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Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: Aligned Leads with $60 Million Series B

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Top 10 Asian Startup Funding

Asia’s startup ecosystem continued to attract strong investor interest during the week of June 28 to July 3, with companies across artificial intelligence, aerospace, robotics, healthtech, enterprise software, fintech, and consumer brands securing fresh capital to accelerate growth. From AI-powered business platforms to aerospace innovations and sustainable consumer products, startups across the region raised funding … Read more

China Switches On the World’s First Commercial Underwater Data Center Off Shanghai’s Coast

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Underwater Datacenter

Roughly ten kilometers from Shanghai’s shoreline, a data center now sits on the seabed — and it’s already processing data commercially, marking what appears to be a global first for offshore computing infrastructure. A Giant Structure, Hidden From View The facility weighs close to 2,000 tonnes and stands 32 meters tall, but almost none of … Read more

NVIDIA Launches Revenue-Sharing Model to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure and Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption

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Nvidia

New Delhi: NVIDIA has introduced a new revenue-sharing and credit-support business model aimed at expanding access to large-scale AI computing infrastructure for startups, enterprises, AI model developers, research organizations, and regional cloud providers. The initiative reflects the rapidly evolving AI landscape, where demand is shifting from training large language models to running production-scale AI inference … Read more

ServiceNow Acquires Israeli AI Startup ai.work in Multi-Million Dollar Deal

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Servicenow

Enterprise software company ServiceNow has acquired Israeli AI startup ai.work as part of its ongoing expansion in Israel and broader strategy to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities. While the companies have not officially disclosed the financial terms, the transaction is reportedly valued at tens of millions of dollars. The acquisition reinforces ServiceNow’s focus on building … Read more

Heatronics Raises ₹1.8 Crore Seed Funding Led by Inflection Point Ventures to Expand Preventive Pain Management Solutions

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Hargun Singh Chawla, Heatronics

Noida: Preventive pain management and wellness startup Heatronics has raised ₹1.8 crore in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The investment will support the company’s efforts to expand its product reach, strengthen manufacturing capabilities, and accelerate growth in India’s rapidly evolving healthcare and wellness market. The funding round also attracted participation … Read more

Tulon Materials Raises ₹10 Crore Seed Funding to Advance Sustainable Specialty Chemicals and Circular Materials

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Tulon Materials

Mumbai: Tulon Materials, a Mumbai-based engineering startup focused on developing sustainable specialty chemicals and advanced materials, has raised ₹10 crore in a seed funding round to accelerate product development and commercialisation across multiple industrial sectors. The funding round was led by investor Karthik Sundar Iyer, with participation from Karan Goshar and Prakhar Pandey, Partners at … Read more

2 Gigawatts, $80 Billion in Leases: Inside SpaceX’s Quiet Takeover of AI Data Center Infrastructure

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk built Colossus to train Grok. Instead, it may end up making SpaceX more money than Starlink — by renting out GPUs to the very companies xAI was supposed to be competing with. The Number That Started It All: $150 Million a Month Open-source AI startup Reflection AI has agreed to pay SpaceX $150 … Read more

India’s AI Data Center Boom: How the Global Colocation Race Is Reshaping the Country’s Digital Infrastructure

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India AI data centers

A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, “Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI,” lays out a striking number: global data center demand could almost triple between 2025 and 2030 — from about 82 gigawatts (GW) to roughly 220 GW. AI alone is expected to drive nearly 70% of that growth, with AI-related demand … Read more

India GCC Landscape 2026: Inside the Zinnov-Nasscom Report on 2,117 Global Capability Centers and a $98.4 Billion Market

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India GCC Landscape

India’s Global Capability Center (GCC) ecosystem has crossed another milestone in FY2026, and the numbers tell a story that goes well beyond scale. According to the newly released Zinnov-Nasscom “GCC Value Orbit: From Delivery Engine to Enterprise Nerve Centre” report, India is now home to 2,117 GCCs, generating $98.4 billion in revenue and employing 2.36 … Read more

Amity Robotics Raises $7 Million Seed Funding to Expand AI-Powered Service Robots Across Global Markets

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Amity Robotics

New Delhi: Thailand-based Amity Robotics, a startup developing AI-powered robots for customer-facing real-world applications, has raised US$7 million in a seed funding round through a combination of equity and debt financing. The fresh capital will support product innovation, international expansion and the commercial launch of the company’s first mobile robot, ARC Move. The funding round … Read more

