100 articles from Inc42
Human Archive is making waves in India’s startup ecosystem this week amid reports of its work with home services startups…
For most of India’s legal history, personality rights were concerns largely reserved for film stars and cricketers. Amitabh Bachchan went…
Quick service restaurant (QSR) brand Boba Bhai saw its net revenue surge 145% to around ₹70 Cr in FY26 from…
Fintech major slice reported its first full profitable fiscal year after converting into a small finance bank (SFB) in October…
Contract manufacturing company Aequs plunged into the red in the March quarter (Q4 FY26), reporting a net loss of ₹53.7…
Omnichannel kidswear brand FirstCry managed to trim its Q4 FY26 net loss by 57% to ₹48.2 Cr from ₹111.5 Cr…
Anurag Sharma, the CFO of audio entertainment platform Pocket FM, has stepped down from his position to explore entrepreneurial opportunities.…
Fundamentum Partnership partner and cofounder Ashish Kumar has launched a new private investment platform, Fundamentum Frontier Advisors (F2A), to invest…
In the last few years, the world has adapted to new waves of uncertainty. From Covid to various economic slowdowns…
Listed fintech major MobiKwik has received the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) an in-principle approval to operate as a payment…
Shares of Awfis Space Solutions surged 19.05% on the BSE today to hit an intraday high of ₹428.35 after the…
Fintech major Pine Labs plans to soon launch infrastructure for stablecoin-backed prepaid cards in global markets. During the company’s Q4…
Edtech unicorn upGrad has appointed Mukesh Mundra as its CFO ahead of its proposed acquisition of Unacademy. Mundra joins the…
Every few years, the coffee market transitions towards a new trend or niche in the search of finding the next…
B2B quick commerce platform Fairdeal.Market has raised $15 Mn (₹142.8 Cr) in its Series A round led by Bertelsmann India…
Pine Labs’ Profit Run Pine Labs scored its maiden full-year of profitability in FY26, anchored by a lucrative Q4 bottom…
Days after FIRs were filed against fintech firms MobiKwik and Lendbox for allegedly blocking customer withdrawals on P2P lending platform…
Paytm announced on Friday that it would invest €9 Mn (around ₹99.8 Cr) in its European subsidiary, according to its…
Fintech major Pine Labs turned profitable in the fourth quarter of FY26, posting a consolidated net profit of ₹59.4 Cr…
India is in the mood to splurge. The spending spree, propelling the roughly $2.4 Tn consumer economy to be the…
Coworking space provider Awfis’ net profit for the Q4 FY26 jumped 107% to ₹23.2 Cr from ₹11.2 Cr in the…
What happens when everyday household chores stop being just labour and start becoming training data for AI systems? And what…
Market intelligence company Tracxn managed to narrow its net loss for the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4) by 61% to…
Specialty coffee chain abCoffee has raised ₹61 Cr (about $6.4 Mn) in its Pre-Series B funding round led by Kliff…
D2C jewellery brand GIVA has roped in Bollywood actor and Hyphen cofounder Kriti Sanon as its brand ambassador and investor.…
At-home salon startup Yes Madam has raised ₹50 Cr (about $5.2 Mn) in its maiden institutional funding round from Info…
Oil Shock & India’s Urban Mobility The ongoing crude oil crisis is testing the limits of India’s ride-hailing economy. The…
In October last year, Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety called Instamart’s shift to an inventory-led model an eventuality. That conviction, it…
Emerging out of stealth mode, biotech startup StrainX Bioworks has raised $13 Mn (around ₹124 Cr) in a funding round…
The prolonged crude oil crisis due to the US-Iran war is raising bigger questions for Uber, Rapido, Ola Cabs and…
The FIFA World Cup 2026 begins on June 11. But barely days before the tournament kicks off, Indian fans still…
SpaceX is expected to IPO at over $1.5 Tn later this year. The most consequential fact about the company’s origins…
Investor sentiment towards new-age tech stocks remained mixed this week amid the ongoing Q4 earnings season and geopolitical tensions. While…
