Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
Jagmeet Singh
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.
The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple’s secret sauce has always been its people.
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza
Availability of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India’s quick-commerce apps.
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M
The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.
India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network
India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.