 2026 updates.
Five funding rounds closed on 25 August 2026, spanning aerospace, wealthtech, electric motorcycles, climate tech and spiritual tech. Greenoaks, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Helena and Atomic Capital were among the day's lead investors. The headline raise is Airbound's $37 million Series A round to scale its
Gold and silver rates today in India, 25 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹163,400 per 10g and silver at ₹243,610 per kg, both easing as Comex slips from record highs. Check city-wise rates and MCX data below.
Sources say the chipmaker is mulling a stake in AI firm Perplexity that could value the company at more than $30 billion, more than 50% more than its prior valuation. Perplexity’s annual revenue has reportedly soared above $750 million.
Taiwanese research firm TeamT5 says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are increasingly employing DeepSeek and other open-source AI models to scale intrusions. The researchers uncovered AI tools for reconnaissance, vulnerability exploitation, developing exploit code and domain mapping.
Healthify and Berry Street to Team Up to Scale AI-Powered Metabolic Health Care in India and US. The combined business will merge Healthify’s AI nutrition platform, Ria assistant and meal tracking tech with Berry Street’s virtual nutrition services, clinician network and US insurance infrastructure.
Amazon and Flipkart have changed seller fees and penalties ahead of India’s Christmas shopping season, causing alarm among small and medium-sized enterprises. Amazon will increase the closure fee from September 7, citing increasing shipping and gasoline expenses.
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Infineon Technologies will acquire Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors to boost its AI data center power management and semiconductor R&D capabilities in India. Formed by former Texas Instruments engineers, C2i makes smart power stage chips for high-performance AI servers.
Karnataka government has banned food licences of Amazon, Instamart and BigBasket after deadly datura fruits and seeds were identified for sale on their platforms, authorities said. Some of the products had FSSAI licence numbers and were stored as food items.
Nikhil Kamath went from a school dropout to Zerodha co-founder and billionaire. Explore his biography, career, investments, WTFund and latest 2026 updates.
Five funding rounds closed on 24 August 2026, spanning coffee retail, skincare and physical AI. WestBridge Capital, RPSG Capital, Sauce and Endiya Partners were among the day's lead investors. The headline raise is Third Wave Coffee's INR 408 crore round from existing backer WestBridge Capital. Away
Gold and silver rates today in India, 24 August 2026. 24K gold trades at ₹164,730 per 10g, a fresh high, while silver holds steady at ₹247,900 per kg. Check city wise rates and MCX data below.
World Cup-winning former India captain and cricket icon Rohit Sharma joins LightFury Games as an investor and licensed eCricket player, as the game’s latest teaser clocks in sizable viewership ahead of its phased Closed Beta rollout in September 2026.