India’s manufacturing ecosystem is entering a phase, where industrial growth is being driven by deeptech, automation and the push for…
As enterprises prepare to deploy AI agents across customer support, operations, finance, logistics and internal workflows, companies are realising that…
The past two years have seen a rush for payments licences in India. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has…
Weekly funding in the Indian startup ecosystem has been volatile over the past few months amid ongoing geopolitical distress. In…
Online travel aggregator (OTA) Yatra’s consolidated net profit tanked 46.1% to ₹8.2 Cr in Q4 FY26 from ₹15.2 Cr in…
Madison India Capital today offloaded 2.48 Cr shares in fintech major Pine Labs in a block deal worth ₹356.86 Cr. …
Paytm early investor Elevation Capital offloaded 56.22 Lakh in a block deal valuing each share at ₹1,120.65. The investor raked…
Wearable healthtech startup Gabit has raised around ₹36.2 Cr (about $3.7 Mn) in a fresh funding round from a clutch…
Bengaluru Police have reportedly registered FIRs against fintech firms Mobikwik and Lendbox regarding alleged investor cheating and misuse of funds…
Shares of Le Travenues Technology, the parent of ixigo, surged nearly 6% to hit an intraday high of ₹173.5 on…
Naukri parent Info Edge’s consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 increased 12% to ₹755.7 Cr from ₹677.9…
Shares of Nykaa parent FSN E-Commerce Ventures rose over 4% to touch a 52-week high of ₹285.65 during intraday trading…
Shares of Honasa Consumer, the parent of Mamaearth, surged as much as 13% to hit a fresh 52-week high of…
Flipkart and its quick commerce arm Flipkart Minutes featured in Walmart’s Q1 FY27 earnings commentary as the global retail giant…
Agent Traps Keep Enterprises On Edge The rise of AI is creating a new cybersecurity problem, agent traps. Attackers no…
Quick commerce platform Zepto reportedly plans to float its ₹11,000 Cr ($1.1 Bn) initial public offering (IPO) within the next…
Shareholders have shot down foodtech major Swiggy’s bid to become an Indian-owned and controlled company (IOCC). The foodtech giant failed…
Under regulatory scanner, Rishi Gupta has stepped down as the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Fino…
The IT ministry (MeitY) is reportedly all set to formally block US-based prediction market platform Kalshi as soon as tomorrow…
Healthtech unicorn Innovaccer has acquired the assets of US-based revenue cycle management (RCM) services provider CaduceusHealth, marking its fifth acquisition…
Mattress brand Wakefit’s consolidated profit after tax (PAT) skyrocketed to ₹121.8 Cr against a loss of ₹26.2 Cr in the…
In April 2026, Vercel, a cloud application deployment platform, disclosed a security incident that did not originate within its own…
Bengaluru-based VC firm Shastra VC has launched its third fund with a corpus of $100 Mn (about ₹963 Cr) to…
Traveltech company ixigo’s consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 zoomed 91% to ₹32.1 Cr from ₹16.8 Cr…
Mamaearth parent Honasa Consumer’s consolidated net profit skyrocketed 177.6% to ₹69.4 Cr in the last quarter of FY26 from ₹25…
BPC major Nykaa’s consolidated net profit surged 4X to 78.8 Cr in the fourth quarter of FY26 from ₹19.1 Cr…
Shortly after shipping out its first 100 introductory products, Deepinder Goyal’s new wearable venture Temple is said to have roped…
Early-stage venture capital (VC) firm Sadev Ventures has appointed ex-Snabbit executive Ishan Kansal as its cofounder and managing partner. Kansal…
India’s crypto ecosystem has once again come under regulatory focus, with the parliamentary standing committee on finance discussing taxation, compliance…
Travel-focused SaaS company RateGain’s consolidated net profit jumped 27.7% to ₹70 Cr in the last quarter of the fiscal ended…
Coworking space provider WeWork India’s consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4 FY26) zoomed 79.3% to ₹65.9…
Travel-focused fintech startup Scapia has raised $63 Mn (around ₹600 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by General Catalyst,…
Shares of Ola Electric fell as much as 5.7% to touch an intraday low of ₹34.8 on the BSE today…
