Bengaluru, January 2026: Sports-tech innovator StepOut, an AI-powered football performance and analytics platform, has raised $1.5 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha, with participation from SucSEED Innovation Fund and Misfits Capital. This new round follows the company’s seed funding led by Rainmatter in late 2024, signaling strong investor confidence … Read more
Gurugram, India | January 2026: Healthy snacking brand Troovy has raised $5 million (approx. ₹41 crore) in a Series A funding round led by Fireside Ventures and Sharrp Ventures, marking a significant milestone in India’s fast-growing clean-label food sector. Existing investors Spring Marketing Capital and Veltis Capital also participated in the round. This latest funding … Read more
Bengaluru, Karnataka, January, 20 – In the lush arecanut heartlands of Dharmasthala in Mangaluru, a quiet revolution is changing how the world thinks about sustainability. What was once seen as agricultural waste — fallen areca leaves left to decompose or burn — is now becoming a multi-crore global business opportunity. Enter Agrileaf, a visionary circular … Read more
Jaipur, India — Jaipur-based non-banking financial company (NBFC) Namdev Finvest Private Limited has secured $37 million (approximately ₹324 crore) in fresh funding from a consortium of leading global investors including FMO, IIX, Franklin Templeton AIF India, and Symbiotics. The capital was raised through a combination of listed non-convertible debentures (NCDs) and external commercial borrowings (ECBs). … Read more
New Delhi, January 16, 2026 — HandyPanda, a construction-tech startup reimagining the consumer experience for building and renovation materials, has raised ₹2 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage venture capital firm AJVC. The round also saw participation from angel investors, including Sankalp Kathuria (Co-founder & CEO, Broadway) and several building materials family … Read more
Coimbatore, January 15, 2026 — GreenTech, a tech-driven operations and maintenance (O&M) company specializing in wind turbine asset management, has raised ₹30 crore in a mix of equity and debt funding from Transition VC. This marks the company’s first external funding round, which will fuel its mission to modernize wind energy infrastructure and strengthen predictive … Read more
Bengaluru, January 13, 2026 — Good Farmer Food Concepts, the Bengaluru-based company behind Maverick & Farmer Coffee and Square Burgers & Co., has raised $1.5 million (approximately ₹12.5 crore) in an ongoing pre-Series A funding round led by CreedCap, with participation from Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna, former Indian cricket team captain Rahul Dravid, and … Read more
Washington, D.C., January 12, 2026 — Nanochon, a Washington, D.C.-based orthopedic device company developing next-generation implants for articular cartilage repair, has announced the close of an oversubscribed funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $11.3 million to date. The latest round was led by cultivate(MD), with strong participation from The University of Virginia (UVA) … Read more