The Indus Valley Raises $17 Million in Series B Funding to Expand Toxin-Free Cookware Business

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The Indus Valley

New Delhi: Indian kitchenware brand The Indus Valley has secured US$17 million in a Series B funding round led by Gaja Capital, as the company looks to strengthen its position in the fast-growing healthy cookware market. Existing investors DSG Consumer Partners, Rukam Capital, and The Chennai Angels also participated in the investment round. The fresh … Read more

Vertiv India Partners with IIT BHU to Launch Semiconductor Research Programme for Engineering Students

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Vertiv

New Delhi: Vertiv India has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to launch the Undergraduate Research Avenue (UGRA), a new initiative designed to strengthen research, innovation and practical semiconductor training for undergraduate engineering students. The collaboration aims to equip future engineers with industry-relevant skills as India accelerates efforts to build a globally … Read more

Edtech platform YoLearn ai raises pre-seed round

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YoLearn

New Delhi: AI-powered education startup YoLearn.ai has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round at a valuation of $5 million. The investment was co-led by DataAlpha.ai and White Swan Global, with participation from a group of angel investors. The fresh capital will be used to strengthen the company’s voice-first AI tutoring platform, enhance product capabilities … Read more

Exclusive Interaction with Sandeep Arya: Inside Naqi Logix’s Plan to Make Touch, Voice, and Screens Optional

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ENN Exclusive Interview with Sandeep Arya, CBO, Naqi Logix

What if the next interface you use isn’t a screen, a button, or your voice — but a blink, a clenched jaw, or the subtle tilt of your head? That’s the premise behind Naqi Logix, a neurotechnology company that has turned an ordinary-looking earbud into what it calls an “Invisible User Interface” — a way … Read more

Can India’s $60 Billion Home Services Playbook Work in Southeast Asia? Inside the Numbers

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Can India's $60 Billion Home Services Playbook Work in Southeast Asia

In India, booking a plumber, a massage therapist, or a deep-cleaning crew through an app has become routine enough that the market built around it is now worth roughly $60 billion, with three well-funded startups burning real money to fight over the fastest-growing slice of it. In most of Southeast Asia, the equivalent transaction still … Read more

Indian Startup Funding Weekly Report:Startups Raise $1.11 Billion, AI, fintech and proptech dominate funding activity

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Indian Startup Funding this week

India’s startup ecosystem witnessed one of its strongest funding weeks of 2026, with 20 startups raising nearly $1.11 billion across 19 disclosed funding rounds between 21 June and 27 June 2026. The week was marked by a major investment from Meta into CRED, the emergence of a new unicorn, several high-profile executive appointments, acquisitions, and … Read more

Top 10 Asian Startup Funding Rounds This Week: AI, Fintech and HealthTech Lead Investments

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Asian Startups Funding Roundup

Asian startups continued to attract strong investor interest this week, with venture capital firms and angel investors backing companies across artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, blockchain, healthcare, deeptech, and IoT. Between 21 June and 26 June 2026, startups across Singapore, India, the UAE, Australia, and other Asian markets announced fresh funding rounds aimed at accelerating product … Read more

Uber India President Prabhjeet Singh Steps Down After Nearly 11 Years; Reportedly Set to Join OpenAI India

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Prabhjeet Singh

Uber India and South Asia President Prabhjeet Singh has stepped down after nearly 11 years with the global ride-hailing company, marking the end of a leadership tenure that oversaw the company’s expansion across mobility, multimodal transportation, and digital public infrastructure initiatives in the region. The development was confirmed by an Uber spokesperson, who acknowledged Singh’s … Read more

Who is Shankh Mitra? Indian-origin CEO becomes the World’s Second-Highest-Paid CEO

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Shankh Mitra

Two engineering graduates from Indian universities now sit inside the world’s most exclusive — and most scrutinised — pay bracket. When the Wall Street Journal published its closely watched annual ranking of the highest-paid chief executives at S&P 500 companies, an Indian-origin name landed in second place globally, trailing only Tesla’s Elon Musk. The executive … Read more

MyRepublic and TP-Link Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver Advanced Connectivity Solutions for Singapore SMEs

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MyRepublic

MyRepublic Broadband Pte Ltd and TP-Link Corporation Pte Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their strategic partnership, strengthening their commitment to providing advanced internet connectivity and enterprise networking solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. The agreement will enable both companies to collaborate on delivering next-generation networking infrastructure, helping … Read more