The Dollar Cost Of AI Inference India’s AI boom may be quietly creating its next major dollar outflow problem. As…
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved Blackstone-led acquisition of a controlling stake in AI cloud startup Neysa Networks.…
What began as a draft notification published in the Haryana Government Gazette in December last year has now become a…
Asset management firm Piper Serica has launched a new Cat II AIF, the Bharat Tech Fund, with a potential size…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued amendment directions to revise ‘Conduct of Regulated Entities in Recovery of Loans…
BPC major Nykaa has reportedly asked the Delhi High Court (HC) to name Meta as a party in the copyright…
India’s AI boom may be quietly creating its next major dollar outflow problem. As startups and enterprises rush to embed…
Coworking space provider IndiQube’s net loss for the fourth quarter ending March 2026 (Q4 FY26) narrowed 28% to ₹22.6 Cr…
PE firm Oister Global has launched its third secondaries vehicle, ACE Fund III, to back late-stage startups. The fund’s ₹500…
The travel app has barely changed in over a decade. You search. You scroll endlessly through filters. You open five…
Edtech major upGrad turned PAT profitable in the first 11 months of the fiscal year FY26 ahead of its proposed…
Industrial robotics startup Anscer Robotics has raised ₹45 Cr (about $4.6 Mn) in its Series A round led by IAN…
EV company Ola Electric managed to trim its consolidated net loss in the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4 FY26) by…
AI-powered entertainment startup Mythik announced the raise of $5 Mn (₹48.4 Cr) in fresh funding from investors like Dream11 CEO…
Eyewear giant Lenskart’s consolidated net profit for the quarter ended March 2026 (Q4 FY26) declined 7.5% to ₹203.6 Cr from…
IIT Kanpur-incubated dronetech startup EndureAir Systems has received ₹30 Cr (about $3.1 Mn) in grant support under the Centre’s RDIF…
Wearable startup Sychedelic has raised $3.5 Mn (about ₹31.5 Cr) in its seed round from investors like Cultadvisors LLP, TurboStart,…
The Maharashtra government is considering fresh curbs on bike taxi drivers operating across multiple aggregator platforms such as Ola, Uber…
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT revealed itself to the world in 2022, the internet has been flooded with speculation about AI…
Media SaaS company Amagi turned profitable in Q4 FY26, posting a consolidated net profit of ₹34.3 Cr as against a…
Fintech unicorn Oxyzo’s board has approved the complete acquisition of debt investment and bond distribution platform GoldenPi Technologies Pvt Ltd…
Geotech company MapmyIndia’s net profit for the quarter ended March 2026 (Q4 FY26) rose by 4% to ₹50.9 Cr from…
Coworking space provider DevX (Dev Accelerator)’s net profit for the quarter ended March 2025 (Q4 FY26) stood at ₹8 Cr,…
Stock broking firm Groww’s promoters have offloaded shares worth around ₹270 Cr over the past one week, according to disclosures…
Nasdaq-listed online travel major MakeMyTrip reported a 16.8% decline in profit for the March quarter of 2026 (Q4 FY26) to…
RAN Ventures Private Limited, a promoter group entity of fintech SaaS company Zaggle, has acquired additional shares of the company…
Digital trucking major BlackBuck’s consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4 FY26) slumped 76.6% to ₹65.7 Cr…
Investment and stock broking platform Trackk has secured $3.7 Mn (about ₹35.7 Cr) in a seed funding round led by…
Unacademy cofounder and CEO Sumit Jain is exiting the edtech startup which is being acquired by upGrad, sources told Inc42. …
On April 10, the Prime Minister was spotted wearing a wristwatch adorned with a tiger motif that immediately drew the…
SEDEMAC’s Q4 Profit Zooms SEDEMAC put up a strong show in Q4. The quarter saw the deeptech company’s revenues surge…
Deeptech company SEDEMAC Mechatronics’ net profit for the quarter ended March 2026 (Q4 FY26) surged 273% to ₹32.1 Cr from…
As India’s consumer internet story matures beyond the first wave of ecommerce adoption, the next decade of D2C growth will…
Biotech startup Cellogen Therapeutics has secured ₹20 Cr (about $2 Mn) in funding from Kotak Alternate Asset Managers (Kotak Alts). …