Phitku was founded in early 2025, bootstrapped to profitability, built a 6 lakh customer base, appeared on Shark Tank India, and by July 2026 had completed a ₹100 crore majority stake deal with Ananta Capital — the PE firm backed by the Taparia family of Famy Care Group, which also owns Bella Vita, HipHop, and India's GNC franchise
For years, asset servicing in India was the exclusive domain of large banks that also ran asset management and broking businesses. Dovetail Capital offered something different: an independent, technology-first partner with no competing agenda. Now, ₹100 crore in fresh capital and a marquee investor validate what its founders believed in 2017.
India had fewer than 60,000 GPUs deployed when Neysa raised $1.2 billion in February 2026. The country needs 2 million to realise its AI ambition — a 30x increase that requires sovereign infrastructure, not just hyperscaler access. Sharad Sanghi built Netmagic, sold it, and came back to build the compute layer India needs. Blackstone holds a majority stake.
Industrial air conditioning is energy-guzzling and carbon-heavy. Albatross Energetics is attacking the problem at its source, pulling moisture from the air before it needs cooling. With $1.05 million in fresh funding, the Mumbai startup is ready to scale its quiet revolution.
Since its Series A in 2023, Kapture CX has grown 4X and achieved profitability — rare in the AI economy. Bajaj Finserv Ventures, in its first-ever AI investment, led the round. 1,000 enterprise clients in 18 countries. 5x revenue growth targeted. The experimentation phase for enterprise AI is over. Kapture is where real value begins.
Most Indian households cook daily in non-stick pans coated with PFAS chemicals that degrade over heat. The Indus Valley was founded in 2016 to offer an alternative: cast iron, triply steel, clay, copper, brass, wood. In 10 years they built a D2C brand. Now Gaja Capital is backing the national expansion.
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In 2019, IKEA invested in Livspace. In 2022, KKR led a $180M round that made it a unicorn. In 2025, it completed a reverse flip from Singapore to India and raised INR 427 crore to prepare for an IPO. In December 2025, it acquired Abby Lighting for $23 million. This is the interior design platform that turned a fragmented, trust-broken industry into an e-commerce-grade experience — and is now building toward the public market.
He left BigBasket two days after Tata Digital acquired it in 2021. He could have rested. He started LaundryMate instead — targeting the ₹90,000 crore laundry market with machines from Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands and a target of 30 cities in 10 years.
In 2022, Swati Bhargava's kidney function had dropped to 3 to 4 per cent. She was closing a ₹130 crore funding round simultaneously. She attended investor calls in the evenings, hospital visits in the mornings, and closed the round before checking in for a kidney transplant. Then she got back to running the company.